Kansas City Council Lady Robinson STILL Proclaims "Lost Faith" In KCPD

More importantly . . . 

It honestly feels like the newspaper is trying to keep the local news from TKC. Because this blog makes better use of it. 

Anyhoo . . .

In a throwaway story about Twitter politics . . . Check this passage that offers local context . . .

Kansas City councilwoman Melissa Robinson sent a letter to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Missouri, saying she wanted federal prosecutors to look into the “racial component of the crime” because she believed many in the local community have lost trust in the Kansas City Police Department.

“I’m just concerned about the faith that the community has, the city has, the residents have in the local judicial and law enforcement process,” Robinson told The Star on Monday. She said she wanted the federal government to send a message to the community that hate crimes would not be tolerated.

The Department of Justice did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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