Neighbors want memorial to Taser victims dismantled...

FORT WORTH — Each of more than 450 crosses outside New Mount Calvary Baptist Church represents a person who was killed by a shock from a Taser, according to a sign announcing the National Taser Memorial.

Some people who live nearby said it looks more like a cemetery. And they want it dismantled.

City code compliance officers who visited this week left without issuing the church or its pastor a citation, a city official said.

Highland Hills Neighborhood Association members acknowledge that the city may be restricted in regulating the number of crosses that a church can have on its property, but still, they want their objections noted.

"I don't think that our neighborhood should have something in it that looks like a national cemetery," said Laura Meeks, beautification chairwoman and past president of the association.

"It really does not say anything good about our neighborhood."

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/08/07/98802/neighbors-want-memorial-to-taser.html#ixzz0vyY4vGpZ

Exactly! By not wanting it, it says they don't care about victims' deaths by tasering, and that if the crosses wold just go away, they wouldn't have to think about it.

Gee. Wouldn't it be better to publicly be known to embrace wanting abusive use of tasers to be stopped? :shrug:

Its also not clear if they have any jurisdiction. Sounds mostly like whining.