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Native family urges Moorhead council to stop using land acknowledgment without accountability
Summary
A speaker said the council's weekly land acknowledgment is empty without action on police accountability, urging the city to stop reciting it until the council pairs words with "real action."
At a Moorhead City Council meeting, a resident whose brother was killed while unarmed urged the council to stop reciting a land acknowledgment unless it is accompanied by concrete actions on police accountability.
Jeremy Framboise said the council's weekly land acknowledgment becomes an "insult" when it is not paired with steps to investigate alleged misconduct and hold officials accountable. "When you repeat an acknowledgment every week but refuse to address misconduct, you prove its emptiness," Framboise said, adding that the city exercises power over budgets, appointments and the police chief. He told the council his brother, Joel Lafromboise, was 17 when he was shot and said prosecutors and police failed his family.
Framboise asked the council either to stop reciting the acknowledgment or to pair it with substantive action and accountability. The council did not take immediate action on the request during the meeting; the speaker concluded his remarks and the meeting proceeded to the next agenda item.
