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Residents raise policing and code-enforcement concerns during Kankakee council public comment
Summary
At public comment Robert Ellington Snipes described a stop he said was conducted while he was walking and asked that officers show more courtesy and training; Alicia Hartford raised safety concerns about an apparently abandoned home at 431 South Harrison Ave. Staff promised follow-up contact.
Two residents used the public comment period at the Dec. 15 council meeting to raise neighborhood safety concerns.
Robert Ellington Snipes recounted being stopped while walking to a store and told to place his hands on an officer’s vehicle, which he said he refused to do without an explanation. He criticized how…
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