Fargo police plan cultural training after sweat lodge arrest

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Fargo police plan cultural training after sweat lodge arrest
Updated 1:31 pm, Saturday, February 25, 2017



FARGO, N.D. (AP) — Fargo police are planning cultural sensitivity training after an officer responding to a report of a fire arrested a man at a Native American sweat lodge.

Fargo Mayor Tim Mahoney says the man's disorderly conduct arrest was the result of a misunderstanding, and that the man has been released from jail and will not be charged.

"We got some new people on the police force and they don't know about the sweat lodge. The older guys do, but this is ... he really didn't know how a sweat lodge works or what happens so we're gonna go through what this is about and what's happening out there," Mahoney told KFGO radio (http://bit.ly/2kWKQit).

A sweat lodge is a covered dome, sometimes a tent-type structure, used in Native American cultural ceremonies. Willow branches are used and water is poured over heated rocks to produce steam.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Fargo-police-plan-cultural-training-after-sweat-10959027.php

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[turbinetree]

1. Mayor Tim Mahoney............

F* and the horse you road in on.

Just maybe Mahoney you and your f**king fascist police state can explain to everyone why you had your "officers" at Standing Rock backing up the state f**king militia, the polluters ETP, and then you come up with this gem of an excuse, like some of these "officers" never say a sweat lodge, they saw them at Standing Rock, jerk, nice try not going to fly, they had prior experience:

"We got some new people on the police force and they don't know about the sweat lodge. The older guys do, but this is ... he really didn't know how a sweat lodge works or what happens so we're gonna go through what this is about and what's happening out there"

The report is from 10/30/16

http://www.wdaz.com/news/north-dakota/4148318-solidarity-march-against-fargo-police-presence-dakota-access-pipeline

[joet67]

2. How dumb are the people they hire? Jesus. I know about sweat lodges and I'm 1500 miles or more

away.