Finney's ad critic should disappear

First of all, Dennis Toeppen needs to take a long walk on a short pier and makes sure that he takes his "Fire Finney" ads with him. I'm glad we have a working chief of police in Champaign.

The shooting of Kiwane Carrington is a very sad situation, but placing blame before the investigation is complete doesn't remedy anything. Kiwane was roaming around because his school was out that day. Why wasn't the other boy where he should have been – in school?

Do we really have to get the crayons out and draw a picture for these people? A concerned neighbor saw two people prying a window out of a house where neither of them was a legal resident. The two boys were in the wrong to begin with and then made matters worse for themselves by trying to flee and disobeying an order from the police to submit to arrest.

So, what is the lesson to be learned? To cry discrimination, even though you are the wrongdoer? Or to do what you're told to do, when told to do it, by any figure of authority, be it police, parent, teacher or otherwise? There's some parental homework for the dinner table tonight. Which lesson will you teach?

As for members of the police department, kudos to them. I thank them for the thankless job they do, and this goes out to all law enforcement. God only knows that they don't get enough thank-yous for doing what they, without question, do every day.

LINDA WEBB

Champaign