Wallace "Gator" Bradley of United In Peace, JoeZiegler, Jr of The 18th Ward Community Action Network and a candidatefor 18th Ward Alderman, myself and others met with and answeredquestions from area residents who were thinking out loud when they askedthe question of whether it was wrong to think that the killing of aWhite Police Officer on The East Side got public 24/7 coverage and thekilling of Black Officer David Blake does not see Weis doing publicbriefing after briefing and his personal commitment to using everyresource of the police department to see that this case is resolved?Well its difficult to see those who feel that even in death, that thekilling of a White officer gets more police presence in resolving itthan the killing of a Black officer, but you cant stop people fromfeeling what they feel, but I will do what I need to do to see that itis addressed, personally because I live on this block where OfficerBlake was killed and I too want to see Jody Weis and every availablepolice resource used to bring this case to a close.

I, like otherresidents have been getting far too many updates from "anonymous"sources who have been giving everyday updates on scenarios of thekilling of Officer Blake and the "personal" issues surrounding thiscase. Its clear that "something" is going on for these sources would notbe able to be feeding spin to news outlets and to various communityleaders who live in this area. On the day of Officer Blakes killing, Iran to the scene for it was on the other end our our Seipp Street blockand I seen various neighbors looking out the windows as officers beganto assemble at the scene, but NONE of these neighbors were questioned byDetectives after the rumor was that a man left the scene running downour block in a Black hat as to whether anyone on the block may have seenanyone. In fact when I heard this, I was wearing a Black skull hat andwent back in the house to change to my red hat, just so I was not lookedat as a possible suspect, but didn't seem to matter for NO ONE fromthe police department asked any of the neighbors on our end of SeippStreet, UNLESS the police already KNEW there was no such suspect, butwhen are the neighbors and community leaders going to be updated onwhats going on? This is what just happened with Weis in his continuedpublic updates on how the case was progressing in the killing thatincluded the White CSI Officer Michael Flisk but not yet over here wherethe Black officer David Blake was killed. WE demand this immediateattention right now and get this case closed.

It looked good tosee Jody Weis and the serious and determined look on his face when hepublicly declared that he was not going to rest and he was pulling inevery officer possible to cover every possible lead that could get themto a suspect in the killings that included Officer Flisk. We are tiredof being brought up to date from "anonymous sources" and demand thatPolice Chief Weis, States Attorney Alvarez, new CAPS Director RonaldHolt and all show the same public display of resources and bring thiskilling of Officer David Blake to a close. NO MORE "police sources," BUTthe direct sources in Weis and Alvarez.