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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,July 8,2019 Page 2 Ms. Allen asked when the City is going to start to care about everyone. She wondered when Roseville is going to start to care about the people that come and patronize the City. She thought if that was a white woman, the Police Department would have searched high and low though and she knew this because a white woman went missing in Bloomington and Bloomington did during the time Ralph Bell was missing. She stated she was utterly disgusted with the government here and wanted the City to step up today. She wanted the City to train their officers to care about every citizen that comes and goes in this space. She wanted the City Council to care about it. That should have been the first thing on the City Council agenda the following week. She indicated she needed the City of Roseville to step it up. She explained she gave the Council her personal story and her expectations of what she expects the City to do in the future and guarantee she will need to have other meetings with the Council or maybe come back and speak with the Council in the future because this is not her first complaint. She noted when she gets invites to go to Roseville, she refuses because she has boycotted the City since Joe's Crab Shack. She has not made that public or made an announcement,but she was pretty close to doing that because she knew how detrimental a boycott can be on spaces. She does not do it just because of her own personal situation, she does it because it is detrimental to her com- munity and this space is detrimental to her community. Mr. Carlos Stewart, St. Paul stated he has known Mr. Ralph Bell since he was around twelve years old and had mentored him and his younger brothers. Mr. Bell was an amaz- ing young man destined to do some great things. He had the opportunity to get to know him, his dreams, and his passions. As a father to a seventeen-month-old, he looked up to Mr. Bell because he had three kids and was there for them every single day. He loved his kids, his mother, and his family. He knew what the media is saying, what information that has come back about how he perished, and this young man did not go the way the media is portraying it. He stated someone took these young man's life and the media is saying he committed suicide. The immediate family and community know this is not true. When all is said and done, a young man is gone and has been murdered. Mr. Stewart stated that not only as a father, but as a thirty-eight-year-old black man, who understands the struggle on the day-to-day for a young man, particularly a man of color, just to write this young man off is almost a smack in the face. He looks ten to fifteen years from now when his kids have to read these stories about their father and who he was. There needs to be someone who has the courage to step up and say the City needs to investigate what happened to this young man. For someone to call the way he was murdered suicide is unimaginable because no one would go to that extreme to take their own life. He indicated someone in a position of power needs to talk to the right people and get this moving because in order for this mother to sleep at night, she needs to know what happened to her child. This is someone's father, brother, who did not deserve to be executed the way he was, and all the people want is answers for Ralph Bell. Ms. Casey Kelly, Stillwater stated she did not know Ralph Bell very long. He was one of her neighbors and for the brief moment that she did meet him, he was a wonderful per-