another murdered native woman "Martha Toms"

[cleofus1]

more to come

http://www.adn.com/opinion/story/7022482p-6925182c.html


She is one of several Native or minority women killed on Anchorage streets since 1999: Della Brown, Genevieve Tetpon, Tina Shangin, Vera Hapoff, Annie Mann and Michelle Foster-Butler. Most of them, like Martha Toms, lived on the margins of polite society.

None of them deserved to die.

Anchorage police have had little success solving these killings. They made arrests in only two of the cases. The suspect in Della Brown's killing was acquitted. Only Tina Shangin's killer was convicted.

Whatever the reason, somebody has gotten away with homicide. Anchorage can't let that happen again.

Our community needs to send a strong statement: We will do whatever we can to ensure justice for all victims, regardless of their social status. The women who were slain were not throwaways whose fate can be ignored

[BikeWriter]

1. Shit, that really sucks! I have tons of respect...

for the first Alaskans. They have hearts as big as their state.