The L.A. Times recently published an article about the shooting of a 13-year-old car theft suspect in South Central L.A. Here's the mailbox:

I live in South-Central Los Angeles and just spent the last two evenings at a combination of streetside memorials for Devin Brown and community meetings to plan how to respond to the latest killing by the Los Angeles Police Department...

If one city official had bothered to show up at the widely advertised protest meetings, he would have heard people's suggestions for what to do about the abysmal state of police-community relations. He would have heard unanimous approval of an economic boycott of Los Angeles until the police department, whose policy promotes the beating and killing of poor people of color, is held accountable... [etc. etc. etc.]

Marian Sunde

Los Angeles

Intrigued, I googled her name and came up with this. If that's the same person, she was a candidate for the Peace & Freedom party a few years ago:

The Peace and Freedom Party, founded in 1967, is committed to socialism, democracy, ecology, feminism and racial equality. We represent working class people: the employed, the unemployed, people on welfare, the undocumented, the homeless, the incarcerated, retired workers, students and youth, and armed forces enlisted people, of all ethnicities, religions, languages, cultures and sexual orientations -- those without capital in a capitalist society.

Nothing wrong with that, I'm just providing that little bit of extra info.

Another letter about this isn't so bad, but the third is embarrasingly bleeding-hearted.