Healing Should be the focus of Chiefstick's story

Jo Walter, Bremerton

Kitsap Sun

In the photo accompanying an article published Oct. 24 in the Sun, "Family of man shot by police wants healing monument in Poulsbo," I saw the smiling faces of Stonechild Chiefstick's three grieving children, and thought "How wonderful!" 

How wonderful that these young people are channeling their grief into a project that can bring something positive to the community, and to themselves. They have struggled with so many disappointments, and waited for more than a year while one system of justice after another failed to bring justice for their father. They live with the knowledge that the perpetrator of their father's homicide has been returned to work on the streets of Poulsbo. I wouldn't blame them if their response was to tear down those systems that allowed their father to be taken from them without consequence.