Letter: How do we protect the public? By Rheta Rubenstein, Ridgefield Share: March 7 marked two years since Carlos Hunter died at the hands of Vancouver police. He, along with Clayton Joseph and Michael Pierce, were lost within a month. Since then we also lost William Abbe and Alexander Williams to the Vancouver Police Department and Kevin Peterson Jr. and Jenoah Donald to Clark County sheriff’s deputies. At a 2019 NAACP meeting, a mother told Chief James McElvain, essentially, “My son is 15. He looks like he’s 22. He acts like he’s 8. Can I bring him to your agency and introduce him to your officers?” In my mind I imagined the implied conclusion, “so they don’t kill him.”