Letter: Don’t brush aside the people’s concerns

When the citizens of Salt Lake City took to the streets to mourn the deaths of George Floyd, Bernardo Palacios Carbajal and countless others, they were met with police in riot gear and a curfew.As protests against police brutality and systemic racism continue across the country, Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall has issued another weeklong nightly curfew. Utah’s city and state leaders have been swift to dispatch police and the National Guard and impose curfews, but not to hear the conce