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Farmington Hills police brutalized innocent Black man in front of his children, lawsuit alleges
The suit was filed several months after the revelation that Farmington Hills police were using images of Black people for target practice
By Steve Neavling
Tags: Metro Detroit News, Farmington Hills, police, Black Lives Matter, police brutality, racism
Detroit offers to settle lawsuits with anti-police brutality protesters for $1.3M
Detroit police are accused of using excessive force to break up peaceful demonstrations
Tags: Metro Detroit News, Detroit Will Breathe, Black Lives matter, police brutality, Lawsuit, Chuck Raimi, Detroit, Detroit City Council, George Floyd
Detroit City Council sets up reparations task force
The body is charged with helping to determine how to address what many Detroiters said is a legacy of governmental systemic racism
By Ken Coleman, Michigan Advance
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Detroit, reparations, City Council, Black Lives Matter
Metro Detroit police dept. that used images Black men as shooting targets was sued last year for racial discrimination
This isn’t the first time the Farmington Hills Police Dept. was accused of racism
By Lee DeVito
Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Farmington Hills Police Department, Black Lives Matter, Jeff King
Michigan man accused of threatening BLM supporters at Starbucks, leaving nooses for protesters
A retired optometrist even threatened to ‘lynch’ a Black person, the DOJ said
Tags: Michigan News, Hate crimes, Saginaw, Michigan, Black Lives Matter, protests, George Floyd, Kenneth Pilon, Starbucks, Justice Department
Grand Rapids police chief confirms Officer Christopher Schurr shot, killed Lyoya
GRPD kept the name of the officer under wraps, despite activists calling repeatedly for the department to release it
By Laina G. Stebbins, Michigan Advance
Tags: Michigan News, Patrick Lyoya, Grand Rapids, police, Black Lives Matter
Call to release Breonna Taylor's father from Michigan prison
By Josh Puckett for Yes! Media
Tags: Michigan News, Breonna Taylor, Black Lives Matter, Michigan
Why Eminem’s Super Bowl kneel missed the mark
By Alex Washington
Tags: Arts Stories & Interviews, Eminem, Slim Shady, Dr. Dre, Super Bowl, Los Angeles, Detroit, rap, Black Lives Matter
What the Rittenhouse verdict portends about the future of American democracy
By Jeffrey C. Billman
Tags: Informed Dissent, Kyle Rittenhouse, Republicans, Trump's America, GOP, Black Lives Matter
MSU fans caused more destruction in Lansing than Black Lives Matter protesters caused in Detroit... by far
Tags: MSU, Michigan State University, Black Lives Matter, Detroit WIll Breathe
Abandoned Lansing Mall Cinema to become Michigan's first Black-owned film studio
Tags: Lansing, Lansing Mall Cinema, Greenwood District Studios, MLive, Amaru, Funny is Funny, Black Lives Matter
James Craig’s ‘official’ campaign launch was a complete clusterfuck
Tags: Detroit, Detroit Will Breathe, James Craig, Detroit Police, Republicans, Democrats, Gretchen Whitmer, 2022, Black Lives Matter
Attorneys defending Detroit in police brutality lawsuits withdraw from cases in another setback for city
Tags: Clark Hill, attorneys, Detroit, Detroit police, lawsuit, Detroit Will Breathe, Detroit City Council, protests, Black Lives Matter, legal observers, police brutality
Dearborn isn’t laughing at Biden’s jokes
By Sean Taormina
Tags: Israel, Palestine, Dearborn, Biden, Michigan, protest, Black Lives Matter
How to save policing from the cops
Tags: Informed Dissent, Police reform, police brutality, Black Lives Matter, abolish police, defund police
On Mitch Albom’s misguided argument against the anti-police brutality movement
By Ryan Herberholz
Tags: Views, Detroit, Mitch Albom, Free Press, Detroit Will Breathe, Defund the Police, Black Lives Matter, Abolish the Police
Legal observers say they were brutalized by Detroit police during police brutality protests
Tags: Detroit Will Breathe, National Lawyers Guild, legal observers, Mayor Mike Duggan, Chief James Craig, Black Lives Matter, Detroit
Detroit asks judge to reconsider decision to drop countersuit against anti-police brutality protesters
Tags: Detroit, Detroit Will Breathe, lawsuit, U.S. District Court, motion for reconsideration, protests, Black Lives Matter, police brutality
Judge dismisses Detroit’s controversial countersuit against anti-police brutality protesters
Tags: Detroit Will Breathe, lawsuit, countersuit, U.S. District Court, Detroit, Lawrence Garcia, Jack Schulz, attorney, National Lawyers Guild, Black Lives Matter
After protest charges dropped, Detroit Will Breathe co-founder says, ‘We won’t go silently’
Tags: Protests, Black Lives Matter, Nakia Wallace, Detroit, Detroit Will Breathe, Detroit police, Chief Craig, Mayor Duggan, lawsuit
Michigan’s ‘Bikers, Buds, & Brews’ taps Marcy Playground and Soul Asylum
Detroit’s ‘NSFW’ art and music exhibit is not what you think
By Randiah Camille Green
Kash Doll, Rema, and PartyNextDoor among Afro Nation Detroit headliners