Grosse Pointe Park man who displayed KKK flag facing Black neighbor won’t face charges
Officials say it doesn’t violate Michigan law
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GROSSE POINTE PARK, Mich. – Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy characterized the Ku Klux Klan flag displayed in a Grosse Pointe Park home as despicable and traumatizing but not a crime under the law.
Under Michigan’s ethnic intimidation statute, it requires physical contact or damage and defacement to property. The flag has since been taken down after Grosse Pointe Park police went to the home.
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“The way the ethnic intimidation law is written in Michigan, there had to be contact,” said JeDonna Dinges, who lives next door. “He didn’t try to grab me or try to harm or deface my property, so all of the elements were not met, but that does not mean what he did was right because it was not.”
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A Jackson man, 32, was arrested for public intoxication last week when someone called 911 because he was sitting on their porch and yelling.
Police intervened at Jackson Hole Airport last week when a flight crew reported two men who wouldnât comply with mask orders. The men were asked more than seven times to wear masks while on the plane, a flight attendant told police. The men also âflat out ignoredâ directions to sit down while the plane was still moving, the flight crew said. The Jackson Police Department cited both men, a 23-year-old from California and a 27-year-old from Florida, for interference with a flight crew. Itâs unknown if they knew each other or were traveling together.
Letters to the editor: Moving skate park will create more problems
1 Mar, 2021 08:00 PM
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Relocating the Rotorua skate park from its current site is a bad idea, writes one reader. Photo / File
Relocating the Rotorua skate park from its current site is a bad idea, writes one reader. Photo / File
Rotorua Daily Post
As a Kuirau Park neighbour, I have received an update of the plans for a proposed skate park on the corner of Kuirau and Pukuatua Sts. I am horrified by this proposal and question the expenditure of $750,000 for this project and the need to move from the current popular location opposite the Caltex station on Ranolf St.