National Conference Of Black Lawyers; the Neighborhood Defender Services of Detroit; the Wayne County Criminal Defense Bar Association, and Michigan Liberation. Also dismissed were cases involving two defendants represented by attorneys who were not part of our coalition, but who joined in our motion to dismiss.
Although the City of Detroit Law Department tried to conceal this information, we finally realized that the Detroit Police Department did not have a system in place to identify the arresting police officers for hundreds of arrested protesters. After their arrests, busloads of protesters were taken to one of three staging areas, where police officers who did not have personal knowledge of the facts leading to the arrests filled out and signed the citations. In response to our requests for discovery, we expected to obtain the names of the actual arresting officers and a copy of each officer’s bodycam video. Instead, we got no names, and we were given copies of hund
The Moratorium NOW! Coalition is calling on all progressive forces to join a demonstration on Wednesday, January 20 at 4 PM at the corner of Michigan Avenue and Third Street in Detroit. Just two weeks after the fascist coup attempt, we want to take to the streets to make it clear we firmly stand against…
‘Stark contrast’ of police response to Trump, BLM rallies scrutinized after Capitol riot
Updated Jan 10, 2021;
Black Lives Matter marches last year were often met by throngs of
police in riot gear, accompanied by armored vehicles, batons, tear gas and rubber bullets, ready to forcibly keep protestors off vulnerable public property.
When thousands of disgruntled supporters of President Donald Trump converged in Washington D.C. last week to contest the legitimacy of the election and eventually stormed the U.S. Capitol, one of the most important government buildings in the nation, not nearly enough officers were on hand to stop them.
Warren councilman named in recall efforts
Eddie Kabacinski
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WARREN A local business alliance is backing one effort to recall Warren City Councilman Eddie Kabacinski, one of five members of the council who voted against a proposed settlement that could have ended a costly lawsuit over medical marijuana dispensary licensing.
“Even before his vote on this matter, I was inclined to run a recall on him anyhow,” said John Johnson, CEO of the Southeast Michigan Chamber of Commerce and the chairman of the recall committee.
Johnson said Kabacinski, elected in November 2019 to represent Warren’s City Council District 5, “had a lot of baggage” even before the vote on the settlement. He said Kabacinski was in the “weakest” position of the five council members who voted in late November to deny a proposed settlement and consent judgment in the Pinebrook Warren LLC et al vs. City of Warren et al case, brought by a host of hopeful marijuana dispensary operators.