I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
Fifteen year-old Brett Elder of Bay City died last month after being shocked by taser wielding police. Now the Bay City Times is calling for a review on the local police department’s taser policy which it says “appears overly vague”.
“Just when should police use Tasers to electrically shock a suspect into submission?” the editorial board asks.
It reports that witnesses claim the 140 pound teenager was handcuffed at the time he was shocked.
The paper notes that there have been other cases where local police used taser guns against people who seem to pose no threat to officers:
In February, Bay City police officers used a Taser on a naked man who cursed at them and refused to cooperate outside of St. Mary of the Assumption Catholic Church in Bay City. Surely, a naked man in freezing weather isn’t much of a threat to anyone but himself.
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