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.
The Council on American Islamic Relations in Detroit has released autopsy photographs taken of a Detroit Imam shot to death by federal authorities late last year.
Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah was shot 20 times by federal authorities during an attempt to arrest him. Police say he fired first.
The photos (warning: photos may be graphic) show Abdullah’s body handcuffed in the warehouse where he was shot, and also shows injuries CAIR officials say could have been caused by an FBI dog. A police dog assisting in the arrests was shot to death that day. CAIR says it received 75 photographs, but has only released five of them.
CAIR’s Executive Director Dawud Walid says on his blog that he intends to ask Cyril Wecht, M.D., J.D to review the photographs and autopsy report.
“One of America’s foremost forensic pathologist Cyril Wecht, M.D., J.D. will be reviewing the photos along with an autopsy to give an independent analysis of the initial autopsy report including his expert opinion about the raw wounds on Abdullah’s face.”
The Detroit News also reported Wednesday that the Imam had another brush with the law in 1980. At the time, he was arrested by Livonia officers. According to a police report released to the News, Abdullah struggled with the officer, Robert Stevenson who is now chief of the Livonia department, to gain control over Stevenson’s gun.
Abdullah, who had not yet adopted that name, had been pulled over on a minor traffic violation and a check found a warrant on a traffic violation. A second officer arrived on the scene to assist Stephenson in containing Christopher Thomas, Abdullah’s name prior to his conversion to Islam.
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