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.
Michigan State Police are investigating the death of Stanley Jackson Jr., a 31 year old father of four from Belleville who died hours after being tasered by Washtenaw County police during a drug bust on Friday.
AnnArbor.com reports that Jackson, a former high school running back with no known medical problems, was shot by police at his mother’s Superior township home and died two hours after being admitted to St. Joseph Mercy Hospital.
The incident began after officers with the Livingston and Washtenaw Narcotics Enforcement Team requested assistance from deputies, sheriff’s department spokesman Derrick Jackson said.
[Washtenaw County Sheriff Jerry Clayton] said Stanley Jackson resisted as he was being taken into custody. “The deployment of the Taser was a direct response to the behavior of the subject,” Clayton said.
Clayton would not say whether Jackson was shot with probes or “drive-stunned” directly against his skin with the Taser and would not discuss whether any other force was used. He also declined to say whether arrest warrants or search warrants had been obtained and did not provide details of the arrest.
Results from an autopsy on Jackson are expected to take at least a week.
Several Michigan residents have died after being shot by police Taser guns.
The Detroit News reports:
This isn’t the first time the use of a stun gun by police has come under scrutiny. Last year, a family sued Warren and its police department after a 16-year-old boy died hours after being Tasered. In the fall, sheriff’s deputies probed the death of a driver who was Tasered by Bloomfield Township police officers and later died at the hospital.
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