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.
WXYZ TV in Detroit has a disturbing report about the Deputy Chief of Police in Highland Park, who as a police officer in Detroit pleaded guilty to assaulting another woman in a bar and sending her to the hospital.
Standing near the bar, things got tense. The women argued, and suddenly, wielding a glass like this, the off-duty Sergeant struck Emily in the head, knocking her to the floor. Emily said the sergeant ground the glass pieces into her head.
When it was all over, the sergeant had left deep lacerations in the head of her victim. One witness would later tell officers she saw “blood running down everywhere,” and that she could “see the bone” exposed in Emily’s head. It would take 20 stitches to close the wounds.
“I never saw it coming..I couldn’t see. (There) was blood all in my eyes and my face,” Emily said.
Sgt. Jones was taken to the Central District where she was booked. She would later say that she hit Emily out of self defense—that Emily was about to swing at her, but that’s not reflected by statements taken by Detroit Police that night. DPD suspended Jones—and later fired her—and it wasn’t long before Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy charged her with felonious and aggravated assault. Eventually, the Sgt. would plead no contest to aggravated assault, a misdemeanor. She was sentenced to one year of probation, and a course in anger management. She served no time in jail.
Yet she was still hired as a police officer in Highland Park and recently promoted to Deputy Chief. Unfortunately, this is not unusual. Police officers are incredibly difficult to remove from their positions even after the most appalling actions. And when they are removed they are often hired by other communities.
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