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.
Despite multiple investigations finding no wrongdoing in the killing of Detroit Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah during an FBI raid on a Dearborn warehouse last October, the Council on American-Islamic Relations of Michigan is filing a lawsuit against the federal government demanding access to unreleased documents and media from the raid. The Detroit News reports:
A second investigation, this time by the U.S. Department of Justice, has concluded that the FBI agents who shot Detroit-area Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah during a raid on a Dearborn warehouse last October did not violate any laws or procedures. A few weeks ago, Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox reached the same conclusion after an [...]
An investigation into the controversial shooting of Detroit area Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah by the Dearborn Police Department has been completed and forwarded to Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox. Abdullah was shot 20 times by federal agents during a raid on a Dearborn warehouse on October 28, 2009. The Detroit Free Press reports: Dearborn officials [...]
In a surprise move, Attorney General Mike Cox has begun a state investigation into the FBI shooting of Detroit Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah. Abdullah was gunned down in an FBI raid on a warehouse in Dearborn late last year. The Detroit Free Press reports:
A former FBI agent is supporting the agents at the scene of the Dearborn raid during which Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah was killed, saying that it appears from the information he’s seen that they followed agency protocol in handcuffing Abdullah even after he had been shot more than 20 times. The former agent said neither [...]
The Detroit Board of Police Commissioners have joined Rep. John Conyers and the family of slain Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah in demanding a thorough inquiry to reveal the truth about the circumstances that led to the Muslim leader being gunned down in an October raid on a warehouse in Dearborn. The Detroit Free Press reports:
The ongoing saga continues in the wake of the FBI’s killing of Detroit Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah. On Tuesday, members of Abdullah’s family — and Rep. John Conyers — demanded a second autopsy on the African-American Muslim leader as well as the release of any other evidence in the case. The Detroit Free Press reports:
That didn’t take long. A day after the Wayne County Medical Examiner released the autopsy report in the shooting death of Luqman Ameen Abdullah during an FBI raid — and after Rep. John Conyers called for an independent inquiry — the Department of Justice has initiated an investigation of the incident. The Detroit News reports:
The Wayne County Medical Examiner’s office finally released the autopsy of Luqman Ameen Abdullah, the Detroit area Imam who was gunned down during an FBI raid in October on a warehouse in Dearborn. The Michigan Messenger and several other news outlets had filed a Freedom of Information Act request in November for the autopsy, but [...]
The House Judiciary Committee, led by Rep. John Conyers of Detroit, is asking the U.S. Department of Justice to conduct an independent and complete investigation of the FBI raid that resulted in the gunning down of Detroit area Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah at a warehouse in Dearborn in October.
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