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 Detroit Free Press reports that the Wayne County medical examiner’s office is expected to release the results of the autopsy performed on Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah by Monday. Abdullah was gunned down during a raid by the FBI and the Dearborn Police Department in October. The autopsy has been completed for several weeks but [...]
Rep. John Conyers (D-Detroit) is calling for a thorough investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of Detroit area Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah, who was gunned down in a raid by the FBI and local police in October. The Detroit Free Press reports:
The Detroit Free Press has an op-ed piece in the Sunday paper calling on the city of Dearborn and the Wayne County Medical Examiner’s office to release the results of the autopsy done on Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah after he was killed during a joint terrorism task force raid. The Free Press editors say:
The Detroit News has an article this morning with the headline “Refusal to release imam’s autopsy raises suspicions.” Seems like I’ve heard that somewhere before. Oh, it was here. Two weeks ago. They even quote the same people in the article saying mostly the same things they said to us. Welcome to the party.
DETROIT — The FBI did not ask that the autopsy report of imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah be kept secret, according to the spokeswoman for the agency’s Detroit office. But the agency can only speak to its shooting investigation, not the Dearborn Police Department’s homicide inquiry.
Just a routine law enforcement practice. That’s how Marianne Talon, chief assistant Wayne County Corporation Counsel, described the Dearborn Police Department’s request to block disclosure of the completed autopsy report of Luqman Ameen Abdullah.
The Dearborn Police Department has asked Wayne County not to divulge the autopsy report of Luqman Ameen Abdullah, according to Wayne County Chief Assistant Corporation Counsel Marianne Talon. Explaining the delay on the part of the Wayne County Medical examiner’s office to decide that it would withhold the complete autopsy report, Talon said that the [...]
The U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division has declined — for now — to launch a separate investigation into the killing of Detroit Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah in a late-October FBI raid, according to a letter dated Dec. 2. Dawud Walid, director of the Michigan Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, requested a [...]
DETROIT — As activists call for an independent investigation into the killing of Luqman Ameen Abdullah, the imam at the center of the FBI’s Oct. 28 raids in Detroit, Michigan Messenger has learned that the Wayne County Medical Examiner’s office will not divulge the imam’s autopsy report.
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