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.
East Lansing Police are defending the use of a taser on a 17-year-old student at East Lansing High School last week, reports the Lansing State Journal. Marcus Reid, 17, has been charged with two counts of hindering, obstructing and assaulting a police officer and one count of disorderly conduct from a Thursday incident at the [...]
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 [...]
LANSING — Former Eaton County sheriff and Republican State Rep. Rick Jones says even after the death of a 30-year-old Matthew Bolick following a taser incident with East Grand Rapids Public Safety officers, he will continue to support his legislation to expand access to “citizen tasers.” “I still contend it is much safer to use [...]
A 30-year-old man East Grand Rapids Police officials say was arrested for assaulting officers has died in police custody. In order to subdue the man, police say they had to taser him. The Grand Rapids Press reports the tasering incident has not been officially tied to the man’s death.
A long tradition of taser abuse by police departments in Michigan continues with an incident in Lansing where an officer shot a suspect with a taser even though he had already been subdued and handcuffed by two fellow officers. Officer Ryan Smith has been suspended without pay by the Lansing Police Department for two weeks, [...]
The post commander of the Traverse City post of the State Police is defending the actions of an officer who shot a seventeen year-old girl with a Taser gun last Friday, the Traverse City Record Eagle reports. Officers say the girl tried to run away as they conducted a sobriety test on the driver of [...]
“A 2005 Government Accountability Office survey of seven major law enforcement agencies showed that they don’t consider the Taser to be a kind of firearm,” the Detroit News writes. “Perhaps they should.” Two Michigan teens have died this year after being shocked by police Taser guns.
An unarmed sixteen-year-old Detroit boy died Friday, officials say, after he fled during a traffic stop and was shocked by a police Taser gun in an abandoned house. Warren Deputy Police Commissioner Jere Green is defending the use of force against the boy as “within policies and guidelines” and “appropriate” the Detroit News reports. Police [...]
Fifteen year-old Brett Elder of Bay City died last month after being shocked by taser wielding police. Now the Bay City Times is calling for a review on the local police department’s taser policy which it says “appears overly vague”. “Just when should police use Tasers to electrically shock a suspect into submission?” the editorial [...]
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