This evening I attended the Unity Town Hall at Eastern Michigan Union, during which Congresswoman Debbie Dingell, Black Lives Matter Organizer Myles McGuire, Wahstenaw County Sheriff Jerry Clayton, Mark Fancher of the Michigan ACLU’s Racial Justice Project, and Washtenaw County Prosecutor Brian Mackie sat before an audience of about 250, responding to questions about civil […]
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Elected leaders and civil rights organizers join Sheriff Clayton to discuss the policing of communities of color at Unity Town Hall
Posted in Ann Arbor, Civil Liberties, Michigan, Ypsilanti Also tagged ACLU, Aura Rosser, black lives matter, Brian Mackie, Debbie Dingell, dismantling of public education, drugs, fear, Jerry Clayton, Mark Fancher, mental health, Mobile Justice, Myles McGuire, police violence, public education, Racial Justice Project, Seattle, slavery, social work, threats to public education, Unity Town Hall, Washtenaw County, Washtenaw County Prosecutor 15 Comments
Members of the Ypsilanti community talk with city officials about living in fear of the police and how we can work together to make things better
Following are my extremely rough, admittedly incomplete notes on tonight’s meeting of the Ypsilanti Police-Community Relations / Black Lives Matter Joint Task Force. If you were also in the audience, and have something to add, please leave a comment. And, of course, feel free to weigh in on whatever you read below. As you’ll soon […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged anger, Anne Brown, Anthony Morgan, black lives matter, body cameras, cell phones, Citizen Review Board, Crisis Intervention Team, cultural awareness, Dan Vogt, Eastern Washtenaw Safety Alliance, Emmett Till, Heritage Fest, implicit bias, Jerry Clayton, mental health, mental illness, Nicole Brown, over policing, police violence, prison industrial complex, racism, sentencing disparities, subject control, Tony DeGiusti, use of force, Water Street, Water Street debt reduction millage, Ypsilanti police department 95 Comments