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Nkrumah Steward on befriending the descendant of those who enslaved his ancestors, local African-American officers talk about life at the intersection of “black and blue”, and detective Ira Todd on the strange case of Davonte Sanford …on this weekend’s Saturday Six Pack

By Mark | July 14, 2016

We’ll start off this Saturday evening’s episode of the Saturday Six Pack with Canton writer Nkrumah Steward. If Steward’s name sounds familiar, it’s likely because a recent story of his, about traveling back to the South Carolina plantation where his ancestors had been slaves, has spread like wildfire this past week. From People Magazine to […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Detroit, The Saturday Six Pack | Also tagged corruption, David Beeks, Davontae Sanford, Detroit Police, Eugene Rush, Ira Todd, Jason Gold, Jeremiah Richardson, Kym Worthy, LaShane Bynum, Low Winter Sun, murder, Nkrumah Steward, plantations, Robert Adams, slavery, South Carolina, Tamara "Strawberry" Greene, Vincent Smothers, Violent Crimes Task Force, Wavering Place Plantation | 6 Comments

The strange case of Davontae Sanford

By Mark | January 16, 2011

We haven’t seen her here on the site for the better part of a year, but, for a quite a while, we were getting regular updates from a woman by the name of Taminko Sanford on the fate of her son, Davontae, a prisoner in the Michigan correctional system. Davontae, who was found guilty of […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Detroit, Other, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2007, bad police work, Cheryl Sanford, coerced confessions, crime, David Cobb, Davontae Sanford, Detroit corruption, Detroit Police, Detroit police crime lab, Diane Bukowski, drug gangs, Ernest Davis, false imprisonment, Gerald Williams, homicide, Ira Todd, James Davis, Kwame Kilpatrick, Kym Worthy, LaTonya Brooks, Michael Stefani, Mitchell Foster, murder, murder for hire, murder mystery, organized crime, police investigations, Rose Cobb, Runyon Street, Russell Marcilis Sr., Taminko Sanford, Vincent Smothers, Violent Crimes Task Force, Voice of Detroit, William Rice, wrongly accused | 136 Comments

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