Tag Archives: police tactics

Building bridges between the people of Ypsilanti and the police, vomiting cheese sticks, southern transplants, the music of Modern Lady Fitness and Blake Elliott, and ‘Two Gays and a Jew’ …on episode 17 of The Saturday Six Pack

By Mark | May 26, 2015

There was a lot to like about this last episode of the Saturday Six Pack, which began with an original composition by Modern Lady Fitness that included more obscure, inside references than Glass Onion. [They not only sang about Brigid’s fancy lady parts, which, for some reason, are often a topic of conversation on the […]

Posted in Art and Culture, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Atlanta, Barbarella, black lives matter, body cameras, Brigid Mooney, cheese sticks, Chris Stranad, Community Policing, Controversi-ALE, Daltrey’s Fringe, Derrick Jackson, ENPACT, excessive force, fancy vaginas, Fangs and Twang, Hangin' Frank, Jerry Clayton, Marietta Georgia, Mike Nix, Modern Lady Fitness, Newt Gingrich, Ozone House, running, Six Pack Portrait Project, Three's Company, Washtenaw County Sheriff's Department, Ypsilanti Running Company | 5 Comments

You don’t have to go all the way to Tulsa to dress up like a cop and shoot people. You can do it right here in Michigan. It’ll just cost you $1,200.

By Mark | April 15, 2015

Two weeks ago, on April 2, a 73-year-old insurance company executive by the name of Robert Bates shot and killed an unarmed black man in Tulsa, Oklahoma. This likely wouldn’t have made the national news, if not for the fact that Bates was dressed as a police officer at the time… something he was allowed […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Michigan, Uncategorized | Also tagged Ann Arbor Ambassador Program, baseball fantasy camp, Deputy Sheriffs Association of Michigan, gun violence, Kid Rock, Oakley, Oklahoma, private police force, Pure Michigan, Rob Reznick, Robert Bates, Robert James Ritchie, Stanley Glanz, tasers, Tulsa, urban policing theme park | 5 Comments

Yet another unarmed black man has been killed by police… What’s next?

By Mark | April 8, 2015

I would have thought, given the rapid proliferation of video recording devices throughout society, and the intense media scrutiny that came in the wake of the Eric Garner and Michael Brown killings, that police officers might be a little more inclined to show restraint when dealing with members of the public. Apparently, though, old habits […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Uncategorized | Also tagged black lives matter, Bob Sloan, Department of Justice, excessive force, Michael T. Slager, murder, North Charleston, South Carolina, states rights, surveillance culture, Walter L. Scott | 42 Comments

Tony Morgan, Matt Jones, the identity of Ypsi, and much more on this weekend’s episode of the Saturday Six Pack

By Mark | April 2, 2015

How do I stay so skinny eating 50 pancakes a day? Easy, I keep having my head moved to different bodies! And you can too. Just get a job as on-air talent at an AM radio station with a world class graphic design department… For more life lessons like this one, be sure to tune […]

Posted in Art and Culture, The Saturday Six Pack, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Anthony Morgan, Aura Rosser, beer, black lives matter, Elize Jekabson, Eric Garner, First Fridays, First Fridays Ypsilanti, Kate de Fuccio, Kayj Michelle, Kelli Harden-Klenotic, Matt Jones, Michael Brown, New Holland Brewing, police abuse, police state, race, Tony Morgan, Trayvon Martin, White Hatter | 8 Comments

An afternoon spent on Racebook

By Mark | December 7, 2014

In the wake of the events in Ferguson, Cleveland and Staten Island, and the subsequent conversations we’ve all had about black lives mattering and the treatment of black Americans by police officers, I don’t suppose it’s any surprise that some white folks have decided to push back and challenge the prevailing “white cops are killing […]