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 […]
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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.
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, police tactics, Pure Michigan, Rob Reznick, Robert Bates, Robert James Ritchie, Stanley Glanz, tasers, Tulsa, urban policing theme park 5 Comments
Ypsilanti’s most despicable son, Harry Bennett
In advance of the release of The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War, which is set to hit bookstores on Tuesday, Salon.com is running a salacious excerpt on the questionable activities of Ford enforcer, and notorious Ypsilanti resident, Harry Bennett. Here’s a taste. Henry Ford was […]
Posted in History, Ypsilanti Also tagged A Stiff Game, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War, Chester LaMare, Detroit, Ford Service Department, Harry Bennett, Henry Ford, labor history, porn, Rouge plant, Sailor Reese, The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, The Casting Director, the Ford stomach, union busting, unions 14 Comments