anarchy
An 84 year old security guard was shot to death last night outside the church he was watching in Detroit. Here’s the story from the Free Press. Authority. An elderly man. Guarding a church. Attacked. Shot. Dead. In the video one man says ‘anarchy’. He says it is the one word no one want to use in … Read more
In Detroit (as it is in heaven)
Stephen Henderson, editorial page editor of the Detroit Free Press, today wrote “many people fear criminals more than they trust the police to keep order. That provides the fuel not only for a culture in which people may be reluctant to help each other, but also for the no-snitch mentality that’s so prevalent.” (full editorial) … Read more
Interrupters for Valentine’s Day
Thank you, Reverend Love, for this Valentine’s Day announcement. The Rev. Velda R. Love is Director of the Justice and Intercultural Learning Office of Diversity at North Park University in Chicago where tonight students will gather to see The Interrupters. If you can’t join them, you can watch the television premiere of this award-winning PBS documentary on WTTW or your … Read more
pop
Yesterday night a 15 year old boy died in a Chicago hospital after being shot Sunday morning on the South Side. Deshun Winfert was with his father in their car at 66th and Mozart. Another vehicle pulled up, someone shot both Deshun and his dad. Police have no explanation why. Seems random. Listening to this … Read more
Driver Beaten, Detroit Buses Stop
“I don’t know what’s going on with Detroit. Detroit is just going to hell to tell you the truth .. ain’t nothing running right” Horace Adams, a Detroit Transit bus rider, waiting … This Detroit Free Press article reports on a bus drivers walkout today that disrupted service. Drivers walked out in protest to a … Read more
