There’s a battle on the ballot in Detroit as voters head to the polls on Tuesday. Voters are weighing in on revising the city’s charter.
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The Michigan Supreme Court on Thursday ordered a proposed revision to Detroit’s city charter to appear on the Aug. 3 ballot, overturning the decisions of lower courts on the matter.
The Michigan Supreme Court on Thursday ordered a proposed revision to Detroit’s city charter to appear on the Aug. 3 ballot, overturning the decisions of lower courts on the matter.
The decision, which remanded the case back to Wayne County Circuit Court, comes as lawyers argued whether Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s silence on the amendment meant it could not proceed to the ballot. Usually, a charter amendment proceeds to the ballot after earning approval from the governor and is rejected for the ballot if the governor vetoes it.
In less than a week, Detroit voters will decide on Proposal P, a revised city charter.
A research organization calls the revisions “an unprecedented break with former charters in its scope and breadth of changes.”
He’s used Fox News to build buzz for months now. But James Craig has a lot of angry people to answer to in his state’s largest city.
It was July 2020, and Nakia Wallace was on the streets of Detroit when, she says, police threw a young man to the ground and placed a knee on his neck. Along with dozens of others, Wallace was protesting the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. The action was just one of more than 100 she said she went on to organize in the city, and now it seemed like cops might be recreating the nightmarish arrest that sparked a nationwide uprising.
According to Wallace, she yelled at the cops attacking the man, and soon found herself swarmed by police herself—before being thrown to the ground and placed in a chokehold.
Op-Ed by Rev. Horace Sheffield III/Tell Us Detroit
DETROIT (Tell Us Det) – “In the aftermath of the death of 7 year old Chennell Berry, Chief Craig was cited as saying something that I think he may want to rethink and restate.
Chief Craig after saying that this incident was “senseless, tragic, and over what?” then said “People get to argue, but they don’t get to use this kind of response to resolve whatever their differences are.
“People get to argue…..” Really. It seems to me that its these same arguments that lead to murder. So to give people permission to argue when it was an argument that caused Chenell’s death was at best not thought through and at worse a gross misunderstanding of the causes of many violent deaths in Detroit. Either way he should have another press conference and issue a statement telling us and stating that because too many of us don’t resolve conflicts in peaceful ways he’s officially banning arguments instead of inadvertently encouraging them.
Apparently the chief, after reviewing and commenting on all of these conflicts turned homicide, hasn’t come to the right conclusion – and that is that some people shouldn’t be encouraged to argue at all -because after all it’s precisely the argument, and the conflict which ensues, that most often turns deadly.
I’m just saying that if I were the Chief of Police, having witnessed homicide after homicide, death after death, and having personally commented on nearly all of them, given the deadly outcome of to many of these conflicts I wouldn’t encourage arguments I’d be pleading for civility and for lions to lay down with lambs”.
Rev. Horace Sheffield, III
“A Social Change Agent with a Spiritual Mandate”
Read original op-ed here.
Bishop Horace Sheffield breaks down his opposition to Proposal P. Check out Detroit Wants 2 Know Fridays at 5:00 AM on WKBD CW 50.
On Sunday, July 18, Spotlight on the News will look at the case against controversial Proposal P, the latest proposed revision of the Detroit Charter appearing on the August 3rd Primary Election ballot. Guests will include Sheila Cockrel, a former 4-term member of the Detroit City Council and Rev. Horace Sheffield III, Pastor of Detroit’s New Destiny Christian Fellowship.
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