Well…just read an interesting little article in the Free Press about the individualized costs of just one police brutality case in the city of Inkster…if you recall, an idiot cop dragged a guy out of his car under false pretenses and beat him mercilessly…in this one case the cop was fired and is now under trial for multiple felonies in relationship to that beating…never mind the many, many others he was responsible for. This article put a new spin on the 1.38 million dollar settlement to the beaten man…they broke it out as a per household amount that is going to have to be paid through a millage increase that will tax everyone in Inkster…and that comes out to $178.30 property tax increase for a house that is only worth $55,000…yep for each homeowner they are going to have to kick in almost 200 bucks to pay for this one case of police brutality…I wonder if this will help end this nonsense?  If I lived in Inkster, I’d sure be yelling for changes so this wouldn’t ever happen again…and, I would press the city to file a recovery lawsuit to get the money back from the fired officer….geez…

Well…was just reading “The Detroit Free Press” on my phone and this bit of shocking but happy news came across the screen…the Inkster cop who beat a man bloody and who had been sued many, many times for brutality is being charged with two felonies relating to the latest of his long list of beatings. Yep, finally, one of these cops is going to be held accountable for this crap; for beating an unarmed man and planting drugs on him to try to justify the beating…but, the prosecutor has just dropped the last charge of possession of drugs of the beaten man so justice appears to have been served. But, this can’t be the last time one of these thugs is held accountable…and it appears that with all of the added scrutiny and the videos that are surfacing, baby steps are beginning that may just lead to reform….I know this may just be wishful thinking but baby steps are better than no steps…it’s about time….

Well….another day, another egregious case of police brutality here in Michigan…on January 28th, cops in Inkster pulled over another black man and proceeded to beat him on the pretense that he “rolled through a stop sign” and then yelled at a cop that he was going to kill him. Little problem here….this man has never been in trouble in his life…not once…and is a 37 year employee of Ford with a perfect record there. The primary excuse of the cops was that he was in a “new car in a known drug area” and, sure enough, they found drugs on the guy…the only problem was the dashcam that showed one of the cops, who had been accused of planting drugs and guns on people before, taking the bag of drugs out of his pocket and slipping it into the suspect’s pocket as he was beating him. Oh, and the drug test done at the hospital showed nothing…not even aspirin in his system. One neat little fact is the cop, nicknamed “robocop” cost the city of Detroit millions of dollars in settlements for shooting unarmed people and other abuse while he was employed there….but, guess what? He’s still on the job, still collecting his pay, still abusing citizens and nothing is being done about it…this guy and everyone involved should be in jail….no wonder I still don’t like cops…and I’m an old white guy…geez…