Friday, March 25, 2016

How police terrorise people without even arresting them...

Around 5 PM on an icebox cold Tuesday evening this month, Shagwaina Clark* began hyperventilating in the lobby of the Detroit Police Department (DPD) headquarters.

"Why did y'all have to drag me into this?" she repeated on a loop, kicking her worn moccasins against the carpeted grey floor.

On February 27, friends say 24-year-old Darnell Kelly—also known as Banga Pepos—was killed in a white sedan parked three houses down from Clark's camera-lined bungalow. Four days later, and just a few hours before her public breakdown in the police station foyer, multiple armed officers arrived to retrieve "any and all computers, hard drives, and any data storage devices used to store video and/or audio data" from her west side home, according to their search warrant.

The invasion of privacy left the 37-year-old reeling. Full story...

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