Grosse Pointe Park man who displayed KKK flag facing Black neighbor won’t face charges
Officials say it doesn’t violate Michigan law
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GROSSE POINTE PARK, Mich. – Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy characterized the Ku Klux Klan flag displayed in a Grosse Pointe Park home as despicable and traumatizing but not a crime under the law.
Under Michigan’s ethnic intimidation statute, it requires physical contact or damage and defacement to property. The flag has since been taken down after Grosse Pointe Park police went to the home.
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“The way the ethnic intimidation law is written in Michigan, there had to be contact,” said JeDonna Dinges, who lives next door. “He didn’t try to grab me or try to harm or deface my property, so all of the elements were not met, but that does not mean what he did was right because it was not.”