by Allan Lengel
James Craig
Update, 7 p.m. Friday: Detroit Police Chief James Craig, reportedly planning to announce his retirement Monday, has been meeting with Republican leaders as he prepares to challenge Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2022, Politico reports. Craig has spent recent days meeting with Ron Weiser, chair of the Michigan Republican Party, and has spoken to Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, chair of the Republican Governors Association, the publication says.
Friday afternoon post: Detroit Police Chief James Craig plans to announce his retirement on Monday and is considering a run for state office, possibly governor, Detroit media outlets report Friday.
by Allan Lengel
James Craig
Update, 7 p.m. Friday: Detroit Police Chief James Craig, reportedly planning to announce his retirement Monday, has been meeting with Republican leaders as he prepares to challenge Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2022, Politico reports. Craig has spent recent days meeting with Ron Weiser, chair of the Michigan Republican Party, and has spoken to Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, chair of the Republican Governors Association, the publication says.
Friday afternoon post: Detroit Police Chief James Craig plans to announce his retirement on Monday and is considering a run for state office, possibly governor, Detroit media outlets report Friday.
Detroit Police Chief Rips Rashida Tlaib Over Call To End Policing
Detroit Police Chief Rips Rashida Tlaib Over Call To End Policing
This is over a week old, but I just saw it now:
Detroit Police Chief James Craig went after Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., after her latest call for “no more policing” in the wake of 20-year-old Daunte Wright’s death after a police traffic stop in Minnesota
Tlaib has faced a mounting backlash after calling for an end to “policing, incarceration, and militarization” – the latest in a long string of controversial comments from the sophomore congresswoman.
“She’s reckless,” Craig told Fox 2 Detroit on Sunday. “I’d love to see her resign. I’d throw her a goodbye party.”
Notes on police violence: Multiple killings the same week Derek Chauvin convicted
Father of 10 shot dead in North Carolina
Forty-year-old Andrew Brown, father of 10, was fatally shot Wednesday morning by a Pasquotank County sheriff’s deputy in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. Few details are known about the police shooting at this time, but the Pasquotank County Sheriff’s Office states the shooting occurred around 8:30 a.m. while deputies were serving a search warrant.
According to a witness, Brown got into his car and started to drive away. Neighbors said the deputy fired his weapon between 6 and 8 times into Brown’s vehicle. The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation has been called in to take over the investigation.
by Violet Ikonomova Detroit police officers were responding to a deadly police-involved incident of their own Tuesday afternoon when word came of the verdict in the case against former Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin: Guilty on all three charges. Multiple officers radioed the fate of the officer who killed George Floyd in dispatches obtained by Deadline Detroit. Which charges? Murder, hopefully? an officer responded. Their system must work differently than ours, said another. You can hear the handful of comments in the clip below. Chauvin, 45, was convicted of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. The radio dispatches were among a batch obtained by Deadline Detroit in an effort to learn more about a police shooting that ended with a man dead and officer hospitalized. Detroit Police Chief James Craig said officers shot the man after he stabbed himself and an officer in the leg, bu