The Murder of Vincent Chin - 40 Years Later
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Protesters in Detroit (Photo: Detroit Under Fire )
The author, a co-founder of Deadline Detroit, was a reporter, editor and columnist at the Detroit Free Press for 32 years.
By Bill McGraw An unprecedented research project by University of Michigan students into police violence in Detroit has documented dozens of shootings of unarmed Black men and routine cover-ups by prosecutors and department officials between 1957 and 1973. While the scrutiny of “Detroit Under Fire” stops nearly five decades ago, the litany of incidents it uncovers depicts an unambiguous record of police abuse. It’s the most comprehensive accounting of fatal-force encounters for any U.S. city, project participants say.