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On Saturday afternoon, Rosey White spoke into a megaphone, reliving the trauma of when officials illegally evicted her in 2016. The eviction started a chain reaction of obstacles for her.
It was the first time she ever became homeless, and she wasn t alone in her struggles.
White was one out of the handful of speakerswho gathered outside of Detroit Police Department s Public Safety Headquarters to protest illegal and police-aided evictions on Saturday. The group of over 80 people also marched across downtown Detroit.
White said she was evicted late on a dark evening evening in December 2016 and she lost everything. With nowhere else to go, she had to stay in a homeless shelter. The eviction forced White to rebuild her life step-by-step.
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Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said Detroit police used “lawful self-defense” in July 10 incident; anti-police brutality activists call for further review of the case.
Detroit police officers will not face charges for the shooting death of Hakim Littleton, the 20-year-old Detroiter who was killed after an encounter with police last summer.
Investigators say Littleton fired five shots toward police and was in-turn struck four times during the July 10 incident near San Juan Street and 6 Mile Road.
The Wayne County Prosecutor’s office determined that officers used “lawful self-defense” as Littleton brandished a firearm toward police, firing his pistol from the ground before a police officer shot him in the head, killing him.
Wayne Co. Prosecutor announces charging decision in Hakim Littleton case
By Veronica Meadows and Jack Nissen
Published
DETROIT - The shooting death of Hakim Littleton by Detroit police last summer was one of the city s higher-profile cases during a turbulent and combustible period between law enforcement and activists.
Littleton was shot after he pulled a gun out and shot at officers during an arrest of a separate individual that day. His death sparked a wave of protests that only added fuel to the fire in Detroit which had already been embroiled in protests against police violence last year.
The Detroit police chief has maintained his support and defense of the officers involved. But Littleton s brother Rashad says DPD mishandled the situation. The Wayne County Prosecutor s Office is expected to announce a charging decision today at noon.
Credit Russ McNamara / WDET
While the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin continues in Minneapolis, other legal proceedings have cropped up around the country in connection to the civil rights movement that followed the killing of George Floyd.
In Detroit, anti-police brutality protesters scored a number of recent legal wins. Last month, a federal judge tossed out a city countersuit filed against protesters, which alleged they had engaged in a civil conspiracy. The plaintiffs, anchored by the Detroit Will Breathe collective, continue to pursue their complaint against the Detroit Police Department, which alleges officers used excessive force to squash the street marches, violating demonstrators’ First Amendment rights in the process.