New Detroit Police Department facility to honor Benny Napoleon
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CORRECTS LAST NAME TO NAPOLEON, NOT NAPOLEAN - Detroit mayoral candidate Benny Napoleon is seen at the Meijer Shopping Plaza in Detroit, Monday, Nov. 4, 2013. Napoleon is running for mayor against Mike Duggan in the general election on Tuesday. The job of the next Detroit mayor is a job that will have little immediate power, as the debt-ridden metropolis is guided through the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history by a state-appointed emergency manager. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
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The celebration of life is taking place at the legendary Greater Grace Temple.
It is closed to the public. There were two visitations open to the public earlier this week.
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Public viewing for Wayne County Sheriff Benny Napoleon to be held Monday
Family will have private service independent of public service
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DETROIT – Beloved Wayne County Sheriff Benny Napoleon will be laid to rest this week.
A public viewing will be held Monday at the Swanson Funeral Home on East Grand Boulevard in Detroit from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Services will be held Tuesday at the Greater Grace Temple on Seven Mile Road from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The family will have its own private service.
A live stream of the event will be available on the Swanson Funeral Home site.
Benny Napoleon, Michigan Sheriff and Ex-Detroit Police Chief, Dies at 65
Sheriff Napoleon served for more than a decade in the Michigan county that includes Detroit, and ran unsuccessfully for the city’s mayor.
Sheriff Benny Napoleon of Wayne County, Mich., died Thursday after testing positive for the coronavirus.Credit.Joshua Lott for The New York Times
Published Dec. 18, 2020Updated March 19, 2021
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WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich. Benny Napoleon, the sheriff of Wayne County in Michigan and a former Detroit police chief who ran unsuccessfully for mayor of the city, died on Thursday in a hospital there. He was 65.