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Deadline Detroit | Attorney Norman Lippitt, who defended Detroit cops in the Algiers Motel trial, dies at 85


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Allan Lengel
e was a brilliant, naturally gifted attorney. He knew how to read a courtroom.
Norman Lippitt, a brilliant lawyer intially known for successfully defending white police accused of beatings and murder at the Algiers Motel during the 1967 riots, died Monday from complications from bladder cancer that turned to bone cancer. The 85-year-old Bloomfield Hills resident died at home under hospice care.
For 17 years, until 1984, Lippitt was the lead counsel for the Detroit Police Officers Association, defending cops in high-profile cases, often involving brutality and murder. Before that, he was a Wayne County assistant prosecutor.
He did those cases because they were his clients and he was going to win for them, that s what lawyers do, said Brian O Keefe, Lippitt s law partner for 32 years. You don t make a moral judgment when you re trying to win for your client. ....

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Police and the License to Kill


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Detroit police aim guns at Black men during Detroit Uprising, July 25, 1967 / Image: AFP via Getty Images
Detroit police killed hundreds of unarmed Blacks in response to the civil rights movement. Their ability to get away with it reveals why today’s initiatives to make police more accountable are bound to fail, and how we can do better.
Clifford “Chucky” Howell, a thirteen-year-old Black male, was walking home from playing at a friend’s house when a white Detroit police officer shot him near his own backyard on the evening of Sept. 13, 1969. The patrol team did not summon medical assistance for at least forty minutes, and Chucky died later at the hospital. Officers on the scene claimed that he had been fleeing the burglary of a white family’s home, a felony, and that it was therefore appropriate to shoot him. Numerous eyewitness accounts, however, insisted Chucky had been an oblivious bystander. His parents and a local B ....

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