All 20 of them.
Not much of a turnout to support the thugs, druggies and scum otherwise interfering with decent people enjoying the island, but hey, it's an election year and community organizers gotta organize and Democrat electoral hopefuls gotta play to their base.
The Detroit Free Press: 20 protest policing policy at Belle Isle
From The Rev. Horace Sheffield III, running for congress against John Conyers, who is not on the ballot due to some Democrat shenanigans, we get not a dog-whistle, but a full on blast horn:
The Rev. Horace Sheffield III, who is running for Congress against U.S. Rep. John Conyers, was also at the rally and said “there’s been a history of whose island is this,” pointing to the 1943 Detroit Race Riot that began on the island. “There’s been an inordinate number of people arrested on the island, and that’s by design,” he said.
Yep, not very subtle, but it's an election year.
The protest then descended into farce when
Ron Scott of the Coalition Against Police Brutality said activists plan to launch what he called “freedom rides” in coming weeks on parts of the island. He said part of what he and others want to accomplish by engaging authorities now is to head off potential negative confrontations before larger numbers of young men start hanging out on the island with their friends this summer.
Seriously, He went there. He's comparing the freedom rides for civil rights in the 60s where real civil rights were at stake versus the enforcement of law on Belle Isle today, where people are being stopped for things like speeding, doing drugs and committing serious crimes?
One of these things is just not like the other.
Methinks the Coalition Against Police Brutality is running out of actual cause celebres and is now fishing for relevance and an opportunity for Scott to get his face and name in the news before he fades into irrelevance.
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