Detroit And Unrest

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Anyone have a theory why we have been spared the rioting and looting in this area? I know GR and Lansing had issues this weekend but In Detroit, Flint, Toledo and Saginaw things have been fairly quiet and the protests have been ended peacefully or with fairly uneventful arrests... Saturday was a little hairy but nothing like it’s been elsewhere.

My stab at it is that Duggan, Craig and the community activists made it clear that won’t work here. We seem to be one of the only major cities to not have this issue... I’ll take it but it’s sure interesting.

[Bryce]

Anyone have a theory why we have been spared the rioting and looting in this area? I know GR and Lansing had issues this weekend but In Detroit, Flint, Toledo and Saginaw things have been fairly quiet and the protests have been ended peacefully or with fairly uneventful arrests... Saturday was a little hairy but nothing like it’s been elsewhere.

My stab at it is that Duggan, Craig and the community activists made it clear that won’t work here. We seem to be one of the only major cities to not have this issue... I’ll take it but it’s sure interesting.

[Deleted User 13307]

The optimistic side of me says that there are still enough people that remember what 1967 did to the region and how hard it has been to overcome that for the last 53 years.

The pessimistic side of me says that trashing Detroit or Flint or Saginaw or Toledo doesn't have the same shock value as doing it to other cities.

[Matt]

Anyone have a theory why we have been spared the rioting and looting in this area? I know GR and Lansing had issues this weekend but In Detroit, Flint, Toledo and Saginaw things have been fairly quiet and the protests have been ended peacefully or with fairly uneventful arrests... Saturday was a little hairy but nothing like it’s been elsewhere.

My stab at it is that Duggan, Craig and the community activists made it clear that won’t work here. We seem to be one of the only major cities to not have this issue... I’ll take it but it’s sure interesting.

I'll echo this. Oh, and antifa is probably scared of Detroit.

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Anyone have a theory why we have been spared the rioting and looting in this area? I know GR and Lansing had issues this weekend but In Detroit, Flint, Toledo and Saginaw things have been fairly quiet and the protests have been ended peacefully or with fairly uneventful arrests... Saturday was a little hairy but nothing like it’s been elsewhere.

My stab at it is that Duggan, Craig and the community activists made it clear that won’t work here. We seem to be one of the only major cities to not have this issue... I’ll take it but it’s sure interesting.

Craig’s model seems vastly different than other major cities.. they even simply let the protesters that ran off keep going tonight. As long as they dispersed and went into that good night... that’s what I think is interesting, he even said “we don’t want to arrest anybody or issue tickets if we don’t have to”... that’s a big difference from some of these other places.

[Bryce]

Craig’s model seems vastly different than other major cities..

It is. If people violate curfew, they get arrested. How many curfew violation arrests have been made in N.Y.?

As the 8 p.m. Detroit curfew began, the group already had split into two camps: one headed back to the starting point downtown; another forged ahead, insisting they were free to walk the streets of their city when they choose. Cops warned over megaphone they would make arrests, saying it had been "declared an illegal assembly."

By 8:30 p.m., riot police were present. An armored vehicle was stationed near Connor. Police began arresting protesters in a parking lot of a Family Dollar store shortly after, pushing dozens of marchers to the ground and using zip ties to tie their hands behind their backs.

"We advised they would be arrested. Some complied, some didn't. Some offered some resistance, and so they were taken into custody," police chief James Craig said. "... We don't want to arrest, but if we have to, we will."

[MWmetalhead]

I've long been a fan of Chief Craig. We are fortunate to have him here. As an added bonus, he supports Second Amendment rights.