Grosse Pointe Park has agreed to remove a controversial farmer’s market that blocked off the border of Detroit this summer under a potentially landmark agreement between the two disparate communities.
We reviewed dispatch calls and 911 records to get a clearer picture of the floods and their impact on metro Detroit.
While many reporters stayed inside a media-safe zone, LeDuff dodged bottles and fended off an attacker to capture one of the most authentic moments of the protests.
The alleged vandals belong to a group known as TCK Crew, which has vandalized buildings throughout the city.
Vandals defaced beautiful murals at the Grand River Creative Corridor for the first time in its three years of existence.
Hundreds of people gathered at Hart Plaza in downtown Detroit to pay tribute to Michael Brown, an unarmed teenager who was shot to death by police near St. Louis.
Our request for three months of records, the city maintained, would disable emergency communications and take more than a year to fulfill.
Heavily armed police used smoke bombs and tear gas t0 disperse crowds, arrested reporters and pointed rifles at crowds.
The west-side building is owned by the city, which isn’t as quick to take action in some neighborhoods.
The flooding was so rampant that Detroit firefighters and police were sometimes unable to reach emergencies.