While a bulk of police resources were downtown, officers were called to at least three shootings, seven home invasions, three armed robberies, four arsons, a rape and numerous domestic assaults.
It is the fourth such barrier that Grosse Pointe Park has erected that prevents Detroit traffic from entering the predominately white community.
The tweets offer a glimpse into the various attitudes about Detroit.
“Only realizing now that none of those businesses were black-owned and I deeply regret the omission!” the reporter tweeted.
Beginning next week, Second Avenue in the Cass Corridor and Midtown will become a two-way street, a sign of the incredible decline of the street since the 1930s.
Soon after the fire gutted the 124-year-old Romanesque Revival building, the owner ordered his demolition crew to topple the final stone walls even as darkness settled in.
Two thieves in a vehicle slammed through the plate-glass windows of Lafayette Foods early this morning.
Authorities say Christen Moore’s toss fell short of the exercise yard, catching the attention of officials at the G. Robert Cotton Correctional Facility.
His leg was jutting in the wrong direction, and his neck and back may have been broken.
The fire gutted the house in an area already decimated by arsons, abandonment and neglect.