“You better wake up because some of you are going to jail, and I will be the first to laugh at you because you’ve been laughing at us for years,” one block club member shouted at council.
When Emory moved into his modest home in northwest Detroit four years ago, he had no idea the six-foot concrete wall in his backyard was erected to keep people like him out.
A 64-year-old Detroiter was clinging dangerously to the outside of a fence on an I-94 overpass at Connor as traffic below whirred by late Saturday afternoon.
Just a few days after the explosions at the Boston Marathon, a suspicious package was found this afternoon in Midtown, forcing the evacuation of an apartment, businesses and a Wayne State University building.
If Mayor Dave Bing gets his way, parking fines will increase. Delinquent on three tickets? You face the boot and could lose your driver’s license.
“I resent you, I hate you for what you did,” Mays yelled into the microphone at a council meeting.
Police removed one resident who urged Detroiters to “attack” city council. Later, the audience broke out in protest songs, forcing a postponement.
The fire department is so understaffed that the entire east side was without fire protection for about two hours while about 18 companies battled the fires.
Mayor Bing’s tax-funded consultants suggested he drastically cut the council budget and make the members part-time. He didn’t.
All that remained were a smoldering stump of concrete and questions about what lie beneath the rubble.