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GOP - Poll watcher in Detroit threatened with gun, 911 call rejected
The Washington Times ^ | 11/6/12 | Kerry Picket

Posted on 11/06/2012 11:39:45 AM PST by markomalley

Tensions are high all over the country at the polls today. The Michigan Republican Party is alleging that a poll watcher in Detroit on Tuesday morning was threatened with a gun. According to the Michigan GOP the poll watcher's 911 call was rejected. Below is a press release from Michigan Republican Party spokesman Matt Frendeway:

This morning, a legally credentialed poll watcher was threatened and intimidated while attempting to perform his legally allowed duties of observing the election process at precinct polling location 289 in Detroit. The poll watcher, a lawyer, was confronted by a voter in line, who demanded the poll watcher produce his credentials, which he did.

However, the voter said that wasn’t good enough and that he had “a badge and a gun” and told the poll watcher get out of the precinct. Rather than allow the situation to escalate, the poll watcher left before the voter produced a badge or brandished a gun. Fearing for his safety, the poll watcher exited and called 911, however the Detroit Police refused to respond to the call – neglecting the fact that a voter alleged to have a ‘badge’ and a ‘gun’ in a precinct, putting other voters at risk.


(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: banglist; detroit; michigan
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To: Personal Responsibility
Where did you see this reported? Or is that just you surmising?

Just the typical FR ass jabber.
21 posted on 11/06/2012 12:04:49 PM PST by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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22 posted on 11/06/2012 12:06:32 PM PST by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: markomalley

Union Corporatists.


23 posted on 11/06/2012 12:07:14 PM PST by NoLibZone (If the black experience is about being hated, I know more about it than Whoppi does I'm a Republican)
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To: wonkowasright

What’s left to burn?


24 posted on 11/06/2012 12:10:33 PM PST by Sigurdrifta
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To: logic101.net
"Are Detroit cops so overworked that they cannot respond to a threat of a firearm?"

Two reasons:

Deetroit is a black tribal parasitic infested Hell-hole and police are afraid to go in there

It's a Union Police Force, and they support whatever it takes to keep Taxpayer money flowing, to the "D" Party.

25 posted on 11/06/2012 12:14:15 PM PST by traditional1 (Don't gotsta worry 'bout no mo'gage, don't gotsta worry 'bout no gas; Obama gonna take care o' me!)
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To: Sigurdrifta

Ha. The vacant lots maybe ?


26 posted on 11/06/2012 12:15:52 PM PST by wonkowasright (Wonko from outside the asylum)
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To: goldstategop

Reports from FReepers actually in Michigan.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2955695/posts?q=1&;page=1#1


27 posted on 11/06/2012 12:16:54 PM PST by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: markomalley
the Detroit Police refused to respond to the call –


28 posted on 11/06/2012 12:18:11 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (Jab her with a harpoon.....)
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To: goldstategop

I thought the conventional wisdom was that Blacks were undermotivated this year due to gay marriage?


29 posted on 11/06/2012 12:19:25 PM PST by tanknetter
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To: IC Ken

When Romney wins , it will be a hot time in the old town tonight.

As long as they burn their own neighborhoods, I say have fun.

When they come to burn my place they are going down.

I worked too hard for what little I have to put up with a tribe of Obama voters destroying it.


30 posted on 11/06/2012 12:19:35 PM PST by Venturer
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To: GeronL

They may be stuffing ballot boxes or practicing SWAT maneuvers on cocker spaniels.


31 posted on 11/06/2012 12:22:33 PM PST by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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To: IC Ken

” When Romney wins they will burn Detroit down.”

How will anybody know the difference?


32 posted on 11/06/2012 12:25:31 PM PST by lowbridge (Joe Biden: "Look, the Taliban per se is not our enemy.")
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To: markomalley
However, the voter said that wasn’t good enough and that he had “a badge and a gun” and told the poll watcher get out of the precinct.

My answer: So do I, and I'm not going anywhere.

33 posted on 11/06/2012 12:38:45 PM PST by opus86
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To: snowrip
...and I’m calling the police to report a man with a weapon in a polling place...

Here in Virginia, unless the polling location is in a school or court house, you can carry concealed or open.

34 posted on 11/06/2012 12:38:45 PM PST by OldMissileer
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To: logic101.net
Are Detroit cops so overworked that they cannot respond to a threat of a firearm?

No on the first

yes on the second

I've posted this several times before: A few years ago and elderly friend of mine's daughter was the victim of an attempted carjacking on Detroit's east side at 11:30 at night as she was coming home from work.

She was stopped at the intersection of Cadieux and Outer drive when two black guys started walking towards her car.

When she saw that one of them had a gun in his hand, she stepped on the accelerator and ran the red light but not before the guy took a shot at her.

It passed thru her open drivers side window and hit the support post on the passenger side.

She then drove into a 7/11 and called the police and they told her to come in the following morning and file a report.........

And as a post script, I worked almost 35 years in a major stamping plant on Detroit's east side and I personally know/knew, at least a dozen employees who were either shot or murdered in Detroit. One of the last two was in October, 2006, a month and a half before our plant closed and he would have retired......The other one was found stabbed to death in his apartment in January, 2007, a year after he retired.

35 posted on 11/06/2012 12:42:46 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (Jab her with a harpoon.....)
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To: logic101.net
Are Detroit cops so overworked that they cannot respond to a threat of a firearm?

No on the first

yes on the second

I've posted this several times before: A few years ago and elderly friend of mine's daughter was the victim of an attempted carjacking on Detroit's east side at 11:30 at night as she was coming home from work.

She was stopped at the intersection of Cadieux and Outer drive when two black guys started walking towards her car.

When she saw that one of them had a gun in his hand, she stepped on the accelerator and ran the red light but not before the guy took a shot at her.

It passed thru her open drivers side window and hit the support post on the passenger side.

She then drove into a 7/11 and called the police and they told her to come in the following morning and file a report.........

And as a post script, I worked almost 35 years in a major stamping plant on Detroit's east side and I personally know/knew, at least a dozen employees who were either shot or murdered in Detroit. One of the last two was in October, 2006, a month and a half before our plant closed and he would have retired......The other one was found stabbed to death in his apartment in January, 2007, a year after he retired.

36 posted on 11/06/2012 12:43:56 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (Jab her with a harpoon.....)
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To: GeronL

Someone should be clandestinely video recording the entrances to polling places known to engage in such shennanegan (come to think of it some may be already as a matter of course with security cameras): if the vote total turns up to be larger than the number of folks who went in and out of the building, open and shut case of election fraud.


37 posted on 11/06/2012 12:46:16 PM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
War is coming.

War is here. So far, only one side is fighting.

38 posted on 11/06/2012 12:59:33 PM PST by Bon mots (Abu Ghraib: 47 Times on the front page of the NY Times | Benghazi: 2 Times)
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To: logic101.net

Milwaukee is the place where Jeffrey Dahmer had a naked boy who was drugged and police let Dahmer take him without question. Dahmer then beheaded the boy.
Now what is your emergency?


39 posted on 11/06/2012 1:08:46 PM PST by DrDude (Governor of the 57th State)
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To: lowbridge

Why would anyone care?


40 posted on 11/06/2012 1:11:06 PM PST by DrDude (Governor of the 57th State)
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