Police Chief James Craig needs to Protect Detroit Open Carry

Ammoland ^ | 9 November, 2015 | Dean Weingarten

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Another case has surfaced where Detroit police officers are charged with falsely arresting a legally armed black man for carrying a concealed weapon.  The man was openly carrying.  In Detroit open carry is completely legal.   The charge is a five year felony in Michigan, so this is no laughing matter.

Having worked with a number of police agencies in the early 1970’s and later, and having talked with people inside the police culture of the time in large urban areas, I can report that racism and discrimination against black people in the 70’s was rampant.  A lot has changed in the last 40 years.  The idea that black people should not be allowed to have or carry guns is a bad old idea that has hung on, aided by the disarmist culture in large city governments.   New York Mayor Bloomberg summed it up in a speech in Boulder, Colorado, where he is reported to have stated the following on February 6th, 2015.   From aspentimes.com:

Bloomberg claimed that 95 percent of murders fall into a specific category: male, minority and between the ages of 15 and 25. Cities need to get guns out of this group’s hands and keep them alive, he said.

Historically, it has been easy for Detroit Police to simply assume that any armed black man is a dangerous criminal, but this logic is both racist and opposite a free society.  In 2014, I began to be familiar with cases of the Detroit PD framing legally armed black men.  The most obvious case was that of Elijah Woody, who refused to plea bargain, when to a jury trial, and was found not guilty five minutes after the Jury

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Pollice Chief Craig has said he supports armed citizens. Will he push that message down to the officers on the street?

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http://www.ammoland.com/2015/11/police-chief-james-craig-needs-to-protect-detroit-open-carry/#axzz3r1baGtZV

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Black BEHAVIOR has done more to turn neutrals into racists than all the Stormfronts and KKKs ever could.