Newser) – Detroit police are ushering homeless people out of a tourist area and leaving them miles away—in some cases outside the city itself, the ACLU alleges in a federal complaint. Officers are "approaching individuals who appear to be homeless in the Greektown area, forcing them into policevans, and deserting them miles away," the group says in a press release, citing a yearlong probe into the practice.
The ACLU contends those subject to such treatment are having constitutional rights like due process violated. Police say they'll investigate, but opted not to comment further, the Detroit Free Press reports.
don't homeless have the presumption of if not all the rights everyone else here are suppose to have?
this is tantamount to hijacking people ans sending to Shanghai back in the day. having a den of foxes investigate the one with feathers on his mouth doesn't seem to have the aura of fair and honest around it.
The ACLU is calling on the Justice Department to get involved and wants the city to explicitly direct police that such practices are illegal. "Often (people are) being dropped off late at night in neighborhoods that they don’t know. Police often take any money they have out of their pockets and force them to walk back to Detroit, with no guarantee of any safety,"
that is truly the epitome of police brutality and overreach, the DOJ should prosecute and incarcerate those who take their job as a mob soldier getting rid of the evidence, people are ot of work they can be replaced.
