VOD: Last year, the Michigan Supreme Court upheld the common law right to resist unlawful police conduct and arrests in the Moreno case. Go to http://voiceofdetroit.net/2012/05/18/michigan-supreme-court-upholds-right-to-resist-police-misconduct/ to read about this case, which hopefully these two brothers are citing in their defense.
Full Video Brawl Black Students Fight White Police At Granny’s Restaurant In Detroit.
From Brainfood Videos on YouTube; submitted to VOD by Fige Bornu
August 29, 2o13
After a brawl with the police, two brothers are charged with assaulting officers but they say they’re the real victims and have the proof to prove it: the whole fight was caught on video. It all started when 20-year-old Tywonn Mitchell and Naybon Moore, 26, were driving to Grandy’s Coney Island back in May. They say that’s when Detroit Police began profiling them, tailing their car. The brothers pulled into the restaurant and the police car backed away, so they thought everything was fine.
But then the officers followed them into the Coney Island, and asked to see their IDs. The brothers asked to know what they had done wrong, (as you can hear in the video), both of them aware of their rights. One is studying criminal justice and the other is studying law. That’s when one of the brothers flipped his hands, and it turned into a full-on brawl. The brothers were taken into custody. Fast forward three months now, and they are charged with assault and battery on a police officer, obstruction of justice, and resisting arrest. But they claim, they are the real victims here.
Detroit Police Department tells us, when the incident happened the officers admitted they used force and a command level investigation was conducted.
The officers say when they were investigating inside the Coney Island, one of the officers extended his hand and asked one of the brothers to step back, but he slapped the officers hand in return. At that point the police officer responded with force. The use of force was deemed appropriate and reasonable after intensive review of the video and interviewing the brothers.
Additional VOD comment: Police officers have no legal right to ask to see your ID unless you are driving at the time. They CANNOT just stop you on foot and demand to see it.
THIS IS NOT APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA (OR IS IT?)
