Protesters at Wayne County Treasurer June 8, 2015.
Alonzo Long, Jr.
PACK THE COURT!
SUPPORT ALONZO LONG, JR.
Friday, August 14, 2015 @9am
Frank Murphy Hall of Justice Rm. #604
(St. Antoine at Gratiot)
Long defended his family members from illegal armed eviction by tax foreclosure bidders in 2014
Young man’s first trial ended with hung jury
The first trial of Alonzo Long, Jr., 22, charged with two counts of felony murder as well as first-degree murder, ended in a hung jury. This is good news. A preliminary exam, a prelude to a second trial, is scheduled for Friday, August 14.
Long’s family and friends have asked for our support by attending the hearing. The hearing will take place on Friday, August 14, at 9 am, in room 604 of the Frank Murphy Hall of Justice. The Frank Murphy Hall of Justice is located at Saint Antoine St. and Gratiot Ave.
Background:
Rosedale Park home on Piedmont where shootings took place Nov. 28, 2014.
Last November 28, Alonzo Long, Jr., was helping his uncle move out of a home in Rosedale Park that the family lost in the fall 2014 tax foreclosure auction. The purchasers of the home, Howard L. Franklin and his daughter Catherine Franklin, arrived and accused Long and his relatives of stealing window blinds and a chandelier from the property.
The Franklins called the police. The police arrived and observed that the previous owners were vacating the property and ordered the Franklins to leave and allow the move-out to proceed with any more hinderance and harassment. But that evening, the Franklins arrived at the home again.
It was dark both inside and outside of the home. The electric and gas service to the home had already been terminated. The Franklins arrived armed. Long was also armed. All three people had permits to carry a concealed pistol. According to witnesses, the Franklins shot a young woman family member first. Relatives called Long to come into the house for defense. A shootout occurred and tragically ended with the deaths of the Franklins.
MASS PROTEST VS. ILLEGAL TAX FORECLOSURES AT WAYNE CO. TREASURER OFFICE JUNE 8, 2015.
According to the Voice of Detroit,
Howard Franklin did not follow the law by first going to 36th District Court’s landlord-tenant division and filing for eviction, a mandatory process with notice to occupants that, if successful, is carried out only by Wayne County bailiffs. The Franklins had no right even to enter the premises without permission of the occupants, according to the treasurer’s bidding requirements.
The tragic deaths of the Franklins are the direct consequence of the mass tax foreclosures initiated by Wayne County Treasurer Raymond Wojtowicz and supported by Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan.
Racketeering partners Detroit un-Mayor Mike Duggan, billionaire Dan Gilbert. Gilbert heads Detroit Blight Removal Task Force despite USDOJ charges of predatory lending, illegal foreclosures brought against his company, Quicken Loans.
The Detroit tax foreclosures have actually been illegal for the last 20 years, during which the City of Detroit did not perform annual property evaluations as required by state law.
They also could have been resolved by using federal “Hardest Hit Funds” to keep homeowners in their homes. In November 2014, approximately $250 million was still available to assist homeowners keep their homes.
Instead, Mayor Mike Duggan, subprime lender Dan Gilbert, Governor Rick Snyder, and other elected misleaders, successfully lobbied the Federal government to allow the Hardest Hit Funds to be used to tear down blighted structures!
Had the funds been used to pay for property tax delinquencies and keep people in their homes, the City of Detroit, the Wayne County Treasury, the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department, and the Detroit Public Schools would have also benefited.
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Please tell me that your following photo- caption as above is a hoax.
“Racketeering partners Detroit un-Mayor Mike Duggan, billionaire Dan Gilbert. Gilbert heads Detroit Blight Removal Task Force despite USDOJ charges of predatory lending, illegal foreclosures brought against his company, Quicken Loans.
– See more at: http://voiceofdetroit.net/2015/08/13/pack-the-court-fri-aug-14-to-support-alonzo-long-jr-stop-illegal-tax-foreclosures-and-evictions/#sthash.bZpS3DVT.dpuf“
No, it is not a hoax. A Michigan Appeals Court ruled that Duggan could not run for Mayor because he had not lived in Detroit long enough. So how was he approved to run as a write-in candidate? Dan Gilbert is a billionaire who is buying up most of downtown and other Detroit areas, heads Quicken Loans which the U.S. Justice Dept. is suing for predatory lending, and yet Duggan has appointed him head of the city’s Blight Removal Task Force. If that’s not racketeering, what is?
Sadly, thank you for your above reply about the latest louses in Detroit. (‘Relate to Charles, “laureate of American lowlife”?)
BTW, seeking like a Wikipedia web-page about you, I instead found yawls basics via this about your late, great father: http://www.haleyfuneraldirectors.com/home/index.cfm/obituaries/view/fh_id/13208/id/890119
Joe Tomczyk
Motowner retar’d in wNC
Yes, Robert Bukowski was my beloved father. One of his most important teachings: “I’ve never felt I was better than anyone else.” His wife Dorothy, and all his children and grandchildren still miss him dearly. There are now five great grandchildren who he did not live to see, which my mother regrets every day. “Your dad just loved holding little babies,” she says.