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- FREE DOUBLE R IN 2025! DETROIT PROTESTS FOR RICKY RIMMER FORCED ACTION, CASE GOING TO APPEALS COURT
- CHARGES DISMISSED VS. DEMETRIS ‘MEECH’ KNUCKLES EL, COUSIN JAN. 16, 2025; TONS OF SUPPORTERS SHOWED
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- DONATE TO VOD IN 2025! HELP EXPOSE CRIMES OF COPS, PROSECUTORS, JUDGES WHO FRAMED 1,000’S IN MDOC
- GAYELON SPENCER, JR. FIGHTS MURDER 2 CONVICTION: COPS DESTROYED EVIDENCE, BIASED MEDIA COVERAGE
- WILLIE MERRIWEATHER MEMORIAL SAT. DECEMBER 14, 4PM: HERO WHO GAVE HIS LIFE TO SAVE OTHERS FROM PRISON
- DIRTY DETROIT COPS BEAT, MADE UP CONFESSIONS FROM ALTON HUBBARD, BROTHER IDOLTHUS, IN 2004 MURDERS
- ROGER CARLOS RAY WINS EVIDENTIARY HEARING ON 3RD TRY; EXONEREE LAVONE HILL CALLS FOR RAY’S RELEASE
- ‘MIKE D’ NOT THE SHOOTER, VICTIM OF 1999 INKSTER DRIVE-BY SAYS; OIC DARIAN WILLIAMS CONVICTED OF EXTORTION
- CRIMINAL DEEDS BY COPS, PROSECUTORS, JUDGES, NOT ‘DOCUMENT PURGE’ CAUSED WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS
- PROTEST FRI. SEPT. 20 VS. INHUMANE TREATMENT OF PEOPLE INCARCERATED AT THE NEW WAYNE CO. JAIL
- JUSTICE FOR RICKY RIMMER, VICTIMS OF DPD COP, WCPO CRIMES: TUES. SEPT. 10, NEW CRIMINAL JUSTICE CENTER.
- JAMARIO MITCHELL FIGHTS 2001 MURDER CONVICTION SET UP BY DETROIT’S ‘DRAGNET’ COP ISAIAH (IKE) SMITH
- JACKSON-BOLANOS ACQUITTED OF WOLL MURDER; ATTYS. FILE TO DISMISS OTHER COUNTS AS DOUBLE JEOPARDY
- UK EXPECTED TO SUSPEND ARMS SALES TO ISRAEL AS ‘UNCOMMITTED’ IN TALKS WITH US VP KAMALA HARRIS
- FREE AT LAST AFTER 37 YRS: JUDGE DISMISSES MURDER CHARGES VS. PAUL CLARK ON INNOCENCE, BRADY CLAIMS
- JUDGE BLOUNT: FAIR HEARING, JUSTICE FOR RICKY RIMMER NOW!! STOP CORRUPT COPS! RALLY TUES. SEPT. 10 @1 PM
- MICH. LAWMAKERS CONSIDERING “PRODUCTIVITY CREDITS” BILL #SB 861 BARRING PEOPLE CURRENTLY IN PRISON
- MICHAEL JACKSON-BOLANOS TESTIFIES AT WOLL MURDER TRIAL, DEFENSE GIVES STUNNING CLOSING ARGUMENTS
- SUPPORT WILLIE MERRIWEATHER AT PUBLIC PAROLE HEARING JULY 11, 1PM ON ZOOM; REGISTER BY JULY 9
- SUCCESSFUL RETURNING CITIZEN DAY IN DETROIT BUILDS SUPPORT FOR PRISONERS, INSIDE AND OUTSIDE WALLS
- RIMMER CASE: JUDGE’S DAD, DPD SGT. MICHAEL BLOUNT, & SGT. JAMES HARRIS BOTH ON S.T.R.E.S.S., MAYOR’S SQUAD
- JUDGE BLOUNT DENIES RICKY RIMMER’ S MOTIONS FOR NEW TRIAL, HEARING ON RACIST COPS, NEW WITNESSES
- U.S. REP. RASHIDA TLAIB: ON GENOCIDE OF PALESTINIANS, INVASION OF RAFAH; SUPPORT SJP AT WSU MAY 28 @6PM
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Author Archives: Diane Bukowski
IS IT POSSIBLE TO RESTORE THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM IN DETROIT WITH CORRUPT OFFICIALS IN OFFICE?
“KOURTS, KOPS, KROOKS”-Henry Dudzinski, Coalition vs. Police Brutality By Thelonious Searcy August 31, 2017 (VOD ed. note: Mr. Searcy has been held in the Michigan Department of Corrections, serving a life without parole sentence, since 2005. Noted Detroit hitman Vincent … Continue reading
CLARK COUNTY, OHIO SHERIFF’S DEPUTY SHOOTS NEW CARLISLE NEWS EDITOR, PHOTOGRAPHER
By Seth Gecko | published on Sep 05, 2017 New Carlisle News photographer Andy Grimm was shot by a Clark County deputy Monday evening. Andy had left the office around 10:00 p.m. to take pictures of lightning. There … Continue reading
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HURRICANE HARVEY’S DETROIT CONNECTIONS; SUFFERING WROUGHT BY CRIMINAL, PROFIT-DRIVEN SYSTEM
DETROIT CONNECTIONS: Jerry Bell, Jr.’s sister, family stranded in flood, have since been rescued Jerry T. Bell Jr. August 30, 2017 Please pray for my sister Sherry Smith and family members that are trapped in the Texas flood waters. I … Continue reading
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500 MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL RETIREES DON’T GET PENSIONS, HEALTH BENEFITS; MANY LIVE IN POVERTY
By Douglas J. Gladstone VOD Guest Column Published August 30, 2017 When he received the coveted Jackie Robinson Lifetime Achievement Award from the Negro Leagues Museum in Kansas City last June, Tony Clark, the … Continue reading
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VULTURE GUARDIAN MARY ROWAN KIDNAPS AGAIN, THIS TIME A YOUNG BLIND WOMAN, KRISTINA BROCKINGTON
Rowan kidnaps partly-blind young woman without notice to her mother, who has co-guardianship, or court order Places her in unlicensed group home with other Rowan wards Residents of home pay $600 rent to share one bedroom, out of SSI checks Put … Continue reading
MDOC IMPLEMENTS STRICT NEW PRISONER MAIL POLICY CHANGES
New policies will prevent prisoners from receiving court mailings, newspapers, magazines, books Could deny constitutionally guaranteed access to courts Further restricts prisoners’ access to families, outside world By Efren Paredes, Jr. Published August 23, 2017 Today the Michigan Department … Continue reading
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EDUCATION PLAYS MAJOR ROLE IN TRANSFORMATION OF THOSE WHO WILL RETURN TO SOCIETY ONE DAY
BY CORTEZ DAVIS EL VOD Staff Writer Published August 22, 2017 In the early 1990’s the Michigan Department of Corrections removed all college programs from their facilities due to being underfunded. As a result of this cut, prisoners were not … Continue reading
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STREETS OF DETROIT, 76 OTHER COMMUNITIES SERVICED BY GLWA COULD SOON BE FILLED WITH SEWAGE
DWSD stopped work on WWTP 3rd Feeder power project 4 years ago Power outage of a few hours could be catastrophic in Delray, Springwells, Mexicantown; more than one week could fill region with untreated sewage Poor communities will be targeted … Continue reading
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SEARCY WINS EVIDENTIARY HEARING; SMOTHERS EXPECTED TO TESTIFY HE WAS THE KILLER IN 2004 CASE
VIDEO ABOVE: AARON NEVILLE SINGS “I SHALL BE RELEASED.” Prosecution agrees to evidentiary hearing in case of Thelonious Searcy, serving natural life for crime Vincent Smothers says he committed. Smothers projected to testify at hearing Not only AP Muscat and … Continue reading
JUVENILE LIFER RE-SENTENCINGS DRAG ON IN MICHIGAN, NATION, AS STATES SNUB U.S. SUPREME COURT
Some of Michigan’s juvenile lifers are shown above, in VOD group photo used previously. Names below go from first row l to r and subsequent rows l t0 r. Only two of this sample have been paroled so far, … Continue reading
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