I got this off the NY Times website:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/16/national/16DETR.html?ex=1061611200&en=8dc37b33b7214a24&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE
Thrilled that the number of arrests was at a typical level through the
first 24 hours of the nation's worst blackout, Detroit officials said the
weekend would serve as a referendum on Mayor Kilpatrick's leadership and on
his efforts to rehabilitate Detroit's reputation, from that of a city
decimated by violence and poverty to that of a cultural hub with a
revitalized economy.
"Either the people of this city believe in this city's future and are going
to rally around this mayor or they're not," said Michael Duggan, the county
prosecutor, who stood with Mr. Kilpatrick and Mr. Oliver at the news
conference.
Although city officials said there had been virtually no violence or
looting Thursday night or Friday, Mr. Duggan issued a stern warning to
residents of a city still scarred from the riots of the 1960's. Noting that
civil disobedience felonies carry a 10-year prison term, Mr. Duggan added,
"Before you pick up a brick and throw it, before you tip over a car, before
you take a TV, you better ask yourself, is this worth 10 years of my life?"
_____________
So you better not loot, not that anyone has or nothing, but if you do
you're going to face some hard ti - hey you kids put down my podium right
now, where are you going with my micropho....
someone's trying to save face - gotta love that second paragraph. Either
you're with us ( and, *ehem*, won't talk about the violence) or your not
(please don't talk about the violence.... please)
MEK
"sean deason"
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Subject: (313) look ma! no
looting!
08/15/03 08:49 PM
> http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/08/15/blackout.detroit/index.html
>
> Power may not be restored to all of Detroit Edison's 2.1 million
customers
> until Sunday as the area copes with the massive power outage that hit the
> northeastern United States, officials said.
>
> Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm said efforts were underway to restore
power
> to residents in Detroit, Lansing and Ann Arbor. She said Detroit Edison
> told her they can't say when all power will be fully restored, but that
it
> might take until Sunday.
I listened to Gov. Jenny G's speech on my battery powered multi-band
receiver (It's a Yupiteru MVT-7300EU for you gear heads out there. look it
up :^) today and she also made a statement commending us for "no reported
incidents of looting, that we know of."
I dont know what Detroit she's keeping tabs on, but I listened to the
frequencies that the Detroit police department uses to communicate (the
squad cars, dispatch, headquarters ect.) and they we're running around like
crazy on numerous reports of looting throughout the entire city! There was
in fact looting, shooting and stabbing homicides, assaults, breaking and
enterings, armed robberies, hit and runs, fatal collisions, pedestrians hit
by vehicles, car jackings (in one incident a parking lot attendant was held
hostage while multiple cars were jacked as they entered the lot), missing
children reports, and sexual assaults all over the airwaves. And I only
scanned the police bands until around 11:30 p.m! I dont know how she could
go on the air and proclaim a night of calmness, when I was thinking it was
approaching a declaration of martial law. If you want to know whats
*really*
going on during a local emergency situation, I reccomend you get a police
scanner. that way you can hear it as it hits the fan and know which
direction it's coming from. I've heard all kinds of crazy stuff going on it
the city that never makes it onto the nightly news nor in the morning
papers, just by listening to what calls the police are going out on and
what
they report back on once they arrive on the scene. But thanks Jenny. we can
all sleep well tonight knowing that at least *our* city keeps a cool head
during blackouts.
sean
