Detroit

December 12, 2016 (Fault Lines) — A Wayne State University police officer was killed in the line of duty on November 22nd. Sergeant Colin Rose was shot in the head in the early evening and died...

December 1, 2016 (Fault Lines) — Fault Lines contributors repeatedly tell you to shut up when dealing with any sort of criminal matter. Three Michigan teenagers are wishing they’d kept their mouths shut around Detroit cops...

July 27, 2016 (Fault Lines) — If it had been a little white child who was killed by a police officer’s MP5 sub-machine gun during a botched raid as she slept on the couch with her...

June 16, 2016 (Fault Lines) — It’s no secret that juveniles confess to crimes they didn’t commit. It’s no secret that accused facing trials plead guilty to crimes they didn’t commit. It’s also no secret that...

Apr. 8, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — A Michigan man was convicted this week of involuntary manslaughter in connection with the shooting death of a 3-year-old in Detroit. The smiling child was shot and killed in a...

Feb. 26, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — Hi folks, your links update this morning: 17-year old Isiah Harvey is threatening to sue Lithonia, GA, Police Chief Roosevelt Smith for police brutality. The teen claims that Smith choked him...

July 9, 2015 (Mimesis Law) — Almost all of us have been there.  Riding down the highway, possibly singing along with the radio, when suddenly, your stomach drops.  Flashing lights in your rearview.  Dammit.  Your mind...

July 8, 2015 (Mimesis Law) — The ancient Greeks recognized maternal filicide as the ultimate depravity, a sign of a woman gone mad, if not a woman gone wholly evil.  When the playwright Euripides has Medea...