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Detroit City Councilman Kwame Kenyatta

Detroit City Councilman Kwame Kenyatta

DETROIT (WWJ) – Following a string of brutal killings and attacks, a city councilman is making bold suggestions to keep violent crimes down — including forcing gas station owners to hire security guards.

WWJ’s Florence Walton reports Detroit Councilman Kwame Kenyatta is planning a midnight march against violence and fear. It comes in the wake of a rash of crime that included the killing of a 9-month boy in a walk-by shooting, and the death of a 6-year-old at the hands of  two 15-year-old carjackers with an AK-47. A 14-year-old allegedly shot his mother to death while she slept because she wouldn’t let him hang out with his friends, and a teen girl was caught in the crossfire and killed when two got into an argument on a Detroit street and opened fire at each other.

And an 86-year-old World War II victim was carjacked at a Detroit gas station in broad daylight on his way home from Bible study, and said no one helped him while he cried for help. He tried to crawl away on a leg that was broken in the attack. He eventually tried to pay a stranger to drive him home, but the man drove him for free, and called an ambulance.

To help curb crimes like these, Kenyatta hopes to draft an ordinance that requires gas station owners to hire security guards to protect the public.

“And as we watch this man was beaten on camera and crawled into the station, never once did I see the proprietor, as well as the people who were going to that gas station, help that individual. We are saying secure your facility, safeguard us as a community,” said Kenyatta.

Kenyatta hopes to meet with Detroit pastors to plan a “Peace Sunday”.

“We are going to ask the parishioners, the students, the gang members, the motorcycle clubs, the fraternities, the sororities, everyone in this city who agreed to sign this Peace Pledge that we will maintain peace in our community, in our families, and in our neighborhoods,” said Kenyatta.

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  • Dead city walking

    I propose closing Detroit.

  • Sunshine Connie

    Go right ahead and force it council. Watch the price jump another $1.00 a gallon or all the stations close and leave Detroit. Do YOU JOB & PUT YOUR CRIMINALS IN PRISON. Detroit is nothing but a Progressive Democrat WELFARE STATE FAILURE.

  • Soapy Johnson

    The “Jed Clampett Time Travel” theory tells you all you need to know about why gas prices are out of control … http://placeitonluckydan.com/2011/04/gas-prices-rapin-everybody/

  • Dian

    These stations will close and leave Detroit. Who in their right mind would ever stop at a Detroit gas station after these incidents anyway? Marches and hand-holding is unlikely to solve the problems – tho well-intentioned. Poverty is the issue. Along with failed social programs.

  • Dr. Boo Hoo

    Detroit is the poster child for big government. Degenerate, decrepit and incapable of understanding how the world works. It’s just a matter of time for other cities to follow the leader.

    http://911essentials.com

  • Fred in Texas

    “Safeguard us as a community”? Isn’t that the City’s job?

  • Joel

    What Detroit needs is to make concealed carry an automatic right for all law abiding citizens! Do that and watch the crime rate drop like a rock!

  • mmercier

    the councilman looks like he represents a district in Mogadishu.

  • Shaka Zulu

    Where ever in Africa this is sure sounds messed up!

  • Mike

    Detroit suffers from decades of liberal, Democratic rule. This situation should surprise nobody.

  • BRBSanDiego

    Ship him to Mogandishu and see how well he fairs there. I’ll buy the bus fare to get rid of this loser.

  • observer

    We can thank LBJ’s Great Society and the Democrats for the millions of blacks who are kept back by their policies. MLK warned us of the poverty pimps.

  • Freedom 101

    Maybe everyone should be carrying a gun. Then at least you can fight back rather than dyeing on your knees.

  • Phillip

    Try 10%

  • captobvious

    do you see the people there, whats the surprise.

  • Phillip

    They will pass some stupid law “forcing” security guards . . . and the price of gas will go up commensurately . . . and the locals will complain how raciss it is that they have to pay more for gas.

  • Ed

    Race is not the problem Tax and spend liberals are. do not blame a person that dose not haveany hope when all the the jobs are gone and the goverment keeps letting him down . Most Detroit youth do not remember when a Republikin was ever voted for and as for the crime and low education well thats just a byproduct of Democratic social engernering

  • gene

    That’s not how this yoyo comes dressed to work… is it

  • Dead city walking

    Specifically a traditionally Democrat city government.

  • Jenn

    Sounds to me like what we need is some dam(n) morals! You reap what you sow

  • Dead city walking

    That’s what’s left in Detroit, close it and stop spending OUR hard earned $$$ on a dead horse.

  • dirtydog1776

    Then there will be violence, corruption, drugs, disease and poverty somewhere else.

  • WhereMahEBT

    People with cars still go to Detroit?

  • Zip1

    There is so many problems today, that the raising gas prices are going to slow any recovery we may be seeing.
    Let now address the problems, and maybe we start fixing them.

    http://www.dailyjobcuts.com

  • jnsesq

    LOL! Detroit: The prototypical liberal success story.

  • BHirsh

    (hee-hee)

  • DemsNuts

    You have got to be kidding ME!! Hiring some “rent a cop” at $8.00/hr. to protect citizens is crazy. How will they react when approached by multiple criminals with guns/knives/clubs? The only real solutions are: 1. Force the unionized cops to do their jobs, or allow citizens to protect themselves with concealed carry permits and the guns necessary. How have we allowed ourselves to fall so far?

  • BHirsh

    Mah, mah. Raciss. Yess, raciss, vera, vera raciss.

  • jnsesq

    His wife is a retired county commissioner. I wonder how much taxpayers shell out fo her every month for her, ahem, public service. (And they still walked away from their mortgage. Leading from behind?)

  • BHirsh

    Selah.

  • jon

    I said this years ago, anyone that has to work at a 7-11 or gas station, pharmacy etc. should be behind bullet proof glass. There would be 1000′s of people alive today if their employers had been concerned with their safety

  • BHirsh

    By voting for leftist jerkwad union Democrat (socialist) public officials, that’s how.

  • Mark

    I second the motion.

  • Danmo

    AGREED!

  • DemsNuts

    I could not agree more….WE the people have brought this plague on ourselves…

  • ChrisAR

    Mother KILLED by unhappy teen
    Girl KILLED in crossfire on the street
    Child KILLED in a “walk-by” shooting
    Child KILLED by car-jackers

    Man INJURED in carjacking at gas station.

    If I was a Detroit resident, I’d take my chances at unguarded gas stations.

  • Mark

    “Poverty is the issue. Along with failed social programs.”
    Bull stuff! I live on approx $12000. 00 per year and I have yet to steal, kill, rape or torture anyone.

    These people are adrift in the moral relativism of the wacky left and I don’t need to prove it. It’s right there in front of your blind eyes.

  • DemsNuts

    Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.

    Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.

    Benjamin Franklin …

  • speedy

    no, only a fool would would get gas in detroit aka—detoilet. its a war zone.

  • picomanning

    Force gas station owners to hire security guards? To help keep the peace? There is so much wrong with that idea to even respond. Well, maybe I can give this one response. If you live in a city like Detroit run like hell before it collapses on you. Don;t you dare turn your back on it.

  • Justin Case

    Dis Kwame Kenyatta have some left over k’s after kwanza? entitled black dems — what a JOKE!

  • Shawn

    This election is such a gamble. Guess what? I am not betting black this time around.

  • DemsNuts

    Everyone, PRAY FOR YOUR PRESIDENT ! !—– Psalm 109:8

  • Justin Case

    my only prayer is that we can last until Nov, so barry soetoro is history

  • chris

    this guy wants armed thugs on every corner?

    libs, who can figure these idiots out?

  • BHirsh

    P.S. – Didn’t you mean “You is one racist cracker.”?

    GUFFAW!!!

  • APatientMan

    Which culture thrives on being victims? Which culture will always ask to be controlled by others because they’ll destroy themselves without it? Which culture does not contain the ability to control itself? Endless victim-hood. What a way to live.

  • Shawn

    This must be the dems idea of shovel ready jobs.

  • elevenhundred

    Detroit deserves what they have. They keep electing these people. That’s the only downside to republics; The citizen gets their share of the blame too.

  • dukeofdata

    Who is going to guard the mother killed while sleeping?

  • Doubltap

    Detroit? Announce that there will be an urban gang reconcilliation conference somewhere south of the 8 mile, then spray the whole city with Sarin gas!

  • TheRealSlimShady

    The daily news is completely orchestrated by unelected official after the coup and cover up. We have no democracy, president, and freedom of press is an illusion.

    Our next election is shaping up to be as big of a sham as the last. Do you know why Sarah Palin’s bus tour was really canceled? Do you know why she stayed 30 miles away from the second debate and chose the death of Steve Jobs to announce that she’s not running? Know what leaked out? Sarah Palin and Cain aren’t in the race for the same reason, the truth leaked out.

    The biggest cover up in history starts here
    http://PalinsDirtyLittleSecret.blogspot.com

  • jim

    Isn’t all this diversity wonderful?

    Ye shall reap as ye sow.

  • Doubltap

    So: get rid of them too! Sooner or later, we’ll get rid of all the lazy thug assed B@$t@rd$! Oh and kill every one in prison that has been convicted of three or more violent crimes. We don’t need to feed and house that urban trash! If the Blacks, Hispanics, and other minorities don’t like it, EF ‘EM!

  • TeaBagTheTakers

    Socialism is the problem!

    These people were taught to stick their hand out and a politician will give them something!

    Poverty happens when there is a lack of knowledge. Who controls the education system in Detroit?

  • jrey762

    They did this in Columbia: The government armed villagers with shotguns to discourage drug gangs from harassing and recruiting the local population. Worked like a charm, the shotguns are cheap as far as firearms go, safe, easy to use and maintain, and the government isn’t really worried about a shotgun mob taking over the country. Everybody won, well except the drug gangs…

  • jrey762

    Somebody please remind me; why aren’t we seeing this type of problem in poor white communities?

  • SHOOTME NOW

    This same moron would organize a march and protest the first time one of these guards shot a “brother” too. You can’t fix stupid…

  • Motor Pity

    I thought I’d just join party……….where are the Korn Kurls?
    But I wonder how many people who wrote above live in Detroit?
    Like many other native Detroiters I too abandoned the city. Its like the Middle Eastern people who left their country. When smart people leave a region to the less intelligent you get violence, war and death. Maybe the American military should send troops to Detroit, a city abandoned by its residents and squandered by outsider auto executives

  • Barry

    All I want to know is what’s Kwame Kenyatta’s cut? I mean he’s obviously got an angle…attacks…cal for security…Kwame Kenyatta gets a cut. This is a no brainer it’s Detroit

  • It’s The Gas Station Owner’s Fault

    “And as we watch this man was beaten on camera and crawled into the station, never once did I see the proprietor, as well as the people who were going to that gas station, help that individual.”

    Yes, this crime is the fault of the gas station owner. It isn’t the fault of the actual criminal who broke the man’s leg and carjacked his vehicle. It isn’t the fault of the police department. It isn’t the fault of a system that is broken.

    It’s the gas station owner’s fault!

  • you dam right

    You dam right. It is the gas stations fault.

    The gas station is making profit off the sale of gas. The man attacked was buying gas and adding to its profit. Some of the profit should have been used to protect the man.

  • Count Yob

    An elderly black veteran is carjacked in broad daylight and is crawling around with a broken leg asking for help while passers-by, fellow blacks, mostly ignore him. Finally, a good samaritan shows up and he’s saved. What does this tell you about Detroit?

  • bryan

    I say we ship all our Democrats to Detroit so they can all enjoy one of the most progressive cities in the country. It should be a destination resort for all lefties.

  • maxtor

    i would love to see that……you wouldnt be able to find a station to buy gas in detroit or would be so high that people would drive out of the city to buy gas. stupid suggestion!! no, not stupid, worse than that!! moron is more like it!!

  • Tommy

    So is he willing to let his city pay for these security guards since the businesses would be forced to hire them?

  • ericdb

    I know! Lets form a governmental bureau of gas station security. We can call them the GSSA. They will search all people before they are aloud to pump gas, and stand guard at the cash registers. It only makes sense. It is, after all, for your safety.

  • David

    A job is a job, even if it is in security. Gas will have to go up to six dollars to pay for it or our dear leader can call them his security squads he wants.

  • freecheese

    First of all, most “security” guards are not allowed to carry weapons and they don’t have powers to arrest as regular commissioned police officers do. All they can do is “observe and report.” Ho,ho. Any customer can do that !

  • Jean Poole

    Hiring extra people will push the cost of gas up even further.

  • HERETHEYCOME

    Another arrogant morron.

  • KansasGirl

    What a thug.

  • KansasGirl

    You’re delusional.

  • JohnDave

    What do you expect when Obonzo, the Traitor/Liar/Poser/Socialist
    -in-Chief intentionally squashes Americas energy. Get rid of him and
    gas prices will return to realistic ones.

  • Sam Hill

    You are a racist.

  • JohnDave

    The real loser, and author of this problem is ‘president’ Obonzo.

  • mac

    Storeup, lock and load, the SHF soon enough!

  • FrankieE

    Close Obonzo. He’s the real problem

  • DeusVult

    Incidents like this and the B.S. occupy movement and union thugs;….sure hire security guards and when things get worse (driven by the policeis of “resident” obama’s regime!)….then they will all be “Federalized” and behold the birth of herr obama’s “brown shirts” and when they wear out thier welcome/become an embarassment to the regime, standby for der fuhrer obama’s SS to save the sheeple and well then it will REALLY be the end of OUR REPUBLIC!
    (Is this overly dramtic???…hhhhmmm remember what HE said “we need a civillian national secuirty force, just as well funded, just as well trained, just as strong as the military!”)
    2012-SAVE THE REPUBLIC!
    ABO=”ANYBODY” but obama!
    GOD BLESS AMERICA! GOD “SAVE” THE REPUBLIC!

  • Stubaby

    How does one safeguard a community, as demanded, from that very same community? The councilman’s comments are meant to direct attention away from his own irresponsibility. His thought process, as demonstrated by his comments, are the very nature of the underlying issue. The only possible solution to Detroit’s ruin must come from within the community that created the ruin. He will not find the solution looking outside himself.

  • A F Banks

    A Rand report issued in the 60′s predicted this. The only people I think that matter in this nonsense are the ones trying to do the best they can in their own life.

    The myriad government programs have obviously not made it better. The Councilman’s proposal isn’t much help either.

  • Kwame Malik

    C’mon y’all, sign the peace pledge. You done set me up for a comeback.

  • Crosscut

    Give them the okay to shoot to kill.

  • me

    Muslims run the city —- ever notice how these foreigners run for public office as soon as they get their citizenship.Then they love to tell people who were born here how to run our lives,but cant do it in their own country .they want this country on its knees and kissing that pig eating Mohamed’s rear and for us to pray and believe in a prophet that tells you to beat and stone your wives, lie to deceive your enemy,and kill anyone who disagrees with the stinking Koran.
    I hope Detroit falls to nothing but anarchy and we can get rid of these peace loving people once and for all,,,,,,,,,,,,, Send in the troops–if Obummer don’t get rid of them all the way he wants.

  • mike

    What a fool. Mandate gas stations have security. A Peace Sunday by pastors. Fools like this have misled and bankrupted Detroit. what about the apathy of the public that let than old man crawl on the gas station floor and ignored him? No law can change this. Only a determined minority, and I don’t mean ethnic minority, an armed law enforcing minority can restore order. Detroits police are understaffed and overburdened. Armed citizens feared by the thugs. Run by real men…if there are any.

  • BigLouie

    Isn’t It Ironic? The food stamp program, part of the Department of Agriculture, is pleased to be distributing the greatest amount of food stamps ever.
    Meanwhile, the Park Service, also part of the Department of Agriculture, asks us to “please do not feed the animals” because the animals may grow dependent and not learn to take care of themselves.
    The great Jesse Jackson just praised the Big Zero expanding the food stamp program. What more evidence other than this endorsement does anyone need to see why we are in this mess?

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  • BigLouie

    Wait a minute. Isn’t this where GM builds the Chevy Volt. All the people have to do is buy a $40K Volt and they won’t have to buy gas. They get a $7500 tax credit too so what’s the problem? This according to the present administration.

  • Barry Levy

    let me see, they don’t want an armed citizenry, but they want businesses to hire security, wonder if they are expected to do this for free, or does the business get to pass the cost on.

    And where are the police, that we are all trained to call 911 in an emergency, and their response time to the viscious attacks.

    And next, wonder how many lawyers are ready to defend these thugs/human debris that are preying on the weak and infirm.

    But heck, at least the PC liberals are succeeding in getting guns off the street, and one can see the results.

  • VOM

    Eric Holder is way ahead of Kwame Kenyatta! He has already contracted with the The New Black Panthers to guard all gas stations — and polling stations.

  • rickky

    The best thing they could do is just dissolve the city, why do the people keep paying taxes for a do nothing police dept. Everything in the city is broken but the officials still collect big paychecks, and the police do little and the officials still payoff the union thugs that really control the city. If there is enough decent people in the city they could clean it up them selves, the police had decades to do it and failed, time to go back to a time when people would take care of crime them selves. I would be willing to be if the police would completely stay out of things that when the first child was killed that a citizen group could be formed of several thousand and clean the gangs out once and for all.

  • Reality

    Sam, anybody with any sense has become “racist.” Four decades of massive funding and kowtowing to black people and what have we got? 40+ years of “blame whitey for everything” at the same time black-on-white crime is at astronomical levels. Game over, Sam. Game over.

  • Spud

    Give Fort Detroit back to Chief Pontiac.

  • Joe Golfendude

    NOW IS THE TIME FOR ALL GOOD MEN AND WOMEN TO COME TO THE AID OF THEIR COUNTRY! HONORABLE AMERICANS VOTE THEM OUT!

    The future does not belong to the faint hearted it belongs to the BRAVE RWR 40.

    The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president.

  • Fecal Matters

    Right on

  • fiftyville

    Second.

  • The Sage Waitress

    Sounds like the wolves guarding the henhouse!

  • Big Bear

    “Forcing gas station owners to hire security guards”

    That’s the liberal way. Force people to do what they don’t want to. Keep it up, stinking libs: straw after straw on the camel’s back…

    With history as a guide, we learn that whenever a minority FORCES its view on the majority, it doesn’t turn out well for the minority. They end up with their guts stomped out, and are consigned to the dung heap of history.

  • Wes

    who’s the guy in the photo the prince of Nigeria? he sure is uppity looking, tell me what does he have to be proud of? helping to run a sh!thole of a city? the residents of Detroit did this to themselves between the riots that drove decent citizens out and their voting practices that elected clowns that would be regarded as a joke in decent american cities. if i owned a business in Detroit i would relocate it, i’m sure any money they make isn’t worth all the hassles. these folks are always hollering for empowerment let them provide their own goods and services. they always said racism was what was holding them back, it shouldn’t be much of a problem for them in a mostly black Detroit. now go out and succed you’ve got the ultimate AA.

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  • Nate Higgers

    Detroit, the rest of the United States laughs and sneers at you. You are a perfect example of what a Black Run looks like.

  • Nate Higgers

    “Black Run America”, not “Black Run”

  • Ted Ratter

    A quick look at the headline and look of the councilman; I thought this was an article from South Africa. I just got finished reading this https://www.osac.gov/Pages/ContentReportPDF.aspx?cid=10935

  • Smarterthanlibs

    The first time one of these security guards shoots a stupid kid trying to steal someone’s car, Kwame will be up in arms about it… POLICE are supposed to stop crime, not private security. Does he know how much armed security costs? Gas prices will go up big time.

  • Dennis in WV

    Fact is it is Whitey’s fault.

    President Johnson’s “Great Society” is at the root of the problem. White congressmen introduced welfare to unwed mothers resulting in more unwed mothers and the eventual destruction of the Black family.

    And if you don’t think that handouts ruin a people’s motivation to do the right thing see Wall Street here.

  • David Axelrod

    FACT: The higher the percentage of black people in any given area, the higher the crime rate. They’re directly correlated. Sorry if that offends you, but it is a FACT!

    FACT: According to DOJ figures, young black males, who make up only about 4% of the total population in America, commit over 50% of all of the homicides in America. Sorry if that offends you, but it is a FACT!

    FACT: According to census figures, about 75% of black babies born in America are born to unwed mothers. That means YOU, the taxpayers, will be footing the bill for that child, probably for it’s entire life. Sorry if that offends you, but it is a FACT!

    Mr. Bill Cosby said it best when he stated: “Black on black crime, drug and alcohol abuse, and a stubborn proclivity towards embracing the most ignorant and juvenile, criminal and self defeating culture and mentality, has done more to to hurt black people than anything ole Whitey ever did.”

  • Floyd Bridges

    Are you out fo your mind? If you close Detroit, the uncivilized human animals which infest it would pollute other cities.

  • Cogito

    But that can not be! Obama has saved Motor Ciity, by bailing out the UAW pension plan. That was in return of the $27,216,347 in campaign contributions the UAW has given to Democrats, according to the Federal Election Commission campaign reports.

    Never mind the median price of a home in Detroit is $29,000, and that the deaths casue by self-defense is 2002% higher than the national average.

    I would move to Detroit, but only after they pass a city ordinance that would allow me to mount a Preditor Drone to the roof of my SUV.

  • Rick Gudobba

    Since the housing collapse they have moved out into the subdivisions. I have noticed a huge difference in the last 3 years. I do not blame anyone for wanting to get out of Detroit. I just hope that they do not bring their bad attitudes and behavior with them. We have not experienced a huge surge in crime. The cops where I live will not put up with it.

  • whodat1

    I thought Detroit was a sovereign nation. Chevy commercial say ‘Imported from Detroit”. I thought it had become the Caliphate of Detroit and the photo with this article only reinforces that.

  • ImaHippyBurning

    I propose Prog A-holes like this jag off and all others in politics be forced to have their body guards go and protect service stations against crime, instead of buffeting these corrupt political criminals from access to the public…

  • ImaHippyBurning

    I was thinking the same thing!

  • lightrider

    That cereal bowl hat. Turn it upside down & eat Cheerios out of it.

  • Wang Newton

    Dear Councilman:
    Take that stupid f@@king hat off your head and we might take you seriously.

  • Stephen

    It’s the American peoples fault. When given a choice between PEACE and WAR, the people vote for leaders who support WAR. When given the choice between SOCIALISM and CAPITALISM,, the people vote for leaders who support SOCIALISM and BANKER BAILOUTS. When given the choice of electing a man who FOLLOWS the US Constitution verses a man who totally IGNORES it, the people overwhelmingly support the LAWLESS man and label anyone who follows the Constitution as a “kook” or “nut-job”. We have no one but ourselves to blame for no energy policy, $5,00 gas, endless wars, massive debt, lawless leaders, banker bailouts, failed schools, broken families, foreclosures, job outsourcing, high unemployment, the LOSS of our FREEDOM and OUR NATION. We had a choice to make in 08 and we made the WRONG CHOICE. Once again in 2012 we have a choice to make and guess who the majority of voters support? Obama, or someone JUST LIKE Obama.

  • Wang Newton

    Detroit is what happens when Democrats are in charge.

  • DJH

    What an idiot! So force business to foot the bill because police can’t do their job in part because of the idiotic rules you’ve put into place to protect criminals. Instead – you want the cost of a gallon of gas to rise disproportionately so security guards can do the job of the police and local gov’t?

    Is this guy really as dumb as he sounds?

  • Wang Newton

    Who wants to bet there is at least one shooting at “Peace Sunday”…

  • don vyrne

    i have been saying that for years….some things are not worth saving. keep voting democrat people and this is where it all ends up.

  • Bearcat

    America needs an ethnic cleasing badly. Ebola Virus-sickle cell-Sarin gas but millions needs to go-millions

  • nugy

    this is what happens when you do not allow legal american citizens to own fire arms.the criminals arm themselves and take over.

  • Bobo from Texas

    This is what Hope&Change looks like.

  • Just curious

    Why are his eyebrows so high up on his head?

  • Jimmie

    You want God less government this is what you get, protection for the lowest, base, perverts, and No protection for the children or the parents who are trying to raise them in a Christian based society. Want protection? go hire your own . The Message….Government will No longer Serve YOU.

  • booby

    Security guards at gas stations is stupid. The National Guard patroling the streets of Detroit would be more like it.

  • Phil

    what are the conceal carry rules of Mcihigan & Wayne Co.?

  • Bill

    LOL, that’s what I thought, where do these *&^% get the outfits/names/etc…..????

  • Dave

    Rampant baby-making is the problem, along with addiction. These people become addicted to drugs at a young age, and whatever age they were at the time of addiction is their maturity level (usually teenage). They then pass on teen values to their children (i.e. violence is the only solution, kill to maintain your respect.)

    What Detroit needs is a gladiator arena where these ganga can kill each other in hand to hand mortal combat. Send the murderers to the lions, let them try to fight a wild animal who sees them not as a hardcore gangsta, but a meal.

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  • RP

    Of course….. as long as it’s somebody else’s money.

  • dano

    Thats what happens when you have the fox guarding the hen house. The crooks want security guards. LOL

  • Tom Walter

    Hey…….Nice Hat, Muzzie Commie

  • SpinningInCircles

    More ridiculous news linked to from the Drudge Report. Unelected officials took over Washington and are orchestrating everything you read that gets national attention. We have no democracy, president, and freedom of press is an illusion.

    Our next election is shaping up to be as big of a sham as the last. Do you know why Sarah Palin’s bus tour was really canceled? Do you know why she stayed 30 miles away from the second debate and chose the death of Steve Jobs to announce that she’s not running? Know what leaked out? Sarah Palin and Cain aren’t in the race for the same reason, the truth leaked out.
    http://PalinsDirtyLittleSecret.blogspot.com

  • Bobo from Texas

    It appears the Detroit’s only remaining purpose is serve as a warming to others.

  • grits dummy

    I have a novel concept,make the police enforce the laws,make the ni66ers obey the laws.

  • Ry

    What dollar amount would be worth standing outside of a gas station in Detroit when the city-dwellers pack AK-47′s and aren’t afraid to use them? Just asking.

    Here’s a link to the councilman’s bio on the city website. Notice it’s a bunch of fluff, makes no mention of what he does for a living and I just love the last sentence: “he views himself as a plain and simple brother “trying to do something for his people.”

    Wow. But I’m not surprised…Thank you post-modernistic black theology!!

    http://www.detroitmi.gov/CityCouncil/CouncilMemberKwameKenyatta/AboutKwameKenyatta.aspx

  • Ar Amytas

    South Bend already has!!

  • Mike

    If the gas stations are forced to hire security guards, they will have to charge more for gas to pay the extra salaries. Then the same politicians who forced them to hire the guards will blast them for “exploiting” their communities with high gas prices.

  • CommonCents

    Look at that face… SMUG and IGNORANT at the same time. Priceless.

  • Idrelocate

    Wes you are spot on. Hire security gaurds? Uh, how about relocate into a better area instead.

  • Bill

    That was Chrysler – not Chevrolet

  • Davec

    ““And as we watch this man was beaten on camera and crawled into the station, never once did I see the proprietor, as well as the people who were going to that gas station, help that individual.”

    WHERE ARE MI’s GOOD SAMARITAN LAWS? I see that, and somebodys got an ass beating coming.

  • Davec

    Walter Williams is considered “racist”

    Its all over but the riots.

  • Harley2002

    A Raghead wonderful…

  • tdrag

    Detroit sounds like a good place for a nuclear bomb test.

  • Michael

    Detroit is a third world city run by incompetent people. They run the city into the ground and steal every dime the taxpayers send. Then if someone white says anything about the city, you are automatically called a racist and keep your white nose out of our business. However keep sending us the white man’s tax $$, so we can embezzle more and hand it out to friends and relatives.

  • Michael

    Sort of like our socialist dictator President.

  • Davec

    “POLICE are supposed to stop crime,”

    FALSE statement. Police are supposed to be “law enforcement” (never mind thats un Constitutional), they can not prevent crime

    Thats up to CITIZENS exercising Right to Bear Arms.

    Your LIE is apparent by the logic that crime happens everywhere, so the only way police can “stop crime” is to be everywhere.

    Nice lie, nice try, it wont work.

  • zzzzzzzz

    the words Kwame and Detroit need a divorce.

  • White Man

    The BLACKS

  • Michael

    Those handouts were nothing but “hush money”, to keep blacks content, you can blame all politicians for that.

  • killerbee

    Hillarious!!! Obama NEVER goes to Detroit when he visits Michigan. NEVER!! Wealthy, elitest, white liberal Ann Arbor is his preferred destination. He just doesn’t relate to them people in Deetroit. BTW. There hasn’t been ONE elected Republican in war-like Detroit for over 40 FREAKIN years!!! NONE. ZERO. ZILCH. It shows.

  • John

    Repeat after me;
    race is a social construct
    race is a social construct
    race is a social construct

    ;p

  • killerbee

    This country is truly FINISHED because of idiots like you who STOP any adult factual conversation about why city’s like DETROIT have been DESTROYED. You spew the racist card out everytime as though its legit while ignoring the FACT that the Black community is an embarrasment to the world. Crime, drugs, single motherhood, the black male, terrible schools, and TERRIBLE LIBERAL DEMONRAT THROAT CRUSHING GOVERNMENTS in place. Not ONE elected Republican in Detroit for over 40 years Not one. Disgraceful

  • bill jones

    A scandinavian culture.

  • catherine

    this is WHAT LIVING IN AN OBAMA-NATION IS NOW LIKE

    REMEMBER THE HORRIFIC CARTER GAS LINES………..

    OBAMA IS CARTER ON STEROIDS

    http://www.examiner.com/republican-in-orlando/what-does-obama-have-left-to-sell-america

  • Rick

    You are absolutely correct! All of the states that have CCW laws have lower crime rates. States like CA that don’t have liberal CCW laws have higher crime and LA is the bank robbery capital of the country.

  • glenp

    SECURITY GUARDS won’t save you YOU SAVE YOURSELF and you do it with a CC permit!!!

    AN UNARMED POPULACE IS A TARGET!!!!

  • glenp

    SARAH PALIN didn’t turn DUHTROIT into the schithole it is . IT was as-sholes named KWAME and UBUDU who are DEMOCRATS that did it

    no self respecting white person would dare to go to DUHTROIT

  • Michael

    After 40 years of black control this city is toast dark toast. I wished that The Tigers, Red Wings, and Lions would have located in the burbs for safety of fans. Detroit is full of predator opportunists, who if are a normal citizen(white or black) who has one hiccup these animals will be all over you like bees on honey. I have a CCW license and although I don’t frequent Detroit much I’ve had to show my weapon on 3 occasions to let them know I won’t be an easy hit.

  • glenp

    MIDNIGHT MARCH??? is that like DEM ALGORE’S MIDNIGHT BASKETBALL??

    look at “KWAME’s” pic I keep knockin’ but no one answers

  • Peetah

    Maybe if the price of gas wasnt so high, no one would want to steal it, what a concept, go back to school.

  • Peetah

    you need two of those hats 1 to s h i t in and another to cover it up with

  • A G Kay

    I do not know why anyone is surprised about anything like this that comes out of Detroit specifically and Michigan generally. A state that coddles the UAW with the express purpose of generating generations of Democratic voters. That was what the auto bailout was about. Now the general populace must contribute to this through their hard earned money the exorbitant salaries of the the highest paid unskilled workers in the world.

  • glenp

    Kwame should be greatful he has so much white in him otherwise he’d be living in a cowterd hut in Kenya w OVOMIT’S brother

  • A G Kay

    I dispute your figure of 75% out of wedlock births. I would peg it at 90%.

  • A G Kay

    I’ve always said Detroit is the face of the new America. Sorry folks, Demographics. As whites are pushed into minority status the gap will be filled by Blacks, Mexicans and Muslims. Not something I think our Founding Fathers envisioned.

  • glenp

    I’d put money on 90%

  • Racerboy

    This guy Kwame Kenyatta is a stupid as he looks!!! Like a security guard is going to jump into the middle of any battle that takes place at a gas station. Besides, how are you going to find anyone in Detroit of the security Guard mentality that will be cleared to carry a weapon?

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  • Becky Muska

    Move over, Detroit….this is also Memphis sitting next to you on the bus to hell!

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  • Tallulah

    That’s why people pay taxes – for police protection. If there’s a problem in a particular part of the city, it’s government’s job to cover that area extra well with police. I don’t believe that security guards are allowed to have guns, are they? A guy with a gun would just shoot a guard dead if he tried to come to the rescue. The fundamental purpose of government is to serve as armed guardians against criminals and invasion by foreign aggressors. When government starts ordering taxpayers to hire their own security guards to do the job that government is supposed to do, well … what the hell is government doing instead?

  • Tallulah

    That is so true. All of it… except that it’s not ALL the whiteys that are at fault. There were plenty of whiteys (and undoubtedly some blacks), who warned that that kind of welfare would – as with anything you’re willing to subsidize – lead to a growing supply of the product you’re paying for. In this case that would be babies being born to unwed moms. Mostly teen-age unwed moms. If you want to breed more and more dependency and immaturity into a people, pay them for doing immature things, for digging themselves into deep holes that they can’t get out of themselves, and then drive them to the polls when they reach 18 years old. They’ll vote for you. It works the same whether it’s teen mothers or financial institutions or anyone else who doesn’t have the adulthood or character to ignore the temptation waving under their noses.

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  • Bettye

    It is ashame to see our teenagers take over the city of Detroit. If any kid see that they have control they will take over. Detroit does not have city protection for the city, and the teenagers see this, just like a child in a home, if the kid can get away with it they will take over. This statement is common sense.

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  • Michael

    Kenyatta wants to force gas stations to hire guards? Why doesn’t he force the city to hire more police? Adding the cost of hiring guards to station owners is not constitutional. Why should they have to pay the price, they don’t make anything on the gas they sell. You want business to thrive yet you put all the burden on them while you let the city go to hell. Start charging the corporate giants that are using the city for their ill gotten gain. Raise the taxes on the 1%. And, stop them from using our money to do stupid things like building a second bridge.

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  • Happy Feet

    Yup exactly my thoughts.

    This is how FAR this country has fallen. You really think we will last much longer in this state of absolute decline!

    Please America, be prepared for when these animals come for you after a major disaster…

    http://best-gear-for-doomsday.blogspot.com

  • KansasGirl

    The way I look at it is, the strongest will survive.

    Keep your chin up.

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