As the sun sets and the time approaches 9 pm, Detroit’s Monday protest march ends peaceably, and where it started on Fort Street a mile south of the Ambassador Bridge — on grass beside DPD’s 4th Precinct station — but with profane demands for Chief Craig to resign.
As shadows lengthen at 8:40 pm, Detroit’s Monday marchers, lacing chants with profanity, approach Fort Street and the protest’s starting point at DPD’s 4th Precinct station. Squad cars flash lights ahead. How will it end is on everyone’s mind.
Steven Kukuk, 29, of Detroit’s North End neighborhood, said he’d been in about 75% of the marches. “I’m here to listen and learn,” said the software salesman, wheeling a vintage Schwinn Volare racing bike.
Monday night’s protest turns east on Michigan Avenue, stops to rev spirits, and now heads toward downtown Detroit — and what some marchers say will be a confrontation with police. But, “defund police”? None are anywhere in sight.@freep
Marchers trudge the summer-hot streets of SW Detroit at 7 pm Monday, on Toledo at Military, with fresh fury from Sunday’s brush with violence. That night, several surrounded a police car and some jumped on its hood, spurring the officer to drive off through the crowd.
Monday’s protesters in Detroit take a break at Vernor Highway and Lansing Street in SW Detroit, shouting “Black lives matter!” with no police in sight.@freep
More than 200 protesters start marching west on Fort Street on Monday around 6 pm in SW Detroit, to pounding drums and chants of “racist police.” @freep
As a police chopper revs overhead, Monday night’s protesters in SW Detroit hear Jae Bass, 24, of Detroit shout “March today!” And the crowd shouts back, “March tomorrow!” Bass said he was thrown to pavement Sunday after climbing on a police car’s hood.