Americans have had enough of high powered weapons on the streets of our cities. Any city. A city that is impoverished. A city that is wealthy. We have had enough of this danger.
All of us!
By Andrea May Sahouri
Rarely does Larry Courts Sr. answer calls from numbers he doesn't recognize. (click here) But on Wednesday night, he said something was telling him to pick up the phone.
On the other line, a woman was screaming hysterically. It was his son's partner on the Detroit police force.
Loren Courts, his son, had been shot on duty on the city's west side....
..."He's my hero, my dude. I have so much respect for him," Courts told the Free Press at his Detroit home.
"God needed him more than we did down here — my arms are too short to box with God."
Courts was told his son was responding to a call of shots fired when he was himself shot by a suspect with a Draco, a semiautomatic, AK-style pistol....
By Emma Stein and Frank Witsil
Detroit Police Chief James E. White
Police Chief James White (click here) called on the justice system, lawmakers, and the public to help end gun violence and bring justice for the death of Detroit Police Officer Loren Courts, who he said was ambushed by a "murderer."
"It's getting old hearing what everyone is going to do," a frustrated White said, reiterating his praise for Courts, 40, and his partner, Amanda Hudgens, and declaring that the force was "devastated but not defeated."
Hudgens, he said, was prepared to die to try to save Courts.
Flanked by the department's top brass at police headquarters on Thursday, White said he didn't have the words to console Courts' family and described in more detail than the night before, a shootout in which, Ehmani Davis, a 19-year-old man, took aim at police.
He shot out his apartment window to do so....
Police Chief James White (click here) called on the justice system, lawmakers, and the public to help end gun violence and bring justice for the death of Detroit Police Officer Loren Courts, who he said was ambushed by a "murderer."
"It's getting old hearing what everyone is going to do," a frustrated White said, reiterating his praise for Courts, 40, and his partner, Amanda Hudgens, and declaring that the force was "devastated but not defeated."
Hudgens, he said, was prepared to die to try to save Courts.
Flanked by the department's top brass at police headquarters on Thursday, White said he didn't have the words to console Courts' family and described in more detail than the night before, a shootout in which, Ehmani Davis, a 19-year-old man, took aim at police.
He shot out his apartment window to do so....
