Detroit Strip Clubs: Pugh’s chat about strippers, civil rights posted online
February 17, 2010 at 5:48 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsPugh’s chat about strippers, civil rights posted online
City Hall is all abuzz today about City Council President Charles Pugh’s curious analogy likening “discrimination” against strip clubs to discrimination against African-Americans and the “civil rights movement.”
Pugh’s quip came during an interview Tuesday on the Christian radio station WLQV-1500 AM. Given the opportunity to clarify his comparison, Pugh plunged ahead, saying all laws that target a class of people or business are wrong — be it banning booze at go-go clubs or those against African-Americans who had “the audacity to come in the front door.”
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Update: It’s Councilman Andre Spivey’s turn today to defend the ordinance, as he’s due to appear at 4 p.m. on WLQV-1500 AM. Spivey, himself a pastor, has been criticized by some ministers for saying the city shouldn’t be too “self-righteous” and ban alcohol at strip clubs.
Detroit Escorts: The Daily Goodbye
February 17, 2010 at 11:02 am | In Detroit escorts | No CommentsGood morning.
Fred Aldrich, who died of a heart attack while driving, then crashed his car into a sandwich shop, was a survivor of one of Philadelphia’s most notorious attempted mob hits in 1993. We’ll let you read all about it; suffice it to say he earned his living as an underworld operative engaging in loan-sharking, gambling, extortion, drug dealing, and prostitution.
Can you imagine working at a company whose motto is “All We Sell is Fun”? Roger Schiltz, co-owner of All-American Recreation, which makes motor scooters, dartboards, spas and trampolines, was a good pool player and a better customizer of billiard tables.
Here’s an obit for baseball fans: James Fargo Lanier, batboy for Ty Cobb. Lanier was 93 when he died and worked for Cobb in 1925 and 1926, living with the Cobb family in Detroit.
Detroit Escorts: Editorial: Michigan’s civil seizure laws forfeit justice
February 17, 2010 at 11:02 am | In Detroit escorts | No CommentsFighting prostitution and drug trafficking in our communities is a vital enterprise, but it’s not worth trashing the civil liberties of Michigan residents, and it’s certainly not justification for treating citizens as if they are guilty until proven innocent.
Michigan’s property forfeiture laws allow law enforcement agencies to do just that. Too many people are losing property based on the loosest suspicion of wrongdoing and without being ticketed or charged with a crime, let alone being convicted of one.
Fortunately, two Michigan lawmakers recognize the real abuses of civil seizures. State Rep. Gabe Leland, D-Detroit, has introduced a bill that would require police to charge an individual with a crime when property is seized, or return the property without cost. Sen. Tupac Hunter, D-Detroit, plans to offer similar legislation in the Senate.
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As The News reported, in one instance, a Red Cross employee picking up a co-worker outside a Detroit bank had her vehicle grabbed by police because the co-worker had made eye contact with passing motorists, and so the cops assumed she was a prostitute.
Detroit Escorts: Student’s stab story challenged
February 17, 2010 at 11:02 am | In Detroit escorts | No CommentsLeo Medina, on the defense team, said there was “no question” the young women are prostitutes, but argued they have been painted in a much worse light than the facts warrant.
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Clayton said Monta’s Massachusetts criminal records “have been rather minimal,” but she has been accused of crimes in four other states, including her home state of Washington in 2005-2006 (a juvenile offense), as well as Las Vegas, Nev.; Houston, Texas (for prostitution and possession of a class B drug, to which she pleaded guilty), and Newark, N.J., in 2009 (for resisting arrest, for which she was found guilty).
She was faced in several cases with a charge of “failure to comply,” and prostitution, Clayton said, adding that the status of those cases is unknown.
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Clayton said Fraser was on probation for other matters involving prostitution, including incidents in Stoughton in 2006, Dorchester and Framingham. He did not detail those charges.
Fraser was arrested on July 31, 2008, at the Framingham Sheraton after a man claimed she tried to steal money from him. She was charged with prostitution.
Detroit Escorts: State lawmakers work on bills to limit property seizures by police
February 17, 2010 at 11:02 am | In Detroit escorts | No Comments… Under the current ordinance, there doesn’t have to be a crime proven in order to seize someone’s vehicle,” said Walter Epps, a former Wayne County sheriff’s lieutenant who ran the department’s Morality Squad for more than four years. “But I feel if we’re going to take someone’s car, the least we should do is to charge them with the crime or issue them a ticket.”
In one case, The News found that officers from the Morality Squad seized a Southgate man’s vehicle after he talked to a decoy prostitute — even though the undercover officer admitted in her written report that the man hadn’t solicited her during their brief conversation.
In another case, a Red Cross employee’s vehicle was seized by the Morality Squad after she picked up a co-worker at a Detroit bank. Because the vehicle owner’s co-worker had stood on a street corner making eye contact with passing motorists while waiting for her ride, police determined she was acting like a prostitute, even though she never was charged for soliciting.
Detroit Strip Clubs: Strip club debate gets heated
February 17, 2010 at 4:12 am | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsStrip club debate gets heated
Pastor slams proposed lighter restrictions; council leader likens ban to segregation laws
Christine MacDonald / The Detroit News
Detroit –City Council President Charles Pugh sparred with a prominent pastor, likened outlawing strip clubs to the civil-rights struggle and floated the idea of a red-light district Tuesday as debate about the city’s topless clubs heat up.
Pugh called out the Rev. Marvin L. Winans for living in the suburbs during the council’s debate about a proposal that would allow the city’s 33 clubs to continue to serve alcohol but require their workers to get special licenses from the city.
The remark came after Winans accused unnamed newly elected council members of betraying residents by backing away from ordinances proposed last year that would ban booze and require dancers to wear opaque pasties.
Winans criticized strip club owners for living outside the city, but Pugh reminded the gospel singer and movie star that he does, too.
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