*If you follow Detroit politics, you know it can get real rough at meetings. Another example of that just went down at a gathering of the Board of Police Commissioners.
In dramatic video footage (below) from Thursday’s get together, one of the commissioners, Willie Burton, is shown getting arrested and forcibly put out of the building in handcuffs after the chairwoman demanded his removal.
Fox 2 reports that things got heated when Burton raised the issue of facial recognition cameras in the city being used for law enforcement purposes — a controversial exchange in which he demanded to know what chairwoman Lisa Carter would do differently from former chairman Willie Bell. Carter repeatedly called him out of order, and then finally ordered him ejected from the premises.
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“If you throw me out of office, you are disenfranchising 100,000 voters in the 5th District, do not touch me,” shouted Burton as he was arrested.
Members of the crowd chanted as Burton was taken by officers. He was put into a scout car and taken off, cited from the Durfee Innovation Society building where the meeting was held on the city’s west side.
Burton was jailed for disorderly conduct and was quickly released when a fellow commissioner posted $100 bail. He will face a court date later this month.
Facial recognition technology is facing widespread criticism as an assault on civil liberties and an invitation for police abuse. Protestors at the hearing wore masks to demonstrate against it.
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