Both police and the director of a youth center in Detroit call a recent graffiti painting hurtful. The image is anything but angelic and to call it infuriating may be an understatement. Someone spray painted an angel holding a police officer at gunpoint on the Youthville Building at the Plymouth Educational Center on Woodward. The location is kitty corner to the Detroit Police Department Third Precinct. I dont believe looking at the painting that God would give an angel a gun to shoot a police officer, said Steve Dolunt, assistant Detroit police chief. I think God gives angels to police officers to try to protect them. Dolunt does not believe this painting represents how the vast majority of Detroit feels about its officers. Thirty-six times in the last 29 and a half years an angel wasnt there to help us, he said. So Im disheartened, dismayed, but I think well get through this. In the painting the officer has his hands up - the same posture some witnesses say Michael Brown was in when a police officer was shot and killed this summer. Although its unclear when exactly the image was painted, it likely happened after a man gunned down New York police officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu in their squad car Dec. 20. The shooter, Ismaaiyl Brinsley, 28, was upset over the deaths of Brown and Eric Garner. Roger Simmons, building facilities director, said he was horrified when he saw the image left on the building wall. Simmons says the school was unaware of the painting until Tuesday and had it covered immediately. He says surveillance cameras likely recorded whoever is responsible. We will review the footage and we will present whatever we have to the Detroit Police Department, Simmons said. And we will expect to prosecute whoever we find was responsible for this act. The police have a message for whoever is responsible. I dont think you could walk 24 hours in my shoes, let alone my officers, Dolunt said. So before you do something like that, think twice. If you have any information about who painted this image, call Detroit police. myfoxdetroit/story/27733173/graffiti-of-angel-holding-police-officer-at-gunpoint-spurs-outrage
Posted on: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 02:18:55 +0000
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