"It's a Whitewash." No Grosse Pointe Cops Fired After Making Videos of Black Men Forced to Sing & Dance 'Like Chimps'

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From [HERE] Five white Grosse Pointe Park police officers have been suspended for abusing their authority by forcing a mentally retatred Black man to sing and dance like an animal. The demeaning, racist abuse was captured on video by the officers themselves and then shared between them and their families. One white officer has been removed from duty pending an investigation after admitting he shot a demeaning video of a mentally-challenged African American man.

According to the blog, Motor City Muckraker ,which broke the story a few weeks ago, there are several other videos in which Black men are told to sing or “dance like a chimp.” All the Black men apparently had been stopped by police and ordered to engage in demeaning conduct. Some of the subjects are even in the back of police cars. 

Grosse Pointe Park police have refused to release the name of the officer who admitted to filming one of the episodes. (If a Black police officer forced white men to sing and dance and then shared the images for amusement do you think we would know his identity by now? Racism is carried out through deception. The blog, Motor City Muckraker named only Mike Najm as an officer who may have taken some of the images and videos. [HERE] and [HERE]) 

Grosse Pointe Park Public Safety Director David A. Hiller confirmed that five of the department's 36 police officers will be suspended between 24 hours and 60 days, although he would provide no further details. None were fired.

The punishments come after a week-long investigation into the origin and disbursement of the videos. Multiple videos were taken of Michael Scipio, 55, a mentally retarded Black man. Hiller said the videos were recorded in March of 2012 and all of the officers involved worked on the same shift. 

Minister Malik Shabazz, founder of the New Marcus Garvey Movement, called the press conference a "pep rally" that was "not in the spirit" of the closed door meeting he had with Hiller after a protest last week. "An African-American man was humiliated," Shabazz said. "It's a whitewash... The officers are wrong... I'm not satisfied."

City officials invited four black residents of Grosse Pointe Park to illustrate the diversity that exists in Grosse Pointe Park, which according to the 2010 U.S. Census is 10.5 percent black and 85 percent white. The black residents spoke highly of the police department. The Grosse Pointe Police Department has no black officers and one female.

Hiller said in addition to punishment, the entire department will undergo sensitivity training. Hiller did not know how much the training would cost taxpayers. 

Scipio lives near the Detroit-Grosse Pointe Park border and has had previous contact with police in the suburb.

Grosse Pointe Park spokesman Greg Bowens says “An officer has stepped forward to take responsibility and has been removed from duty pending the conclusion of an investigation.”

Bowens offered an apology, saying “This is not a true reflection of the people of the City of Grosse Pointe Park.”

The video made headlines, driven by a largely unsubstantiated report by a local blogger that a slurry of Grosse Pointe Park cops had shot and shared demeaning videos of black people — some of which where, he said, they were forced to act like monkeys. The blogger reported that these videos are evidence that a department-wide culture of racism has not been proven.