Honored to receive the @SPJdetroit Sojourner Truth Award for racial justice reporting last night (and @MichiganPress's Wade McCree Award for the Advancement of Justice last month). For years it felt as if I was screaming into the void about Detroit cops plucking young Black guys off the street for nonviolent offenses and shooting them as they ran away -- yes, even when they had guns. Grateful to see there are like-minded people in this profession who agree that's a problem. Sadly, it's a tough space to have impact, and carrying a gun -- even for your own protection in a high-crime city -- can still be a death sentence, but at least the issue is now on policymakers' radar. Thank you to my editor @cmacfreep for believing in this work and seeing it through; thank you to my other editor, @DetroitReporter, for suggesting I widen the scope of my look into police shootings when I first came to him with the idea just two months after starting at @freep; and thank you to @FundFIJ for covering the thousands of dollars in FOIA costs to obtain the records this reporting was built on. My package of reports from 2025: freep.com/story/news/investi… freep.com/story/news/investi… freep.com/story/news/local/m… freep.com/story/news/local/m… freep.com/story/news/local/m… freep.com/story/news/local/m… And one from 2024 (anchored by a *legal* gun owner shot by police): freep.com/story/news/investi… Please help us continue this type of ambitious, ground-breaking work and SUBSCRIBE. help.freep.com/subscription-…

notable slip by Fleisher, CEO of Detroit's biggest privately owned real estate company, as he raises that the RenCen nonprofit would be structured to allow lobbying: "As much fun as this is, we may want to retire from politics after this."

never take this time for granted

what a thing to have to google

"death to disobeyers of police commands" contingent still chirping

Why Dan Gilbert is putting $1B into a nonprofit to redevelop and own the RenCen via @kirkpinhoCDB crainsdetroit.com/real-estat…

Democrats for Rogers is a PAC funded by Republicans, and more: freep.com/story/opinion/colu…

my mom hit me up this morning to let me know that dan gilbert is giving $1 billion to save the rencen. this is media literacy in 2026 no shade

The Detroit councilmember who took Sheffield's seat is probing whether West Village businesses that serve alcohol (such as a dog park open 'til 9pm) are complying with city regs, in an effort historically reserved for like, junkyards in D7. By @DanaAfana: freep.com/story/news/local/m…

“Being shot when you are fleeing is not something we need to normalize" — Detroit Justice Center director Nancy Parker, speaking outside City Hall yest on the police shooting of 18-year-old Alonzo Lee-Perkins freep.com/story/news/local/m…

"So we've got this idea" "You're gonna pay for a quarter of it" "It's charity" freep.com/story/news/local/m…

another nonprofit, brought to you by "one of the most generous and visionary humans God has gifted to us all." crainsdetroit.com/real-estat…

DPD has stopped releasing video of police shootings. @andreamsahouri obtained this one from the summer fireworks incident. Was the man shot while running away a threat?