Occupy Detroit wins one-week permit extension to exit Grand Circus Park

[Bozita]

Source: Detroit Free Press

Occupy Detroit wins one-week permit extension to exit Grand Circus Park
1:33 PM, Nov. 15, 2011
BY Steve Neavling
DETROIT FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER


Expressing sympathy for the cause, Detroit City Council members approved a one-week extension to Occupy Detroit so protesters can clean up their camp at Grand Circus Park and move it to a building on the city's southwest side.

Some council members likened the peaceful Occupy Detroit to the civil rights movement aimed at extending rights to disenfranchised black people.

"All of us sit here because some people fought, because some people occupied, because some people demonstrated," Councilman Kwame Kenyatta said. "They did it because it was the right thing to do."

Saying the Occupy Detroit protesters have been peaceful and cooperative, Police Chief Ralph Godbee Jr. said he was not opposed to the one-week extension.


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Good on the Detroit City Council.

Good on Police Chief Ralph Godbee Jr.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

1. As long as they're out of camera range

during the Thanksgiving Day parade.

Detroit has to maintain its shining image.

Occupy needed to find someplace else anyway. The temperature is supposed to drop a lot in the next few days.

Anyway, yeah, nice of the city to not use force.

[demmiblue]

2. K&R!

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