It was a shocking image that has a community stunned, disgusted, and sickened.
Investigators are trying to find the person responsible for painting a silhouette of an angel pointing a gun at a police officer, while the officer has his hands up.
It was painted on Youthville Detroit, a school in the New Center area, just a block away from Detroit Police’s Central Precinct, off of West Grand Boulevard and Woodward.
“We’ve had enough murders this year we don’t need to be extolling that,” Ron Scott, spokesperson for Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality said.
Scott says after several police related deaths nation-wide, the only way to move forward is through peaceful actions, not through paintings on schools promoting violence.
“The fact that somebody has the audacity to actually deface a building, trying to raise the consciousness of youths by putting something out there like that. That just reflects the kind of mentality that we don’t need,” Scott said. “We don’t need it in law enforcement and we certainly don’t need it with people in the street.”
“By no way do I think this is how the majority of our citizens feel toward our police department,” Detroit Police Captain Constance Slappey said. “Our officers take pride in doing their job, servicing the citizens of this city every single day, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.”
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