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The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com
Detroit mayor suspends
police chief during probe
In this Aug. 24; 2012. file photo, an armored U.S. embassy vehicle is checked by military personalafter it was -attacked
by unknown assailants on the highway leading to the city of Cuernavaca, near Tres Marias, Mexico.
Official: U.S. car targeted
in1Mexican police ambush
Officer alleges she
and Godbee had
bad breakup
DETROIT (AP) - Detroit
Mayor Dave Bing suspended the
city's top law enforcement offi-
cer Tuesday amid allegations
that the married police chief of
police had a sexual relationship
with a subordinate.
Chief Ralph Godbee and
Angelica Robinson, an internal
affairs officer, had been in a rela-
tionship that she eventuallytried
to end, said her attorney, David
Robinson.
"There was a sexual rela-
tionship between my client and
Godbee," Robinson told The
Associated Press on Tuesday
evening. "She was trying to end
the relationship, and Godbee
didn't want to let it go."
She posted a photo with her
service weapon in her mouth
on the social media site Twit-
ter after learning Godbee was
at a police conference over the
weekend with another woman,
David Robinson said.
He said Godbee had other
officers locate the 37-year-old
Angelica Robinson and put her
under surveillance.
"Obviously, it raised the impli-
cation of suicide," David Robin-.
son added. "The story is that she
was hurt he was at a conference
with another woman. Certainly
this has created a lot of pressure.
Unfairly, her future is a little bit
uncertain. She has to suffer the
humiliation."
Angelica Robinson has been
reassigned from internal affairs
to other duties. !
This is the second time in two
years that a Detroit police chief
has been embroiled in scandal.
Godbee's predecessor, Warren
Evans, was fired by Bing in 2010
partly because he was romantical-
ly involved with a female officer.
"After learning of the alle-
gations regarding Chief Ralph
Godbee, I have placed him on
a 30-day suspension pending a
full and thorough investigation
of this matter," the mayor said in
a statement Tuesday that did not
specify the allegations.
Godbee could not be reached
Tuesday afternoon for com-
ment, police spokeswoman Sgt.
Eren Stephens said.
Angelica Robinson, who is
married, told her attorney the
relationship with Godbee lasted
about a year. Godbee is separat-
ed from his wife.
David Robinson said the rela-
tionship was consenasual.
Without being specific, Rob-
inson said he will approach the
city "and see what their posi-
tion would be and hopefully (the
city will) do the right thing" in
regard to his client.
"The chief of police exceeded
his professional status," David
Robinson said. "He's breached
the trust of the department."
Godbee and Bing have been
assailed by officers in recent
weeks over a 10 percent pay cut
and implementation of 12-hour
workdays to help cut millions of
dollars from the police budget.
Officers complain the cuts and
new work rules are too much
to take in a city with one of the
highest violent crime rates in
the country.
The 287 murders committed
through Sept. 23 in Detroit are
26 more than at the same point
last year.
Godbee was named chief in
2010 after Bing fired Evans.
Evans, a former Wayne Coun-
ty sheriff, was appointed chief
by Bing in 2009 and fired after
he raised the mayor's ire by tak-
ing part in a promotional video
for a cable police reality show.
Bing later said he also fired
Evans because the chief was
romantically involved with Lt.
Monique Patterson.
Godbee, too, had a roman-
tic relationship with Patterson
before she began dating Evans
and when she was Godbee's sub-
ordinate.
The prior relationship
between Godbee and Patter-
son was disclosed publicly after
Godbee was named interim
chief, and Bing issued a strongly
worded statement after its dis-
closure saying he wasn't consid-
ering firing Godbee for having
an affair with a subordinate.
Godbee, 44, joined the
department in 1987 and rose to
assistant chief in 2007. He later
retired only to be reappointed
assistant chief in July 2009
when Evans was hired.
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Evidence that
police shooters
were working for
cartel
MEXICO CITY (AP) - A
senior U.S. official says there is
strong circumstantial evidence
that Mexican federal police who
fired on a U.S. Embassy vehicle,
wounding two CIA officers, were
working for organized crime in a
targeted assassination attempt.
Meanwhile, a Mexican official
with knowledge of the case con-
firmed on Tuesday that prosecu-
tors are investigating whether
the Beltran Leyva Cartel was
behind the Aug. 24 ambush.
The Mexican official said
that is among several lines of
investigation into the shooting
of an armored SUV that was
clearly marked with diplomatic
license plates on a rural road
near Cuernavaca south of Mex-
ico City. Federal police, at times
battered by allegations of infil-
tration and corruption by drug
cartels, have said the shooting
was a case of mistaken identity
as officers were looking into the
kidnapping of a government
employee in that area.
"That's not a'We're trying to
shake down a couple people for
a traffic violation sort of opera-
tion. That's a 'We are specifi-
cally trying to kill the people in
this vehicle'," a U.S. official,
familiar with the investiga-
tion told The Associated Press.
"This is not a 'Whoops, we got
the wrong people.'"
Photos of the gray Toyota
SUV, a model known to be used
by Drug Enforcement Admin-
istration agents and other U.S.
Embassy employees working in
Mexico, showed it riddled with
heavy gunfire. The U.S. Embassy
called the attack an "ambush."
When asked by the AP if the
Mexican federal police officers
involved in the shooting were
tied to organized crime, the U.S.
official said, "The circumstantial
evidence is pretty damn strong."
Both the U.S. and Mexican
officials spoke on condition of
anonymity because of the sen-
sitivity of the diplomatic issue.
A federal police on Tuesday
maintained the position that
their agents fired on the vehicle
by mistake, thinking it belonged
to a band of kidnappers they
were pursuing, according to a
spokesman who was not autho-
rized to speak on the record.
The U.S. State Department
declined to discuss details.
"We will not comment on
an ongoing investigation," said
William Ostick, a spokesman.
"This is a matter of great sig-
nificance to both our countries
and we will continue to cooper-
ate with Mexican authorities in
their investigation."
The Mexican official said
one line of investigation is
that members of the Beltran
Leyva Cartel were interested in
attacking the people in the car
because some of their lookouts
had seen them passing through
the area and presumed they
were investigating the cartel.
It's possible they didn't know
they were Americans.
The rural road near Cuer-
navaca where the attack took
place is known territory of
the remnants of the Beltran
Leyvas, a once-powerful car-
tel now run by Hector Beltran
Leyva since the Navy killed
his brother, drug lord Arturo
Beltran Leyva, in Cuernavaca
in late 2009. Beltran Leyva
was once aligned with Mexi-
co's powerful cartel, Sinaloa,
headed by fugitive drug lord
Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.
But the groups split in 2008 and
continued government hits on
Beltran Leyva leadership since
then have splintered that car-
tel into small gangs warring for
the area.
Labor standoffs silence orchestras
Many orchestras
cancel shows
amid difficult
negotiations
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The
Minnesota Orchestra was called
the world's greatest not long ago,
welcome recognition for musi-
cians outside a top cultural cen-
ter. Now its members are locked
out of Orchestra Hall, stuck in
the same kind of labor-manage-
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ment battle recently afflicting
teachers and football feferees.
Across the country, sympho-
ny and chamber orchestra exec-
utives have cited flat ticket sales
and slumping private support as
they seek major pay concessions
from musicians, who warn about
a loss of talent and reputation.
In Minneapolis, the Minnesota
Orchestra has already cancelled
concerts through Nov. 25 as
negotiators argue over a propos-
al to trim the average musicians'
salary by $46,000 a year.
A similar standoff is under-
way across the Mississippi River
at the St. Paul Chamber Orches-
tra. The Indianapolis Symphony
Orchestra has canceled the first
month of its season in a labor
impasse, and labor troubles are
also rumbling at orchestras in
Richmond, Va., Jacksonville,
Fla., and San Antonio, Texas.
"It breaks my heart," said
Christal Steele, a violinist and
assistant concertmaster in Indi-
anapolis, where she and fellow
musicians have gone without
pay and benefits for almost a
month. "This is my 40th sea-
son, and in that time, I have seen
nothing but this orchestra rise
in quality and in stature. Now in
one fell swoop, they're trying to
erase the last 30 years."
Last week, musicians and
management at the symphony
orchestras in both Chicago and
Atlanta reached new contracts
after contentious negotiations.
Atlanta's musicians went with-
out pay for a month before
accepting $5.2 million in com-
pensation cuts over two years,
plus reductions in their ranks.
The Chicago deal came after a
two-day strike that forced the
cancellations of the season's
first Saturday night show, with
musicians wrangling salary
increases but agreeing to pay
higher health care costs.
"It's shaking up a lot of orga-
nizations right now," said Drew
McManus, a Chicago-based con-
sultant to orchestras and other
arts organizations. "This world
of orchestras is one that's always
been defined by well-established
strata - the best orchestras in
the country, the second tier and
so on - and that is very much in
flux at the moment."
The Minnesota Orchestra has
seen its reputation grow in recent
years under conductor Osmo
Vanska. The Finnish-born Van-
ska has become something of a
celebrity in a state that treasures
its Scandinavian heritage, and
he's won international acclaim
for pushing the orchestra to new
heights.
After seeing the Minnesota
Orchestra play at Carnegie Hall
in 2010, The New Yorker's clas-
sical music critic Alex Ross
wrote that they "sounded, to my
ears, like the greatest orchestra
in the world."
But the' orchestra's leaders
have said even as its reputation
grows they've seen flat atten-
dance, declining corporate and
individual support, and poor
results from investments. Mean-
while, salaries grew by 3 to 4
percent annually under the pre-
vious contract.
"You couple that with one of
the worst financial markets of
the last 100 years, and obviously
you have to reset our orchestra
and our organization in terms
of looking to a future that's sus-
tainable," said Michael Hen-
son, the orchestra's president.
He said the orchestra has been
forced to draw too deeply from
its endowment to stay in the
black.
"A very significant part of our
expenses are musicians' sala-
ries, and that's a logical area for
us to address to find a solution
for long-term stability," Henson
said. Management's proposal
would trim average annual sala-
ries for orchestra members from
$135,000 to $89,000.
Doug Wright, the Minnesota
Orchestra's principal trombon-
ist and a member of the musi-
cians' negotiating team, said the
wages reflect the skill involved
in reaching the top level and big
salary cuts would result in a loss
of talent.
"The musicians of a major
American symphony orchestra
live in a global marketplace,"
Wright said. "And if we're going
to continue to attract and retain
the best of the best, our compe-
tition is not, you know, the local
marching band. Our competi-
tion is Boston, Chicago, L.A.,
San Francisco."
McManus, the arts consul-
tant, said the Detroit Symphony
Orchestra took a big blow to its
reputation after a six-month
musicians' strike in 2010, during
which many musicians quit.
Musicians have demanded
an open audit of the orchestras'
finances, complaining about a
$50 million renovationof Orches-
tra Hall's lobby now underway.
Henson said renovation funds
come from dedicated donations
and are needed to keep drawing
audiences and big donors.
Jesse Rosen, president and
chief executive officer of the
League of American Orches-
tras, which doesn't take sides
in labor-management disputes,
said orchestras are struggling
with the economy like many
other businesses that depend on
discretionary spending.
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