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Thursday, July 5, 2018
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
NEWS

Police task force 
addresses brutality

Citizens identify 
policy issues around 
police violence

By RACHEL CUNNINGHAM

Summer Daily News Editor

The city of Ann Arbor held a 
Police Task Force meeting Thursday 
evening to discuss and suggest revisions 
of the policy regarding the Ann Arbor 
Police Review Board. 
City Council had finalized the creation 
of a task force in March to create higher 
accountability for the Ann Arbor Police 
Department. Area residents had called on 
the city to create the task force after police 
brutality incidents occurred in the city, 
including the 2014 shooting death of Aura 
Rosser and the arrest of Ciaeem Slaton at 
the Blake Transit Center in September.
Richard Friedman, co-chair of the 
Police Task Force, explained Thursday’s 
meeting specifically hoped to address 
the review board’s role in incident 
review, especially with the recent Blind 
Oig restaurant incident. The previous 
weekend, a Black man was arrested after 
a fight intiated by a white man broke out. 

The Black man was the only indivdual 
arrested during the incident.
“As a task force, we don’t have any role 
to investigate this,” Friedman said. “But, 
this is the type of incident for which the 
commission we’re working on is designed 
to address, I think. We hope that it will 
have a good review process to address 
incidents like that.”
Transforming Justice Washtenaw and 
the Collective Against White Supremacy 
both submitted revision requests for the 
commission’s establishment.
TJW members Maren Spolem and 
Julie Quiroz addressed TJW support 
of the commission but raised concerns 
regarding what the commission sees the 
core issue to be.
“TJW is committed to the creation 
of 
a 
police 
commission 
that 
is 
independent, 
transparent, 
representative 
and 
adequately 
funded,” Spolem said. “We’ve 
reviewed your template and while 
there are many points in the 
template with which we agree, 
fundamental differences remain.

Candidate discusses 
his campaign for 
state governor 

By GRACE KAY 

Summer Managing News Editor 

By RACHEL CUNNINGHAM 

Summer Daily News Editor 

Editor’s 
Note: 
The 
Michigan 
Daily does not officially endorse 
Patrick Colbeck for governor. The 
Daily continues to reach out to 
other gubernatorial candidates for 
comments and interviews.
The Daily recently met with 
Michigan 
gubernatorial 
candidate 
Patrick Colbeck to discuss his platform 
and goals if elected. Colbeck is running 
against Attorney General Bill Schuette, 
Lt. Gov. Brian Calley and Jim Hines for 
the Republican candidacy. The primary 
election is set to take place Aug. 7.
Colbeck says he is the only 
Republican candidate who can beat 
the Democrats in the general election, 
emphasizing his grassroot support.
“I can win the general election,” 
Colbeck said. “There’s not going to be too 
much enthusiasm to go get out the vote 
in the general election and, frankly, the 
Michigan Democratic Party chair talks 
about me being the biggest threat to the 
Democrats in the general election.” 
Colbeck says despite the media 
attention 
focused 
on 
opponents 
Schuette and Calley, he is willing to go 
beyond merely performing one-minute 
sound bites to provide detailed strategies 

and implement solutions.
“I’m an engineer so I actually solve 
problems,” Colbeck said. “Everybody 
else, they’re much better speakers. I 
had my one technical speaking course 
at Michigan but that was about it. The 
key is people are looking for someone 
who can solve problems and whatever 
the policy issue across the board is, I’ve 
demonstrated that I can go into the 
details on any of the different policy 
issues that we’re facing at the state 
level and I can find solutions to those 
problems.”
“Mixing things up” 
Colbeck says voters are ready for 
something new, because they are tired 
of “politics as usual.” Colbeck believes 
he can bring authenticity to his role and 
implement real solutions to problems in 
Michigan such as poor education, bad 
roads and high taxes.
“When you talk about fixing the 
roads, I don’t frame the problem for 
58 seconds out of a one-minute reply 
and then have a two second response 
on how to fix it. I actually spend all my 
time, probably talking too fast trying to 
squeeze it into a minute, and say, ‘Here’s 
the solution,’” Colbeck said. “I’ve gotten 
people that have declared Independent 
or Democrat that come up and want to 
support my campaign because they’re 
tired of people with the marketing 
blitz and not any substance. So, the big 
differentiator and the way I set up is that 
I’ve got substance in my narrative and in 
my solutions.”

TMD talks to Sen. 
Patrick Colbeck

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