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Residents raise First Amendment, transit, land-bank and election concerns during Detroit public comment
Summary
During public comment to the Neighborhood Community Service Standing Committee, callers criticized mayoral meeting practices as First Amendment–restrictive, reported transit and package-theft problems, urged oversight of the land bank, and alleged election fraud; council then moved into agenda items.
Public commenters used the two-minute public-comment block to press the Detroit committee on free-speech practices at mayoral meetings, transit reliability, neighborhood blight and the land bank, and to make allegations of election irregularities.
A caller who identified themself as "You Matter" told the committee the mayor’s office and its staff were "First Amendment lightweights" for limiting live questions at a prior meeting and said they would ask the Detroit Police Department to review…
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