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Sunday Morning News

Protesters Call For Resignation of Detroit Police Chief After Recent Series of Fatal Shootings

Aired September 24, 2000 - 9:19 a.m. ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: In Detroit, protesters are calling for the resignation of the police chief and an end to the fatal shootings of citizens by city police officers. To get their point across, they've begun demonstrating outside police headquarters just as Detroit Mayor Dennis Archer is calling for an investigation of the police force by the Justice Department.

Reporter Art Edwards from CNN Detroit affiliate WDIV has the story.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

ART EDWARDS, REPORTER, WDIV-TV, DETROIT (voice-over): Protesters want Dwight Turner, Darren (ph) "The Crunch" Miller, and Teddy Larope (ph) to live on as symbols of police brutality. All died at the hands of police.

Sherry Lyngvar is still grieving for her 28-year-old brother.

SHERRY LYNGVAR, BROTHER KILLED BY POLICE: And they don't understand the hurt the family feels. It doesn't go away, it gets worse, because you have to go out and fight for justice that should have been handed to us that night.

EDWARDS: Friday, Mayor Archer called for a federal review of fatal police shootings over the past five years. Protesters warned that it should come out of Washington, not federal offices in Detroit.

REV. LEONARD YOUNG, NATIONAL BAPTIST CONVENTION: We need Janet Reno to come in and get an independent special prosecutor who can come in here and look at this and not be tainted by the federal relationship they have with the local police department.

EDWARDS: Others want Detroit police to change their deadly force policy.

ELAN HERRADA, PROTESTER: There's no way that we're going to have justice by another outside department coming in. We need to change the policies internally and not allow Detroit cops to shoot to kill anybody.

EDWARDS: Ultimately, protesters say, they want their faith restored in the men and women sworn to protect them. (END VIDEOTAPE)

PHILLIPS: And that was Art Edwards reporting from CNN Detroit affiliate WDIV.

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