JUSTICE FOR RENISHA MCBRIDE, DETROIT’S TRAYVON MARTIN; DEARBORN HTS. HOMEOWNER IS THEODORE PAUL WAFER | VOICE OF DETROIT: The city's independent newspaper, unbossed and unbought

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JUSTICE FOR RENISHA MCBRIDE, DETROIT’S TRAYVON MARTIN; DEARBORN HTS. HOMEOWNER IS THEODORE PAUL WAFER | VOICE OF DETROIT: The city's independent newspaper, unbossed and unbought: McBride, an African-American Detroiter who graduated from Southfield High School and had just gotten a job with Ford Motor Company, had wandered into a largely white and Arab-American neighborhood looking for help after a car accident since her cell phone wasn’t working, her family and police have said.

“The press often just reports what the police say,” Dream Hampton said, during a rally outside Dearborn Heights police headquarters Nov. 7, which included many youth. “We’ll take up a collection for gas money if they need it to go to the scene of the crime. We need someone in handcuffs for shooting a 19-year-old with a shotgun. The killer was not a rape victim who had to have his identity protected. We know how we are criminalized. They even criminalized the corpse of Trayvon Martin.”