How ‘Gardening While Black’ Almost Landed This Detroit Man in Jail

Why did the three women not get arrested for filing false police reports? Especially for falsely claiming that the man had a gun. There have been many, many reports of what happens when the police arrive on scene thinking there's an armed person for these women to not know what could happen. Also, accusing someone of being a pedophile and participating in drive by shootings?

As Detroit neighborhoods start gentrifying these are some of the sorts of problems that are happening.

Is anyone curious why he used a park for his garden? A large number of Detroit parks have been quasi-abandoned by the city. That's so their limited funds can be used to maintain parks that are actually being used.

The Detroit Pistons after moving downtown have agreed to redo most of the city's basketball courts.

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This seems like exactly the kind of scenario where there would be some evidence. If this guy really had been so menacing for so long wouldn't one of these people taken out a phone to record the threats?

> with the colors red, black and green.

These are the colours of the flags of Kenya, Malawi and South Sudan. I don't know which preceded which but the Rastafarian flag colours (gold, green and red) seem more common.

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Not related to the article. But I cannot believe this actually exists.