Top Detroit official suspended with pay, apologizes for racial comments | Detroit Free Press | freep.com:"Detroit’s chief financial officer, under fire and the subject of an internal investigation over a racially tinged comment he made in a meeting with other city officials, issued an apology today.
Chief Financial Officer Jim Bonsall, in a statement issued through emergency manager Kevyn Orr’s office, expressed remorse for the comment in which he asked, apparently in jest, whether he’d be able to shoot anyone in a hoodie if he participated in the city’s annual Angels’ Night anti-arson patrols.
The remark was an apparent reference to the fatal shooting of unarmed Florida teen Trayvon Martin, who died after a confrontation with neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman."
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