Who killed Strawberry. A Detroit story of dancer
Apr 19, 2021 21:56:30 GMT
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Post by hi224 on Apr 19, 2021 21:56:30 GMT
As background, Kwame Kilpatrick was a very popular mayor of Detroit, the “Hip Hop Mayor” as he was often called. Recently he was in the news when President Trump released him from federal prison on his most recent convictions, in response to calls from many pastors and Black politicians.
Tamara “Strawberry” Greene was an erotic dancer and sometime prostitute who was shot to death late one night in a car. The type of pistol used was the same model Glock issued to the mayor’s police detail. The mayor was locally famous for placing friends of his on that detail.
This paragraph is all rumor: There was a late night party at the mayoral mansion, and Strawberry was a dancer there. The mayor’s wife arrived back at the mansion to find Strawberry draped on the mayor, and attacked her, hurting Strawberry badly. Strawberry was taken to the ER of a city hospital.
What is known is several EMS and a cop were at the ER for other tasks, and they swore they saw her there and were told what happened. There is no other proof of this. The police incident number that would have been assigned is blank on the computer system, apparently unused, as is the number in the hospital computer system. (This is not uncommon in Detroit, the current mayor had steered non profit money to his mistress, and when the media tried to investigate he gave his staff his special computer access to wipe the records from city computers. Fortunately for him, the new Democrat state Attorney General determined this did not rise to the level of criminal activity)
After Strawberry was killed, the investigating officers followed up on the party rumor, the ER rumor, and the rumor the bodyguard detail was involved.
They were removed from the case and fired, along with others who repeated the rumors. It was later determined that the firing was at the insistence of the mayor and his Chief of Staff (COS). They had invented false reasons for the terminations. This was later proven in court because the two used city provided phones to text extensively about their plans.
However, there were a number of other reasons that are possible for the firings: The mayor and the COS were in a rather torrid affair. The mayor, the COS, and many of the mayor’s family were extremely corrupt, taking bribes, kickbacks, and embezzlement to the tune of tens of millions of dollars a year. In addition, the mayor was extremely angry at Whites and Blacks working together, in particular police. One of his state convictions was for attacking a B/W pair of police partners.
There was recently renewed interest in the case, in particular because many people believe the former mayor will run for his mother’s congressional seat.
defrostingcoldcases.com/documents-remain-under-seal-tamara-greene/
www.clickondetroit.com/news/2019/03/20/detroit-woman-tamara-greenes-murder-unsolved-after-more-than-15-years/
skepticalbrotha.wordpress.com/category/tamara-greene/
www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2019/02/07/tamara-greene-crimetown-podcast-detroit/2789295002/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwame_Kilpatrick
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilpatrick_and_Beatty_text-messaging_scandal
Tamara “Strawberry” Greene was an erotic dancer and sometime prostitute who was shot to death late one night in a car. The type of pistol used was the same model Glock issued to the mayor’s police detail. The mayor was locally famous for placing friends of his on that detail.
This paragraph is all rumor: There was a late night party at the mayoral mansion, and Strawberry was a dancer there. The mayor’s wife arrived back at the mansion to find Strawberry draped on the mayor, and attacked her, hurting Strawberry badly. Strawberry was taken to the ER of a city hospital.
What is known is several EMS and a cop were at the ER for other tasks, and they swore they saw her there and were told what happened. There is no other proof of this. The police incident number that would have been assigned is blank on the computer system, apparently unused, as is the number in the hospital computer system. (This is not uncommon in Detroit, the current mayor had steered non profit money to his mistress, and when the media tried to investigate he gave his staff his special computer access to wipe the records from city computers. Fortunately for him, the new Democrat state Attorney General determined this did not rise to the level of criminal activity)
After Strawberry was killed, the investigating officers followed up on the party rumor, the ER rumor, and the rumor the bodyguard detail was involved.
They were removed from the case and fired, along with others who repeated the rumors. It was later determined that the firing was at the insistence of the mayor and his Chief of Staff (COS). They had invented false reasons for the terminations. This was later proven in court because the two used city provided phones to text extensively about their plans.
However, there were a number of other reasons that are possible for the firings: The mayor and the COS were in a rather torrid affair. The mayor, the COS, and many of the mayor’s family were extremely corrupt, taking bribes, kickbacks, and embezzlement to the tune of tens of millions of dollars a year. In addition, the mayor was extremely angry at Whites and Blacks working together, in particular police. One of his state convictions was for attacking a B/W pair of police partners.
There was recently renewed interest in the case, in particular because many people believe the former mayor will run for his mother’s congressional seat.
defrostingcoldcases.com/documents-remain-under-seal-tamara-greene/
www.clickondetroit.com/news/2019/03/20/detroit-woman-tamara-greenes-murder-unsolved-after-more-than-15-years/
skepticalbrotha.wordpress.com/category/tamara-greene/
www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2019/02/07/tamara-greene-crimetown-podcast-detroit/2789295002/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwame_Kilpatrick
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilpatrick_and_Beatty_text-messaging_scandal