‘You’re Going to Lose Your Badge’: A Michigan City Kept an Abusive Cop on the Force Because He Made Them Rich — Until His Victims Finally Made Them Pay

‘You’re Going to Lose Your Badge’: A Michigan City Kept an Abusive Cop on the Force Because He Made Them Rich — Until His Victims Finally Made Them Pay

Justice has finally caught up to a Michigan cop with a long history of abusing Black people after a jury convicted him last month of tasering a Black man named Drakker Williams for more than 40 seconds after a traffic stop for driving around barricades in his neighborhood. But former Melvindale Police Lt. Matthew Furman was also acquitted in connection with a couple of other incidents, including the case of Alicia Cook, a Black mother who was fo…