I'm like "What? Did the whole manhunt bug because the bounty timer ran out and I didn't pick it up immediately?" So I went to online for answers. Most said "Just reset the manhunt and try do that target again" cool. So I do.
Just a few hours ago, there was a stream by devs in which they covered a new manhunt and incoming changes. There is a lot that is coming but I just want to touch this. A new manhunt will not have any target to kill or save but it will be an investigation where we are looking for clues to track and locate Kelso (or at least what happened to her). The main theme is trust. After the last manhunt, the question is whom we can trust? Is Kelso a hunter? A rogue agent? Still loyal to Division?
To coordinate the manhunt, authorities established a command post at a secretive facility in Norwalk. It was called the Joint Regional Intelligence Center, or JRIC, which occupied a nondescript office building and was meant for large multi-agency operations, including terror attacks.
In early February, Southern California was riveted by the vengeful rampage of a former LAPD officer, Christopher Dorner, and the massive manhunt police mounted across four of the nation's most populous counties. To reconstruct those events, The Times conducted more than 400 interviews over 10 months, and consulted thousands of pages of court documents, police and coroner reports, and military records. These stories were reported by Christopher Goffard, Joel Rubin, Louis Sahagun, Kurt Streeter and Phil Willon and written by Goffard. Also contributing were Joseph Serna, Kate Mather and Nicole Santa Cruz. The illustrations are by Doug Stevens.
The DPD launched a massive monthslong manhunt for the three fugitives, resulting in extraordinary abuses of the civil and constitutional rights of hundreds of Black citizens and the killing of an innocent man during one of many warrantless home invasions. Then, in late December, a white STRESS officer died in a second shootout with Bethune, Boyd, and Brown. DPD Commissioner John Nichols responded by labeling them "mad dog killers," and the manhunt escalated even further, with even worse police violence and illegality. Mark Bethune and John Boyd were eventually killed by police officers in Atlanta, while Hayward Brown was arrested in Detroit and tried for murder but acquitted. The manhunt generated the largest protest movement against STRESS to date (covered on the next page) and united every major civil rights organization in the city in a campaign for abolition of the unit. The DPD's extreme overreaction and mass criminalization of Black Detroit ultimately backfired, as the manhunt proved to be a key turning point that mobilized African American voters to defeat STRESS and the white-controlled DPD at the ballot box in the 1973 mayoral election.
On December 27, a second shootout between the manhunt suspects and white STRESS officers resulted in the death of Patrolman Robert Bradford and the critical wounding of Patrolman Robert Dooley. By then, the news media had widely reported that the DPD was operating under "kill on sight" orders, which would have made the fugitives even more determined not to surrender. The two officers were part of a STRESS team that was staking out a house believed to be connected to the suspects when they were fired upon by assailants who then fled. The officers fired back and probably wounded one of the men. At least one witness said a suspect fired point-blank at an injured officer, presumably Bradford, who was lying on the ground. The DPD publicly identified John Boyd and Hayward Brown as the shooters in the incident and also arrested Ivan Williams, a Wayne State University student, for harboring the fugitives in his house (a judge dismissed the charges). Later, the DPD said that all three of the suspects in the Dec. 4 shootout were present for the second encounter on Dec. 27.
"Mad Dog Killers." Commissioner Nichols labeled the African American fugitives "mad dog killers" and declared that the city of Detroit was "like a battle zone." The DPD assigned 50 Homicide Bureau detectives to the investigation and mobilized hundreds more officers in what it called the "most intensive" manhunt in the city's history. Nichols and Mayor Roman Gribbs also threatened severe punishment for any Detroit residents found to be harboring the suspects. The DPD launched a house-by-house search of the area on the West Side of Detroit where the incident occurred and then continued to expand its dragnet across African American neighborhoods in the city.
"Unconstitutional Police Action Challenged." The escalation of the manhunt produced a new round of police abuses and also generated a massive outcry from civil rights organizations and regular Black residents of Detroit. On January 4, a coalition including the NAACP, ACLU, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and Guardians of Michigan released a statement denouncing the Detroit Police Department for victimizing the Black community through its unconstitutional manhunt. The coalition demanded that the mayor and city council convene a public hearing to examine the complaints of citizens who had suffered illegal home invasions, wrongful arrest, physical and verbal abuse, and a mass stop-and-frisk crackdown in the streets. The statement concluded that the DPD's manhunt was a "dangerous precedent for the abolition of liberty" (gallery below, left).
The Michigan Chronicle, a relatively moderate publication, condemned the manhunt as the worst DPD abuse since the crash crackdown that victimized thousands of innocent Black citizens during 1960-1961. Reporter Bill Black filed a column accusing the police officers who were enraged by the murder of Patrolman Bradford of acting like "hard-core criminals," in short just like those they claimed to be fighting. He also wrote that while the manhunt fugitives should be brought to justice, the unjustified homicides committed by the STRESS operation were directly responsible for setting the current cycle of deadly violence into motion. Bill Black concluded:
The Guardians of Michigan, the association of Black police officers, issued yet another demand that STRESS, "this 'elite' unit of hoodlum policemen," be abolished (right). The Guardians further characterized the manhunt as a "reign of terror upon the honest citizens of the Black community," and its president Tom Moss warned that the DPD had unofficially but clearly communicated "kill on sight" orders to its officers. In response, the Guardians publicly appealed to the three fugitives to surrender to Black officers in order to be safe from reprisals by white members of the DPD.
City Council's Manhunt Hearing. Under pressure from African American members, the Detroit city council agreed to hold a Jan. 11 public hearing allowing citizens to testify about the DPD's manhunt abuses. Mayor Gribbs and Commissioner Nichols initially refused to attend but relented under threat of subpoena. Before the event, Gribbs issued a press statement (gallery below, second from right) promising that the DPD would investigate the charges made by Black citizens and discipline any officers who violated rules and procedures. But the main agenda of the mayor's statement was to defend the DPD and the need for "vigorous professional legal police efforts" in order to apprehend the dangerous cop-killers on the loose.
In preparation for the event, Commissioner Nichols provided the mayor with a confidential report on the manhunt (gallery, below right) emphasizing that it had nothing to do with race because white and Black police officers were equally outraged at the actions of the fugitives. Nichols also stated that DPD officers had engaged in proper behavior at all times, and that any armed entry into private homes without a warrant had taken place under the "probable cause" justification of hot pursuit (a very debatable claim).
Nichols opened by stating that he did not even need to justify the "lawful rights of a police officer" to enter a private home without a warrant under the probable cause doctrine. The commissioner then denied that the DPD was engaged in a racial "crackdown" and instead called the manhunt a targeted operation against three very dangerous individuals, including one [Bethune] also suspected in the murder of a Black man [an alleged drug dealer]. Nichols then demanded that the full community join with the police department to apprehend the murderers. In his prepared remarks, Nichols even blamed the home invasions made in error on false tips provided to the DPD by critics who wanted to "embarass the police [and] impede the investigation." And he concluded the statement by criticizing "our citizens," meaning Black citizens, for turning the "side issue of possible police misconduct" by a few officers, which the commissioner insisted was minimal if real at all, into wholesale "indictments of the entire Department." Commissioner Nichols never got to these final points at the hearing itself because the jeering crowd forced him off the stage before he could finish.
Black Citizens Push Back. Around 1,200 people attended the city council hearing, and many attacked Commissioner John Nichols and denounced the DPD, the manhunt, and the STRESS operation as part of a single reign of racist terror. A full transcript of the hearing exists in Mayor Roman Gribbs's papers, providing a remarkable document revealing the depth of anger and resentment toward the DPD, and the political mobilization that the police crackdown produced, among a broad cross-section of Black citizens of Detroit. The relatives and friends of the three fugitives received the first speaking slots, and they told harrowing stories of a violent and out-of-control police department on a mission of indiscriminate revenge without regard for the law or the constitution. Other members of the African American community joined in with a broad spectrum of grievances and demands for a radical transformation of the DPD and city politics more generally. The transcript must be read to be fully appreciated and is reproduced in its entirety in the gallery below, with only a few highlights emphasized here.
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