Detroit activists and officials call out police misconduct

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Oct 20, 2026
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Two news conferences today calling for greater accountability
and transparency from Detroit
police. At both events, a call to fire members
of the city's police department, including
the chief himself. Fox News' Ingrid Kelly is live
in Detroit with the details of this one. Ingrid.
Well, hey, Rup, you know, a group of activists,
they're calling on Detroit's top cop
to do just that, step down. Take a look at this video.
Detroit activist Dante Smith says his
cell phone was confiscated in front
of his son by Detroit police after he posted pictures on
social media of Mayor Shedfield and a former romantic partner,
Marvin Walker, who has an
alleged criminal past. Now, the police chief says
the cell phone was confiscated because of a citizen
complaint against the activist.
But as the Office of Inspector General investigates DPD's actions,
these activists say it's time for the chief
to resign literally have his officers shake myself
and my seven-year-old down it is unimaginable similar
to Trump raiding Ilhan Omar's house
is the same thing as my phone being taken
in a month worth of my data being taken we call for
the removal and the firing of Todd Bedison immediately
because he breached he he disobeyed
orders no one told him i don't care who did
no one told him to do this back out here live you
know these activists they're
also calling for transparency from the mayor's office regarding
alleged contracts that Marvin Walker received basically
because of his alleged ties to
Shedfield take a listen let's revert the attention back
to Marvin Walker let's go back to Marvin
Walker and Brian McKinney of Guyanga Construction.
There has been illegal activities that warrants
an ethics investigation, as it is the Office of Inspector General.
We're calling for an
independent investigation.
As this goes through the FBI, we're calling for an investigation
into what happened with Giudante,
which they're already investigating Todd Bedison right
now.
Okay, back out here live. You know what?
I actually reached out to the mayor's office
and they say they don't comment on pending litigation
and will speak through its own filing with the court.
Now, coming up at 6, if you take a look behind me,
there's another activist group.
They're actually calling for the termination of a DPD officer.
We'll have more on that coming up at 6.
Back to you.
