Second Prominent Figure Gets Robbed in Detroit and Nearly Carjacked
In an event that highlights the present state of the Motor City, a Detroit lawmaker was robbed at gunpoint in the very neighborhood he serves.
Michigan State Representative Jimmy Womack (D-7th District) was held up Sunday evening upon leaving a convenience store in the west side of the city. When the three armed men, one of which Womack knew, demanded his car keys, he refused, and refused again to start his car.
Womack told the Detroit News “I said, ‘I’m not starting the car, and I’m not giving you the car,’” going on to acknowledge that this was not the best action to take. “Your life is worth more than anything material. That was stupid. I know that.”
Fortunately the congressman was not harmed, and the gunmen chose not to steal his car, taking the nearly $300 in Womack’s shirt pocket instead.
This is the second time in three months that one of Detroit’s more well-known citizens has been robbed. Pastor and gospel artist Marvin Winans was assaulted in May by four men at a gas station. They took his car, wallet, $200, and a diamond Rolex worth $15,000. Three of the perpetrators, 20-year-olds Montoya Givens and Christopher Moorehead, and Brian K. Young, 18, were caught and charged with carjacking, unarmed robbery, and conspiracy in June.
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I wanted to visit a local church in Detroit for the first time but because of the high crime rate there, I have decided to delay any trip at the moment. I am praying for the many law abiding citizens of this city who are subjected daily to the many negative situations they are confronted with by those who have no respect for the rights of others, this is a most unfortunate situation, thats only destroys their own city and culture, that they call home, this is senseless, any way you look at it.
I wanted to visit Detroit this summer too. After readin about the prominent People being heldup, who am I. The thugs have no respect for a man of the cloth or leadership. . So. Who do they fear? American. Jails are a resort.
At our church we had to hire security! Its a shame but that’s the day we are living in. But in addition to that you must be aware of your surroundings esspecially in dangerous neighborhoods! Many of the robberies are the victims fault! Common sense should speak when in certan gas stations or stores! Sadly many take dangerous chances! Sadly now anyone (seniors, ministers, public officials, our young ladies must beware!!
So it’s the victims fault that these low life thugs have nothing better to do than rob them??? Are you insane!?
Since he is a politician responsible for creating JOBS and making sure children (until they are 26 obamacare says) are provided for and protected, YES IT IS HIS FAULT, AND HE DESERVED WHAT HE GOT.
Maybe now, he’ll have sense enough to plead with his black president for help for black teenagers, and get to the root of who gave these boys GUNS. They have no money of their own to buy guns and no fields of their own to grow cocaine.
In Detroit, if somebody puts a gun to your head and takes your s**t,its their job. it what they do. Rob people. Both arguments have base.
Yea it takes a bad person to rob you. A desperate person. A hungry person who needs food and diapers or weed and beer, most likely all of the above.
A man a black man, in a nation of stupendous wealth that his people gave more blood for than any other race gets less than no return on this investment. That has been mis-educated, propagandized and labeled a problem without offering this “problem” any tangible solutions. The poor black behavior is predictable. Desperate people do desperate things. I wish I knew what was wrong with the black “haves”
The simplistic argument on poor black behavior Mr. Cosby and other self-righteous n****s is well, simplistic and self-serving to your feeble conscience… Can we dare take a more critical look? It would be awesome if we had a black president to address this, our american tragedy. Oh well, he will get to us after dealing with the moneychangers, gays, hispanics. *Sarcasm* I better take off my bedroom slippers,wait and shut up.
And worse of all our american black poor have to listen to their own black american people, as well as white americans call them lazy and good for nothing when there are NO jobs for them and everyone knows it.
My elderly cousin bragged about her church raising $70,000 to send to Haiti and ignores the suffering of children of black american single mothers in her own neighborhood – her own people. I told her, you all could have created hundreds of car washing and other summer jobs for black american youth with that money. When she got robbed a few months ago, she couldn’t figure out why???
Black boys r catching on that old negroes will not stand up for them, will not protect them, and when they kill more and more of them, they might get some help.
In this downtrodden society we live in, and
with the present state of economic despair, we
are all trying to make it and its tough for
everybody. That is no excuse to go out and
rob and carjack people. These lowlife thugs
need to get off of their lazy blunt smoking
no good a** and get a job! I don’t care if
its shoveling sh*t or cleaning toilets its
better than preying on decent hardworking
citizens. If more people would start packing
heat and laying these fools out, we’d see a
change in this current wave of crime!
When you idiots get robbed I hope someone says “oh well it was you’re own d**n fault!” LOL y’all are some sad fools!
Sasha? *crickets churping*
shut the f**k up a*****e!
What do you expect from a crack dealer.. Sasha.
You can’t fix ignorant.
All you can do Sasha is go and get your self a small fire arm/Quality training-a concealed weapons permit so your not violated by these leaches.
Pete… ptfff
You are an Idiot!
You sir are a part of the problem. To attempt to justify such horrible behavior only goes to show that you have issues also.
“Attempt to Justify.”
African American please. I’m attempting to explain this type of behavior. Read my previous post. My explanation is honest and vested cause I come from the lowest socioeconomic class.
‘Splain me ‘dis uncle tom. What would you do to feed your face if your wife/kids were hungry and your honest self-perception was that you were on your own, nobody cared if your lived, died or was imprisoned in this modern world? You couldn’t find a decent job or shelter or other accouterments. Starve? I wouldnt let mine starve.
I would die trying to feed them by any means.
I respect the personal responsibility argument but it is very simplistic and a small portion of the whole truth of our current COLLECTIVE malaise and dysfunction. Truth is, WE,even these hungry robbing n****s share pedigree with a truly great people. We survived the middle passages,slavery,state-sanctioned terrorism,apartheid and Jim Crow. The first man to die for this country’s freedom was black. We fought in every war as second class citizens and got nothing in return except a few of us finding our way. This is the problem. We worked and prayed and worked. And as Dr. King said when WE picked up our check, we couldn’t cash it. Insufficient Funds. So now I take what I want,using my modest formal education, common sense, cultivating good relationships and making my own way as a businessman. I digress.
It’s not the victim’s fault that some individuals choose to participate in robberies,carjacking, physical assaults, mayhem and other heinous crimes that continually victimized our neighborhoods and communities. Millions of people experience hardships throughout their lives without resorting to violence as a method to accure monies and properties. Hopefully these thugs will be captured and convicted to the fulliest extent of the law.
There will be more thugs to follow MillieG1
after “these thugs will be captured and convicted to the fulliest extent of the law” Any idea how to fix this? Let me guess, Keep locking ‘em up right?
Many black hoodlums, no matter what the reasons for being such, are angrier at middle class blacks Than they are at whites. Their low self esteem make them the most dangerous men on Earth.
No one is more dangerous than white men on earth.
They know who failed them. They know who doesn’t protect them. They know who abandoned them in the cradle. They know who doesn’t protect them from the mexican/caribbean drug cartels. They know who tells them WE are ONE black people, and they listen to the haters, the american haters, and embrace them, and wear their hair, and do their dirt for them. False black unity is why he’s shot. That’s the way they do it in the 3rd world. Don’t complain, if you made them welcome in your community and agree with your president they deserve citizenship, your job, your neighborhood, your money.
I too have the opportunity to visit Detroit very soon to conduct an interview for a genealogy project. Despite the crime reports, when the details are worked out I will go ahead with my plans. I refuse to be held captive and prevented from doing or going where or what I want to because of the actions of people who feed off of fear. That doesn’t mean I don’t use common sense or conduct myself appropriately in high risk situations. I just refuse to be anyone’s prisoner.
Second “prominent” official, deserves better treatment than others??? Ha ha ha Negroes are so ignorant it is pathetic. If they could they would bring slavery back, as long as the prominent niggahs could head it up. DANGEROUS! no black needs to be in politics in america, or anywhere it seems.
Slavery is making a comeback, that n****r Bill Clinton who was called the first Black president by Tony Morrison, and many black people agree whither sold us back into slavery. Take a look at the 13th Amendment, the word “dully” means debt. So any one who owes debt to any corporations here and abroad the America could be force to work to pay back the debt. A book to read, ” is the new Jim crow.” By Michelle Alexander. And you can do research on your birth certificate and social security card, which already put everybody in slavery , because we are the national debt. Bro. Polight. You-tube.
I am from Detroit, but currently living in Canada. I have some family there, but many of us left years ago, due to job relocation, marriage, etc. Detroit was still pretty nice when I left 20 years ago. Last time I was in Detroit was a couple years ago to attend my brother’s funeral, who died of a heart attack. The funeral was beautiful, the people who came out were loving and kind and it was a blessing seeing family and long time friends. Detroit is still filled with beautiful, loving people. It is very unfortunate and it saddens me to hear of these reports on Detroit’s crime . But, of course, there are no reports on all the love that abounds in the hearts of most of the people in the city. Please pray for Detroit and all people of all races in every country, for we all need a Savior and the favor of our Father in heaven above. Peace and Love…
One bad apple can spoil the whole bunch. One bad american policy that allows 3rd world satan worshipping immigrants and their drugs, 3rd world (we dont value life) mentality, their guns, and their mission to use fatherless black boys (throw away children), to carry out their mission, KNOWING THAT THE AVERAGE NEGRO MAN SEEKS TO ONLY CARE FOR AND PROTECT HIMSELF ALLOWS THEIR MURDEROUS RAMPAGE TO FLUORISH.
Every negro who speaks up for Letting the immigrants stay is getting exactly what he asked for. You can take a person out of the 3rd world, but you can’t take it out of him.
He’s lucky they’re not teaching our black boys to behead him with a rusty knife, like they do it in old mexico.
I was liking everything you was saying until I got near the end. My God has warned me about Oppresure, your duties to God is to till the land and to replenish the earth for future generations to come. Not to be slaves somewhere to pay off your debt and his debt. So pray for you and your family.
Ran – I love your comments. As a resident of Detroit, I do have plans to leave in the near future. I get my gas at a suburban station, and do not do any shopping in Detroit – not even my hair. I am fortunate to live on the border of adjacent suburbs, and can easily shop in Redford, Taylor, Livonia, Dearborn, and the downriver communities of Allen Park, Melvindale, and Lincoln Park. As a child, Detroit was a GRAND CITY..Now, It is the Dump! I don’t even go out at night any longer – not even my own back yard. Even the oppossums are City-CRAZED. They might ‘jack’ you too!
It all over the place all major city stroll around he net and see for yourselves not just Detroit stay out of the slums and depressed areas and you might be okay oh and by the way @Ran I am almost fifty and every black man that I’ve ever know to be murdered was killed by another black man now that is some danger for your a*s
Peace
Its called KARMA…these people need quit walking around flashing gucci and gold…its just sickening! Follow Jesus footsteps instead…
I bet this is the type of thing the black men of detroit are proud of and think makes them “REAL!!!
Iam just wondering what Marvin Winans doing with a 15 grand rolex watch? He makes me sick. He and the Winans are nothing but a bunch of no talented whiners who were given a sympathetic nod by blacks who had no other talent at the time to embrace. Bebe cannot sing, Cece can barely carry a tune, and Marvin needs to sit down somewhere. They are an entertainment family but make no mistake, its all about the money and the bling to them. Let them all get their share of what it feels like for the average american who are subject to this sort of violence daily because we cannot afford to hide behind wrought iron gates.
Critical Thinking must be used all the time not just in black neighborhood but also in white neighborhoods as well, I said it before if Trayvon Martin had not let his gaurd down and paid attention to what’s going on around him he probably would have been around today. We moved to white neighborhood and thinks it ok. But it not. These white folks made zimmerman their hero. So pay attention and stop getting distracted by i-phones and i-pads. Remember ” Critical Thinking.”
@LOLO….The Winans may make you sick, and you are entitled to your opinion, as I am to mine. These people have worked for what they have. I don’t know what music school YOU attended, or what DEGREE you have in music, but to say they cant sing, “sucks.” Besides that, BeBe and CeeCee have NOTHING to do with the fact that their brother got robbed..Stop belittling people you have no knowledge of. Granted, with the economy the way it is, I don’t know what would make Pastor Winans wear something like that in public, BUT, that was still his choice!!..AND nobody should have tried to relieve him of it. They have more dollars than you and I probably ever will, maybe YOU should start a music career, not being able to sing, and maybe you can reach their status!!!
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