MICHIGANISTAN

DETROIT -- "Federal prosecutors in Detroit have seized about $12 million in cash they allege was part of a massive money-laundering operation, called “The Shadow Exchange,” operating between the U.S. and the United Arab Emirates."  --   

"A forfeiture complaint unsealed this week in federal court in Detroit alleges that some of the laundered money was used to buy armored vehicles for an illegal drug trafficking operation based in Michigan." --

MEANWHILE DOWN THE ROAD IN BUFFALO:

-- "In this nearly-unintelligible rant, millennial community organizer India Watson claims that policing was created mainly to be a successor to slave patrols." --

"She also believes that Italian Americans became police officers as the result of 'racial superiority' in the post-Civil War period; her ilk says Italian immigrants were willing to subjugate blacks if it led to a  'position of power' as police officers."  --