➡ The new female mayor of Detroit, Mary Sheffield, is facing criticism due to the city’s issues with teen takeovers, which are causing chaos and safety concerns. Residents are calling for changes to the curfew laws, suggesting that teens should be off the streets much earlier. Sheffield is focusing on parental responsibility, issuing tickets to parents whose teens violate curfew. However, some residents believe an earlier curfew is a better solution.
➡ The city is experiencing growth with new establishments like Huntington bank headquarters, Fox Theater, and Little Caesars arena. However, there are concerns about safety due to incidents of violence, particularly involving teenagers. The city’s response includes proposals to open more recreational centers and increase police patrols. Despite these issues, there’s still a lot of development happening, with new retailers opening and a rise in population, indicating that people are moving downtown.
➡ This text discusses the need for stricter control and safety measures in Detroit to protect the city’s prosperity and maintain a luxurious lifestyle for its residents. It emphasizes the importance of preventing violence and chaos, especially in areas where people are willing to invest significant amounts of money. The text suggests that the city should adopt more aggressive approaches similar to those used in affluent suburbs, such as enforcing curfews for minors. It also criticizes the city’s current efforts to engage teens, arguing that they are not effective in preventing disruptive behavior.
➡ The speaker expresses their personal disinterest in attending the “Occupy the Summer” event, despite its offerings like extended hours at city recreation centers and weekly neighborhood activities. They emphasize the importance of remembering one’s identity when finding solutions.

I personally have refrained. Refrained. And y’ all know why I refrain? I have refrained from having a conversation about certain people in Detroit, specifically Mary Sheffield. Mary Sheffield is the new female mayor of Detroit, and she is now starting to get her first taste of extra visibility. Very nice looking lady, by the way. And of course, you know, people have been sending stuff about her to me for quite some time now since she’s decided that she wanted to run for mayor of Detroit. Obviously she won mayor of Detroit. But I neglected to have those conversations because the one thing that I’m trying to do going forward is have conversations in truth.

Right? So if there is no proof, regardless of whether I agree or disagree, and let me also be fair and say that my goal is to ultimately allow for people to do the job before criticizing and or having an opinion about a job, especially for a city that I know and love like Detroit. My goal is to allow for people to do the job first and then have the conversation of whether or not I think that the job that they’re doing is good enough. All right? But Mary Sheffield, again, who is the new female mayor of Detroit, let me throw at the bottom.

Hold on, give me a second. Give me a second. Give me a second. Because at some point, we have to start having an uncomfortable conversation. If I don’t have an uncomfortable conversation, and people gonna start saying, anton, you biased because it’s Detroit. Anton, you biased because it’s Detroit. Of course I’m biased because it’s Detroit. It’s my home city. I love this city. I live here. I live, work and play in the city. You know what I’m saying? So of course I’m going to be biased towards the city, even if I don’t necessarily care for women in leadership and leadership positions like mayors, governors, all of that type of stuff.

We see what’s happening over in California. But again, it is very unfair. This is what she looks like. Very pretty girl. It would be very much unfair of me to criticize or to have a conversation in criticism based off of something that somebody hasn’t even performed yet. I have to really, really be objective. I’m trying to be objective. I gave Biden credit yesterday for the CHIPS Act. So we’re getting there. We’re working on it, and we’re getting there. All right? But there’s a couple different issues that are really bothering the people, and she’s starting to get a lot of negative press as a result of it.

Right, right. And one of the things that she’s getting negative press over Is these teen takeovers that are happening in the city and people are uncomfortable with it. Make sure you guys hit a like for the algorithm. Subscribe to the channel and turn on your notifications. Is growing in Detroit over these teen takeovers that keep happening on weekends. Downtown residents say the large crowds are creating chaos and some are calling for changes to the curfew laws. Gino Beachy joins us from downtown with more on what they want and the city’s willingness to, to move up that curfew.

Currently for 16 and 17 year olds in the city of Detroit, they have to be off the streets by 11pm but in other major cities like Philadelphia, Chicago, Los Angeles, Curfew for under 18 is 10pm that’s an hour earlier. Some residents I spoke with say it needs to be much earlier than even that. Question is, is changing the curfew something the city of Detroit would consider? Well, tonight we’re getting answers and it’s ridiculous. I actually think that there, the curfew for them should be like 4 o’, clock, 10 o’, clock easy. I can see maybe 9pm These residents say they are fed up with these teen takeovers downtown.

Like Lauren Walker, who says this has been a major safety issue for her and her husband who live right downtown. And the people who live downtown, we’re just in fear of like being mugged, shot, robbed. They like trying to turn over our cars. Like the curfew should be 4 o’. Clock. I, I just feel like that. Walker says curfew needs to be way earlier if they’re not with their parents because she says clearly these teens can’t control themselves. It’s very frustrating. I have a little tiny dog. I can’t even take my dog into the park when they’re down there because they’re running all up on you and it’s just, it’s just traumatizing.

Brock Little says he was riding his bike downtown over the weekend and says what he saw made him want to leave immediately. And I just see this loud ooh. And I looked in a certain direction and I see about 100 teens just walking down the sidewalk. Brock says the curfew should be 9pm for under 18 and believes it’s not a reasonable solution for police to babysit this many teens. The parents need to watch over the kids instead of the police doing it in other major cities. Curfew is roughly an hour earlier. We caught up to Detroit Mayor Mary Sheffield to ask about potentially making changes to the city’s curfew.

Would the city consider changing the curfew from earlier times. So what we’re really looking at right now is parental responsibility. Over the last two takeovers, the city has issued well over 50 parental responsibility tickets. And less than half of the parents have actually showed up to court. So we’re looking at different ways to further enhance and really push parental responsibility. And that is what we’re working with the chief and the courts on right now. Some residents agree this is the answer. Writing tickets to parents whose teen violates curfew. I think that’s the biggest thing is enforcement.

While others believe an earlier curfew may be the better solution. Yes, I think that is the best Solution. So like 4 o’, clock, you shouldn’t be downtown at all after 4 o’, clock, especially if you’re not with a parent in Detroit. Getting now, to be fair. All right, to be fair, let me, let me say a couple different things, all right? This is becoming a problem and the mayor has proposed some very interesting solutions. All right? One of the things that she’s proposed is doing activities that allow for teens to do other more fruitful things such as going to play basketball or tag or all of this stuff.

And let me tell you why I think that this is wrong. All right? Detroit. Detroit police are vowing to step up patrols following the shooting of a teenager downtown during a so called teen takeover. Detroit Police Chief Todd Bettison tells 7 inch Detroit this shooting happened around 9:40 last night on Library street near Grand River. Two large groups of teens came together and a fight broke out. This is a problem. Let me tell you why this is a problem. Library street near grand river. Okay? What you’re looking at on this map is creme de la creme, prime real estate.

When I say creme de la creme, there is no more important square block than Grand River Library Street. Woodward. All right, let me show you. And again I’m trying to be as objective as possible. All right? This is Library Street. Well, no, I’m sorry, this is not Library Street. Let me go down the street. All right, so if you go down this street right here. What am I doing? Where did I just go? Here we go. Went the opposite way. All right? This is Library street and grand river right here. This is where the shooting happened.

This is where Gucci has recently opened up his head Gucci store. You see me shopping there a lot of times. Also right here, this is where GM’s new headquarters is. So if you’re looking at this building right here and you see this construction, obviously this Google street view is from September 2023. Now you have a massive high rise. That’s Campus Marshes. You also have right here, if you look over here, this right here is now that huge building that I just went and visited where they have the Edison Hotel and then they selling multi million dollar condos.

If you go up the street right here, again, this is three years ago. This is Woodward. And again this is what the high rise looks like. You can see it’s a more recent video. And you can see where they built this new creme de la creme location. This is where the Shinola Hotel is. Apple store is right there. You can see where the Apple store is now open. That’s open right there. And so it’s a lot happening right here. So a whole lot happened in my offices and my studios is right up the street. If you go a little bit further, right, this is where Fort Field is right over there.

The Opera house is over there. I’ll show you a little bit better of a view. So this is where Comerica park is right here. You can actually see Fort Field is literally right across the street. And then you turn around and you got the new Little Caesars headquarters, where they just built the new headquarters right here you have the Fillmore Union. This is where Eminem’s mom’s spaghetti is right there. You also have a new Huntington bank headquarters right here, right. And if you go down the street a little bit more, you can see the Fox Theater.

Hockey Town USA is right there. Hockey Town. And then you got Little Caesars arena right across the freeway in which they’re going to remove this freeway right here and make this complete green space. All right, again, this is where the queue line comes in. You can get picked up right there. All of that stuff. So why am I showing you all of this? Why is this important? Why is this important for me to show you what the progress is inside of the city? Because if you go back to Library street and if a bunch of teens is taken over again, that’s what the skyline is starting to look like over there.

This is Gillies. We go to that restaurant a couple different times and again it’s changed significant. That’s the We Work building where you got Lululemon. Lululemon recently opened up. H and M recently opened up over there. This is where the Lululemon is and it’s a lot happening. It’s a whole lot happening in the city. Right? But let’s go back. If you going down this street and this is where the shooting happens, right? If the Gucci store is Saying that, okay, we’re going to start closing early or we’re not going to be able to recruit retailers or the city has had a third straight year in population growth and a lot of people are starting to move downtown.

If you’re, if you’re going to start having a lot of, a lot of people moving in, into, into the city, they have to make it safe. They can’t have the same ghetto stuff that was happening before the last mayor, Mike Duggan was in office. They can’t have that. They can’t have it. You, you see what I’m saying now? So she is proposing that we open up more rec centers and all of this other type of stuff. But let me be honest with you. I’m going to be absolutely transparent and honest with you right now. The people that are downtown, these teens that are going downtown, and again, I don’t know if it’s just a complete disconnect or what, but the people that, these teens that are doing these takeovers downtown, that are doing this.

And that’s when somebody fired multiple shots. The 14 year old was shot in the chest but is expected to physically recover. 7News Detroit reporter Ryan Marshall is joining us live from downtown Detroit. Ryan, Summer is not even here yet. We’re already seeing large groups of teens gathering downtown. What is the chief saying that his department is going to do to crack down on these teens and keep them from becoming unruly? Well, Keen, Alicia, Chief Todd Medicine says that he is trying to and wants to increase patrols in light of the recent violence that’s happened here in downtown Detroit.

He says that he wants to continue to make sure these city streets remain safe headed into the summer season. Now, Detroit police responded to shots fired just before 10pm last night. It all happened at the corner where now imagine, imagine you are a person that is enjoying the night out of the town. You got your girl there. You may be dressed up. You might be going to the Detroit Opera House. You may be going to a concert, a Lions game, a Tigers game. You might have been going to the Pistons. You might have been doing any of these things, right? And all you see is this Pooh shiesty masks, Nike people there running around, a shooting is happening, all of this stuff.

And it is the very thing that we’ve been trying to get away from for the last 40 years since I’ve been born. You’re downtown. And now all of a sudden police has to be allocating resources to, to babysit, to try to prevent people from doing the things that they supposed to Do. And you see this coming down the street area and Farmer streets intersect with East Grand River Avenue. That intersection is between Woodward and Crash It Avenue. The Detroit. And I want to show y’ all something, too. If you look at Library and Farmer streets intersect with East Grand Avenue.

If you look at the banners, you can see that the Detroit Grand Prix, which is a huge event racing, they close off all of the different streets, and they run the Grand Prix all through downtown, all the way up and down Jefferson and all of that. They’re prepping for the Grand Prix right now. And this is what you now have. Teen takeovers and shootings. This is the queue line. The. The rail system going up and down is free. I catch the queue line down here to the studio sometimes. I catch the people mover, and I catch the queue line.

You got all of this progress. Tim Cook was just there opening up the new Apple Store. Everything is popping. Things is going well. New retailers, they recruiting people. They trying to charge me. I looked at a unit, Literally just Monday. They gave me this nice bag, right? This nice. The edition band. I meant to bring this in yesterday, but I’m bringing it in today, and I don’t even know what’s in it. I just go on a tour, Try not to give too much information of people’s information, information and stuff, Where they give me the whole layout of what the unit is gonna be and all of this stuff, right? And so they trying to sell me on a unit.

Nice and beautiful. Good booklets, pamphlets, right? Gave me this nice book. I haven’t even opened it yet. Just literally just looked in the bag. I’m giving y’ all the context. All right? Very nice. Nice materials. This is what the building looks like that they want you to move in. This is GM right here. GM’s headquarters. This is Campus Marshes right here. Hotel, right? The hotel is up to this point. This is up to the hotel part. And then up above that is all residences. All right, Very nice. Very, very nice. This is what the skyline looks like from the hotel.

That’s Canada. You can see Canada over here. That’s the Ambassador Bridge. Canada is across the. This is what the inside of it looks like. No, Cap. This is what the inside looks like of these places. Obviously, it was staged, right? I mean, it was sick. The rooftop looked like this. All right, this is another view that they showed me. This is. This is what the bathrooms look like. All right, that was the bathrooms. This is what another unit looked like from the inside. This is another view of it. All right, so as I’M going in and I’m taking these tours.

This is another view from the kitchen. This is the unit that they showed me. So it’s dope. It’s all built ins. It’s beautiful, it’s gorgeous. 10 foot ceilings. This is what the pool area looks like inside of it. For the residences you get two different pool areas, steam rooms, all kind of nonsense, right? They, they thoughtfully and skillfully placed. This is one of the units with the fireplaces and all of that. So it’s laid out. I mean it’s laid the hell out. Now they trying to charge me $1.72 million for a unit. Now I can’t justifiably sit there.

It’s people that have bought out whole floors. They said the who’s who, creme de la clem. If you are anybody that got motion in Detroit and you got money, somebody said how much is the rent? It’s not rent, it’s units. You’re buying it, you’re buying it. It’s not, it’s not rent, you’re buying the units. Right? So it’s ownership and you pay a HOA fee in order to maintain the building or whatever. I went in. This is what the inside of it looks like of the, of the gallery. These are all of the places that are open and in development.

Other resident the only ones that are already open as far as these Marriott brand hotels and versions open residences are in Miami Beach, West Hollywood and Tampa. In development they got Miami Edgewater in Detroit. So they’re picking Detroit to be the next place where they’re open up a residences and they’re also going to be opening up in Singapore, Barcelona, Shanghai, Abu Dhabi, Times Square, Tokyo, Dubai, Madrid, Rome, Singapore, the Riviera, Maya, Nashville and Shangfang park in Shanghai. These are all of the places that they’re going to be opening up. And so they pick Detroit as one of the flagship cities that they’re opening up a residences hotel along with units that you can buy at the top.

96 units that you can buy at the top. Now the reason again that I’m telling you this is because if you’re charging me anywhere from starting at 6, $700,000 all the way up to 3, 4, 5 million dollars for units, for floors, for all of this stuff. And the, and the, the HOA fees is going to be a little more than $2 per square foot. So whatever unit that you buy, you’re going to also be paying, you know, HOA fees. This is not for regular people. This is going to be for people who want status, who want a certain lifestyle, who’s looking for a certain luxury, who want certain concierges.

If you go right around the block and they’re shooting and we can’t get control of a team takeover, that’s problematic is what I’m saying. Do you understand what I’m saying? This is not just a black or white conversation. This is a commerce conversation. This is a conversation about, are you messing up the money? When the money start becoming messed up and involved, and if people start saying, you know what, hold on for a second. We see the renaissance, we see the opportunities coming in, we see where this thing is going. It’s going to be really a big deal, so on and so forth.

We can’t have a hunted people running around, tearing up, shooting, getting shot. This ain’t Chicago. This ain’t even the old Detroit. This is a new Detroit. This ain’t that. You can’t have that type of movement. You can’t have that type of ghettoness. This ain’t that. You can’t buy a unit for four or five million dollars, pay anywhere upwards of, of four or five thousand, all the way up to 10, 12, 13, 14, $15,000 a month in HOA fees and have people shooting each other around the block. That can’t happen. It cannot happen. And so when we having these conversations, right? When we’re having these conversations, because this is not for people that are looking for a home.

If you want to go buy a home, you could just buy a home. If you want a certain type of luxury lifestyle and you’re willing to spend for it, that’s what we talking about. You can’t have that type of foolishness going on in these areas and around the city. I hate to say it, I hate to break it down from that lens. It just is what it is. So. And I ain’t even just talking. That’s just that area that is one of the most prosperous zip codes in the city. When you talk about average income, a lot of people don’t know this.

You can’t have that. You can’t have it. You can’t have people willing to buy and spend a ton of money paying, paying property taxes and think that that’s gonna fly. It can’t happen, bro. It cannot happen. Got athletes, got pistons, got business people, the who’s who in these places. You can’t have that type of foolishness. And so she’s going to, in my, in my humble opinion, she’s going to have to take a much more harsh stance and Approach because the people that are down there doing this with the Pooh Shicy mask, they not looking to go play basketball at the recreation center.

That’s the disconnect. They don’t have parents that’s going to show up to the finding of it. They’re not going to be looking to do the right thing and be held accountable. They’re not going to go to tag and and laser tag at night. That’s not what they doing. They’re not hanging out in church. It’s not because of a lack of things to do. It’s because they’re going down there to cause chaos. If you look at the flyers, you, you’re not taking a proactive approach and looking at the flyers and looking at what’s going on on social media.

If you don’t have a social media task force to monitor where people are going to be and stop it before it even start, that’s a problem. If we’re throwing millions of dollars of resources into these waste of time activities that nobody is going to show up to because they trying to be in the in with motion then that’s going to be a bigger problem. And so my advice to the mayor of Detroit starting off is you have to take a much more aggressive approach to protecting the money. You got to take a more aggressive approach. Can’t have them in there tearing up intersection is between Woodward and Crash it Avenue just blocks away from Grand Circus park in downtown Detroit.

Now DPD says a 14 year old boy was shot in the chest chest. However he’s currently in stable condition recovering. See how beautiful that is. She was old boy was shot in. See all of this people walking around having a good time. Texas day Brazil right there you see the Q line picking people up and transforming them, transporting them. Public transportation getting back and forth. We’re moving. Everything is going be. We gotta get this, we got to get this under the chest. However, he’s currently in stable condition recovering at a local area hospital. Two juveniles hotel.

You see the Greek town Hollywood Casino Hotel in the distance. Those ages 16 and 17 were taken into custody. Police also say they’ve recovered the gun they believed was used in the shooting. We can’t have it. Look at this. What are we doing? This is literally right across the street from the Edison Hotel that they’re building. You can’t have this. I don’t care what you say, I don’t care how you feel, I don’t care how black culture, all of this other type of stuff, you cannot have this right here over there. You can’t do it, bro, because people that have the money and yes, I have the money and have the resources is not going to want to be bothered with this foolishness.

They’re not going to be bothered with. They don’t want to see you twerking on the Currents clock. Why can’t we have something nice? Last night there were hundreds of teens in downtown Detroit as part of that teen takeover you were mentioning. Police believe the shooting stems from a fight that broke out. Detroit Police Chief Todd Bettison says they’re stepping up patrols in light of the recent teen takeovers. We in the downtown area, it was over 60 juveniles that we did detain. And so we’re going to continue that. We’re going to hold parents accountable as well. And we will be increasing our enforcement efforts in an effort to keep everyone safe in the city of Detroit.

Now Chief Bison says that people, kids, juveniles, 15 years and under, that curfew is going to be 10 a 10pm juvenile, 16 and 17. That curfew extends to 11pm and they will be out in full force in. Nope, it has to start at 6 7pm and if you are not with somebody that is over the age of 18, just the same way that they did it in Novi, the same way they do it in Birmingham, the same way that they do it in Royal Oak, the same way that they do it in all of the metro Detroit suburb suburbs where they have a significant amount of resources, they shut it down.

If you are under the age of 18 and you are not with an adult and you are down there loitering or you down there with a big group, they break that junk up immediately. They start detaining people and they tell your parents to come and pick you up because you breaking curfew in a certain area, they don’t play that in the suburbs. They don’t play that in these other areas where it’s a lot of money and a lot of resources, they shut it down immediately. Why can’t we do the same thing? Why can’t we take from what works in other areas and implement it? Forcing those curfews? They want to make sure that people know to stay inside whenever that curfew comes so that that way people can be safe here in downtown Detroit.

Live, I’m Ryan Marshall, 47 News Detroit this morning. Guys, thank you so much, Ryan. Now Detroit police were also out Saturday night as well in an effort to crack down on these teen takeovers. Detroit police say they caught 100 few violators, 60 downtown and 49 in Palmer Park, 80 of those teens were from Detroit. 29 were from surrounding suburbs. Officers also issued 15 parental responsibility site citations last night. Now, the start of summer is still weeks away, but it is a good time to remind you that Detroit Mayor Mary Sheffield and her Occupy the Summer program will be out to give young people ways to stay occupied when school is not in session.

I think it’d be good. It’s going to keep the kids, you know, off the streets in Trump because, you know, they have to have something to do. If they don’t have nothing to do, they gonna find something to do. Not only are we reducing gun violence in the city of Detroit, but we’re investing resources and opportunity and hope into young people to give them the wraparound services that they need to improve their quality of life. Man, you think that these teens is about to be in here with you? I’m keeping it 100 with y’. All. Y’ all think that they bout to be out there with the uniforms on inside of the basketball court during the Occupy the Summer.

I’m trying to tell you that that’s not. Listen, it sounds good. I understand what they saying, but you got to remember, what did you want to do when you was a kid, when you was a teen, when you was in high school, when you was out here? Do you. Was you going to the Occupy the Summer wraparound? She does. She’s a very nice looking woman. Was you going to the Occupy? We got to remember, y’, all, for whatever reason, we come up with these solutions that don’t work because we forget who we are. That’s not what we was trying to do.

So we gotta solve for it. It ain’t got nothing to do with no argu, man. My parents couldn’t make me go to no Occupy the Summer. I’m keeping you a hundred. I’m keeping it a hundred. Ain’t no way in the world that I was gonna be at any of these places doing whatever it is that they think that they gonna be doing. 1000. Occupy the Summer will include extended hours at some recreation centers across the city. Weekly Friday activations in neighborhoods in each. So anyways,
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