[1:27] Definitely need to g today.
[1:31] All right. Thank you all for your
[1:33] patience.
[1:35] call to order this regular scheduled
[1:36] meeting of the 31st 35th Dearborn City
[1:39] Council for August 18th, 2026 at 7 PM.
[1:43] Just a kind reminder to everyone in
[1:44] attendance, please silence your cell
[1:46] phones, communication devices as to not
[1:48] disturb the meeting. Mr. Clerk, can we
[1:50] have the role?
[1:51] >> Yes. Council member O'Reilly
[1:53] >> here.
[1:53] >> Council member Enos.
[1:55] >> Council member Paris
[1:56] >> here.
[1:56] >> Council member Abraham
[1:57] >> here.
[1:58] >> Council member Hammud here.
[1:59] >> Council member Alafi.
[2:01] >> Council President Sereni
[2:02] >> here. We have a quorum. All right. Thank
[2:04] you, Mr. clerk. At this time, I'd like
[2:06] to turn the meeting over to Councilman
[2:08] Robert A.
[2:09] >> Thank you, Council President Serini.
[2:11] Ladies and gentlemen, special guests and
[2:13] visitors, welcome to Dearborn. Before we
[2:16] start our regular city council meeting,
[2:19] I want you to know that I've served this
[2:21] community for almost 25 years in this
[2:24] capacity. And at every single council
[2:26] meeting, it has been a tradition of the
[2:29] Dearborn City Council and the
[2:31] administration
[2:32] to begin in prayer and recite the pledge
[2:35] of allegiance of the United States of
[2:37] America.
[2:38] This is us. This is who we are. This is
[2:42] the city of Dearbornne and this is the
[2:44] United States of America.
[2:47] Now, it is my honor to introduce Pastor
[2:49] Jerry Reno from Grace Presbyterian
[2:53] Church. deliver the invocation tonight.
[2:57] I will also, as I've done many times
[3:00] before, I will ask all who are able to
[3:03] please stand for tonight's invocation
[3:06] and remain standing for the pledge of
[3:08] allegiance of our great country.
[3:11] >> Well, thank you council. It's an honor
[3:13] to be here again. My name is Jerry
[3:15] Riando and I serve as pastor of Grace
[3:17] Presbyterian Church in Dearborn. Thank
[3:20] you so much for having me. Let's pray.
[3:23] Almighty God, thank you for the members
[3:25] of the city council before me. I thank
[3:28] you for the fact that you have raised
[3:30] them up to lead this city to sacrifice
[3:33] for this city and to love the city. God,
[3:37] we thank you for each member of this
[3:38] council and I would pray that you would
[3:41] bring blessing to them in their
[3:42] individual lives. I pray that you would
[3:45] bless their families and give them
[3:47] health and protection. We know that most
[3:50] of them work outside of these council
[3:52] chambers. And so I pray that you would
[3:54] bless the work of their hands and make
[3:56] their labor fruitful.
[3:58] The most important prayer that I can
[4:01] pray for them this evening is this. I
[4:03] pray that you would draw each of them
[4:05] closer and closer to yourself and that
[4:08] they would come to know you more and understand your immeasurable
[4:13] love that you offer both tonight and all
[4:16] the days of their lives.
[4:18] Lord, we know that there is a great deal
[4:21] of work before council this even some of
[4:23] it is complex. Some of it is tedious.
[4:27] Some of it is emotionally charged. Most
[4:30] of it affects the lives of thousands of
[4:31] people. On some matters there is
[4:34] unonyimity.
[4:36] On others disagreement. And so my prayer
[4:39] this evening for this council is that
[4:41] you would grant them wisdom. In James
[4:44] chapter 1, you give us an astounding
[4:46] promise that when we lack wisdom, we We
[4:48] ask you and you give generously. And so
[4:51] we do that just now. Please God, grant
[4:53] these men wisdom. Grant them patience
[4:56] and understanding and forbearance.
[4:59] Grant these things so that they can
[5:01] effectively do what you have called them
[5:03] to do, which is to lead and love the
[5:05] city. God, we know we can ask these
[5:08] things of you because no matter how much
[5:09] we love the city, and we do, we know
[5:12] that you love the city and her people
[5:14] even more. We desire her well.
[5:18] Father, we pray all these things in
[5:20] Christ's holy name. Amen.
[5:28] » United States of America
[5:37] for all.
[5:42] » Thank you, pastor.
[5:46] All right, Mr. Clerk, can we have the
[5:48] first item of business?
[5:50] >> Uh, item number four is a resolution by
[5:52] Council President Sereni, supported
[5:54] unanimously offering condolences to
[5:57] family of Ronnie L. Chandler and
[5:59] requesting immediate effect.
[6:00] >> Thank you, Mr. Clerk. We are deeply
[6:02] saddened by the past passing of Ronnie
[6:05] Chandler, a resident of Dearborn,
[6:07] Michigan, who was born on July 16th,
[6:08] 1944, and passed away on July 28th of
[6:12] this year at the age of 82 years old.
[6:14] Ron leaves behind his beloved wife
[6:15] Sandy, his children Amanda, Bridget,
[6:18] Katie, and Megan, his grandchildren, and
[6:20] many family members and friends who will
[6:23] ever forever cherish his memory. After
[6:26] attending Fortune High School, Ron's
[6:27] love for baseball led him to pursue a
[6:29] professional career as a pitcher from
[6:31] 1963 to 1970. Played in the minor
[6:34] leagues for several teams, uh,
[6:36] dedicating himself to a sport that he
[6:38] loved. Following his baseball career,
[6:41] uh, Ron uh, briefly worked in the
[6:43] drywall industry before returning to
[6:45] school in 1976 where he went on to earn
[6:47] his bachelor's degree from the Wayne
[6:49] State University. After graduating, Ron
[6:51] built a successful career as a financial
[6:53] adviser for Sigma Financial. He was a
[6:56] dedicated to helping others plan for
[6:57] their futures and was respected by his
[7:00] colleagues and clients for his
[7:01] integrity, wisdom, genuine commitment to
[7:04] helping others succeed. Above all, Ron
[7:07] cherished his family. He and he shared
[7:09] an extraordinary marriage with his
[7:11] beloved wife Sandy, a testament to a
[7:13] lifetime of love, devotion, and an
[7:15] unwavering commitment to family. Ron
[7:18] also had a gift of of finding joy in the
[7:21] simple pleasure such as a fresh cup of
[7:22] coffee, a good meal with his loved ones,
[7:25] and of course, watching a baseball game
[7:26] and enjoying his nearby golf game. Uh
[7:29] Ronnie Chandler uh will be remembered as
[7:31] a man who who found happiness in every
[7:34] moment in everyday moments and took
[7:36] great pleasure in sharing those moments
[7:38] with people that he cared about. His
[7:40] legacy lives on through the family uh
[7:42] his family members that he cherished and
[7:45] the many many lives that he touched with
[7:47] kindness, integrity, generosity
[7:51] and uh quiet leadership. We extend our
[7:54] deepest condolences to Sandy, his
[7:57] children, grandchildren, extended
[7:58] families, friends, and to all that had
[8:00] the privilege of knowing Mr. Chandler,
[8:02] as I always called him. And uh on a
[8:05] personal note, his wife uh taught uh
[8:07] every one of my children through uh
[8:09] elementary school. Tremendous people uh
[8:12] that u believed in hard work, paying
[8:15] your dues, respecting others, and living
[8:18] a clean, honest life. Tremendous man.
[8:20] And um we we uh may he rest in and
[8:24] eternal peace. A unanimous role shall be
[8:27] uh attached. All right, Mr. Cook. The
[8:30] next item will be public comment.
[8:32] Correct. All right. Before we go to the
[8:33] public comment, I just want to give some
[8:35] ground uh ground rules that we do every
[8:38] meeting. The public comment under the
[8:39] term of the 34th council was changed to
[8:42] allow 30 minutes prior to our regular
[8:46] business items which we will do here
[8:47] today. We have comment cards we'd like
[8:50] you to fill out. U unfortunately we will
[8:53] only allow 30 minutes in the beginning
[8:55] of the meeting. Then after the business
[8:56] items, we will then pull the rest of the
[8:59] cards for those to speak. Kind reminder,
[9:01] we do not allow any outbursts. If you
[9:04] truly want to be heard, you need to be
[9:07] able to be heard by uh the council. We
[9:11] ask you others that are in the audience
[9:12] not to have any out outbursts
[9:14] whatsoever. And just keep in mind also
[9:16] that um you will have a threeinut time
[9:20] limit. The clerk will let you know when
[9:21] there's 30 seconds remaining
[9:24] and we will begin uh Mr. Clerk at uh
[9:27] 711. Okay. All right. So we do have some
[9:31] cards and then those who did fill out a
[9:32] card, you will be called but it will be
[9:34] at the end of the meeting if you don't
[9:36] make the first uh 10. All right. Uh
[9:39] first we have uh is Miss uh Cheryl
[9:42] Cooper.
[9:51] Okay. So, we don't have Miss uh Pamel
[9:54] Stokes. Just keep in mind, folks, the microphone is in one spot. Is there
[10:00] a pathway
[10:02] officer? Is there a pathway through this
[10:04] side?
[10:06] Yeah.
[10:09] If we can Yeah, we Yeah. Or from the
[10:12] rear. Yeah. Is the rear clo better access to go around? All right.
[10:16] So, if anybody's on this side of the
[10:18] side of us, if they like Yeah, just
[10:21] Yeah. All right. Just try to go around
[10:22] to get that thing. Miss Stokes, thank
[10:24] you for being here. You may proceed.
[10:28] >> Is this okay? Can you hear? Okay.
[10:29] >> Excellent.
[10:30] >> Okay. Um, council members, mayor, my
[10:35] name is Paula Hamilton Stokes and I
[10:38] reside on Lynon Street.
[10:42] I am here this evening to show support
[10:45] for my beloved hometown.
[10:48] I thank you for the privilege of your
[10:50] time.
[10:52] Dearborn has one of the most diverse
[10:54] populations in our country and I will
[10:57] not stand idly by as outsiders attempt
[11:02] to sew division and hate. They would
[11:06] have you believe our city is under
[11:08] siege.
[11:10] This is no more than an attempt to fear
[11:13] and could not be further from the truth.
[11:18] I have served three different mayors
[11:21] and was blessed to be mentored by each
[11:24] one, making me the woman I am today.
[11:29] Strong,
[11:31] confident,
[11:33] and incapable of backing down when I see
[11:37] injustice.
[11:39] Dearborn has always been there for me,
[11:42] and I remain grateful.
[11:45] Some of the kindest, caring, and
[11:47] open-minded people I have ever known
[11:51] live right here. We share our
[11:54] differences. We do not fear them.
[11:58] God bless you, dear neighbors.
[12:01] >> Thank you, Miss Stokes. [applause]
[12:09] Uh thank you. We have uh Pastor Lorenzo
[12:12] Su.
[12:17] [applause]
[12:24] My name is Pastor Lorenzo Sula. I have
[12:26] the honor and the privilege of being the
[12:27] senior pastor of 180 church where
[12:29] President Donald Trump came for his
[12:31] birthday weekend. And it was there that
[12:33] I had an opportunity to pray over the
[12:36] president. And it was at that moment
[12:38] that he told me I would pray at the
[12:41] inauguration and I would be able to
[12:43] preach at the rededication.
[12:46] The reason why I'm here today because
[12:49] dearbornne
[12:51] in all of your prosperity
[12:54] and everything that you've done the
[12:57] spirit of Hubard is still in this city.
[13:01] The The spirit of racism still dwells
[13:05] in this city. This is a CITY THAT HAS
[13:08] PROSPERED WITH YOUR mosque and your call
[13:11] to prayer. But yet, it's on the back of
[13:14] my people. It's on THE BACK OF BLACK
[13:17] people that we have funded everything
[13:21] you do. You look down on us. Your police
[13:25] enact injustice on us. And when Jake
[13:28] Lane talked about Jesus,
[13:31] HE WAS ASSAULTED
[13:34] BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT UP UNDER AMERICAN
[13:37] LAW. YOU ARE UP UNDER SHARIA LAW. THAT
[13:41] IS THE REASON WHY YOU HAVE MADE NO
[13:43] ARREST. YOU LAUGH. YOU ARE THREE
[13:46] GENERATIONS OF RACISM IN THIS VERY CITY.
[13:50] YOU KNOW IT. YOU HAVE SEEN WHAT HAS
[13:53] HAPPENED IN THIS CITY. AND IT IS MY
[13:55] PEOPLE THAT HAVE FUNDED YOU. IT'S MY
[13:58] PEOPLE THAT MADE SURE THAT YOU HAVE WHAT
[14:01] YOU HAVE. AND YOU SPIT on us. YOU
[14:04] DEGRADE US. BUT YOU'RE ONLY 1% OF THIS
[14:08] NATION. WE ARE NOT A NATION OF MUSLIMS.
[14:12] WE ARE A NATION OF CHRISTIANS. WE ARE
[14:15] ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE. THE
[14:18] GOD OF THE BIBLE, THE GOD [screaming] OF
[14:22] THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. THAT'S THE GOD IN
[14:26] WHOM WE SERVE. I WANT YOU TO PROVE TO ME
[14:28] WE'RE NOT UP UNDER SHARIA LAW. WILL YOU
[14:31] DENOUNCE COUNCILMAN O'REILLY? WILL YOU
[14:33] DENOUNCE SHARIA LAW?
[14:39] Will you den I KNOW YOU WON'T. WILL YOU
[14:41] DENOUNCE SHARIA LAW? ABRAHAM, YOU WENT
[14:44] TO HILLSDALE. WILL YOU RENOUNCE SHARIA
[14:47] LAW? WILL YOU RENOUNCE SHARIA LAW?
[14:50] AMERICA, WE HAVE LOST THIS CITY. THIS IS
[14:53] A CITY THAT IS NO LONGER UP UNDER
[14:54] AMERICAN LAWS. WE ARE UP UNDER SHARIA
[14:57] law and we will not HAVE IT ANYMORE.
[14:59] ENOUGH [screaming] IS ENOUGH.
[15:06] [cheering]
[15:12] » All right. All right. Order. We got to
[15:16] have We're gonna have order in the
[15:18] meeting. We're gonna have order in the
[15:19] meeting, folks. Okay. I just would like
[15:21] to remind everyone there is a microphone
[15:23] system in the city of Dearbornne. We can
[15:25] afford one. So, when you're speaking, if
[15:28] you'd like to raise your voice, you like
[15:30] to raise your voice, guys. You can, but
[15:32] it's not doing anything else. So, we
[15:34] we'd like we're going to give you a
[15:36] warning. Speak. We can hear you. We want
[15:38] you to be heard. We understand passion.
[15:40] We're all about passion. But keep in
[15:42] mind that be respectful to to people
[15:44] that are here that want to be heard. So,
[15:45] please try to contain yourself if you
[15:48] can. Um, can we have our uh Sam beers
[16:11] tonight? I speak not only as a resident
[16:13] in your Wayne County Commissioner, but
[16:15] as someone who has been selling real
[16:17] estate in Dearborn for four decades. For
[16:20] the last 40 years, I have witnessed
[16:22] firsthand the transformation of this
[16:24] great and diverse city. I have watched
[16:26] families build their lives here,
[16:28] businesses grow, neighborhoods change,
[16:30] and generations come together to make
[16:32] Dearborn the community it is today. And
[16:34] that is why I want to say this very
[16:36] clearly. Dearbornne is America. The
[16:40] Constitution of the United States is the
[16:42] highest law of the land, not the law of
[16:44] any religion. It protects every one of
[16:47] us, whether we pray in a mosque, a
[16:49] church, a synagogue, or somewhere else.
[16:52] To those who came to Dearborn looking to
[16:54] spread fear and division, I say to you,
[16:57] come see the real Darbone. Look at our
[16:59] neighborhoods, our businesses, our
[17:01] schools, in our houses of worship. You
[17:03] will see people from different
[17:05] backgrounds living, working, worshiping,
[17:07] and raising their families together. You
[17:09] will see a nativity tradition that has
[17:11] been part of this great community for
[17:13] more than 70 years. You will see
[17:15] businesses selling pork products. You
[17:17] will see religious freedom in action.
[17:20] That is not Sharia Allah. That is
[17:22] America. And those who came here
[17:25] intending to desecrate the Quran to
[17:27] provoke or insult our community.
[17:29] Understand this. Muslims honor Jesus
[17:32] Christ, Mary and Moses, peace be upon
[17:35] them. Jesus is honored throughout the
[17:37] Quran. Mary, Miriam is so deeply honored
[17:40] that an entire chapter is named after
[17:42] her and Moses is mentioned more than any
[17:45] other prophet 136 times. Those figures
[17:48] are not strangers to Muslims. They are
[17:51] part of our faith. You have the
[17:53] constitutional right to disagree with
[17:54] us, protest peacefully, and speak your
[17:57] mind. And we have those same rights to
[17:59] worship, to speak, to assemble, and to
[18:02] live our faith openly. Let me tell you
[18:04] who the people of Dearborn are. We are
[18:07] doctors, teachers, judges, lawyers,
[18:10] business owners, police officers, public
[18:13] servants, first responders, and members
[18:15] of United States Armed Forces. We pay
[18:17] our taxes. We create jobs. We educate
[18:20] our children. We care for our neighbors.
[18:22] We came from different places, but we
[18:24] build something together. That is the
[18:27] beauty of America. So to anyone who
[18:29] comes to the air when looking for
[18:30] division, I say you may not understand
[18:32] us but you will not define us.
[18:34] >> You have 30 seconds remaining.
[18:35] >> You may try to divide us but you will
[18:36] not succeed. We are Americans. We are
[18:38] proud of our heritage. Come to Dearborn
[18:40] peacefully. Come respectfully. Exercise
[18:42] your first amendment rights and we will
[18:44] defend your right to do so. But don't
[18:46] mistake our diversity for or for
[18:48] division or our faith for something
[18:51] foreign to America. The urban is
[18:52] America. The constitution is our law.
[18:54] Our diversity is our strength and once
[18:57] again we don't have Sharia Allah and
[18:59] dear one we have shawarma law and we
[19:01] proudly claim we proudly claim
[19:03] >> you have your time has expired
[19:05] >> shawarma outside the middle east
[19:07] [applause]
[19:08] we have some of the best shawarma
[19:09] outside the middle east so try some
[19:11] while you are here thank you may god
[19:13] bless dear one and may god bless the
[19:15] United States of America
[19:16] >> thank you thank you Mr.
[19:18] All right.
[19:21] [applause]
[19:24] All right. Thank you, Mr. Bayon. Uh,
[19:27] next we have Mr. Eric Mgo.
[19:31] Yes, sir. Sorry about that.
[19:42] All right. Now, I'm listening to you
[19:44] guys come up here. You guys want to talk
[19:45] about how you're being honest and you're
[19:47] speaking from the heart. Not one of you
[19:49] people that come here and speak without
[19:50] a freaking script in your hands, word
[19:52] for word reading it. You got a mayor
[19:54] that says tells an American citizen that
[19:56] he cannot be welcome at Dearborn,
[19:58] Michigan if he doesn't want a damn
[19:59] terrorist on the name of a street. You
[20:02] got you got members on the board over
[20:04] there laughing at American citizens when
[20:07] they're concerned about Jira law and the
[20:09] Muslims that are telling us we're going
[20:11] to take over your city. We have Assan
[20:13] saying, "We're going to do things
[20:14] to your women." And we're saying, "Oh,
[20:16] this is peaceful that you people came
[20:18] here to give us peace. YOU GUYS CAME
[20:20] HERE TO CONQUER US. THIS IS THE CRUSADES
[20:23] all over again. You're going to think
[20:24] you're going to take this country
[20:25] without FIRING A SHOT." HOW ABOUT THIS?
[20:28] HOW ABOUT THE AMERICAN CITIZENS SAY,
[20:29] "NO, YOU'RE NOT GOING TO do this. WE'RE
[20:32] GOING TO STAND UP. WE'RE GOING TO TELL
[20:33] YOU EVERYBODY HERE FROM EVERY SINGLE
[20:36] from felons TO NORMAL PEOPLE, BIBLE
[20:39] THUNDERSTORMS
[20:42] MUSLIM INVASION, YOU'RE NOT GOING TO
[20:44] HAPPEN IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
[20:45] NOT WHILE CHRISTIAN CRUSADERS ARE
[20:47] STANDING HERE BLOCKING YOU. THAT'S ALL I
[20:50] got to say.
[20:52] >> Thank you.
[21:00] » Okay.
[21:02] we need
[21:04] >> folks, we need some we need order in
[21:06] here. The next uh
[21:09] speaker we have is uh Mr. Joseph Barro.
[21:14] You here?
[21:15] >> Bario,
[21:19] do you want me? We could call you later
[21:20] if you like. Can
[21:22] there is a pathway right there?
[21:25] >> There's a pathway. You could come this
[21:26] way. Yes.
[21:31] It was one from the middle.
[21:53] » All right. Thank you.
[21:59] My name is Joseph Barajio, citizen of
[22:02] the good city of Dearborn.
[22:05] I am a I'm a professional in the sense
[22:08] of teaching history, writing history,
[22:11] and reading history.
[22:14] And I'd like to say that there was a
[22:15] formidable year in the seventh century
[22:18] when a new country came aboard.
[22:21] was the country Russia and the uh
[22:25] equivalent of George Washington Vladimir
[22:28] wanted to consolidate this new country
[22:30] of his by adopting a religion.
[22:34] He first went to Christianity but the
[22:37] schism the differences between Rome and
[22:41] uh Orthodox Eastern Orthodox made him
[22:44] shy away from it. He didn't want
[22:45] anything to do with this kind of a
[22:46] trouble. He looked at Islam, but he had
[22:50] to defer from it too because his people
[22:51] love drinking vodka. So he looked at
[22:55] Judaism and he said, "Yeah, this is the
[22:56] right religion for my people." And a a
[23:00] Turko Finnish nomadic tribe out of Kev,
[23:04] Ukraine,
[23:06] opted to become Jews. Jews, our Judaism
[23:09] adopted Judaism. They're not necessarily
[23:10] Jews because these were people that were
[23:12] not Seemitic people. They were not had
[23:15] no direct historical connection to
[23:18] Palestine.
[23:19] And the descendants of these people
[23:21] became the Ashkanazi Jews who ruled uh
[23:24] apartheid Israel. The same text context
[23:27] with them. They're not a Seemetic
[23:30] people. They have no historical
[23:32] connection to Palestine. And it's the
[23:35] same group that's responsible for
[23:37] murdering, systematically murdering
[23:39] 79,000
[23:42] Palestinian Seemetic people, 20,000 of
[23:46] whom were children. And as documented
[23:49] that the IDF actually turned off fuel to
[23:53] incubators that killed and suffocated
[23:56] Palestinian children to death. You talk
[24:00] about evil. Raw, pure evil.
[24:04] unforgettable evil. That was it. Well,
[24:08] at any rate, there's it's notable about
[24:11] one thing, too. There was a a comment
[24:13] made in the last council meeting I
[24:15] attended with the quote was, "What is
[24:19] Israel to do? I'm here to tell Israel
[24:22] what to do. You need to give back the
[24:25] land that you took from the Palestinian
[24:27] people, the Semitic. You need to give it
[24:29] back to the Cathartic Jews who were
[24:31] seemetic to the
[24:32] >> You have 30 seconds remaining
[24:33] >> that were a part of that whole theme.
[24:36] >> All right, I'm closing out with this
[24:37] brief statement. The first the
[24:40] constitution of the United States is
[24:42] national law. There's a section dealing
[24:45] with the freedom of religion, all
[24:47] religions in this country, and that
[24:49] involves Islam. And I say this to the
[24:53] xenophobes, the anthropobes, and the
[24:56] Islamophobes. I have one thing to say to
[24:59] you. You can take your hateful,
[25:01] blackhearted ways and shove it up where
[25:04] the sun doesn't shine.
[25:05] >> The time has expired.
[25:07] [applause and cheering]
[25:14] » Okay.
[25:16] All right. Uh, next speaker we have next
[25:19] speaker we have is uh
[25:22] >> Okay. Next speaker Jake Jake Lang.
[25:30] » [cheering]
[25:33] » I can't listen to Jake.
[25:45] Sir. Sir.
[25:47] >> All right. We're going to There's no
[25:50] books or props allowed. So, you either
[25:52] put them down or you'll be removed. You
[25:53] got one second and you'll be removed.
[25:56] What do you want to do?
[25:57] >> Put them down or you're going to be
[25:58] There's no books. No paraphernalia.
[26:01] That's the council rules.
[26:04] [applause]
[26:08] » Hey, let's go. For three years straight,
[26:13] the number one name in the country of
[26:16] England for newborn babies is Muhammad.
[26:20] Tell me that white Christians are not
[26:22] being invaded. How can you lie to our
[26:25] faces with your tea? This is an invasion
[26:28] on all fronts. Our people are being
[26:30] pushed out of the workplace. We're being
[26:33] pushed out of city councils. That smug
[26:35] face of the tea Muslims needs to be
[26:38] wiped off these people's faces. These
[26:40] people are looking to destroy us. These
[26:44] people are looking to outbreed us. The
[26:47] Muslims have not come here to
[26:49] assimilate. They have come here to steal
[26:52] the wealth of this land to rape our
[26:54] women. What about the 250,000
[26:57] women in England that WERE RAPED BY
[27:00] PAKISTANI MUSLIMS and they got little
[27:02] slaps on the wrist from the woke
[27:05] democratic regime. The Muslims are being
[27:08] used by the Democrats to instill
[27:11] SOCIALISM IN AMERICA. We know it. Look
[27:15] at all of your top Muslim leaders. They
[27:17] all pander to homosexuality, the trans
[27:20] agenda, and to socialism. You're fake
[27:23] Muslims. You're just using the
[27:25] Democrats, these woke liberal idiots,
[27:27] the women in New York to gain power. And
[27:31] once the Muslims have power in this
[27:32] country, then they will start throwing
[27:35] the homosexuals off the roofs just like
[27:37] they do in Palestine. You guys all cry
[27:40] about Palestine. Try being a white
[27:42] Christian man, preaching the word of God
[27:45] in Palestine. Guess what MIGHT HAPPEN TO
[27:47] YOU? THE SAME THING THAT HAPPENED TO ME
[27:50] HERE IN DEARBORNNE, MICHIGAN. YOU WILL
[27:52] BE STONED FOR SAYING THE NAME of Jesus
[27:54] Christ in Palestine, in Afghanistan, in
[27:58] Yemen, in Iraq. JESUS CHRIST IS OUTLAWED
[28:01] IN THOSE countries and we will stand.
[28:04] The crusade has begun. Your time in this
[28:08] country is running short. The time of
[28:10] stealing FROM THE DETROIT BLACK
[28:12] CHRISTIAN AMERICANS IS OVER.
[28:15] >> OVER.
[28:16] >> IT'S OVER.
[28:17] >> MUSLIMS, GO HOME BEFORE WE SEND YOU
[28:20] HOME.
[28:22] >> WE HAVE CRUISE SHIPS. WE HAVE PLANES. WE
[28:25] HAVE TRAINS. AND WE'RE GOING TO PACK
[28:26] THEM OUT WITH ALL OF THE ARABS. You have
[28:29] to go home. We don't want you here. Our
[28:32] founding fathers gave this country to
[28:35] their posterity. WHITE CHRISTIANS AND
[28:38] THEY BROUGHT ALONG WITH THEM THEIR BLACK
[28:39] FRIENDS. AND NOW WE'RE HERE TO RECLAIM
[28:41] AMERICA FOR THE BLACKS AND THE WHITE
[28:43] PEOPLE.
[28:44] >> We have 30 seconds remaining.
[28:46] >> WE WILL NOT ALLOW THESE THIRD world
[28:49] mongrels to run rough shot over us
[28:52] without a fight. THE BODY OF CHRIST IS
[28:54] ONE. IF YOU ARE IN CHRIST, YOU ARE MY
[28:57] BROTHER. IF YOU STAND AGAINST ISLAM, YOU
[28:59] ARE MY BROTHER. IF YOU ARE WILLING TO
[29:02] STAND UP AND TAKE THIS COUNTRY BACK, YOU
[29:04] ARE MY BROTHER. JOIN THE CRUSADES AND
[29:07] EXTRICATE THIS FILTH FROM our country.
[29:10] We will have our way. Come blood or
[29:13] sweat, we will have our way.
[29:15] >> This is a Christian land. Christ is
[29:18] king.
[29:19] >> Thank you.
[29:20] >> Christ is [cheering] king.
[29:22] >> Christ,
[29:25] » Jason. You can
[29:27] >> applause.
[29:50] Okay, folks. Let's have order. We have
[29:53] the best police department in the state
[29:54] of Michigan. They're handling it.
[29:59] [applause]
[30:04] » All right. Uh, next. Thank you.
[30:07] >> Thank you. Next, we have uh Mr. Alabas
[30:10] Far Hat.
[30:16] Good.
[30:19] evening, council. I um you know,
[30:22] I'm disappointed that we continue and
[30:26] there are folks that continue to stand
[30:27] behind this guy Jake Lang, a man who
[30:30] tried to sleep with a 15-year-old who
[30:32] defends a pedophile like Donald Trump
[30:35] WHO STANDS UP FOR JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
[30:38] somebody who wants to question how
[30:39] American we are yet sells our country
[30:42] out every single day in the White House.
[30:44] I understand the clicks are nice and the
[30:46] headlines are nice, but this is an
[30:47] American city. And when you go and bring
[30:50] this type of hate and rhetoric to this
[30:52] city, have a nice day, sir, to this
[30:54] city. All you're doing is dividing this
[30:56] neighborhood and you're dividing our
[30:58] community.
[30:59] >> You can do that where you are. Don't
[31:00] come here cuz DEARBORN IS A SHINING
[31:03] beacon of unity and coexistence. Amen.
[31:05] >> We're a place where neighbors check in
[31:07] on neighbors, where they share meals
[31:09] over fence lines, where they stand
[31:11] together and they support each other.
[31:13] But if folks want to come here and
[31:15] preach hate and division, bring their
[31:17] ARs and their drum magazines and stand
[31:20] in the face of little children at the
[31:21] school on Ford Row, the ICA, or
[31:24] terrorize the church next door, don't
[31:26] come here
[31:27] >> plainly because this is a city where we
[31:30] believe in coexistence and unity. where
[31:32] we believe that to be American is about
[31:34] the values you preach and believe and
[31:36] stand for and not about your religion or
[31:39] birthplace. That is what it is to be
[31:41] American. That is why our founding
[31:42] fathers gave us a constitution and bill
[31:44] of rights that protects your freedom of
[31:46] speech just as much as our freedom of
[31:49] religion. This is a city where we build
[31:51] the bestselling pickup truck in the
[31:52] world, the F-150. We root for the Lions
[31:54] on Sunday and the Tigers when they play.
[31:57] We love America, but to question our
[31:59] Americanness and how much we will defend
[32:01] and die for this country when we have
[32:03] service members up on that dis when we
[32:05] have service members in our military is
[32:07] unacceptable. Take the time and learn
[32:09] about your neighbors. Don't follow the
[32:10] clickbait. Don't follow the attention.
[32:12] Don't follow these paid agitators paid
[32:16] by Donald Trump and the Republican
[32:18] party. Paid to preach hate and divide
[32:21] neighbors cuz they got an election that
[32:23] they're going to get sent packing in.
[32:25] [clears throat]
[32:27] » [applause]
[32:35] » Thank you. Next speaker we have is
[32:38] uh Mike Dean.
[32:54] Thank you, distinguished councilmen and
[32:58] mayor. I just want to start out by
[33:00] saying the measure of a man isn't how
[33:02] loud he can shout, especially when he's
[33:05] shouting out nonsense because even a
[33:06] donkey can shout really loud, but at the
[33:09] end of the day, he's still just a
[33:10] donkey. So, I just have one thing that I
[33:13] would like to say in regards to Jake
[33:15] Lang and Pastor Lorenzo. First, let's
[33:18] start with Lorenzo. He gave a very
[33:20] eloquent impassioned speech that didn't
[33:23] make any sense because he said that the
[33:25] poor black people of Dearborn for which
[33:28] he does not represent because he doesn't
[33:30] live here. His church is not here are
[33:33] oppressed by Arabs doing well in this
[33:36] community. Well, I'm not even from this
[33:37] community. I came here today. I have
[33:40] ventured all throughout this entire
[33:41] community. And you know what I didn't
[33:43] see? I didn't see any signs that said
[33:46] Arabs only or whites only. I seen black
[33:50] business owners. I seen black people
[33:52] driving nice cars in this city. And I
[33:55] just have one thing to say to you. Since
[33:57] you're so obsessed with gas stations,
[33:58] Pastor Lorenzo, why don't you take some
[34:00] of that Israeli money and buy a gas
[34:02] station and give it to YOUR BLACK
[34:04] NEIGHBOR? HOW ABOUT THAT? [applause]
[34:09] NOW I have one other thing that I need
[34:10] to say here and that is when it comes to
[34:13] Jake Lang, Jake Lang loves to proclaim
[34:17] that he is a crusader against Muslims.
[34:20] Jake Lang loves to wear timu armor
[34:23] without any plates in him to pretend
[34:25] that he's a soldier when he never served
[34:28] in the United States military. Jake Lang
[34:31] is such a tough guy. Then I have a
[34:34] suggestion for the council to take into
[34:36] consideration. I'm from Las Vegas. Go
[34:38] Raiders, by the way. I feel sorry for
[34:40] your Detroit Lions cuz we're going to be
[34:42] better this year. With that being said,
[34:45] since Jake Lang loves Dearborn so much,
[34:47] I challenge him to face me in the ring
[34:50] in 90 days right here in Dearbornne,
[34:53] Michigan, WHERE WE CAN SELL TICKETS that
[34:55] will benefit the city of Dearbornne. And
[34:59] if he wants TO PUT HANDS ON a Muslim,
[35:02] let him do it to me. A white redblooded
[35:06] American Muslim. That's all I got to
[35:08] say. Jake Lang, I know you can hear me.
[35:11] And if you can't, I know you'll see my
[35:13] video cuz you follow me.
[35:16] [applause]
[35:20] » All right.
[35:22] Okay. Uh, next we have Mr.
[35:24] Scott.
[35:31] He gave me this. Is there a Mr. Scott?
[35:36] >> Jackie, take this back.
[35:40] » Is he sir? Sir, hold on. Go to the
[35:44] officer. Show them your identification
[35:45] that your name is Scott. Mr. Scott.
[35:48] >> Okay. You sit back in your seat or we'll
[35:50] have you removed.
[35:52] >> Which one you want?
[35:55] >> All right.
[35:58] Sir, sir, if you if you filled out a
[36:04] card, you'll have your opportunity. If
[36:05] not, have a seat, sir. Okay. Or you can
[36:06] leave. All right. We have uh Robert
[36:09] Pollowski. Yes, sir.
[36:15] Yeah, there is a path here. Yeah. Or you
[36:16] can come this way. Whatever's easiest
[36:18] for you, sir.
[36:26] Thank you, council. My fellow neighbors,
[36:29] my name is Robert Plowski. I am from
[36:31] Southgate, born and raised in Wayne
[36:33] County, Michigan. I am not 10 minutes
[36:35] from Dearborn. I am close to Dearbornne.
[36:37] I spend my money, resources, and support
[36:39] our community. And I stand in solidarity
[36:42] with all of our residents, elected
[36:44] officials, mayor, and city council. This
[36:47] city is a beacon of hope. You have an
[36:50] amazing administration all the way from
[36:52] Mayor Hammud to our city council
[36:54] president Sereni and our wonderful chief
[36:56] of police Issa Shaheen. It would be my
[36:58] dream to have leadership like you in my
[37:01] community. But most of all, we are the
[37:03] future. We built the F-150. We're home
[37:06] to Ford. But most of all, we are home to
[37:08] a community of diverse people. We have
[37:10] the most diverse smart bus lines here in
[37:12] our community that transport people back
[37:14] and forth from downtown to the airport.
[37:16] Two, we have the best food in the entire
[37:19] United States of America.
[37:21] >> And three, we have the amazing group of
[37:24] people that are working class just like
[37:27] us. And if Jake Land can see me, which I
[37:29] know he will watch this video, be scared
[37:32] because us Americans, we are the future
[37:35] and we are not going anywhere. So speak
[37:37] up. Speak your heart. But most of all,
[37:40] no hate is allowed here and solidarity
[37:43] with you all. But don't forget that
[37:45] Dearbornne is the future. May God bless
[37:48] America and God bless United States of
[37:51] America and Dearbornne.
[37:54] [applause and cheering]
[38:07] » Okay, we have time for one more which is
[38:09] Ronald Dwire.
[38:12] >> Sure. Yes, sir. Thank you. Of course,
[38:24] » dear esteemed council and mayor.
[38:29] >> Okay.
[38:31] All right.
[38:36] » Okay.
[38:40] » All right, folks. Folks, we have a
[38:42] speaker ready to speak.
[38:46] » Okay.
[38:47] >> All right. Let the officers just make
[38:49] sure they go out and then if there's
[38:51] people now that we have room for others
[38:52] that may want to come in, please make
[38:54] sure there's afforded the opportunity
[38:55] for others to come in. There's probably
[38:57] about 15 or 20 seats. All right, sir.
[39:00] Sorry. I apologize.
[39:01] >> That's okay. I guess I just didn't want
[39:02] to hear the truth that I'm about to
[39:04] unveil.
[39:04] >> You may begin.
[39:05] >> Thank you.
[39:06] >> All right. Uh my name is Ronald Dwire.
[39:08] I'm actually uh the president of
[39:10] American uh Council for Interfaith and
[39:14] Cultural Relations. My organization
[39:16] works with Christians and Muslims
[39:18] bringing them together. We also work
[39:19] with Native Americans and people of
[39:21] other faiths. That being said, I was
[39:23] involved in kind of what brought up this
[39:25] brewhaha on August 2nd. I worked with uh
[39:28] Shik Hasham who uh we put together the
[39:32] Arbine Festival which is the festival
[39:35] that honors Imam Hussein. And the reason
[39:38] I got involved, I'm I'm an Irish
[39:39] Catholic. Reason I got involved is
[39:41] there's a lot of mixing between
[39:43] Christians and Muslims throughout
[39:45] history. In fact, if you study Imm
[39:48] Hussein's story, he was a he was a hero
[39:50] that stood up against an evil caliphate
[39:52] and uh gave up all riches and defended
[39:56] truth and honor and lost his life
[39:58] because of it. That's what everybody was
[40:01] celebrating. They honored this man every
[40:03] year annually. And I was proud to be a
[40:06] part of this event now through my
[40:08] organization bringing Christians and
[40:10] Muslims together. And I want to say
[40:12] something, pastor. Oh, I see you left. I
[40:15] guess he couldn't handle the truth
[40:16] either. You know, you know, he he's got
[40:19] a church of 12 people, so do do a little
[40:22] research on him. He kind of stole the church from the previous uh
[40:26] congregation. But anyways, uh I what I'm
[40:30] saying is there's a lot of mixing
[40:31] between Christians and Muslims. Muslims
[40:34] believe a lot of the same things
[40:36] Christians do. They believe in Jesus as
[40:38] the Messiah, born of the Virgin Mary,
[40:41] and that he will come again at the end
[40:44] of time. Uh Mary is honored like uh
[40:47] councilman or commissioner Bun said Mary
[40:50] is mentioned in the chapter in the Quran
[40:54] there's a lot of mixing a lot of mixing
[40:56] Muslims and Christians if people just
[40:58] started studying and and and getting to
[41:00] know one another you would see that we
[41:03] are a lot alike okay we have maybe a few
[41:05] little differences in beliefs but
[41:08] truthfully we have a lot more in common
[41:10] than we do in difference and I want to
[41:12] say another thing too even though I'm
[41:14] part of internet interfaith organization
[41:16] that I am president of uh pastor
[41:19] Sealwell and another person I don't mean
[41:22] any disrespect but there are a split
[41:25] just like there is in the Democrat party
[41:27] there's a split in the Republican party
[41:29] and the Republican party had nothing I'm
[41:31] a Republican I serve on the 11th
[41:33] congressional district had nothing to do
[41:35] with this event in fact many of the vice
[41:37] chairs came out and spoke out against
[41:39] this they said this is not what we
[41:41] wanted to hating.
[41:44] >> I'm sorry.
[41:44] >> You have 30 seconds.
[41:45] >> Oh, 30 seconds. Okay. So, they I want
[41:47] people to know that too that don't hate
[41:49] every Republican. I don't hate every
[41:51] Democrat. Look at I'm a Republican. Sam
[41:53] Bun is a Democrat. I consider Sam a
[41:55] friend. Look, I'm going to after I
[41:57] finish this speech here, I'm going to
[41:59] come down and shake uh Abdullah Hammud's
[42:01] hand. Okay? You know what? He's got a
[42:03] lot of unfair treatment. He got beaten
[42:06] up because he chastised a guy that has
[42:09] been a known
[42:10] >> I'm sorry your time has expired.
[42:12] >> Okay. Thank you, sir. Got to shake your
[42:14] hand. [applause]
[42:23] » After after Ron you got it. Yeah. Just
[42:25] have a seat there. Thank you. All right.
[42:26] At this time, we have completed our 30
[42:29] minutes. Mr. Clerk, is that correct?
[42:30] >> Yes.
[42:31] >> Okay. the council rules um completed our
[42:33] first council uh public speaking uh
[42:37] opportunity. There'll be another one at
[42:38] the end of the meeting once um we
[42:40] complete our business agenda items.
[42:42] Anyone here um curious to wait till the
[42:45] end and then they will be called uh in
[42:47] the cards we will call you after. Okay.
[42:49] If you are leaving sir there's no
[42:51] outburst. Okay. If you you have Connie
[42:55] this gentleman has a question see if you
[42:56] can help. They'll help you sir. Okay.
[42:58] And um
[43:01] uh just keep in mind if you are leaving
[43:03] the auditorium just to try to do it in
[43:06] an orderly manner. All right. At this
[43:08] time before we move on to our consent
[43:10] agenda, are there any uh items of which
[43:12] any member would wish to remove from the
[43:15] consent agenda and discuss individually?
[43:19] >> All right. Hearing uh hearing none, Mr.
[43:20] Clerk, can we proceed? Item number six
[43:23] is a resolution in need of offer and
[43:25] support approving all the items of the
[43:27] consent.
[43:28] >> Sorry, I didn't hear offered
[43:30] >> Councilman Abraham.
[43:31] >> Councilman Enos.
[43:32] >> Enos. Okay. We have an offer by
[43:33] Councilman Enos supported by Councilman
[43:35] Robert Abraham.
[43:38] >> All right. Uh, Mr. Clerk, can we have
[43:39] the roll call?
[43:40] >> Council President.
[43:41] >> Yes, sir.
[43:42] >> Mayor,
[43:43] >> I just wanted Oh my god.
[43:45] >> Yeah. I'm sorry. All right. Um, we do
[43:47] have an offer in support
[43:50] um for this item. We're gonna pause real
[43:52] quick. Mayor, go ahead.
[43:54] >> Uh, thank you so much. Um,
[43:57] before we get into the agenda, I wanted
[43:59] to take a moment just to offer some
[44:00] reflections and some words over the
[44:02] events that have unfolded.
[44:04] And I actually would like to share
[44:08] a story regarding a moment that happened
[44:10] earlier today. Um, I was out on one of
[44:14] our neighborhood walks. And for those
[44:15] who follow me on social media or follow
[44:17] the work of the city, we do many of
[44:18] neighborhood walks week in and week out,
[44:20] especially throughout the summer. It was
[44:22] an ordinary morning in Dearborn, just
[44:23] like any other day. Residents were
[44:25] outside. We're talking about sidewalks
[44:27] and tree stumps and property maintenance
[44:30] issues, all the things that make up the
[44:33] everyday work of building a city. And
[44:36] while we were at the park, a group of
[44:38] children walked up and amongst them was
[44:40] a young boy, not older than six or
[44:43] seven. and he looked at me and he asked
[44:47] if the quote unquote crusaders that were
[44:50] coming were coming to kill him.
[44:53] And I paused. I I paused longer than I
[44:57] probably should have, long enough for
[44:58] the neighborhood police officer that was
[45:00] with us to actually interject and to
[45:02] assure the young child that he would be
[45:04] safe, that he should go about his day
[45:05] and enjoy the park like he would any
[45:07] other day. I paused because I never
[45:10] expected that question.
[45:12] And as a father, I I haven't been able
[45:15] to stop thinking about it.
[45:17] Children that age should be thinking
[45:19] about what game they're going to the
[45:21] park to play.
[45:23] They should be thinking about whether
[45:24] they can have another scoop of ice cream
[45:26] at the end of the night. They should be
[45:28] wondering if they'll get an extra hour
[45:30] before time for bed. They should not be
[45:33] wondering whether someone wants to kill
[45:34] them because of how their family prays.
[45:38] But our children are listening. They
[45:40] hear our conversations. They see the
[45:42] headlines and they notice when their
[45:44] parents are worried. And that little boy
[45:47] reminded me that what is happening
[45:48] outside is not just political theater.
[45:52] Fear has consequences.
[45:55] So tonight, I want to speak directly to
[45:57] him. And I want to speak to every
[45:59] resident of Dearbornne who has felt that
[46:01] fear. I want to boldly say that you
[46:05] belong here. That you belong here as
[46:07] much as anyone else. And generations of
[46:10] people who built this city prove it.
[46:13] Dearbornne was built by people with
[46:15] different names, different accents,
[46:17] different traditions, and different ways
[46:19] of worshiping God. Some traced their
[46:22] roots here generations. Others arrived
[46:24] with little more than a suitcase and
[46:26] hope. They worked the assembly lines.
[46:29] They opened small businesses. They
[46:31] taught our children. They have served
[46:33] our country. They built houses of
[46:35] worship. They built homes next to people
[46:38] who did not look like them. And
[46:39] somewhere along the way, strangers
[46:41] became neighbors. They shared a meal
[46:43] across the fence line. That is
[46:45] Dearbornne. And that is the story of
[46:48] America.
[46:49] Yesterday, I stood alongside Christian
[46:51] clergy from across our city. People
[46:54] whose theological traditions may be
[46:56] different, but whose message yesterday
[46:58] was remarkably similar. Love thy
[47:00] neighbor. Care for the vulnerable. Feed
[47:03] the hungry. Welcome the st the stranger.
[47:07] and stand against hatred. Dearborn is
[47:10] home to more than 30 churches and
[47:12] roughly a dozen mosques. And each and
[47:14] every single week, tens of thousands of
[47:16] people walk through those doors to
[47:18] participate with their congregations.
[47:20] They may pray differently, but they pray
[47:23] for many of the same things. for their
[47:25] children to be safe, for their families
[47:28] to be healthy, for peace, for justice,
[47:32] for dignity, for the strength to leave
[47:35] this world a little better than they
[47:37] inherited it. So when people portray
[47:40] Dearbornne as some place that have been
[47:41] overtaken by Muslims, they aren't simply
[47:44] attacking our Muslim and Arab
[47:45] communities. They're also trying to
[47:47] erase our Christian brothers and sisters
[47:49] who have contributed immeasurably to the
[47:51] city and folks of other faith of other
[47:54] backgrounds or of no faith at all who
[47:56] have all contributed to the Dearborn
[47:58] that we all love and cherish today. And
[48:00] ultimately they're attacking something
[48:02] much larger than any one faith or
[48:04] community. They are attacking the idea
[48:07] that all of us can belong to America at
[48:10] the same time.
[48:11] There are people outside tonight whose
[48:14] idea of America is much smaller than
[48:16] ours. An America where belonging comes
[48:19] with conditions. Where your name
[48:21] matters. Where your ancestry matters.
[48:24] Where the direction which you pray
[48:25] somehow determines whether you are
[48:27] sufficiently American. I reject that
[48:29] vision for our country. Because what
[48:32] matters is not the articles of your
[48:34] faith. What matters is the content of
[48:36] your character, the kindness in your
[48:38] heart. Do you provide for your family?
[48:41] Do you check in on your neighbor? Do you
[48:44] help someone when they're struggling?
[48:46] And do you leave your community better
[48:47] than how you found it? Those are the
[48:49] things by which we should measure one
[48:51] another. I've always believed that there
[48:54] is something exceptional about the
[48:56] American experiment. Not because
[48:58] Americans are inherently better than
[49:00] anybody else, but because of the
[49:02] audacity of the promise that we have all
[49:04] made to one another. that people could
[49:06] come here from every corner of the earth
[49:09] carrying different stories and
[49:10] traditions, worshiping God differently
[49:13] or not at all and somehow build one
[49:16] country together.
[49:17] That promise has never been perfectly
[49:19] fulfilled. But every generation has had
[49:22] to fight to make it more real. And now
[49:24] it is our turn to carry on that fight.
[49:27] Tonight, the choice before us is
[49:30] actually quite simple. We can allow fear
[49:33] to make our lives smaller or we can
[49:36] allow community to make us stronger.
[49:39] I know some families are afraid right
[49:41] now. Many families have reached out and
[49:43] told me how they have changed their
[49:44] plans for the day. Practices for youth
[49:48] football has been cancelled. My daughter
[49:50] was not taken to daycare today. Some
[49:53] parents kept their children at home who
[49:55] wanted them a little closer. Some
[49:57] residents decided not to open up their
[49:58] business stores today because of the
[50:00] events unfolding. And I understand that
[50:02] instinct. But we cannot surrender our
[50:05] everyday lives to someone else's hatred.
[50:08] Our police officers are doing their
[50:10] jobs. I will do my job. This council
[50:13] will do its job. They are protecting
[50:15] this community and protecting the
[50:17] constitutional rights of everyone in it.
[50:19] So let them do their job. And you live
[50:22] your life. Let the kids chase each other
[50:25] at the splash pad. Play another game of
[50:27] soccer. Grab coffee with a friend. Fire
[50:30] up that grill and open up your business
[50:31] tomorrow morning. Sit on the porch with
[50:34] your neighbor. Break bread and share in
[50:36] that meal. Visit your parents. Go to
[50:38] church on Sunday. Go to the synagogue on
[50:41] Saturday. Go to the mosque on Friday. Or
[50:43] sit at home. Pray exactly as you have
[50:46] always prayed. Don't bother changing for
[50:49] anyone because the greatest victory we
[50:51] can hand those who seek to divide us
[50:53] would be allowing them to convince us to
[50:55] be afraid of being ourselves. and we
[50:58] will not give them that victory.
[51:00] Instead, we're going to do what Dearborn
[51:02] has always done. We're going to keep
[51:04] opening our doors because one of the
[51:07] most powerful antidotes to fear is
[51:09] simply knowing one another. I've met
[51:11] people over the years who have come to
[51:13] Dearbornne genuinely nervous. They have
[51:16] watched something on television. They've
[51:18] read something online or followed some
[51:20] of the comedians that were here earlier,
[51:22] heard someone describe the city as a
[51:24] place that they should fear. And then
[51:25] they came here. They walked our
[51:27] neighborhoods. They met our residents.
[51:30] Someone welcomed them welcomed them into
[51:32] their businesses. Someone started the
[51:34] conference. And ultimately, as is the
[51:36] tradition in Dearborn, put a meal in
[51:38] front of them. And somewhere between
[51:40] that first handshake and the last bite
[51:41] of that meal, something changed. The
[51:44] caricature of who we are disappeared and
[51:47] dissipated because a stranger became a
[51:51] person. and fear gave away to
[51:53] understanding because hatred needs
[51:56] distance.
[51:58] It needs us to remain strangers.
[52:01] Community closes that distance. So to
[52:03] anyone watching tonight who doesn't know
[52:05] Dearbornne but thinks they know
[52:07] Dearbornne, I have an invitation for
[52:09] you. Come visit us. Come experience this
[52:13] city and come experience this community.
[52:15] And most importantly, come break bread
[52:16] with us. Ask questions. Tell us your
[52:19] story and listen to ours. Our doors are
[52:23] open. Our table as h has room because
[52:26] the longer the table, the stronger the
[52:28] table. Dearbornne welcomes everybody and
[52:31] that will not change under our watch.
[52:33] And to that little boy that I met this
[52:35] morning, I want you to go be a kid.
[52:39] Go play with your friends. Laugh too
[52:41] loudly. Get in trouble at home. Push the
[52:45] time limit in which you have to come
[52:46] back to the house.
[52:49] Because the response to those who
[52:50] believe America's promise should belong
[52:52] to fewer people is not for us to retreat
[52:54] into our homes or make ourselves
[52:56] smaller. It is to demonstrate each and
[52:58] every single day just how beautiful
[53:00] America can be when that promise belongs
[53:02] to each and every single one of us. This
[53:05] is the Dearborn that we will protect and
[53:07] that is the Dearborn that we will pass
[53:08] on to generations and generations. God
[53:11] bless this city. God bless the most
[53:13] beautiful people I've ever met who
[53:15] reside in the city, who patronize the
[53:17] city, and God bless this country. Thank
[53:19] you.
[53:21] [applause]
[53:34] All right. Thank you. Thank you, mayor.
[53:36] [applause]
[53:38] Thank Thank you, Mayor. Okay. Thank you,
[53:40] mayor. Thank you.
[53:42] All right. Uh, Mr. Mr. Clerk, you had an
[53:45] offer in support on resolution number
[53:47] six. Can we have a roll call vote,
[53:48] please?
[53:49] >> Council member O'Reilly,
[53:50] >> yes.
[53:50] >> Council member Enos,
[53:51] >> yes.
[53:52] >> Council member Paris,
[53:53] >> yes.
[53:53] >> Council member Abraham,
[53:55] >> yes.
[53:55] >> Council member Hammude,
[53:57] >> Council Member Alawi,
[53:59] >> Council President Sereni,
[54:01] >> yes.
[54:02] >> Seven yays. The resolution passes.
[54:05] >> All right. Thank you, Mr. Clerk. Can we
[54:06] have the next item of business?
[54:09] We will move on to item number 31.
[54:12] Resolution by council members Paris and
[54:14] O'Reilly approving the minutes of the
[54:16] previous special open meeting of July
[54:18] 22nd, 2026.
[54:21] >> All right. Thank you, Mr. Mr. Clerk. Are
[54:23] there any additions, deletions, or
[54:24] modification to these minutes?
[54:27] All right. Hearing and see none. Any
[54:29] objection to unanimous role?
[54:32] Unanimous ro shall be attached. Next
[54:33] item.
[54:33] >> Item 32. Resolution by council members
[54:35] O'Reilly and Paris approving the minutes
[54:37] of the previous regular meeting of July
[54:39] 14th, 2026.
[54:41] Um, open meeting, I'm sorry, the
[54:45] previous regular meeting of July 26th.
[54:48] >> All right. Thank you, Mr. Clerk. Are
[54:49] there any additions, deletions, or
[54:50] modification to these minutes?
[54:52] Any objection to unanimous role?
[54:55] The unanimous ro should be attached.
[54:57] Next item.
[54:57] >> Item 33 is an ordinance on the table.
[54:59] Ordinance number 26-1870,
[55:01] an ordinance to amend the zoning
[55:03] ordinance of the city of Dearborn by
[55:05] amending article 18 entitled 1A light
[55:07] industrial district and article 22
[55:10] entitled TR Technology and Research
[55:12] District resolution by council members
[55:14] Alswafi and O'Reilly to take from the
[55:16] table for its final reading. All right,
[55:18] thank you Mr. Clerk and Nashville should
[55:19] be attached to take from table for its
[55:21] final reading. The planning and zoning division is
[55:25] proposing an amendment uh to the city of
[55:27] Dearborn zoning ordinance regarding the
[55:29] use of classification of data
[55:31] processing. Uh due to the rapid
[55:33] technology advancements, modern data
[55:34] centers have evolved into high density
[55:36] and intense industrial facilities that
[55:39] are no longer compatible with the way
[55:41] data processing is currently classified
[55:43] in our zoning ordinance. As presently
[55:45] written, these uh these facilities may
[55:47] be permitted under uh under the existing
[55:50] data processing use classification
[55:51] despite their large scale uh site design
[55:54] and potential impacts of surrounding
[55:55] properties which are inconsistent with
[55:57] the purpose of the intent of the city
[55:59] zoning regulations. The proposed
[56:00] amendment updates the zoning ordinance
[56:03] by removing data processing as a
[56:05] permitted use in industrial a light
[56:07] industry and TR which is uh technology
[56:11] research districts. Under the amendment,
[56:12] the data centers would be instead
[56:14] permitted in the industrial D, which is
[56:17] general industrial district where all
[56:19] uses are not expressly prohibited by the
[56:21] ordinance that are allowed. This is the
[56:22] second and final reading. Is there any
[56:24] questions or comments on this item?
[56:28] » Councilman,
[56:30] >> uh, I do want to thank the, uh, planning
[56:33] and zoning department, the
[56:34] administration for being proactive on
[56:35] this. I know it was a permitted use and
[56:37] I think it's a good thing that we're
[56:39] cleaning it up now so that we don't end
[56:40] up with hypers scale data centers where
[56:43] we don't intend them if we were ever
[56:46] going to allow them. Right now it's
[56:47] really loosey goosey and this is a good
[56:50] uh way to clean it up. So thank you
[56:51] guys.
[56:53] >> All right. Any other questions or
[56:54] comments?
[56:56] >> All right. Any object? I'm sorry, Mr.
[56:58] Clerk. We need uh the final reading.
[57:00] Yes, this is the final reading of
[57:01] ordinance number 26-1870, an ordinance
[57:04] to amend the zoning ordinance of the
[57:05] city of Dearbornne by amending article
[57:07] 18.0 entitled 1A, light industrial
[57:11] district, and article 22 entitled TR
[57:14] Technology and Research District.
[57:16] >> Right. Thank you, Mr. Clerk. Can we have
[57:18] a roll call vote?
[57:19] >> We'll start with Council Member Paris.
[57:22] >> Yes.
[57:23] >> Council member Abraham,
[57:24] >> yes.
[57:24] >> Council member Hammud,
[57:26] >> yes.
[57:26] >> Council member Alawafi,
[57:28] >> yes. Council President Serini,
[57:30] >> yes.
[57:30] >> Council member O'Reilly,
[57:31] >> yes.
[57:32] >> Council member Enos,
[57:33] >> yes.
[57:34] >> Seven yays. The ordinance passes. Thank
[57:36] you, Mr. Clerk. We have to the next
[57:38] item. Item 34, resolution by council
[57:40] members Abraham and O'Reilly authorizing
[57:42] the use and closure of West Village
[57:44] Drive between the east and west parking
[57:46] decks adjacent to Peace Park West and
[57:49] the use of the closure of the basement
[57:50] level within both the East and West
[57:52] parking structure in the West Dearborn
[57:54] downtown Development Authority from 7:00
[57:56] a.m. to 11:00 p.m. on Friday, September
[57:59] 25th for the Dearborn Coffee Week
[58:01] opening event. also granting a noise
[58:03] waiver for the duration of the event and that these approvals be extended to be rescheduled to a rescheduled date
[58:11] if needed and requesting immediate
[58:13] effect. All right. Thank you, Mr. Kirk.
[58:15] The West uh Dearborn Downtown Authority
[58:17] Development Authority is requesting
[58:19] approval for a street closure, parking
[58:20] de uh parking deck spot closures and
[58:23] noise ordinance waiver for Dearborn
[58:25] Coffee Week opening. The event will
[58:27] begin on September 25th of this year.
[58:29] Specifically, the WDDDA requests a
[58:32] street closure on West Village Drive
[58:34] between East and West decks adjacent to
[58:36] the park peace park west from 7 a.m. to
[58:39] 11 p.m. on September 25th. They're also
[58:42] requesting a closure of the basement
[58:43] level of the east west parking decks um
[58:46] for dedicated vendor service for the
[58:48] same time and same date and also
[58:50] requesting noise waiver on the same date
[58:52] as well. Additional is being requested.
[58:54] The approval is be extended for a
[58:56] rescheduling date if the event has
[58:58] canceled due to weather. Immediate
[58:59] effect is being requested um to begin
[59:02] the planning for the fall season as it's
[59:04] coming right around. Any questions or
[59:06] comments on this item?
[59:10] Any objection to unanimous role?
[59:13] Unamous shall be attached. Next item.
[59:15] 35, resolution by council members
[59:17] O'Reilly and Paris, authorizing the use
[59:19] and closure of West Village Drive
[59:21] between East and West parking structures
[59:23] and closure of the basement of the east
[59:24] parking deck from 7:00 a.m. to 11:00
[59:27] p.m. on Saturday, December 12th, 2026
[59:30] for the West Dearborn Downtown
[59:31] Development Authorities's annual Jingle
[59:33] Bell Bash event. Also granting a noise
[59:37] waiver for the duration of the event and
[59:38] that these approvals be extended to a
[59:40] rescheduled date if needed and
[59:42] requesting immediate effect. Thank you,
[59:44] Mr. Clerk. This is similar to the last
[59:46] uh ordinance, the last uh resolution
[59:49] that went through West Downtown, the
[59:51] West EDA, and our jingle bash for
[59:54] December 12th, 2026 with closures of
[59:56] both the parking deck, the West Village
[59:59] Drive, and as well as a noise uh
[1:00:01] ordinance as well. Any questions or
[1:00:03] comments on this item?
[1:00:05] Any objection to unanimous role?
[1:00:08] should be attached. Next
[1:00:10] item.
[1:00:10] >> Item 36, resolution by council members
[1:00:12] Paris and O'Reilly authorizing a sole
[1:00:14] source purchase from Oakland County in
[1:00:17] the amount of $226,000
[1:00:19] for the membership and maintenance fees
[1:00:21] for Clemus mobile data computer system
[1:00:24] for fiscal year 2026 for the fire and
[1:00:27] police departments and requesting
[1:00:29] immediate effect.
[1:00:30] >> All right. Thank you, Mr. Clerk. The
[1:00:31] city's police department, fire
[1:00:32] department are active users of the
[1:00:34] clemens program which are recently uh
[1:00:37] I'm sorry which was was recently run by
[1:00:39] the Oakland County and has now been re
[1:00:42] uh constituted into an independent
[1:00:43] public agency. The membership uses rates
[1:00:46] are based on the number of full-time
[1:00:48] equivalent sworn officers and users at
[1:00:50] each agency. The costs of the system are
[1:00:53] shared by all users with rates set by
[1:00:54] the Clemus advisory committee board. The
[1:00:57] use of cleis program is essential to the
[1:00:59] operations of both the police and fire
[1:01:01] department. The police department fire
[1:01:02] department in conjunction with
[1:01:03] purchasing is recommending a soul source
[1:01:05] purchase of this membership with
[1:01:07] maintenance fees in the amount of
[1:01:09] $226,000
[1:01:12] and is requesting immediate effect. Any
[1:01:14] questions or comments on this item?
[1:01:17] Any objection to unanimous role?
[1:01:20] should be attached. Next
[1:01:22] item, item 37, resolution by council
[1:01:24] members O'Reilly and Nelafi awarding a
[1:01:26] contract to DMC Consultants, Inc. in the
[1:01:29] amount of 1,952,353
[1:01:33] for construction services for fire
[1:01:35] department station renovations. Thank
[1:01:38] you, Mr. Clerk. The city of Dearbornne
[1:01:39] operates four fire department stations
[1:01:41] inside of our borders with interior
[1:01:42] updates and modernization due to support
[1:01:45] continued service for our community. The
[1:01:47] following uh completion and design phase
[1:01:49] bids were solicited and for construction
[1:01:51] of fire stations 1 2 3 and four. Uh the
[1:01:54] project includes all necessary
[1:01:56] demolition, removal, label, materials
[1:01:58] and associated with the reser with the
[1:02:00] renovations. Uh purchasing on behalf of
[1:02:02] the fire department recommends the
[1:02:03] awarding the contract to DMC uh
[1:02:06] consultants incorporated with the lowest
[1:02:08] responsive and responsible bid in the
[1:02:10] amount of 1,952,353.
[1:02:15] Any questions or comments on this?
[1:02:19] Right. Any objection to unanimous role?
[1:02:22] should be attached. Next
[1:02:23] item. Item 38 is a resolution by council
[1:02:26] members Paris and O'Reilly approving the
[1:02:28] fiscal year 2027 smart municipal and
[1:02:32] community credit uh contract in the
[1:02:34] total amount of $345,81321
[1:02:39] and requesting immediate effect. Thank
[1:02:41] you, Mr. C. The city of Dearborn
[1:02:43] partners with Smart to provide
[1:02:44] transportation services for Dearborn
[1:02:45] residents within the city. During a
[1:02:47] typical week, the program provides curb
[1:02:49] tocurb transportation to approximately
[1:02:51] 200 seniors and individuals individuals
[1:02:54] with disabilities each week. The service
[1:02:57] operates Monday through Friday from 8:30
[1:02:59] a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the cost of only $1
[1:03:02] each way, $2 for a round trip. No
[1:03:05] resident is denied transportation due to
[1:03:07] financial hardship as well. In addition,
[1:03:08] the Dearborn seniors uh age 65 and older
[1:03:12] who provide valid proof of residency are
[1:03:14] eligible to receive free bus tickets
[1:03:16] established by our smart routes. Any
[1:03:19] questions or comments? Great program
[1:03:21] here in Dearborn. Right. We need more
[1:03:23] people to take advantage of that. Any
[1:03:24] objection to unanimous role?
[1:03:27] All right. Un should be attached. Next
[1:03:29] item.
[1:03:29] >> Item 39. Resolution by council members
[1:03:31] in Paris granting the request of the UAW
[1:03:34] local 600 to host its all-American
[1:03:38] classic car show event in the parking
[1:03:41] lot located at 1055
[1:03:44] Dicks on Saturday August 29th 2026 from
[1:03:48] 11:00 a.m. to 6 p.m. with assistance
[1:03:51] from the police department for temporary
[1:03:53] road closures on Fernie and Dixs and
[1:03:55] Fernie and Verer. also granting a noise
[1:03:57] waiver for the duration of the event and
[1:03:59] requesting immediate effect.
[1:04:01] >> All right. Thank you, Mr. Clerk. Uh, the
[1:04:03] UAW Local 600 is requesting approval to
[1:04:05] host a UAW All-American Classic Car Show
[1:04:08] on Saturday, August 29th, 2026 from
[1:04:10] 11:00 a.m. to 6 p.m. The event is
[1:04:12] intended to celebrate Dearborn's rich
[1:04:13] automotive history heritage uh while
[1:04:16] bringing residents and and and visitors
[1:04:19] together with a goal of establishing the
[1:04:21] car show as an annual traditional event
[1:04:22] through the city and particularly in the
[1:04:24] South End community. To ensure the
[1:04:26] safety of the attendees, the UAW and
[1:04:28] local 600 is requesting a temporary road
[1:04:31] closures that we'll receive from uh the
[1:04:33] city of Dearborn as well as from Wayne
[1:04:35] County as well. Um there's also requests
[1:04:37] for immediate effect and a noise
[1:04:40] ordinance waiver. Any questions or
[1:04:42] comments on this item?
[1:04:44] Any objection to unanimous role?
[1:04:47] shall be attached. Next
[1:04:48] item. Item 40 is a resolution by council
[1:04:51] members O'Reilly and Elsawi granting the
[1:04:53] request of the UAW local 600 to host its
[1:04:56] annual trunk or treat event in the
[1:04:59] parking lot located at 10550 Dixs on
[1:05:02] Saturday, October 24th, 2026 from 3:00
[1:05:05] p.m. to 8:00 p.m. with assistance from
[1:05:08] the police department for temporary road
[1:05:09] closures at Fernie and Dixs and Fernie
[1:05:12] and Verer. Also granting a noise waiver
[1:05:14] for the duration of the event and
[1:05:15] requesting immediate effect.
[1:05:17] >> All right. Thank you, Mr. Clerk. The UAW
[1:05:19] Local 600 is also requesting to host its
[1:05:21] annual trunk or treat on Saturday,
[1:05:23] October 24th of this year at 3 p.m. to
[1:05:26] 8:00 p.m. for all safety and attendees.
[1:05:28] They're requesting authorization of road
[1:05:30] closures and intersections of Fernie and
[1:05:32] Dixs as well as Fernie and uh Verer for
[1:05:35] the duration of the event. Uh it is
[1:05:37] noted that the Wayne County will also
[1:05:38] provide a separate permit for those road
[1:05:40] closures. Additionally, they're
[1:05:41] requesting a noise or ordinance waiver
[1:05:43] for the duration of the event with
[1:05:45] immediate effect. Any questions or
[1:05:46] comments on this?
[1:05:48] Any objection to the unanimous role?
[1:05:51] should be attached. Next
[1:05:52] item, item 41. Resolution by council
[1:05:55] members Abraham and Alawi granting the
[1:05:57] request of Zaman International to
[1:05:59] conduct its 17th annual Zaman Run, Walk,
[1:06:03] and Picnic on Saturday, September 19th,
[1:06:06] 2026 from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
[1:06:09] resulting in the temporary use and
[1:06:10] closure of the northbound lane of Brady
[1:06:12] Street between Cherry Hill and the River
[1:06:14] Rouge Gateway Trail subject to the
[1:06:17] reimbursement for city services, all
[1:06:19] applicable ordinances, and the rules and
[1:06:21] regulations of the police department.
[1:06:23] also granting a noise waiver for the
[1:06:25] duration of the event and requesting
[1:06:27] immediate effect.
[1:06:28] >> All right. Thank you, Mr. Cork. This is
[1:06:29] the 17th time you read this and it's
[1:06:31] Zaman
[1:06:33] Fun Rock, but we got it. Sometimes we
[1:06:36] have to get that correct. Zaman Zaman
[1:06:38] Run and Walk Picnic 17th year.
[1:06:41] Tremendous organization. Uh it is uh on
[1:06:44] Saturday, September 19th, 2026 with the
[1:06:47] setup beginning at 8 a.m. and a tear
[1:06:48] down at 2 p.m. Approximately 2,000
[1:06:51] attendees are expected. This event will
[1:06:53] have a 5K run, opening ceremonies, a 5K
[1:06:56] walk, uh two kids runs, and a community
[1:06:59] picnic. All proceeds will go to Zaman
[1:07:01] for their uh for its program is
[1:07:03] assisting families experience extreme
[1:07:05] poverty throughout southeastern
[1:07:07] Michigan. A waiver of noise ordinance is
[1:07:08] also being requested. Any questions or
[1:07:10] comments? Council Mafi.
[1:07:23] You you ran once though. You Yeah, you
[1:07:25] did ran it. Yeah.
[1:07:27] >> This year straight to the picnic day.
[1:07:28] It's a great event, folks. They do a
[1:07:30] tremendous work in our community and
[1:07:31] we'd like to thank them. Any uh any
[1:07:33] other questions or comments? Any
[1:07:35] objection? Unanimous role?
[1:07:38] Your national should be attached. Next
[1:07:39] item. Item 42, resolution by council
[1:07:41] members O'Reilly and Paris granting the
[1:07:43] request of Dearborn High School to
[1:07:46] conduct its annual homecoming parade on
[1:07:48] Friday, September 25th, 2026 from 4:45
[1:07:52] p.m. to 5:30 p.m. subject to all
[1:07:54] applicable ordinances and the rules and
[1:07:56] regulations of the police department.
[1:07:58] Also granting a noise waiver for the
[1:08:00] duration of the event and requesting
[1:08:02] immediate effect.
[1:08:04] >> All right. Thank you, Mr. Clerk.
[1:08:05] Dearborn High School is requesting
[1:08:06] approval to host its annual homecoming
[1:08:08] parade on Friday, September 25th, 2026
[1:08:10] at 4:45 p.m. to 5:30 with an um
[1:08:14] anticipated attendance of approximately
[1:08:15] 500 people. A waiver of the city's noise
[1:08:18] ordinance is also being requested for
[1:08:19] the duration with immediate effect. So,
[1:08:22] back to school time. Any questions or
[1:08:24] comments? Any objection to unanimous
[1:08:26] role?
[1:08:28] should be attached. Next
[1:08:29] item,
[1:08:29] >> item 43, resolution by council members
[1:08:32] Alawi and O'Reilly, authorizing the
[1:08:34] finance director to recognize and
[1:08:36] appropriate the fiscal year 2027
[1:08:39] Southeast Michigan Council of
[1:08:41] Governments, also known as SEMCOG
[1:08:43] Planning Assistant Program Award for the
[1:08:46] Dearborn Schools Quarter Traffic Study
[1:08:48] Project in the amount of $32,740
[1:08:52] with a local match requirement in the
[1:08:54] amount of $7,260
[1:08:56] and requesting immediate effect.
[1:08:58] >> Thank you, Mr. Clerk. The city has been
[1:09:00] awarded $32,740
[1:09:02] through fiscal year 2027 from SE uh
[1:09:05] SAMCOG Planning Assistance Program to
[1:09:08] conduct pedestrian and traffic safety
[1:09:10] studies at our four high priority school
[1:09:13] area corridors and evaluate the
[1:09:15] feasibility and and of high density uh
[1:09:18] active crosswalks and signals for
[1:09:21] pedestrian safety throughout our city.
[1:09:22] The study will focus on four locations
[1:09:25] uh that experience significant traffic
[1:09:27] for students and families in the
[1:09:28] neighborhood and residents along. The
[1:09:30] project cost is $40,000 including
[1:09:33] $32,740
[1:09:35] is a grant from SEMCOG and the city's
[1:09:37] match of $7,260.
[1:09:41] Any questions or comments on this item?
[1:09:44] Any objection to unanimous role?
[1:09:47] Unan should be attached. Next item,
[1:09:49] >> item 44, resolution by council members
[1:09:51] O'Reilly and Abraham, authorizing the
[1:09:53] finance director to recognize the
[1:09:55] Michigan Department of Natural Resources
[1:09:57] through the land and water conservation
[1:10:00] fund grant award for the development of
[1:10:02] a splash pad at Camp Dearborn in the
[1:10:05] amount of $500,000 and to appropriate
[1:10:08] $500,000 in the general fund balance to
[1:10:10] the Camp Dearborn operating budget as a
[1:10:13] transfer to the facility fund and to
[1:10:15] recognize and appropriate the transfer
[1:10:17] for the local match. and requesting
[1:10:19] immediate effect.
[1:10:20] >> Thank you, Mr. Clerk. The Michigan
[1:10:22] Department of Natural Resources or DNR
[1:10:25] and the US Department of Interior
[1:10:26] National Park Service have approved the
[1:10:28] city of Dearborn to receive $500,000
[1:10:31] in land and water conservation uh fund
[1:10:34] grant for the development of a splash
[1:10:36] pack uh splash pad park at Camp
[1:10:39] Dearbornne, including relative
[1:10:40] accessibility and site improvements. If
[1:10:43] this uh if this request this is also
[1:10:46] being requested that the chief financial
[1:10:47] officer be authorized to recognize and
[1:10:49] appropriate the same. Any questions or
[1:10:52] comments
[1:10:54] like to thank our grants departments for
[1:10:55] uh tremendous job well needed and it's
[1:10:58] going to make a big difference out there
[1:10:59] and the parks department but I will note
[1:11:01] that she sat in the first role somebody
[1:11:04] chose to sit in the second row. So we
[1:11:05] appreciate you sitting in the front row
[1:11:06] there for us. [laughter]
[1:11:09] >> Any questions or comments? Any
[1:11:11] objection? Unanimous role. Unanimous
[1:11:13] role shall be attached. Next item,
[1:11:15] >> item 45, resolution by council members
[1:11:17] Paris and O'Reilly, authorizing the
[1:11:19] purchase of the 50 foot by 250 foot
[1:11:22] portion of the property located at 19501
[1:11:26] Outer Drive, which contains the fire
[1:11:28] safety house from the Dearborn public
[1:11:30] schools for the amount of $5,000 and up
[1:11:33] to an additional amount of $10,000 for
[1:11:36] closing costs. also authorizing the
[1:11:38] mayor and corporation council or his
[1:11:41] designate to execute documents on behalf
[1:11:43] of the city to effectuate this
[1:11:45] transaction and requesting immediate
[1:11:47] effect.
[1:11:49] All right. Thank you, Mr. Clerk. The
[1:11:50] fire safety house is used annually by
[1:11:52] the Dearborn Fire Department to provide
[1:11:54] fire and safety life safety education to
[1:11:57] third grade students at the Dearborn
[1:11:58] public schools for various and various
[1:12:00] private schools. Uh after many years of
[1:12:02] use, it's it's uh been agreed that the
[1:12:04] city of Dearbornne will purchase this
[1:12:06] property to make renovations from the
[1:12:08] schools uh from the Dearbornne school
[1:12:10] system. The city assessor has valuated
[1:12:12] prop valuated the property at
[1:12:14] approximately $30,100. They're
[1:12:16] requesting immediate effect. Any
[1:12:17] questions or comments on this item? Any
[1:12:20] objection to unanimous role? Chief, you
[1:12:22] want to speak on it? No, we're good.
[1:12:24] Yeah, we're good. Thank you. Unanimous
[1:12:27] role should be attached. Next item,
[1:12:28] >> item 46, resolution by council members
[1:12:30] O'Reilly and Elsawi, granting the
[1:12:32] request of the Kuanas Club of
[1:12:34] Dearbornne, uh 48124 to hold its annual
[1:12:38] peanut street sales and solicit
[1:12:41] contributions at various public roadways
[1:12:45] throughout the city from 7:00 a.m. to
[1:12:46] 700 p.m. on September 10th, 11th, 12th,
[1:12:49] and 13, 2026 and requesting immediate
[1:12:52] effect.
[1:12:53] >> All right. Thank you, uh, Mr. Clerk. The
[1:12:55] Kuanas Club of Dearborn has submitted
[1:12:57] their annual request for uh council
[1:12:59] approval to solicit for contributions in
[1:13:01] the public uh roadway through the sale
[1:13:03] of peanuts from uh 7:00 a.m. to 7:00
[1:13:06] p.m. September 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th of
[1:13:09] this year. Folks, if you're out there,
[1:13:12] see them in the road. The peanuts are
[1:13:14] phenomenal and the cause is even better.
[1:13:15] So, help support the Quantis Club.
[1:13:17] They're doing a great job. Any questions
[1:13:19] or comments on this item? Any objection?
[1:13:21] Unanimous role. Unanimous role should be
[1:13:24] attached. Next item, item 47, resolution
[1:13:26] by council members O'Reilly and Paris,
[1:13:28] concurring in the appointment of Marilla
[1:13:30] Willlet to the East Dearborn Downtown
[1:13:32] Development Authority with a term ending
[1:13:34] June 30th, 2030.
[1:13:37] >> All right. Uh, thank you. Uh, this
[1:13:39] appointment by Maria Willlet for the
[1:13:41] East Dearborn Downtown Authority for a
[1:13:43] term of four years. The term will end
[1:13:45] June 30th, 2030. I just like to remind
[1:13:48] everyone that are serving on our
[1:13:50] commissions. I would like to thank them.
[1:13:51] These are volunteer positions and are
[1:13:52] extremely important to help assist the
[1:13:54] city government uh in in our operations.
[1:13:57] Any uh question or comments? Any
[1:13:59] objection? Unanimous role?
[1:14:02] Okay. Unanimous role should be attached.
[1:14:03] Next item.
[1:14:04] >> Item 48 is a resolution by council
[1:14:06] member O'Reilly and Paris concurring in
[1:14:08] the appointment of Maria Willlet to the
[1:14:10] West Dearborn Downtown Development
[1:14:12] Authority with a term ending June 30th,
[1:14:15] 2030.
[1:14:16] >> Thank you, Mr. Clerk. Well, thank you
[1:14:18] Mar uh Miss Willlet for also uh being
[1:14:20] willing to serve on our West Downtown uh
[1:14:22] Authority, a four-year term that will
[1:14:23] end on June 30th, 2030.
[1:14:27] Any questions or comments? Any
[1:14:29] objection? Unanimous role.
[1:14:31] should be attached. Next
[1:14:32] item.
[1:14:33] >> Item 49, resolution by council members
[1:14:35] Alawi and Hammud concurring in the
[1:14:37] appointment of Claudia Hammud to the
[1:14:39] library commission with a term ending
[1:14:41] June 30th, 2029.
[1:14:43] >> All right. Thank you again. I would like
[1:14:45] to recognize the appointment of Claudia
[1:14:47] Hammud to our library commission for the
[1:14:49] term ending in for a three-year term
[1:14:51] that will end on June 30th, 2029.
[1:14:54] Any questions or comments?
[1:14:56] >> No relation to me or the mayor.
[1:14:58] >> Right. That is true. No relation to
[1:14:59] either one of you.
[1:15:00] >> Question.
[1:15:01] >> Uh yes. Question for live. This is an
[1:15:03] appointment, sir. And
[1:15:06] >> Yes, sir. Okay. If you can, you could
[1:15:07] step to the microphone. You'll be you'll
[1:15:08] be able to address it. Yes, sir. You
[1:15:11] there's a little corridor here, sir. If
[1:15:12] you if you like, you could get through
[1:15:14] there.
[1:15:19] » Right where the officers, there's a
[1:15:20] microphone. Sir,
[1:15:26] » what safeguards require library
[1:15:28] commission members to apply viewpoint
[1:15:29] neutral collection and access policies
[1:15:31] rather than favoring or suppressing
[1:15:33] political, religious, cultural, or
[1:15:35] ideological viewpoints?
[1:15:38] and what process exists for residents to
[1:15:40] challenge a library commission decision
[1:15:42] they believe violates their principles.
[1:15:45] >> Thank you, sir. Yeah, th those questions
[1:15:47] are better addressed to our library
[1:15:49] commission. So there there is on our
[1:15:51] website their meetings and you will be
[1:15:52] able to uh speak to them and you'll be
[1:15:53] able to get those answers.
[1:15:55] >> I appreciate it. All right. Any
[1:15:56] objection to unanimous role on the
[1:15:58] appointment of Claudia Hammud?
[1:16:01] >> Okay. Unanous role should be attached.
[1:16:03] Next item.
[1:16:04] >> Uh Mr. President. No further items on
[1:16:06] tonight's agenda.
[1:16:08] >> All right.
[1:16:10] I have just a couple for
[1:16:11] myself. Um I just wanted to recognize
[1:16:14] some outstanding achievements in our
[1:16:16] community
[1:16:18] um this last few months, and they happen
[1:16:20] to be all women, which is always a great
[1:16:23] thing. Uh Zana Alh Hassan, a personal
[1:16:25] friend and a tremendous um individual
[1:16:27] who's also on our planning commission,
[1:16:30] was elected vice president of the Kresge
[1:16:32] Foundation, and we wanted to recognize
[1:16:34] that for her. It's a tremendous, event.
[1:16:41] All right. Thank you. Uh in for our uh
[1:16:44] community access, uh we have a
[1:16:47] retirement by Mrs. Mah over 35 years. If
[1:16:50] some of you guys ever watch a YouTube
[1:16:52] video, you'll see her as a very very
[1:16:54] young lady uh when access began in the
[1:16:56] south end of Dearbornne uh in the late
[1:17:00] 70s. Uh 35 years she is retiring. We
[1:17:02] like and to be said her dream um and
[1:17:06] fulfillment which hopefully will be
[1:17:07] coming at the end of this month or next
[1:17:09] month. new access treatment, drug and
[1:17:11] rehabilitation treatment center in our
[1:17:12] city of Dearborn on Michigan Avenue in
[1:17:15] the east Dearborn side near Wyoming uh
[1:17:17] will be realized because of her um her
[1:17:19] tremendous work. I'd like to also
[1:17:21] recognize Lena Haraji, a personal friend
[1:17:24] of mine, classmate uh that is taking
[1:17:26] over as the next CEO. Uh she has been
[1:17:28] working with Access for at least 15 to
[1:17:30] 20 years. Tremendous job. Um it's great
[1:17:33] to see organizations that have planned
[1:17:35] secessions and and have a real plan. and
[1:17:37] they're doing tremendous work at access
[1:17:38] and would like to recognize both those
[1:17:40] ladies. We also have one of our bright uh people
[1:17:48] from our school systems, Mesa Ali Bazzy
[1:17:51] um who was recently tooken from our
[1:17:53] school system like many of them do and
[1:17:55] to go to the state boards and she is
[1:17:57] going to be ex being um appointed or
[1:18:00] working been uh been appointed to work
[1:18:02] as the chief deputy of the Michigan
[1:18:04] Department of Education. is a tremendous
[1:18:05] honor to have our school system people
[1:18:08] uh continue to move up into the state
[1:18:11] and it just shows you what uh kind of
[1:18:12] work has been done in here in Dearmore.
[1:18:14] So I'd like to make sure we recognize
[1:18:16] that as well. Thank you.
[1:18:19] Um
[1:18:22] for um for myself for my colleagues,
[1:18:24] anything from my colleagues before we
[1:18:25] move on to the administration or mayor?
[1:18:29] All right. Uh mayor, anything from the
[1:18:31] administration?
[1:18:33] Thank you, Mr. Clerk. anything from your
[1:18:34] department?
[1:18:35] >> I'm all set tonight. Thank you.
[1:18:36] >> All right. Uh so now we will u move into
[1:18:39] our final part which will be our public
[1:18:42] speaking um duration. Just a kind
[1:18:44] reminder, same rules follow. We have
[1:18:46] several cards here. I do know that there
[1:18:48] might been some people that may have uh
[1:18:50] exited. So I will give a little bit of
[1:18:52] time to make sure that no one is outside
[1:18:55] or can we make the assumption that
[1:18:56] they're all inside that want to speak
[1:18:58] since there's space?
[1:19:01] >> Okay. Thank you, Chief. All right. Okay.
[1:19:03] First we have Mr. Muhammad Saab.
[1:19:06] So just kind reminder it's back there.
[1:19:08] Yep.
[1:19:19] » Good evening everybody. My name is
[1:19:21] Muhammad Sab. I'm a student at Wayne
[1:19:22] State University in the College of
[1:19:24] Engineering just down the road from
[1:19:25] here. After tonight, Dearbornne will
[1:19:28] once again go viral. The clips of us in
[1:19:30] our city are already being cut, and once
[1:19:32] again, our city will be shown to
[1:19:33] millions of people who have never set a
[1:19:35] foot in it. While the eyes of the
[1:19:36] country are on us, I'd rather they see
[1:19:38] something positive than what those
[1:19:40] filled with hate brought them here to
[1:19:41] see. Dearborn is a city full of
[1:19:43] remarkable people. We have doctors,
[1:19:45] lawyers, engineers, business owners,
[1:19:47] tradesmen, and families who put each
[1:19:49] other first. If you are looking for
[1:19:51] proof of the American dream, you do not
[1:19:52] have to look past the city of Dearorn.
[1:19:55] Understand what these men are. They are
[1:19:57] not activists and they are not
[1:19:58] preachers. They are merchants whose only
[1:20:01] good to sell is fear.
[1:20:03] It's a cheap product and it contains an
[1:20:05] enormous margin. It requires no
[1:20:08] evidence, no argument and no
[1:20:09] acquaintance whatsoever with the person
[1:20:10] whom it's sold against. And it asks of
[1:20:12] you only one thing that you look at a
[1:20:14] neighbor and you agree to see a
[1:20:16] stranger. While we are busy buying fear
[1:20:18] from these men, nobody's asking why a
[1:20:20] family working hard cannot afford a home
[1:20:22] or a doctor. Let me leave you with this
[1:20:24] one statement. In a republic, the power
[1:20:27] does not descend from a throne. It rises
[1:20:29] from us, the people. That is the whole
[1:20:31] of our strength, but it is also exactly
[1:20:32] our weakness. Because a people who can
[1:20:34] be persuaded can also just as easil
[1:20:35] easily be deceived. Every lie that a
[1:20:38] nation accepts for long enough becomes
[1:20:40] the law that it lives under. Our defense
[1:20:42] here in Dearbornne has never been anger,
[1:20:43] nor has it ever been silence. It's been
[1:20:45] education. Learn a thing before you
[1:20:47] repeat it. Meet a person before you fear
[1:20:49] them. And judge men and women by their
[1:20:50] character, because that is the only
[1:20:52] measure that has been and ever will be
[1:20:53] fair. Hate is loud, but it's fragile. It
[1:20:56] survives only when nobody bothers to
[1:20:57] check where it comes from. Thank you.
[1:20:59] Have a good night, everybody.
[1:21:00] >> Thank you.
[1:21:02] [applause]
[1:21:05] » Okay, we have Muhammad Ali Bas.
[1:21:10] >> Thank you.
[1:21:28] Thank [clears throat] you everyone for
[1:21:30] uh allowing me to speak. Thank you to
[1:21:32] the city council and to Mayor Hammud for
[1:21:34] everything he does for our great city.
[1:21:36] As you can hear, my voice is raspy
[1:21:37] because I was out there protesting
[1:21:38] against agitators and unamericans who
[1:21:41] come to Dearborn and spread fear.
[1:21:44] This [clears throat] country was believe
[1:21:45] was founded on the belief of freedom of
[1:21:47] religious sorry. This country was
[1:21:50] founded on the belief of freedom from
[1:21:52] religious persecution like liberty and
[1:21:53] the pursuit of happiness in which our
[1:21:55] country was founded on and Dearborn as
[1:21:57] the epide epitome of what America is
[1:21:59] when it was America when it was America
[1:22:02] that was attacked in Pearl Harbor. It
[1:22:04] was the ArabAmerican population that
[1:22:05] picked up the racks that jobs that
[1:22:08] fought against fascism that fought
[1:22:10] against fascists in Nazi Germany.
[1:22:13] Though defeated in 1945, fascism hasn't
[1:22:16] been rooted out and it's very evident
[1:22:18] today. our people aren't any less
[1:22:20] American than the next. So why is it
[1:22:22] that these fascists come to Dearbornne,
[1:22:24] preach on Sharia law while being the
[1:22:26] same group that has invalidated the the
[1:22:28] democratic processes and attempted to
[1:22:30] storm the capital of the United States
[1:22:32] in which we each contribute to our
[1:22:34] country, to our nation, to its culture,
[1:22:36] to its history, to its promises. Our
[1:22:38] people refused to take a moral lashing
[1:22:40] from people who wave the Nazi flags.
[1:22:42] Americans died to fight off and against.
[1:22:45] From people who voted to a man who
[1:22:48] bombed a Iranian school girl, killing
[1:22:51] over 10 girls. From Epsteiners and
[1:22:54] January 6ers, our country, our city, our
[1:22:57] county won't bow down to people who wish
[1:23:00] to spread fear. Our country is built
[1:23:03] upon the promise of America. And like
[1:23:06] everyone here who has spoken, this is
[1:23:08] what the promise of America is. cultural
[1:23:11] acceptance, freedom, the pursuit of
[1:23:14] happiness and religion. We won't be
[1:23:17] religiously persecuted, and we won't be
[1:23:19] made out to be victims, even if we are
[1:23:22] the target of the United States. God
[1:23:24] bless the United States, and God bless
[1:23:26] the city of Dearbornne.
[1:23:27] >> Thank you. Thank you,
[1:23:32] Mr. Ab. Best Halloween.
[1:23:38] » [applause]
[1:23:41] » Thank you, Council President Serini. Uh,
[1:23:43] thank you to members of the council to
[1:23:45] Mayor Hammud.
[1:23:48] I just feel so proud of Dearbornne
[1:23:50] today.
[1:23:53] I'm so proud of our leadership.
[1:23:56] I'm proud. I'm so proud of every single
[1:23:59] family out there
[1:24:01] that is keeping its head down and just
[1:24:04] going about our lives like we always
[1:24:07] have.
[1:24:09] I'm especially proud of all the kids out
[1:24:12] there. And I want to we don't have kids
[1:24:15] in the room, thank God, but I want to
[1:24:18] speak just to the kids in Dearbornne
[1:24:21] today.
[1:24:23] My friends,
[1:24:25] I know it's a scary time.
[1:24:29] I was a kid once here in Dearbornne and
[1:24:32] felt really scared because there was
[1:24:34] this thing that was happening. There was
[1:24:36] a guy who kept showing up in the city
[1:24:39] and he was obsessed. It seemed like he
[1:24:41] was obsessed with Dearborn. He kept
[1:24:42] burning a Quran for some reason and it
[1:24:45] made me feel very scared.
[1:24:48] But the advice that I got from my mom
[1:24:51] and my dad and my sister was that here
[1:24:54] in Dearbornne, some people come and go.
[1:24:58] But those folks, especially the ones
[1:25:00] that are trying to divide us, they don't
[1:25:02] know us. They don't live here. We live
[1:25:04] here. They will come and go and we will
[1:25:09] remain.
[1:25:10] The beauty of Dearbornne, the strength
[1:25:13] of Dearborn, the strength of our region
[1:25:16] here in southeastern Michigan is our
[1:25:19] diversity.
[1:25:20] I kept my head down.
[1:25:23] I ended up growing up and working at the
[1:25:26] highest levels of our government. One
[1:25:28] day I was working in the United States
[1:25:30] capital and there was a small group of
[1:25:33] people who had a very narrow idea of
[1:25:36] what America is and who belongs in
[1:25:39] America that came.
[1:25:41] You might read about it at school. It
[1:25:43] was on January 6th of 2021.
[1:25:46] I was inside the capital working for a
[1:25:48] member of Congress defending our
[1:25:51] democracy, trying to certify an election
[1:25:53] on that day. And there was a small group
[1:25:55] of people that didn't want our democracy
[1:25:58] to survive. They wanted to promote the
[1:26:00] politics of division. One of those
[1:26:02] people is the same guy who now is
[1:26:05] showing up to Dearborn trying to say
[1:26:08] that he's against just one religion. The
[1:26:10] reality is that guy and a whole lot of
[1:26:14] people like him,
[1:26:14] >> you have 30 seconds remaining.
[1:26:16] >> It's actually a very small number of
[1:26:18] people.
[1:26:19] >> They're not attacking a religion.
[1:26:21] They're attacking an idea of America
[1:26:22] that includes all of us. And so when
[1:26:25] this guy and this distraction comes and
[1:26:27] goes, we will be here and you will grow
[1:26:30] up to continue strengthening one of the
[1:26:33] most beautiful cities in the world
[1:26:34] that's led by incredible people like our
[1:26:37] mayor who I'm so proud of. Thank you,
[1:26:39] Mr. Mayor, for your leadership today. It
[1:26:42] really means a lot to me.
[1:26:44] >> I'm sorry your time has expired.
[1:26:46] >> Thank you, Aman Alansi.
[1:26:58] Good evening, Mr. Mayor, members of the
[1:27:00] C council. Uh, my name is Al Ani. I am a
[1:27:04] lifelong resident of the city. Nine
[1:27:06] months ago, I stood at the same
[1:27:07] microphone on a day when two very
[1:27:09] different visitors came to Dearbornne.
[1:27:12] One came carrying every fear the
[1:27:14] internet had sold him. He walked our
[1:27:16] streets. He sat in our mosques. He spoke
[1:27:18] with our neighbors. and he left the city
[1:27:20] a changed man. He admitted out loud what
[1:27:23] few are brave enough to say that he had
[1:27:26] been lied to. In place of the danger he
[1:27:29] was promised, he found hospital uh
[1:27:31] hospitality.
[1:27:32] He found dignity and he found a people
[1:27:34] who treat a a stranger as if he he was
[1:27:37] already a neighbor. The other group came
[1:27:40] for none of that. They came to shout.
[1:27:42] They came to film. They came to be seen.
[1:27:45] And to them I said then and I'll say it
[1:27:47] again tonight. Our table is still set.
[1:27:50] There is a seat for you. There is a
[1:27:52] plate of shawarma, a glass of Yemeni
[1:27:54] tea. You don't know, you don't have to
[1:27:56] agree with a single thing we believe to
[1:27:57] break bread with us. And the invitation
[1:28:00] still stands even tonight, even as
[1:28:02] another so-called crusade is organized
[1:28:04] at our doorstep. But some of the people
[1:28:07] whom who most need to hear this these
[1:28:09] words will never walk into this chamber.
[1:28:11] So So tonight, let me speak past this
[1:28:13] room to those who hold real power over
[1:28:15] what happens next in 2024. I endorsed
[1:28:18] Donald Trump for president. I was wrong.
[1:28:20] I have never hidden it. I said so
[1:28:22] plainly then and I'll say it again now
[1:28:23] in front of my neighbors. I let my grief
[1:28:26] over Gaza lead me to a decision I
[1:28:28] regret. I own that mistake and because I
[1:28:30] own it, I have earned the right to say
[1:28:32] what comes next. Mr. President, the man
[1:28:35] leading this march walks free because of
[1:28:37] you. Your pardon gave him back his
[1:28:39] liberty. And he has chosen to spend that
[1:28:41] liberty targeting target targeting a
[1:28:43] city whose own voters helped return you
[1:28:45] to office. We did not come to you out of
[1:28:47] blind loyalty. We came because we were
[1:28:50] tired. Tired of the two parties that
[1:28:52] seemed to answer to the same distant
[1:28:54] interests. You asked for our trust. We
[1:28:57] gave it. And in our hour of need, you've
[1:28:59] given us silence. One sentence from you
[1:29:02] would end this. Condemn the march. When
[1:29:05] a Muslim nation gave you a gift of a
[1:29:07] plane, there was no out outrage. But
[1:29:09] when the same community asked only to be
[1:29:11] left in peace in its own hometown, your
[1:29:13] silence is louder than any bullhorn on
[1:29:15] the streets. And to the Republicans who
[1:29:18] just won their primaries, John James,
[1:29:19] Mike Rogers, and the rest of the ticket,
[1:29:21] I have a word for you, too. You want to
[1:29:23] govern the state, you want to carry
[1:29:25] Michigan's voice to Washington, then
[1:29:26] hear me clearly. Dearborn is Michigan.
[1:29:29] If you are the tireless workers you
[1:29:31] claim to be on the campaign trail, 30
[1:29:32] seconds remaining, then work for the
[1:29:33] people of this country, not for the
[1:29:35] spread of Islamophobia, not at the
[1:29:36] command of any foreign lobby. Thomas Massie has shown what a that a
[1:29:41] Republican can put his nation first and
[1:29:43] stand firm under pressure. If you cannot
[1:29:45] bring yourself to say one plain sentence
[1:29:47] that you do not want a crusade in
[1:29:48] Michigan, then you already have told
[1:29:50] every family in the city exactly how
[1:29:51] little we are worth to you. Now, let me
[1:29:53] be clear about the what the January 6th
[1:29:56] convict and those marching behind them
[1:29:57] are really after. They did not come here
[1:29:59] for conversation. They came to provoke
[1:30:01] us to film our reaction time
[1:30:03] >> and to turn our anger into division into
[1:30:05] and to carry our division home like a
[1:30:06] trophy. Their whole livelihoods depend
[1:30:09] on this moment. So let's refuse to give
[1:30:10] it to them and to the young people
[1:30:12] especially
[1:30:12] >> Mr. Alman.
[1:30:13] >> Yeah.
[1:30:14] >> I'm sorry. Your time is expired. Okay.
[1:30:15] >> Thank you.
[1:30:16] >> All right.
[1:30:16] >> The noise will pass. Dearborn will
[1:30:18] remain and so will we.
[1:30:22] >> I mean
[1:30:27] uh Mr. Degan. Anthony Degan.
[1:30:44] 25 year Dearborn
[1:30:46] resident. Um, I just want to say first
[1:30:48] of all, on behalf of all the local
[1:30:50] Christians here, um, we wish that Jake
[1:30:53] Lang would never ever come back to the
[1:30:55] city of Dearbornne. Um it is it was the
[1:30:58] least Christian rally I've ever seen in
[1:30:59] my life. Um and I also want to say that
[1:31:02] uh it is true that uh there are quite a
[1:31:06] number of peaceful beautiful Muslims in
[1:31:09] the city of Dearbornne. Okay. So with
[1:31:11] that said that does not come at the
[1:31:13] expense that there is in fact a smaller
[1:31:16] contingent of radical Muslims in the
[1:31:18] city of Dearborn that are not being
[1:31:20] dealt with. Okay. So the what happened
[1:31:23] to Jake Lang, I I completely disagree
[1:31:26] with everything the man stands for, but
[1:31:28] what happened to him was appalling and
[1:31:32] it should it should never happen. If the
[1:31:33] roles were reversed, there would be 20
[1:31:35] squad cars descending on that parking
[1:31:38] lot immediately. And there were plenty
[1:31:39] in the area. I'm asking for the
[1:31:42] Department of Justice, the FBI, the
[1:31:44] Attorney General, whomever, to look into
[1:31:47] the city of Dearbornne's policing
[1:31:48] policies, and to look into the politics
[1:31:50] that take place because it's not just
[1:31:52] Jake Lang. Cam Higgby was assaulted.
[1:31:55] Nothing was done about it. Uh Nick
[1:31:57] Shirley had somebody recorded somebody
[1:32:00] saying they wanted to murder him and
[1:32:01] nothing was done about it. Okay, the
[1:32:04] mayor loves to talk about the pig's head
[1:32:05] story. I was there at that event at the
[1:32:08] festival when that man brought that pig
[1:32:10] head. What the mayor does not talk about
[1:32:12] is that there was a group of angry young
[1:32:14] Muslim men who assaulted that man
[1:32:16] bleeding profusely and the police
[1:32:19] arrested that man instead of those
[1:32:21] people. They didn't talk to any one of
[1:32:23] those young people. They arrested that
[1:32:25] man and said if he came back he would be
[1:32:27] permanently arrested. I myself have had
[1:32:29] rocks thrown at me. Called an F Agot
[1:32:33] white
[1:32:35] I went to the police to report it. They
[1:32:37] said they they did everything they could
[1:32:38] to talk me out of reporting that. They I
[1:32:41] had to go do my own work, get my own
[1:32:43] surveillance uh uh footage from the Tim
[1:32:46] Hortons. The guy knew everybody in the
[1:32:48] store. He knew the assistant manager and
[1:32:50] yet nothing was done. All the online
[1:32:53] threats that we talk about that I see
[1:32:55] every week on TCD Dearorn about all the
[1:32:57] threats that are being made against the
[1:32:59] Islamic community. What about the
[1:33:00] threats that are being made by the
[1:33:02] Islamic community? I was I've had
[1:33:04] threats made against me after I opposed
[1:33:07] Israel divestment. It was there was two
[1:33:10] of us in the room in an echo chamber
[1:33:12] full of people who were angry at us
[1:33:14] online afterwards. People were saying
[1:33:16] give us the name of those seconds
[1:33:17] remaining.
[1:33:18] >> Uh uh let's October 7th these nuts and uh you know who who are they? Give
[1:33:25] us their public information and nothing
[1:33:27] was done about it. Your your
[1:33:28] representative smiled at me
[1:33:30] condescendingly when I brought it up.
[1:33:32] Miss Council President Serini, you you
[1:33:34] scoffed at the idea that nothing would
[1:33:36] be done about it. I went there. Nothing
[1:33:38] was done about it. The county prosecutor
[1:33:40] refused to to prosecute it. Okay. So,
[1:33:43] Dearborn has a serious problem with
[1:33:46] radicalism. We have homegrown time
[1:33:49] expired. Your time is expired. But I'm
[1:33:51] going to address a couple things that
[1:33:52] was uh not true. Did you hear what you
[1:33:54] said or you want us to play it back to
[1:33:55] you? The Wayne County prosecutor refused
[1:33:57] to process something.
[1:33:58] >> Mhm.
[1:33:59] >> Do you have a law degree?
[1:34:03] >> No, I don't.
[1:34:03] >> That's the question. No, I don't. This
[1:34:05] is not
[1:34:06] >> I don't have a law. So, we're not
[1:34:07] playing around, but I know how to read.
[1:34:08] >> Okay. The Wayne County prosecutor does
[1:34:11] not answer to the city of Dearbornne.
[1:34:13] They are the lawyers and they fus refuse
[1:34:14] to prosecute. Okay. So, that's your
[1:34:16] answer on that.
[1:34:17] >> In regarding to Mr. Lang being
[1:34:19] assaulted, he was arrested fourth with
[1:34:22] Let's get that out of the way because
[1:34:23] there's a lot of lies about that. He was
[1:34:26] arrested fourth with was detained by our
[1:34:28] police department and he and the person
[1:34:31] that was arrested and accused of this
[1:34:33] crime was also taken into federal
[1:34:35] custody.
[1:34:35] >> I saw at least 10 to 20 assaults. I saw
[1:34:38] at least 10 to 20 assaults.
[1:34:39] >> Mr. Mr. Degan, you asked a question.
[1:34:41] There was a gentleman. There was four
[1:34:43] arrests. Okay? And if you like to find
[1:34:45] out the information, go ahead and find
[1:34:46] out information. But do not sit here and
[1:34:48] tell the people that we are lawless and
[1:34:49] we did not follow the law because that
[1:34:51] is the furthest from the truth. The man
[1:34:53] was arrested and he was detained and
[1:34:55] he's being charged and he's actually to
[1:34:57] taken into federal custody.
[1:34:58] >> You're saying man singular, there was
[1:34:59] men plural.
[1:35:01] >> Uh Mr. Mr. Degan, as I indicated, there
[1:35:03] was four arrests. You're more than
[1:35:04] welcome to find out through the foyer
[1:35:06] process on who they were arrested and
[1:35:07] then how they were charges through the
[1:35:08] court process. That's the process we
[1:35:10] have in this country. You can't pick and
[1:35:12] choose which one you want to have.
[1:35:14] That's the process when we arrest
[1:35:15] people. That's our job to arrest them.
[1:35:18] The prosecution job is part of the next
[1:35:20] stage. That's not our job. You continue
[1:35:22] say stuff that's not true. I'm not going
[1:35:23] to
[1:35:24] >> true. The online threats I have never
[1:35:26] seen one Muslim person online
[1:35:29] threat.
[1:35:30] >> Mr. Degan, online threats are federal.
[1:35:32] Okay.
[1:35:34] Your chief of police said that they were
[1:35:36] going to use all local, state, and
[1:35:37] federal people to investigate threats.
[1:35:40] They say the You say that the local DPD
[1:35:43] monitors threats. They don't care
[1:35:45] anything about it when it's somebody
[1:35:46] like me who gets threatened. It's only
[1:35:48] when it's a protected class that gets
[1:35:51] threatened. Your own chief said it. I've
[1:35:53] got screenshots and you want to talk
[1:35:55] about reading. You can read that.
[1:35:56] >> If you have if you have screenshots,
[1:35:58] what I would recommend to you is that
[1:35:59] any law-abiding citizen, there's a
[1:36:01] process in this country. If you go to
[1:36:03] the Dearborn Police Department, you're
[1:36:04] not happy with that. What's happened,
[1:36:06] you go to the state police department.
[1:36:08] That's the way the process.
[1:36:09] >> That's why I just called to the attorney
[1:36:10] general, then go ahead and do it and and
[1:36:12] then you'll go through the process.
[1:36:14] You're more than welcome. That's your
[1:36:15] right. Okay. If you're not happy with an
[1:36:17] outcome of something, that's what's
[1:36:19] great about our country. We have a
[1:36:20] circle. You go through and you will get
[1:36:22] justice. If if you're what you're saying
[1:36:24] is true, it will happen. So go through
[1:36:26] the process. That's all I'm asking you
[1:36:28] for. Okay.
[1:36:31] Next. [applause]
[1:36:32] Next speaker. Sure. You're all set. Next
[1:36:33] speaker have Zuher Abdulhak. Would you
[1:36:35] like to still speak?
[1:36:38] >> Okay. Thank you.
[1:36:44] can come this way. Oh, okay.
[1:36:47] Whatever. Yeah, whatever.
[1:37:01] Good evening, Zab.
[1:37:04] When I came to this country in 1977,
[1:37:08] I left my country because of the civil
[1:37:10] war with my three brothers. I arrived to
[1:37:14] this country to New York airport was
[1:37:16] $913.
[1:37:19] I didn't speak one word of English.
[1:37:23] In four years I had engineering degree
[1:37:26] from Wayne State University in 1981.
[1:37:30] My brothers has BSS
[1:37:33] in economic and biology.
[1:37:38] We came to this country. We paid our
[1:37:41] dues. We use the law. We use the
[1:37:44] procedures. We use what's available, the
[1:37:46] opportunities of this country which are
[1:37:49] available to everybody who sat here, Mr.
[1:37:52] Lorenzo, in a claim we took from them
[1:37:55] and we took from them and we we got all
[1:37:58] our riches from on on their backs.
[1:38:02] We paid our dues. We worked seven days a
[1:38:07] week. We slept in one room, three of us.
[1:38:11] In Highland Park,
[1:38:14] we lived like everybody else. We took
[1:38:17] the buses. We froze our feet when we
[1:38:20] waited for half an hour
[1:38:22] to take the bus from one place to one
[1:38:25] place to go to our classes into our
[1:38:28] work.
[1:38:29] The constitution of this country is a
[1:38:32] great document. It gives everybody the
[1:38:36] right
[1:38:37] to live their life free, to do what they
[1:38:40] want, to worship who they want.
[1:38:44] And Mr. Lang, he has every right to burn
[1:38:47] the book, to do whatever he wants to
[1:38:50] with it. But he cannot tell us who we
[1:38:54] worship because the only thing I worship
[1:38:57] and every citizen in this country should
[1:38:59] worship is the constitution of this
[1:39:02] country because it over
[1:39:05] you know it supersede the Quran, the
[1:39:09] Bible and the Torah because we all live
[1:39:13] under that constitution. We all
[1:39:15] guaranteed our rights under that
[1:39:18] constitution.
[1:39:20] So God bless this country. God bless
[1:39:24] this council in this city tonight. You
[1:39:27] guys proved that you are a great
[1:39:29] leaders.
[1:39:31] You deserve to be up there and I thank
[1:39:34] all our residents who none of them
[1:39:37] >> 30 seconds or did anything illegal.
[1:39:40] Again, thank you and God bless you.
[1:39:44] >> Thank you, [applause]
[1:39:48] Mr. O'Cra. You're next, sir. Glenn
[1:39:51] O'Cra, thank you.
[1:39:58] » I just want to tell the uh city
[1:40:00] officials here, I love you all.
[1:40:03] >> God bless you.
[1:40:04] >> We love you too,
[1:40:06] >> Mayor. Your your talk really touched me.
[1:40:11] I was born in the predecessor to Oakwood
[1:40:14] Hospital
[1:40:16] and I went to Sacred Heart for 12 years,
[1:40:23] grades uh 1 through 12.
[1:40:26] And the nuns whom I was very critical of
[1:40:30] u years ago, I also have grown to really
[1:40:33] love for the sense of social justice
[1:40:36] that they gave me.
[1:40:40] What I saw tonight outside and within
[1:40:43] this hall on the part of many people is
[1:40:46] not reflective of Christianity. It's
[1:40:49] just the opposite.
[1:40:51] I would just like to go on record that I
[1:40:55] believe that the spirit of the gospel
[1:40:57] has not been followed as it should be.
[1:41:02] My heart goes out to all Muslims.
[1:41:06] Very sad what you are going through.
[1:41:09] I wish you all the best. Thank you.
[1:41:12] >> Thank you, Mr. Okra. [applause]
[1:41:17] » Tiffany Alexander.
[1:41:21] Thank you, ma'am.
[1:41:30] » I'm short. There we go. Hello. Um,
[1:41:36] as said, my name is Tiffany. Um, first,
[1:41:39] can I just apologize for the other
[1:41:41] people who came up here looking like me,
[1:41:43] uh, I am so sorry and hum unbelievably
[1:41:46] embarrassed and like to crawl into a
[1:41:48] hole at that moment. So, please, when
[1:41:50] you see people that look like me, do not
[1:41:52] make that assumption. And please think
[1:41:54] about what you have to how lost you have
[1:41:58] to be to look like me and follow Jack
[1:42:03] Jake, whatever his name is, Lang, okay,
[1:42:06] who said, "Black parents are failures.
[1:42:08] Black culture is disgusting."
[1:42:11] Uh, told a bunch of black protesters
[1:42:13] they were chimping around and made
[1:42:15] monkey noises at black teenagers. So,
[1:42:17] just imagine how lost of a soul you have
[1:42:20] to be. So, I don't want to make this
[1:42:22] about that.
[1:42:27] I have been part of the community of
[1:42:29] Dearbornne all 47 years of my life. My
[1:42:32] mother currently lives here. Both of her
[1:42:35] neighbors are Muslim. Um and
[1:42:39] they have been My mother's elderly, not she's very independent because I'm
[1:42:45] sure she's watching. Um and her
[1:42:48] neighbors have always taken care of care
[1:42:49] of her. They look out for her. I have
[1:42:52] patronized the restaurants, the coffee
[1:42:54] houses of this community for many
[1:42:58] decades and I am so sorry that you are
[1:43:01] having to tolerate
[1:43:03] this appalling, disgusting display of
[1:43:08] ignorance and fear and hatred.
[1:43:14] I often wonder have any of these people
[1:43:17] ever prior to today
[1:43:20] been in Dearbornne
[1:43:23] be including the preacher because I've
[1:43:27] never in my life been unwelcomed
[1:43:29] anywhere here.
[1:43:33] I'm so sorry and I am so very deeply
[1:43:36] embarrassed. but speaking for a great
[1:43:40] deal of my community. We support you. We
[1:43:43] stand with you. We stand with our Muslim
[1:43:46] brother and sisters.
[1:43:48] And
[1:43:50] I I don't know how much these people are
[1:43:52] actually even really un against you.
[1:43:55] First of all, the biggest population of
[1:43:57] Muslims in the United States are
[1:43:58] Southeast Asians. The second biggest
[1:44:00] population,
[1:44:03] I myself, I'm not Muslim, but they look
[1:44:05] like me. That's the second biggest
[1:44:06] population.
[1:44:07] >> You have 30 seconds remaining.
[1:44:09] >> Thank you. Arab people are the third
[1:44:13] biggest population of Muslims.
[1:44:16] I am fully aware of who has oppressed my
[1:44:19] people since day one. I am fully aware
[1:44:22] of what they look like and my history.
[1:44:26] And they do not look like my Muslim
[1:44:28] brothers and sisters. I stand with you
[1:44:31] today. My family stands with you
[1:44:33] tomorrow.
[1:44:34] and we will always stand with you as
[1:44:36] long as we draw a breath. Thank you.
[1:44:38] >> Thank you. Thank you. [applause]
[1:44:44] » All right, folks. The next one, it's
[1:44:46] hard to read out the first name, but
[1:44:47] it's Arnold is the last name. Could be
[1:44:49] Stephen. Yes, sir. Thank you.
[1:44:58] » All right. No problem. There it is.
[1:45:01] >> Good to see you.
[1:45:11] Good evening. Just saw an old face
[1:45:12] there.
[1:45:13] >> We ran for mayor many years ago against
[1:45:16] each other. You got more votes than me.
[1:45:19] >> I came in third. I didn't have all the
[1:45:21] money.
[1:45:24] >> All right. Good evening.
[1:45:27] Uh first of all,
[1:45:30] great planning.
[1:45:33] Excellent. This could have exploded.
[1:45:36] It's pretty bad out there.
[1:45:38] >> Could have been 10 times worse.
[1:45:40] Excellent. A+.
[1:45:43] Uh Mr. Sweeney, great um reel uh that
[1:45:48] you sent out that kept thousands of
[1:45:51] people from coming. I was at the gym
[1:45:53] this morning. Everyone was saying
[1:45:54] they're not coming. They're going to
[1:45:55] ignore this noise.
[1:45:57] They did. You could have had a you could
[1:45:59] have had a 100,000 people out there.
[1:46:02] Okay, they stay they chose to stay home.
[1:46:06] Okay,
[1:46:07] saved. It would have been a lot of mess,
[1:46:10] right?
[1:46:12] We have in Dearborn an excellent mayor.
[1:46:17] I know. I've watched him.
[1:46:20] I've learned from him.
[1:46:22] He is dynamic.
[1:46:25] He's smart. Wish I was as smart as that.
[1:46:29] He did make a mistake a couple months
[1:46:31] ago,
[1:46:33] right? He was laughing.
[1:46:36] Completely explainable,
[1:46:38] but youth A+ tonight. Excellent. I
[1:46:42] couldn't do it. I'm an Irishman. Oh,
[1:46:44] man. You wouldn't want me out there.
[1:46:47] Uh,
[1:46:48] let me see if I can read this thing.
[1:46:51] I want to apologize the city of Dearborn
[1:46:55] particularly our Arab American
[1:46:59] friends.
[1:47:01] There was a group
[1:47:04] I'll just call them misguided Christians
[1:47:08] and misguided patriots.
[1:47:11] Okay. Listen, they listen to the wrong
[1:47:13] people.
[1:47:15] They got good good good interests and at
[1:47:18] heart.
[1:47:19] Be careful who you follow.
[1:47:26] okay? Because they're here to divide.
[1:47:31] You're trying to pit us against each
[1:47:33] other.
[1:47:34] And Dearborn's a great city to live in.
[1:47:37] Been here 30 years.
[1:47:39] Okay, it's changed a lot.
[1:47:42] It's still a great city. My gym used to
[1:47:45] be 90% white.
[1:47:49] It's now 90%
[1:47:51] Middle Eastern.
[1:47:54] I used to have white neighbors on both
[1:47:56] my sides.
[1:47:57] >> You have 30 seconds.
[1:47:58] >> Okay, I'll go quick. I'm going to cut
[1:48:00] off since I have um only 30 seconds. I
[1:48:02] want to say another thing here.
[1:48:05] The police did an excellent job. A+
[1:48:09] double A+. That's a great choice to have
[1:48:12] up there. Looks like a from Game of
[1:48:14] Thrones.
[1:48:16] I will do anything [applause]
[1:48:18] A+. So, the the whole team and my final word is
[1:48:26] >> uh make sure the the the officers get
[1:48:28] overtime
[1:48:30] >> cuz man, they were on the front line.
[1:48:32] It's easy to sit back.
[1:48:33] >> Time has expired.
[1:48:35] >> I spent a lot of time walking outside
[1:48:36] there and again again the poise they
[1:48:39] had, the courage they showed because
[1:48:41] there there was close. There's guy's
[1:48:43] walking with handguns out there,
[1:48:45] man. I'm glad I
[1:48:47] >> Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Arnold.
[1:48:49] >> All right, that's it.
[1:48:49] >> Appreciate it. Yes, sir. Thank you.
[1:48:50] >> That's a quick
[1:48:52] >> Thank you.
[1:48:54] [applause]
[1:48:55] >> All right. And the next the next speaker
[1:48:56] we have is uh Dr. Lana.
[1:48:59] >> Yes. Thank you.
[1:49:07] » Hello everyone. I'm Dr. Lana Al-Hasani
[1:49:11] and uh I have a few points. First of
[1:49:13] think we keep hearing this is a
[1:49:15] Christian nation and because I'm
[1:49:18] involved in interfaith with Native
[1:49:20] American and this is a big offensive to
[1:49:22] native people because they said those
[1:49:26] people came the Christian from Europe to
[1:49:29] practice their religion here freely then
[1:49:32] they claimed this is a Christian nation.
[1:49:34] So first of think this is not a
[1:49:36] Christian nation. This is montheist and
[1:49:40] they told me they worship one God the
[1:49:43] creator. They call him the greatest
[1:49:45] spirit. He is the same God the creator
[1:49:48] that Jesus worship on St. Virgin Mary.
[1:49:51] Second those Christian they cannot talk
[1:49:54] behalf on all Christian people. My
[1:49:57] husband he is Catholic. They have
[1:49:59] different translation to their Bible.
[1:50:01] I'm Muslim and I'm proud to marry
[1:50:03] Irishman Catholic. I don't see any
[1:50:06] difference. Okay. And my husband, he is
[1:50:09] Catholic and he know more about Islam
[1:50:12] more even than me because he is a
[1:50:14] historian. And for the event for Imam
[1:50:18] Hussein on August 2nd that it made a lot
[1:50:21] of news. By the way, I'm the
[1:50:23] granddaughter of Hussein and I'm proud
[1:50:25] of it. My grandpa Hussein, he stood up
[1:50:28] for justice and the truth. He stood up
[1:50:30] against corrupted Islamic caliphate. We
[1:50:33] hear in western media. Oh, in history
[1:50:36] they were Islamic caliphate. They were
[1:50:40] conquered land. Kill human. Yes, I
[1:50:43] agree. But guess what? Those Islamic
[1:50:45] caliphate established by Western Empire
[1:50:48] in history, not by Prophet Muhammad
[1:50:51] family. And guess what? Good news for
[1:50:53] you. Prophet Muhammad family stood up
[1:50:55] against them. Hussein a grandson of
[1:50:58] Muhammad my grandpa stood up against th
[1:51:01] those khalifhat corrupted in history if
[1:51:03] you talk about history and those Islamic
[1:51:06] caliphate is slaughter Muhammad family
[1:51:09] with 72 with his people. Second prophet
[1:51:13] Muhammad family wife Lady Khadijah she
[1:51:16] came from a Christian background.
[1:51:18] Other thing the priest who confirmed the
[1:51:21] message of Islam. He was Muhammad family
[1:51:25] cousin he was a priest he was Catholic
[1:51:28] he approved the message of Islam. And
[1:51:30] when the prophet of Islam and his
[1:51:33] follower got slaughtered in their own
[1:51:36] city they as refugee in a Christian city
[1:51:39] and that it show how a big history and
[1:51:41] sharing history between Muslim and
[1:51:44] between a Christian. If any people can
[1:51:47] read the real history, they will see
[1:51:49] that we are one Muslim and the
[1:51:51] Christian. And the event of Al Hussein,
[1:51:54] it's honored not just by Muslim but also
[1:51:56] honored by Catholic priest, is honored
[1:51:58] by Orthodox Church. And we have all love
[1:52:01] and respect to all good Christian
[1:52:03] people, the real Christian, not the fake
[1:52:05] one. Okay. And always we are one. Thank
[1:52:08] you.
[1:52:08] >> Thank you.
[1:52:13] » All right. Next we have uh Eddie H.
[1:52:40] Good evening board's uh me member of the
[1:52:42] board's neighbors and friends. Tonight
[1:52:44] we're being asked to take seriously a
[1:52:46] man who has built his entire platform on
[1:52:48] a lie. Mr. Lang has spent months telling
[1:52:50] anyone who listened that Dearborn is
[1:52:52] secretly governed by Shia law. No
[1:52:55] ordinance, no court, no city record
[1:52:57] supports that claim because it doesn't
[1:52:59] exist. Residents here, Muslim and
[1:53:02] Christian alike, live under the same
[1:53:04] Michigan law, same US constitution and
[1:53:06] the same city charter as every other
[1:53:08] resident in this state. But when you
[1:53:10] have the when you have to invent a legal
[1:53:13] system to be afraid of that tells you
[1:53:15] something about the argument that you're
[1:53:17] actually making. Let's talk about what
[1:53:18] Mr. Lang has done instead of making that
[1:53:20] argument. Honestly, he's tried to burn
[1:53:22] religious textbooks um in the street.
[1:53:25] He's slapped a holy book with a slab of
[1:53:27] bacon for a camera. He's called for mass
[1:53:30] deportation of people who lived, worked,
[1:53:32] and raised families in this very country
[1:53:34] for generations. He brushed away any
[1:53:37] type of hospitality. And none of that is
[1:53:39] political commentary. It's all a stunt
[1:53:41] built to provoke fear and call it faith.
[1:53:45] And that's the part I actually want to
[1:53:46] speak about because Mr. Lang claims to
[1:53:48] do this in the name of Christianity. So
[1:53:50] let's hold him to that standard because
[1:53:52] Christ ate with the outcast. He told us
[1:53:55] to love our neighbor, not to burn what
[1:53:57] our neighbors hold sacred. Christ said
[1:54:00] the truth would set us free, not that
[1:54:02] provocation dressed up as truth would
[1:54:05] get you a following. By that measure,
[1:54:07] the Muslim families in this city who
[1:54:08] show hospitality to strangers, who care
[1:54:10] for their elderly, who show up for their
[1:54:12] neighbors regardless of faith, they are
[1:54:14] living closer to that teaching on any
[1:54:16] given Tuesday than Mr. Lang has ever
[1:54:18] done in his entire campaign. That's not
[1:54:20] an insult. That's just an honest look at
[1:54:22] fruit at the fruit each of them is
[1:54:23] producing. And it's why you'll find
[1:54:25] plenty of Christians plainly and
[1:54:27] publicly saying they don't recognize
[1:54:29] their own faith in what he's selling. So
[1:54:31] Sharia doesn't exist in the measures
[1:54:33] that you may think here. First of all,
[1:54:34] Sharia means principle, law. Okay? Just
[1:54:36] like Allah literally means God. Sharia
[1:54:39] is simply the principle that we live by
[1:54:41] such as property rights in marriage,
[1:54:43] equality, and accountability. Sharia
[1:54:45] insists that we don't indulge in usery
[1:54:47] and interest. Allah explains the
[1:54:49] inheritance of a family's estate. It's
[1:54:51] the way of life, the true honest way of
[1:54:53] living and that's something crusaders
[1:54:55] are not accustomed to as they are
[1:54:56] accustomed to stealing in a form of
[1:54:58] conquering and terrorizing in the name
[1:55:00] of establishing faith. So my ask of this
[1:55:02] board is very simple. Don't legitimize a
[1:55:05] manufactured threat by treating as a
[1:55:07] real debate. After this Tuesday, I urge
[1:55:09] the board not to entertain this any
[1:55:11] further by agreeing to a board meeting.
[1:55:13] The world has seen what
[1:55:14] >> you have and what Mr. Mr. Lang is
[1:55:17] portraying because provocation is not
[1:55:19] the same thing as principle. Thank you
[1:55:21] so much and appreciate you for
[1:55:23] appreciate everything that you do, Mr.
[1:55:24] Mayor. Uh, thank you guys so much. Have
[1:55:25] a good day.
[1:55:26] >> Thank you.
[1:55:28] [applause]
[1:55:30] All right. Next, we have Daniel Molina.
[1:55:34] Is it pronounced? I'm sorry, sir. Go
[1:55:36] ahead.
[1:55:41] » Oh. Uh Dan, Melinda, I just wanted to
[1:55:44] say I love Dearborn and I think you all
[1:55:47] are doing a great job. Um and you know
[1:55:52] what the mayor said earlier was very
[1:55:54] moving and eloquent and everything my
[1:55:58] neighbors have said is really kind of
[1:56:00] echo with that. I it's just I keep
[1:56:03] hearing this common kind of message of
[1:56:05] unity. The only people that I hear kind
[1:56:08] of preaching division are people from
[1:56:12] outside Dearbornne. And I've only lived
[1:56:14] in Dearborn seven years myself, but I,
[1:56:18] you know, find it very welcoming. My
[1:56:19] kids have gone to school here. I've
[1:56:21] great schools, great places to eat. It's
[1:56:24] a great community. I've, you know, it's
[1:56:25] safe. Kids can just walk to uh town
[1:56:29] themselves. um the parks and I have to
[1:56:32] say the the recent investment in the
[1:56:34] parks has just been wonderful and like
[1:56:36] the peace park I was there uh for the
[1:56:38] summer market. It's like something out
[1:56:39] of a Hallmark movie and it's you know
[1:56:42] just seeing the community coming
[1:56:43] together and you know like seeing the um
[1:56:47] you know in the summertime with the uh
[1:56:49] World Cup having a televised there's
[1:56:51] just so much that pulls people together
[1:56:53] and all of this you know it's
[1:56:55] developments that you guys have done in
[1:56:57] recent years and I just uh I just don't
[1:57:01] understand the haters and I don't
[1:57:02] understand every time I read any article
[1:57:05] about Dearborn it just people just go
[1:57:09] into the comments. It's always people
[1:57:11] outside of Dearbornne where, you know,
[1:57:13] it's nice, it's refreshing to hear
[1:57:15] everyone from Dearbornne tonight just
[1:57:17] for the most part talking about unity
[1:57:21] and coming together and supporting their
[1:57:22] neighbors. And, you know, I'm here, you
[1:57:25] know, because a neighbor of mine said to
[1:57:26] come here tonight and I'm here to
[1:57:28] support my neighbors and um just say how
[1:57:32] great Dearbornne is and uh what a great
[1:57:34] job I think everyone's been doing. So,
[1:57:36] thank you.
[1:57:36] >> Thank you.
[1:57:38] >> [applause]
[1:57:42] » Next we have uh Hezekiel Israel.
[1:58:00] Okay. Uh dear uh dear mayor, members of
[1:58:03] [clears throat] the board, and honored
[1:58:04] guests, peace be with you all. In light
[1:58:07] of strong religious and political
[1:58:09] tensions in our country, I believe that
[1:58:13] what truly helps establish peace and
[1:58:16] unity is to examine the practices that
[1:58:20] would show God to be good, just, and
[1:58:23] perfect in all he does and that aligns
[1:58:26] with the natural world he created.
[1:58:30] This is the foundation of my comment
[1:58:33] tonight.
[1:58:34] I want to begin by acknowledging the
[1:58:37] good I see in many Islamic practices
[1:58:40] here in Dearbornne and throughout our
[1:58:42] country. The commitment to one God, the
[1:58:46] discipline of prayer, the reverence
[1:58:49] shown in speaking highly of the creator
[1:58:52] and the desire for community and
[1:58:54] fellowship.
[1:58:56] These are meaningful expressions of
[1:58:58] devotion and I appreciate them
[1:59:01] sincerely.
[1:59:02] [clears throat] My brother JP once told
[1:59:05] me how much the Arab community
[1:59:07] contributes positively to the
[1:59:10] Chicagoland and Northwest Indiana region
[1:59:13] where I am from. [clears throat] He
[1:59:15] spoke highly of Arab families, Arab
[1:59:18] businesses, and the kindness he sees
[1:59:20] from many Muslims in our area. I agree
[1:59:24] with him.
[1:59:26] I don't want the Arab community to
[1:59:28] leave. Mayor, I want you and your people
[1:59:32] here and to thrive here. But I do wish
[1:59:36] to ask you to consider certain practices
[1:59:40] that history has shown can lead to decay
[1:59:43] in society and not bring those practices
[1:59:47] here.
[1:59:49] For example, how could a God who is just
[1:59:51] and good take pleasure in seeing one of
[1:59:54] the creatures he made suffer as a
[1:59:57] sacrifice to himself like the Islamic
[2:00:00] festival of Eid aladha where animals are
[2:00:03] slaughtered in the name of God? Wouldn't
[2:00:06] it be on the account of one who is evil
[2:00:08] to delight in such suffering? But God is
[2:00:11] not evil. God is good. Right? So how
[2:00:14] could he delight in that? Didn't Jesus
[2:00:18] end such practices millennia ago,
[2:00:21] driving the animals out of the temple in
[2:00:24] John chapter 2, teaching that places of
[2:00:27] worship should be places of praise and
[2:00:30] prayer, not sacrifice.
[2:00:32] >> You have 30 seconds. [clears throat]
[2:00:34] >> I also want to address recent actions by
[2:00:37] Jake Lang. Um, and I just I'll cut it
[2:00:41] short. Jesus never ate bacon, folks. So,
[2:00:45] it's no point in putting bacon on a
[2:00:47] Quran. And I just want to apologize to
[2:00:49] you all for that because that's not what
[2:00:52] Jesus would have done. Thank you, sir.
[2:00:55] Thank you. Uh, next we have uh Bob
[2:00:58] Patrick Henry.
[2:01:02] Okay. Uh, Jeff Davis.
[2:01:08] » I'm Davis.
[2:01:11] >> No, sir.
[2:01:14] Nope. Davis. Jeff Davis. Is the first
[2:01:16] name Jeff?
[2:01:18] >> Yeah. Sorry. No, it's not yours. Jeff
[2:01:19] Davis. Um,
[2:01:22] they have a cell phone number on here.
[2:01:23] Does yours What's yours end in?
[2:01:25] >> No, sir.
[2:01:29] » Okay. Thank you, sir. Uh, Fidel Gibson.
[2:01:35] » Okay. Yeah, that's I know we got to go
[2:01:37] through them all. Just give us a second
[2:01:38] here. Uh, Dr. Michelle Proctor. Thank
[2:01:41] you.
[2:02:06] Hi. Thank you um city council members
[2:02:09] and um mayor for keeping our meeting for
[2:02:14] the business of the city of Dearbornne.
[2:02:17] Um I'm here to talk to you about Edison
[2:02:20] Park. I'm sure you're probably really
[2:02:22] happy to hear about Edison Park. Um,
[2:02:26] and the mayor was very happy was very
[2:02:29] gracious to speak with us for two hours
[2:02:31] and take uh questions from us about our park. Uh, the issue is the trees.
[2:02:37] Okay. Um, it's item 15 that was on our
[2:02:41] agenda on the website. There was I
[2:02:44] didn't have a chance to really digest
[2:02:45] it. Um, Thursday we had um a meeting and
[2:02:50] we talked about how it was the easement
[2:02:54] for what I understood and I'm I'm here
[2:02:56] for clarification. What I understood was
[2:02:58] this was to have an agreement with Ford
[2:03:01] to be able to go back there and it
[2:03:03] didn't have really anything to do with
[2:03:04] the pipes that were being talked about
[2:03:07] with the sewers.
[2:03:09] I'm just wanting clarification on that
[2:03:11] because it seemed like there was a
[2:03:13] contract with um
[2:03:14] >> Yeah. Uh doc Dr. we're going to have the
[2:03:17] mayor because we did address it last
[2:03:19] week, but you're more than welcome at
[2:03:20] the committee that the mayor will
[2:03:22] respond to that.
[2:03:22] >> Yes. Thank you.
[2:03:23] >> Yeah, of course. Uh thank you so much
[2:03:24] for being here. So the easement is an
[2:03:26] agreement with Ford Motor Company that
[2:03:28] allows us access to their property and
[2:03:30] under the ground to maintain any lines
[2:03:32] or staging, things of that nature. Now
[2:03:34] the next step is we're preparing to go
[2:03:36] out for a formal RFP in which if you're
[2:03:39] on the email list we shared that we'd be
[2:03:41] adding language that says to avoid all
[2:03:43] trees and doing the investment in the
[2:03:44] most environmentally conscious manner.
[2:03:46] Once that company is selected we'll hire
[2:03:48] an engineering firm. Then the process
[2:03:50] will take about you know 18 months to
[2:03:52] design the actual storm water line that
[2:03:54] will ultimately be installed in across
[2:03:57] southwest Dearborn.
[2:03:59] >> Okay. Well, that's what I understood
[2:04:00] from from Thursday, but and we we kind
[2:04:03] of mentioned this that we don't want
[2:04:05] information to just be spread on social
[2:04:08] media. So, I think it's very important
[2:04:10] for those of us in the community and
[2:04:12] those of us who love our park and we
[2:04:14] love our park as you know um to be
[2:04:17] active in the council meeting so that we
[2:04:19] can continue the dialogue. So, thank you
[2:04:21] for the clarification. We just want to
[2:04:23] make sure we save our troops.
[2:04:24] >> That's why we created the email list.
[2:04:26] And I've never been to a park where the
[2:04:28] Lorax showed up and was a part of the
[2:04:30] meeting.
[2:04:30] >> Oh, that was pretty good, wasn't it?
[2:04:31] >> I was excited that he was there and we
[2:04:33] made a commitment to the Lorax and we'll
[2:04:34] try.
[2:04:35] >> Well, you could see the turnout how much
[2:04:36] we really that that's really central to
[2:04:38] our community and we're very passionate
[2:04:40] about it and so I'm sure you'll hear
[2:04:42] about Edison Park again.
[2:04:44] >> Absolutely. Thank you so much for being
[2:04:45] here.
[2:04:46] >> Thank you. Thank you. Uh, next we have Jaclyn.
[2:04:52] Jacleine. Uh,
[2:04:55] it says district three. I can't.
[2:04:58] >> Okay. Sorry.
[2:05:00] >> Thank you.
[2:05:01] >> Sorry.
[2:05:07] » There's no Yeah, there's no uh props
[2:05:09] allowed.
[2:05:10] >> Okay.
[2:05:16] Thank you very much for your
[2:05:17] hospitality, city of Dearbornne. I
[2:05:19] really enjoyed uh the educational
[2:05:22] purposes. Uh I've gone to quite a few
[2:05:25] city council meetings throughout the
[2:05:27] state and I'll tell you this is to the
[2:05:30] utmost most impressive.
[2:05:32] Your detailed information in your
[2:05:35] agendas and the transparency is superb.
[2:05:39] I appreciate that.
[2:05:42] I uh in my district, unfortunately,
[2:05:46] I can tell you that the educational
[2:05:49] level is far lower than what you have.
[2:05:54] If I had an opportunity to get our
[2:05:56] school district together and come and
[2:06:00] sit and see how professional and
[2:06:02] well-maintained
[2:06:04] your agenda is with your items and the
[2:06:07] procedure and the planning, then perhaps
[2:06:10] people would be more motivated to do
[2:06:14] better for all.
[2:06:17] I noticed an agenda item that I'm very
[2:06:19] concerned about and it's in relevance to
[2:06:21] the prop that I have. It is a Arabic
[2:06:25] magazine purchased in New York by my
[2:06:29] great great greatgrandfather.
[2:06:31] It's only in Arabic. It's from 1924.
[2:06:37] It is a a book that is relevance to love
[2:06:40] and prosperity and strength and unity.
[2:06:45] And I don't want any prop any planning
[2:06:50] to come with your main storm drain to
[2:06:53] deter your water to go to a data center
[2:06:57] and take my great greatgrandfather's
[2:07:00] book of beauty and have a machine
[2:07:03] destroy it
[2:07:06] and never know how beautiful it is.
[2:07:12] >> Would you like me to respond to that,
[2:07:13] Council President? you you may or I
[2:07:15] >> I think the agenda item was related to
[2:07:17] the one in regards to data centers.
[2:07:19] >> Yes.
[2:07:20] So they don't
[2:07:23] So the agenda item on data centers was
[2:07:25] we eliminated where data centers could
[2:07:27] potentially open up in the city of
[2:07:29] Dearbornne. Uh in addition to that, our
[2:07:31] uh corp council is also working on a
[2:07:33] moratorum to put a pause on any possible
[2:07:37] applications that could be submitted to
[2:07:39] allow moratoriums in order for us to
[2:07:41] beef up the laws around data centers
[2:07:43] since we don't have any on our books.
[2:07:45] And so those are the steps being taken
[2:07:46] as pertain to the the the inter the
[2:07:48] storm interceptor line. Um as spoken to
[2:07:51] uh Dr. proctor earlier. Um, this is a
[2:07:53] line that will help reduce flooding in
[2:07:55] people's basements given Dearbornne
[2:07:56] floods heavily when we have heavy rain
[2:07:58] events. And so we did a two-year study
[2:08:01] and the study suggested that we have to
[2:08:03] add an interceptor line in southwest
[2:08:05] Dearborn so that we can sewer separate
[2:08:07] so that the sewage water runs down one
[2:08:09] line and the storm water runs down
[2:08:10] another. It has nothing to do and zero
[2:08:13] implications to any data center.
[2:08:15] >> All right. Thank you. Hope that
[2:08:17] answered. Thank you, mayor, for that.
[2:08:18] All right. Next we have um Ethan Barl.
[2:08:23] Great.
[2:08:39] » All right. You may say that um
[2:08:42] Dearbornne has um peaceful. It's been
[2:08:46] with Christians and occupied peacefully
[2:08:49] with Muslims and Christians together and
[2:08:51] the crime rates have ma remained fairly
[2:08:53] stagnant.
[2:08:55] Not so for Europe. Rapes are up over
[2:08:58] 300% to 500% in England, France, and
[2:09:03] Sweden and other European countries that
[2:09:05] have embraced fully embrace Muslim
[2:09:08] immigration.
[2:09:10] And in those same three countries that I
[2:09:12] just listed, Muslims now make up 7 to
[2:09:15] 10% of the total population, which has
[2:09:18] taken place just over these last few
[2:09:20] decades, driving an explosion in sexual
[2:09:22] assaults and rapes. Meanwhile, we can
[2:09:26] take a control group, Poland, which in
[2:09:29] which rapes are down 70%.
[2:09:32] Over that same period, Poland's simple
[2:09:34] strategy is don't let Muslims in.
[2:09:37] England and Wales since 2002 rapes
[2:09:41] increased over 500% to 75,000 reported
[2:09:45] rapes in the last year and according to
[2:09:47] the uh statista for every that was
[2:09:50] according to Statista and for every
[2:09:52] single one of those five uh reported
[2:09:54] rapes is 5 to 15 unreported rapes. So
[2:09:57] you can see the scale of the issue. So
[2:09:59] we have not seen the fullscale
[2:10:01] manifestation of the Islamification of
[2:10:04] America, but Europe has and they've seen
[2:10:06] the fruit. And you can even Germany is
[2:10:10] now looking at an initiative to deport
[2:10:12] over over 800,000 Muslim immigrants over
[2:10:15] the course of three years. Um, in June
[2:10:21] 2026, the rape inquiry report unveiled
[2:10:23] that Pakistani Muslim grooming gangs
[2:10:25] systematically raped and traveled
[2:10:26] thousands of British girls across
[2:10:29] numerous towns while police, social
[2:10:31] services, healthc care providers, and
[2:10:33] politicians repeatedly failed to protect
[2:10:35] them and out of fear of being called
[2:10:38] racist. The estimated victims was
[2:10:41] previously mentioned uh 250,000
[2:10:44] from the 1990s to the present.
[2:10:47] Um I say let us all learn from the
[2:10:49] mistakes of these European countries who
[2:10:51] have betrayed their people and
[2:10:52] especially their women who suffer the
[2:10:54] most because of these wicked and evil
[2:10:56] initiatives to not hold to not prosecute
[2:11:01] these things. And um uh the most
[2:11:05] hypocritical thing about this all is
[2:11:07] that you guys at the same time claim to
[2:11:10] be liberals and democrats
[2:11:12] >> and support feminism. Uh, tell me how is
[2:11:15] supporting a system that mistreats
[2:11:18] women, increases rapes 300 to 500% in
[2:11:22] Europe and now um, and then how's that
[2:11:26] liberal and feminism? You guys are liars
[2:11:29] and deceitful and your sheep and wolves
[2:11:32] clothing. Um,
[2:11:38] » and this is
[2:11:40] >> I'm sorry. Time is expired.
[2:11:41] >> All right.
[2:11:43] Next we have uh Chaz Sykes.
[2:11:50] » This was not made for the vertically
[2:11:51] gifted. I'll say that. [laughter]
[2:11:55] >> Uh well, thank you dear Bourne and good
[2:11:56] evening. Uh it's a pleasure and a
[2:11:58] privilege to be able to talk to you
[2:12:00] today and I want to thank uh the council
[2:12:02] for allowing uh free speech.
[2:12:05] My name is Chaz Sykes with uh Turning
[2:12:08] Point Action, the organization founded
[2:12:09] by the late Charlie Kirk.
[2:12:12] I am speaking to you today as your
[2:12:14] turning point field representative.
[2:12:17] The first thing I would like to say is
[2:12:19] that these jokers do not represent the
[2:12:21] Republican party.
[2:12:23] Thank you. The
[2:12:27] Republican Party stands for freedom and
[2:12:30] individual liberty. The real Republican
[2:12:32] Party stands for the Constitution of the
[2:12:34] United States.
[2:12:37] three homicides in 2024 and 2025
[2:12:40] combined.
[2:12:42] In a two-year span, violent crime has
[2:12:44] dropped by 20%, robberies decreased by
[2:12:47] 22%, vehicle thefts fell by 30%, and
[2:12:51] burglaries plummeted by 40%.
[2:12:55] So, that's crime. What about education?
[2:12:58] According to the Meno C Center's context
[2:13:00] and performance report card, Dearborn
[2:13:02] public schools frequently dominate the
[2:13:04] state with five schools ranking in the
[2:13:06] top 30.
[2:13:08] Out of all 15 public universities in
[2:13:10] Michigan, U of M Dearborn grads secure
[2:13:13] the fourth highest median annual
[2:13:14] earnings 10 years after enrollment.
[2:13:18] UF Dearborn maintains the lowest average
[2:13:20] annual cost of any public 4-year
[2:13:22] university in Michigan.
[2:13:26] What about Dearborn culturally? What
[2:13:27] does that look like?
[2:13:30] Well, Dearbornne's populace is deeply
[2:13:32] entrenched in social and religious
[2:13:34] conservatism. Dearbornne is bar none the
[2:13:36] most conservative city in America. The
[2:13:39] community has made national headlines
[2:13:41] for packed rockus schoolboard meetings
[2:13:43] where large coalitions of Muslim and
[2:13:45] Christian parents successfully organized
[2:13:48] to protest and remove books with LGBTQ
[2:13:51] plus garbage and sexual content from
[2:13:53] public schools.
[2:13:55] The social structure revolves heavily
[2:13:57] around the traditional family unit.
[2:13:59] Concepts of gender roles, modesty,
[2:14:01] dating, and marriage tend to align
[2:14:03] closely with traditional Islamic and
[2:14:05] Christian teachings rather than modern
[2:14:07] progressive garbage. There is a
[2:14:10] collective community rejection of woke
[2:14:11] ideology and the disgusting
[2:14:13] sexualization of children. They have
[2:14:16] tried to introduce gender identity into
[2:14:18] local healthcare and were shut down
[2:14:20] immediately.
[2:14:21] Dearbornne also has one of the highest
[2:14:23] densities of small businesses in the
[2:14:24] state. This fosters a highly capitalist
[2:14:29] anti-regulation and taxes conscious
[2:14:31] mindset aligned with the Republican
[2:14:32] party. Find me another city with a
[2:14:35] population over a 100,000 that is more
[2:14:37] conservative than Dearbornne. I am here
[2:14:39] to tell you that if you believe in
[2:14:41] entrepreneurship, religious freedom,
[2:14:43] family orientation, and social
[2:14:45] conservatism, then you stand with
[2:14:47] Dearborn. On the other hand, if you spit
[2:14:50] on capitalism, reject the constitution,
[2:14:52] and participate in the destruction of
[2:14:54] the family and gender roles in society,
[2:14:56] then you have already left this meeting.
[2:14:58] >> Your time has expired.
[2:14:59] >> Thank you very much.
[2:14:59] >> Thank you. [applause]
[2:15:03] » Uh, next we have the Alawan.
[2:15:11] All right. Odaid Fakori.
[2:15:15] Odori.
[2:15:19] Sam
[2:15:20] uh Sam Fington.
[2:15:26] Okay. Uh Angela Gil.
[2:15:33] Um Mustafa Almuna.
[2:15:37] Aluna. Okay.
[2:15:44] » Hello, council members. Mayor I'm just
[2:15:47] following up about the West Dearborn
[2:15:49] Valley. I know it's a bad time. I feel
[2:15:51] like every time I come to I feel like
[2:15:53] every time I come to a council meeting,
[2:15:55] there's something more important. I get
[2:15:56] it.
[2:15:57] >> Why?
[2:15:58] >> So, I just wanted to follow up. I did
[2:16:00] send all our info over. I was told also
[2:16:02] to bring in all our documents to present
[2:16:04] in front of council.
[2:16:05] >> Yeah,
[2:16:05] >> I know our police department and zoning
[2:16:07] department works very hard and they have
[2:16:08] a lot more important things to deal
[2:16:09] with.
[2:16:09] >> I can answer it for you.
[2:16:11] >> Yeah. No, thank you so much for being
[2:16:12] here. legal just advised me that they're
[2:16:13] currently reviewing your application
[2:16:14] right now. So, you should hear back
[2:16:15] relatively soon.
[2:16:16] >> Okay. Is mayor, is it possible to
[2:16:18] instead of coming to another
[2:16:20] >> Yeah. Yeah. We'll contact you.
[2:16:21] >> Okay. Do I have to wait for another
[2:16:23] [laughter]
[2:16:23] >> I I might start believing that you are
[2:16:25] the cause of everything. So, I think
[2:16:27] we're going to do our best to get you
[2:16:29] the answer without having you to sit
[2:16:31] through a long meeting.
[2:16:32] >> Okay. Gotcha. And the last thing I
[2:16:33] wanted to ask, do I have to come to
[2:16:34] another councilman because it is
[2:16:35] expensive to wait.
[2:16:36] >> You don't you don't you don't have to.
[2:16:38] >> Okay. You don't have to.
[2:16:39] >> Do you need these Do you need these
[2:16:40] documents or are we good? We're we have
[2:16:42] everything that we need.
[2:16:43] >> All right. Thank you guys.
[2:16:44] >> You can tell the people to go with you.
[2:16:46] [laughter]
[2:16:46] >> Thank you guys. Have a good one.
[2:16:49] >> All right.
[2:16:50] >> Uh JP the boy,
[2:16:52] >> is that that's you, sir? No.
[2:16:57] » Yes, sir. Sorry.
[2:17:04] » Yeah. JP Dyorg. I live in Dearbornne
[2:17:07] Heights. I'm an atheist. Atheists are
[2:17:11] also Americans.
[2:17:13] I strongly disagree with with the
[2:17:16] religious intolerance that some people
[2:17:18] have been expressing.
[2:17:20] I welcome neighbors and friends from all
[2:17:24] religious persuasions.
[2:17:27] Muslims are Americans.
[2:17:29] Christians are Americans. Jews are
[2:17:32] Americans.
[2:17:34] Wiccans are Americans.
[2:17:37] She six are Americans. Um,
[2:17:42] thousands of other possible persuasions
[2:17:45] are Americans.
[2:17:47] People should seek to understand one
[2:17:50] another and get along, not to stoke
[2:17:54] division and intolerance.
[2:17:57] Thank you.
[2:17:58] >> Thank you, [applause]
[2:18:01] >> Chris Sanders.
[2:18:14] So, my name is Chris Anders. I'm a proud
[2:18:16] Catholic Christian, and I am troubled
[2:18:20] deeply. But I witness here tonight
[2:18:23] to the men and women protesting in the
[2:18:25] name of Jesus, hurling hate out of
[2:18:27] Muslims, brothers and sisters, not in
[2:18:30] his name, and certainly not on my watch.
[2:18:34] I count many Muslims as my friends, my
[2:18:37] neighbors, my associates, and yes, my
[2:18:40] barber.
[2:18:41] Men and women of integrity, of family,
[2:18:44] and of faith. We may not be brothers in
[2:18:46] faith, but we are certainly absolutely
[2:18:49] brothers and sisters in humanity. And
[2:18:51] freedom of religion is not a footnote to
[2:18:53] being an American. It is a cornerstone.
[2:18:56] The same first amendment that protects
[2:18:58] my right to go to mass protects your
[2:19:01] right to the mosque. It grieves me that
[2:19:04] in the name of Jesus, the prince of
[2:19:06] peace is being used as a weapon to
[2:19:08] spread fear, intolerance, and hate. That
[2:19:11] is not the gospel. That is not the
[2:19:13] cross. And that certainly is not of
[2:19:16] Christ. So let me be clear. The name of
[2:19:19] in the name of Jesus Christ, I rebuke
[2:19:21] this spirit of hatred and division.
[2:19:24] Scripture does not leave us confused
[2:19:25] about this. We are called to rebuke evil
[2:19:28] and tonight this is evil. using the name
[2:19:31] of the savior who deni who dined with
[2:19:33] outcasts to cast out our neighbors good
[2:19:35] people. John 13:35 tells us exactly how
[2:19:39] Christians should be known. By this all
[2:19:42] people will know that you are my
[2:19:44] disciples if you have love for one
[2:19:46] another and your neighbor. First John
[2:19:48] 4:20 makes it even plainer. If anyone
[2:19:51] says I love God and hates his brother,
[2:19:53] he is a liar. So no, you do not speak
[2:19:57] for me. You do not speak for my church
[2:20:00] and you do not speak for Christ when you
[2:20:03] chant hate at people of God, no matter
[2:20:07] the faith. To my Muslim friends in this
[2:20:09] room and in this city, you are welcome
[2:20:12] here. You belong here. Your freedom to
[2:20:15] worship is my freedom to worship and I
[2:20:17] will stand for it because my faith
[2:20:19] demands it. We can disagree and we
[2:20:23] probably will on theology and still
[2:20:25] defend each other's dignity. That's not
[2:20:27] weakness. That's Christianity. That is
[2:20:31] American.
[2:20:33] [applause]
[2:20:38] Thank you, Mr. Sanders. Jeff Doyer.
[2:20:56] Unlike a lot of people who showed up
[2:20:58] something to read, I don't have anything
[2:21:00] to read. Lord Jesus Christ brought me
[2:21:02] here today to speak with everybody. And
[2:21:05] yes, everybody should be open-minded.
[2:21:07] Everybody should be friendly, kind. You
[2:21:10] never know what somebody else is
[2:21:11] thinking unless you take time to stop
[2:21:13] and actually talk to each other. What
[2:21:16] I've come to down Dearbornne for to talk
[2:21:19] about is the First Amendment because
[2:21:21] it's important for everybody in this
[2:21:23] room, everybody across our great
[2:21:24] country. It doesn't matter where your
[2:21:26] beliefs come from. It doesn't matter
[2:21:28] where you come from. It depends on how
[2:21:31] you treat all of our rights. The first
[2:21:34] amendment says you have the right to
[2:21:37] freedom of speech. A lot of people
[2:21:38] showed up outside. I seen anger and
[2:21:41] bitterness on both sides. I've seen
[2:21:43] people on both sides
[2:21:45] instigating. Didn't need to be as far as
[2:21:48] coming down and not having your rights
[2:21:50] violated.
[2:21:52] Do I really believe that Jack Long or
[2:21:56] Jake Long, however you say it, I don't
[2:21:58] even know the guy's name truthfully,
[2:21:59] very well. But what happened with him
[2:22:02] getting hit? He wasn't trying to fight.
[2:22:06] Somebody hit him. It doesn't matter
[2:22:08] which side you're on, whether you like
[2:22:10] his belief or somebody else's. Nobody
[2:22:13] deserves to get attacked. That's what it
[2:22:16] comes down to. And then when once it
[2:22:18] happened and there's video everywhere,
[2:22:21] you know, people chasing him down as the
[2:22:23] one gentleman mentioned earlier. It
[2:22:25] wasn't just one person. It started with
[2:22:27] one person and then the mob effect
[2:22:30] happened and then they started chasing
[2:22:32] him. Then he ended up in a car and they
[2:22:34] were trying to get him out of the car.
[2:22:35] Yes, he ended up getting to safety,
[2:22:38] getting put to jail. Well, as you said,
[2:22:40] a couple other people got arrested, but
[2:22:42] more people were involved than that. And
[2:22:44] with our first amendment rights, if we
[2:22:46] don't follow and use our videos and use
[2:22:48] what we have to make sure all the people
[2:22:51] that were involved got arrested,
[2:22:54] that makes all of us unsafe because that
[2:22:57] moment when it happens and it turns out
[2:22:59] to be you.
[2:23:01] won't be safe. And we all we are all
[2:23:04] only safe in our country because of our
[2:23:07] amendment rights. Freedom of religion.
[2:23:10] I'm a Christian. You know, Muslims are
[2:23:13] sitting here. Somebody might be from
[2:23:15] Israel. Somebody could be from Kenya.
[2:23:18] Somebody could be from South Africa. It
[2:23:20] doesn't matter. That's what makes
[2:23:22] America great is you can come here. We
[2:23:24] can all live on the same block. As a
[2:23:27] gentleman said, he's an atheist. We
[2:23:29] should all be able to get along.
[2:23:30] >> You have 30 seconds remaining. So the
[2:23:32] important part is to make sure that our
[2:23:34] amendment rights doesn't get trampled on
[2:23:36] and that things are followed because if
[2:23:38] we don't have people in government, the
[2:23:40] mayor, the police officers, and higher
[2:23:43] up governors and stuff making sure our
[2:23:46] amendments are followed because you took
[2:23:49] an oath, mayor. Am I correct? Which I
[2:23:52] should be. You know, the police officer
[2:23:55] took an oath to stand for the
[2:23:57] constitution to make sure all of us are
[2:23:59] protected.
[2:24:00] >> I'm sorry. Your time has expired for all
[2:24:02] of us to stay protected and everybody's
[2:24:05] welcome.
[2:24:07] >> Thank you, sir. Thank you. Appreciate
[2:24:09] it.
[2:24:11] [applause]
[2:24:13] >> All right. Next, we have Leslie Herrick.
[2:24:33] Good evening, um, Mayor, esteemed city
[2:24:36] council. Um, thank you for, uh,
[2:24:38] entertaining my comments this evening.
[2:24:40] I'm Leslie Herrick. I am the community
[2:24:43] relations director for the intercultural
[2:24:45] community center in Dearbornne, which is
[2:24:47] a nonprofit organization serving
[2:24:49] Dearborn and Dearborn Heights. Um, its
[2:24:51] mission is to bring people together to
[2:24:53] understand each other. um where we come
[2:24:55] from, where we are today, the things
[2:24:57] that bond us in unity here. Um there are
[2:25:00] so many things that we have in common um
[2:25:03] that outnumber those differences between
[2:25:05] us and the intercultural community
[2:25:07] center in Dearbornne seeks to address
[2:25:09] those. For example, just earlier this
[2:25:11] year, we had panel discussions on
[2:25:13] challenges in finding housing,
[2:25:15] affordable housing. Um we also had a
[2:25:17] panel discussion on what's on the ballot
[2:25:20] on the primary ballot. Um, coming up
[2:25:22] later this year, we have a a community
[2:25:24] picnic um for Good Neighbor Day, which
[2:25:27] is in September. It will be celebrated
[2:25:29] by the Intercultural Community Center in
[2:25:30] Dearbornne, as well as the city of
[2:25:32] Dearbornne um which is encouraging
[2:25:34] neighborhoods to do what we always do.
[2:25:37] We have um just like across the country
[2:25:39] and probably more than many cities
[2:25:40] across the country, we have um
[2:25:43] neighborhood picnics um block parties
[2:25:45] that bring people together. no matter
[2:25:47] where they came from, they ended up on
[2:25:49] the same street or on the same block and
[2:25:51] they break bread together. They do um
[2:25:53] potlucks and family activities,
[2:25:55] family-friendly uh children's activities
[2:25:58] across our city. So, these are examples
[2:26:00] of what what makes Dearborn similar to
[2:26:03] other cities across the country, but it
[2:26:04] also makes us unique because of the
[2:26:06] people that are here. We are here by
[2:26:08] choice for the most part and we we love
[2:26:11] our city and we love the diversity that
[2:26:13] makes us stronger and um some of those
[2:26:16] things that you see if you come to visit
[2:26:18] if you're not part of our neighborhoods
[2:26:20] and going to our picnics or block
[2:26:21] parties you you would experience if you
[2:26:24] have not already wonderful food um at
[2:26:27] many of our restaurants upcoming uh
[2:26:29] later this fall our coffee month it's a
[2:26:33] our coffee week and and it's a wonderful
[2:26:35] time to experience all kinds of
[2:26:37] different coffee if you are a coffee
[2:26:38] drinker or even tea um at um many of our
[2:26:42] coffee houses. Some are are um locally
[2:26:44] they're locally owned um by different um
[2:26:47] nationalities. So please come experience
[2:26:50] some of those activities. Earlier
[2:26:51] somebody mentioned our farmers market.
[2:26:53] Again you see those across the country,
[2:26:55] but ours is special um with the with
[2:26:58] people that are local here participating
[2:27:00] um and enjoying the activities or
[2:27:02] running the booths that are there. Um I
[2:27:04] just wanted to mention there were a
[2:27:06] couple things.
[2:27:06] >> We have 30 seconds remaining.
[2:27:08] >> Two things that again unite us with
[2:27:10] around the world. Um we have Rotary Club
[2:27:13] of Dearbornne. Um Rotary International
[2:27:15] is a nonprofit organization around the
[2:27:17] world that brings people together and
[2:27:18] serves those in need. So thank you for
[2:27:21] entertaining our little free library. Um
[2:27:24] it's a partnership between the Rotary
[2:27:25] Club of Dearbornne and the city of
[2:27:27] Dearborn. So that was on uh the consent
[2:27:29] agenda. And then I also wanted to speak
[2:27:31] about trees. Thank you. Uh for a couple
[2:27:33] years ago, we activated our cultural I'm
[2:27:36] sorry, our environmental.
[2:27:37] >> Sorry, your time has expired.
[2:27:39] >> And there's a subcommittee that deals
[2:27:40] with trees. Um and thank you for
[2:27:42] considering the trees when when um you
[2:27:45] look at the plans for the sewer
[2:27:47] separation project.
[2:27:48] >> Thank you. Appreciate it. Uh Byron
[2:27:51] Harmon,
[2:27:54] >> is it? Yeah. I'm sorry. I apologize.
[2:27:55] Yes.
[2:28:01] Hello, my name is Brian Harmon. Um, I
[2:28:05] came to Dearbornne today because I seen
[2:28:09] a video of a man who was just trying to
[2:28:14] say Christian things and he got stuff
[2:28:18] thrown at him and he was attacked. Uh me
[2:28:21] I I'm not a Christian personally but I
[2:28:26] have Christian values and I do not want
[2:28:28] to see anybody attacking my country for
[2:28:32] just expressing themselves. And um like
[2:28:37] what happened there was
[2:28:41] something that I thought I would never
[2:28:42] see in my country. There's a lot of
[2:28:45] things that are happening in my country
[2:28:46] that I thought I'd never see. Like flat
[2:28:48] cameras and these data centers that are
[2:28:50] coming and nobody wants this stuff to
[2:28:52] happen. Like if we want data centers, we
[2:28:54] should put them in space, not in our
[2:28:55] oceans, not in our backyards. Um but but
[2:29:00] what I came here today was because I'm
[2:29:03] not I don't support Jake Lang. He I
[2:29:05] believe he's an Israeli PL plant and he
[2:29:09] [applause] is literally just here to
[2:29:11] spew hate and I don't See, I don't
[2:29:15] disagree with everything he says, but he
[2:29:17] goes at things a very hateful way and he
[2:29:20] wants to target a certain group. Um,
[2:29:24] he said that Sharia law is here and is
[2:29:27] wrong. Jake Lang is wrong. Shri Law is
[2:29:30] not here and it will never be here
[2:29:31] because of us young patriots of this
[2:29:33] country. Um, but I really think a lot of
[2:29:36] Christians are scared and why like this
[2:29:39] event could have been so much worse is
[2:29:43] what's happening in Europe. Like the
[2:29:45] gentleman said earlier, Christians are
[2:29:47] being like
[2:29:50] taken over and like there is a Zionist
[2:29:52] regime that is trying to wipe out the
[2:29:55] white population across the world. And I
[2:29:58] mean look at what's happening even
[2:29:59] Africa. like Christians have been been
[2:30:01] slaughtered for years and years and
[2:30:03] years. Like the militaries have to take
[2:30:04] action over there because of it. But
[2:30:09] um fascism is not the problem in
[2:30:11] America. It's Zionism.
[2:30:14] And I honestly like there's a lot of
[2:30:16] people here that talk about Henry Ford
[2:30:18] and what he believed in, but Henry Ford
[2:30:21] would be rolling in his grave for what's
[2:30:23] happened to this country. Like if you
[2:30:25] look into what Henry Ford believed about
[2:30:27] the Jews in Zionism, like I bet you it
[2:30:30] would wake so much people's eyes up to
[2:30:33] this. Um
[2:30:34] >> you have 30 seconds.
[2:30:36] >> Thank you. Um yeah, I didn't come here
[2:30:38] to talk today. Like I came here to just
[2:30:41] see what was happening because I was
[2:30:43] afraid what was happening. And uh I
[2:30:47] talked to both sides and uh everybody
[2:30:49] agreed that Zionism bad, Muslims and
[2:30:52] Christians. Well, some Chris K, not
[2:30:54] most. Not the MAGA people. Um, but
[2:30:58] that's that's what they want us to be.
[2:31:00] divided. Zionism is
[2:31:02] the problem. And that's
[2:31:04] >> I'm sorry your time is expired.
[2:31:06] >> Thank you. That's all I want to come
[2:31:06] here to say.
[2:31:07] >> Thank you.
[2:31:07] Zionism.
[2:31:08] >> Appreciate
[2:31:14] » Mr. Barham.
[2:31:25] Ted Baram, Dearborn resident.
[2:31:28] A lot of the problems that we are seeing
[2:31:31] here today
[2:31:32] uh started uh from something that
[2:31:36] happened last year where I objected to a
[2:31:39] street sign and then the uh mayor um
[2:31:42] told me I'm not welcome here and he'll
[2:31:44] throw a parade when I uh leave the city
[2:31:48] and later uh spread defamation about me
[2:31:52] um in conjunction with others in the
[2:31:54] ArabAmerican news and in Alazer era and
[2:31:58] in the Guardian newspaper uh scurless
[2:32:01] and ridiculous uh defamation.
[2:32:04] Uh that street sign is named after a
[2:32:06] journalist who says that the most
[2:32:08] important thing that he's ever done he
[2:32:10] continues to maintain is when he uh led
[2:32:14] the crowd here in Dearborn paying homage
[2:32:16] to the leader of Hezbollah and of course
[2:32:20] Hezbollah
[2:32:21] um bombed uh to death hundreds of
[2:32:24] Americans in Beirut.
[2:32:27] Um, now that's not just an isolated
[2:32:30] incident. That's that's the thing. Uh,
[2:32:31] it's representative of bigger problems.
[2:32:34] Uh, imams in the biggest uh mosques uh
[2:32:38] in Dearbornne and Dearborn Heights uh
[2:32:41] praise the Iranian regime uh which has
[2:32:44] caused so much oppression uh to so many
[2:32:47] people. It's killed hundreds of
[2:32:49] thousands of people directly and through
[2:32:51] proxies.
[2:32:53] and my fellow Christians in Iran, which
[2:32:56] is a great concern to me, are extremely
[2:32:59] persecuted there in Iran. Um, so these
[2:33:02] are legitimate concerns that we have and
[2:33:05] I don't think it should be controversial
[2:33:07] to raise these concerns.
[2:33:10] Um,
[2:33:12] Jewish people, uh, you can paint a rosy
[2:33:15] picture of Dearborn. Jewish people are
[2:33:16] terrified of coming to Dearbornne. Uh,
[2:33:18] I've talked to multiple Jewish people
[2:33:20] who said that.
[2:33:23] Um,
[2:33:24] also my fear was uh was justified. I
[2:33:27] said he's spreading violence. He's he he
[2:33:30] could be interpreted as spreading
[2:33:31] violence in Michigan. And then a few
[2:33:34] months later, somebody attacked a
[2:33:36] synagogue full of 140 small children uh
[2:33:39] in West Bloomfield.
[2:33:42] Uh so these are legitimate concerns.
[2:33:45] At the same time, I'm embarrassed uh
[2:33:47] with uh Jake Lang's so-called
[2:33:50] Christianity, this fake Christianity,
[2:33:51] which many people have said. I hope this
[2:33:53] doesn't put my Muslim friends off
[2:33:55] Christianity because that's not that's not real Christianity.
[2:33:59] Christ,
[2:33:59] >> you have 30 seconds remaining.
[2:34:01] >> represents love.
[2:34:03] Um I do want to say just a couple more
[2:34:06] things. First of all, uh I'm not racist
[2:34:08] and I I want to discourage that as well.
[2:34:11] I have dear Arab friends. I was speaking
[2:34:13] in Arabic uh church on sun uh this
[2:34:15] weekend. Uh, and the last thing I want
[2:34:18] to say, giving credit where it's due, is
[2:34:20] when we had an Israeli Jewish man who
[2:34:23] came to Dearbornne to Peace Park West, I
[2:34:26] appreciate how when there was a threat
[2:34:28] and I contacted the FBI, the Dearborn
[2:34:30] police came out in full force to protect
[2:34:32] him
[2:34:34] >> uh to speak about the tragic loss of his
[2:34:36] son who was murdered in Washington DC
[2:34:38] and he spoke in love and in compassion
[2:34:40] to people in Dearborn who are
[2:34:42] experiencing loss. So, I want to give
[2:34:44] credit where it's due to the Dearborn
[2:34:45] Police and the Dear Dearborn government
[2:34:47] for helping in that situation. Thank you
[2:34:50] very much.
[2:34:50] >> Thank you, sir. All right. Uh, Mr.
[2:34:53] Clerk, is there any more cards?
[2:34:55] >> No more cards. All right. At that time,
[2:34:56] we will conclude our public uh comment
[2:34:58] portion. Is there a motion to adjurnn?
[2:35:01] We are have a motion by Councilman
[2:35:03] Alawi. We are adjourned.