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| ©tom stoye /mural by Benny White Ethiopia |
On this day, November 5th, 1992, only a couple of months after the video taped beating of Rodney King in Los Angeles, Detroit resident Malice Green, an African American, was beaten to death by two white police officers (Walter Budzyn and Larry Nevers), during a stop and frisk on Detroit's west side.
The autopsy report stated that Green had been hit in the head approximately 14 times by a blunt object, which according to witnesses was at the hands of Nevers, who repeatedly struck Green with his flashlight, after he refused to relinquish a vile of crack cocaine. Detroit Mayor Coleman Young was quoted as saying that Green was "literally murdered by police."
Artist Benny White Ethiopia, painted a mural memorializing Malice Green at 3428 West Warren Avenue, the site of the beating. Recently, unannounced, the city tore down the dilapidated building, and with it the memorial. Outraged, local citizens are making plans for the artist to create a new memorial in its place.
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