Update, 12:17 p.m. Monday: Detroit Police Detective Nathan Weekley, who posted an anti-Black Lives Matter comment Friday on Facebook, has been demoted, Katrease Stafford reports at the Detroit Free Press.
"I became aware the night of the posting on social media," Chief James Craig said at a press conference Monday. "And once becoming aware of it I notified my team so we could have a discussion.
"And based on the preliminary discussion assessment of it, Detective Weekley has been de-appointed down from the ranking of detective to police officer and he has been reassigned and we have opened an internal investigation into the matter."
Original article, Monday morning:
An anti-Black Lives Matter comment on Facebook is causing a stir.
Detroit police are looking nto this Facebook comment posted Friday by Detroit Police Detective Nathan Weekley iof Lake Orion n response to the Dallas police shootings, Simon Shaykhet reports at WXYZ:
"For the first time in my nearly 17 years as a law enforcement officer I contemplated calling into work in response to the outrageous act perpetrated against my brothers. It seems like the only response that will demonstrate our importance to society as a whole. The only racists here are the piece of (expletive) Black Lives Matter terrorists and their supporters."
Weekley's brother is Joseph Weekley, the former Detroit SWAT who shot and killed Aiyana Jones in May 2010 during a failed raid on Detroit's east side. He was charged in the death, but two trials ended in a hung jury. He faces two civil cases.
Weekley declined to comment, WXYZ says.
