Detroit police break up peaceful and permitted Native sugarbush ceremony in River Rouge Park
Highlights
- Detroit police break up Native sugarbush ceremony, saying’sovereign stuff is not valid’ Police officers shut down Indigenous sugarbush festival in River Rouge Park.
- Ceremony was held to kick off the third annual tapping season as part of the Detroit Sugarbush Project.
- Organizers say they had valid fire permits and approval from the city of Detroit.
- A video posted to Instagram shows officers standing side-by-side along the edge of the clearing as smoke from the recently extinguished fire billowed between them and attendees and attendees.
- A second report was filed Saturday morning at the Detroit Police Department’s 6th Precinct after the incident, organizers say.