The Warren Police Department is refusing to release public records to Metro Times, including video footage that shows cops allegedly beating a man with a mental health emergency.
Christopher Gibson, 26, was “brutally battered, tasered and threatened with a barking K-9” by Warren cops while detained in December 2022, according to a recent lawsuit filed by the ACLU of Michigan. He ended up in the hospital with damage to his heart and kidneys.
Ironically, an attorney for Warren claimed in the city’s denial that releasing the records would somehow harm Gibson because he “did not authorize release of his protected or private information to any third-party,” calling the information “an invasion of privacy.”…