Dearborn Heights police chief decries rancor around proposed patch with Arabic writing

The Brief

  • The chief of Dearborn’s police department accepted responsibility after a mock-up of a proposed patch that included Arabic writing was posted on social media.
  • Chief Ahmed Haidar also decried the backlash against the proposed patch, saying it was misrepresented as a “wedge issue.”
  • The Dearborn Heights mayor chimed in on the online commentary about the patch, which started as a social media post on the city’s police department.

(FOX 2) The chief of police in Dearborn Heights took responsibility after an errant post on the department’s social media announcing a new patch with Arabic writing was published.

But chief Ahmed Haidar also argued the response to the patch, including verbal attacks online towards officers, was wrong.

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