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East Lansing Officials Can’t Talk About the City’s Biggest Policing Controversy in Years Without Risking Insurance Coverage

For months, residents who have spoken at meetings about an incident of alleged police brutality have mostly been met by silence.

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East Lansing Officials Can’t Talk About the City’s Biggest Policing Controversy in Years Without Risking Insurance Coverage
City Manager Robert Belleman told ELi following Tuesday's City Council meeting that publicly speaking about an incident where a police officer pepper-sprayed two Black men could jeopardize the city's insurance coverage because of ongoing litigation involving the incident. (Brian Wells for ELi)