Riverview councilman censured, removed from committees after alleged remarks

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(Detroit News) Riverview — David Robbins, elected in November to the Riverview City Council, was removed from his committee assignments and censured Tuesday by his six colleagues in a unanimous vote for making racially insensitive remarks.

The six council members also called for Robbins to resign because of his alleged conduct outside a restaurant in the early hours of Nov. 4, two days after he was elected.

The council censured Robbins and "calls upon him to tender his resignation as a member of the city council immediately in the best interests of the city of Riverview," according to the council resolution.

Robbins, 34, was charged criminally in a car crash weeks later after the Nov. 4 incident and bound over for trial on Jan. 6. Earlier Thursday, he was scheduled for an arraignment on information before Wayne Circuit Court Judge James Chylinski.

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The News-Herald, citing policy body camera footage, reported that Robbins referred to the other man as “some random-ass Black dude, who probably had no (expletive) business being in our city in the (expletive) first place, did what he did."

Robbins allegedly later said "this riff-raff comes into our city. ... They have no business being here." .............(more)

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/wayne-county/2022/01/20/alleged-racial-remarks-lead-censure-riverview-councilman/6591549001/

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1. Quiet Riverview ? He needed to go .