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Following the shooting on Garland Avenue, the city of Detroit erupts in horror and anger that plays out, in part, in the concurrent mayoral election. John Smith, the incumbent, was elected by a coalition of progressives, working-class white people, European immigrants, and Black Detroiters. But now he faces an opponent backed by the Klan. In the context of increasingly violent racial confrontations like the one on Garland Avenue, Smith puts out a statement in the form of an open letter to the police commissioner which includes his words in this passage.
In his statement, Smith attempts to preserve his anti-Klan…