LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Regardless of a big police presence throughout Friday’s rally to help Sloan’s Onondaga Dragway, no tickets for reckless driving or avenue racing have been issued.
Lansing Police Division spokeswoman Jordan Gulkis tells 6 Information, “There were no tickets given Friday night related to street racing or reckless driving.”
An estimated 75 vehicles and 100 individuals gathered at Everett Plaza to protest a Thursday determination by Ingham County Circuit Court docket Decide Rosemarie Aquafina. The choice shutters the raceway, situated about 20 minutes south of Lansing, indefinitely.
Racers rally on the south aspect of Lansing to protest the shuttering of the Onondaga Dragway (WLNS)
6 Information was on scene when Lansing Police ordered the gathering to interrupt up. A number of, at the least three, police automobiles swept north by way of the lot to push automobiles and folks out by way of the north drive of the plaza. Overhead, a drone introduced that individuals wanted to depart the world.
Sloan’s had invited avenue racers to come back to Onondaga, the place they might race legally the day earlier than his observe was shut down by court docket order. His provide was in response to a lethal crash on April 24. That crash left a 15-year-old male lifeless and despatched 12 others to an area hospital.
Visitors cease close to rally to help Sloan’s Onondaga Dragway on Friday, Might 2. Police say one male was taken into custody and a firearm was recovered. It’s unclear if the car and driver have been a part of the rally occasion, police say.
As officers have been clearing the Plaza, officers initiated a visitors cease “in the same block,” Gulkis tells 6 Information. That visitors cease was accomplished a number of blocks south on Mason St. Police inform 6 Information a male was taken into custody throughout that visitors cease, and a firearm was recovered from the car.
Gulkis says the division can not verify if the automotive driver was “officially a part” of the protest in Everett Plaza.
