Detroit

The action taken by General Motors came a day after the Free Press first reported the allegations, which date back as far as 2011, against the private security force, Renaissance Center Management Co., and its white officers. Multiple federal lawsuits describe a pattern of white officers assaulting, targeting, harassing and unlawfully detaining Black people in a basement cell of the Renaissance Center that has gone unchecked for years.

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"Allied Universal has zero tolerance for discrimination and use of force of any kind," the security company said in a Friday statement.

...alleged examples of untolerated "discrimination and use of force" such as...

• [a] Black woman who...says officers illegally held her in a cell...so long that she urinated on herself
• ...passed around a photo of the decapitated head of a Black man, laughing and making racist jokes
• ...a white officer struck her in the face and beat her after an argument over whether she could bring her bicycle inside the building
• ...he was maced, handcuffed, beaten and dragged...to a small room where water was poured over his nose and mouth, choking him
• ...pushed through the doors with such force that glass shattered