A Racially Fraught Traffic Accident In West Detroit

This one is notable because it carries echoes of the Crown Heights riots, but with a very different cast of characters.

Stu Tarlowe | October 7, 2026

I’ve been saying for years that a backlash of Black Americans, and a march off the Democrat plantation, might be the only thing that can save our country. An incident in Detroit in September might indicate such a change.

(Notice that I capitalize the terms “Black” and “White,” as I would out of respect for any ethnicity, although I do not use the term “African-American.”)

The incident in Detroit is reminiscent of one in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY, in 1991, but with a change-up in the casting.

I have on several occasions mentioned the Crown Heights riots, usually in the context of the riots being an occasion for which poverty pimp/”community activist” Al Sharpton has blood on his hands and has never been held accountable. Now comes an occurrence in Detroit that carries echoes of the Crown Heights riots, but with a significant change-up in the cast of characters.

The impetus for the riots was a traffic accident in August 1991, in which a car in the police-escorted motorcade of Rabbi Menachem Schneerson ran a red light and struck two Black children, one of whom, Gavin Cato, 7, died. Rebbe Schneerson was the charismatic leader of the Lubavitcher sect of Orthodox Jews, which had a significant presence in Crown Heights (and which treated the rebbe as if he were the Messiah, or at least royalty).

There were already tensions between the Lubavitchers and the neighborhood’s Black residents, and the Reverend Al Sharpton and his cohorts used the accident to fan the flames of those tensions,........

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