From [HERE] Jim Bonsall, Detroit’s chief financial officer, has resigned in the wake of an investigation over a racially tinged comment he made in a meeting with other city officials. Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr, who hired Bonsall this summer at an annual salary of $225,000, today accepted Bonsall’s resignation, Orr’s office announced today.

Orr met with Bonsall this afternoon to discuss the results of an investigation in his comments, apparently in jest, whether he’d be able to shoot anyone in a hoodie if he participated in the city’s annual Angels’ Night anti-arson patrols. Bonsall’s hoodie remark was an apparent reference to the fatal shooting of unarmed Black teen Trayvon Martin, who died after a confrontation with white man George Zimmerman. Detroit is 86 % Black (for now).

"Michigan officials" (white people) along with Governor Rick Snyder (the big boss), a Republican (White Party), handpicked Orr in March to function as an emergency manager to oversee operations in Detroit, one of the largest cities to ever receive such intervention. That is, they replaced Detroit's elected black leaders (the Mayor and City Council) with Orr and his team of flunkys.

Bonsall apologized for the remark last week after the Free Press’ report on Johnson’s letter.