Group calls for creation of police-review board to curb incidents of unfairness.

Arnetta Grable traveled from Detroit to share the story of how her 20-year-old son, who had no criminal record, was killed in 1996 by a Detroit police officer after being pulled over for "suspicious circumstances."

Lucas Campbell came from Parchment to say that teen-agers of any color are the targets of police harassment in that city.

Former Kalamazoo police officer Franklin Thompson came to say he was disgusted that city administrators were not "standing up" to quickly resolve questions of police brutality in the city. Thompson was referring to lawsuits against the city in which more than 20 men have claimed since September that they were mistreated by Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety officers and in the city jail.

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