Racist Tweet About Michelle Obama Gets Worker Fired, But Should It? Patch PM

DETROIT, MI – Here are some stories to talk about tonight on Michigan Patch:

Racist Tweet About Michelle Obama Gets Mortgage Lender Fired

• Ubiquitous social media is blurring the tenuous line between employees' personal and public lives.

Transgender Woman Says Dearborn Bar Attack Was a Hate Crime

• “They hit me in my face because I’m transgender,” she wrote on Facebook. “And they treated me like I did something wrong."

Flint Residents Treated as 'Expendable' By 6 State Workers Criminally Charged

• Six state employees viewed Flint residents "as if they didn't matter," Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette said at a press conference.

Drinking, Driving and Pokémon Go Don't Mix: Oakland County Sheriff

• Deputies followed a trail of vehicle debris to the suspect's home in Walled Lake.

Michigan’s Granholm Cheers Clinton and Obama, Jeers Trump: Watch

• Hillary Clinton faces challenges in the Rust Belt; former governor positions her as the candidate who can continue manufacturing resurgence.

Weekend Forecast: Soggy Weather Settles Over Metro Detroit

• Light rain in the forecast through the week. It will be warm, then get ready for a heat wave, with temps in the mid- to upper 90s by Friday.

Also Worth a Read

• Bloomfield Township Housekeeper Took Out More Than the Trash: Police
• RTA Falls Short of Votes Needed to Put Regional Transit on Ballot
• ‘Hannibal Lecters’ About to Be Unleashed on Public: Sheriff
• No Criminal Charges Against Troy City Manager After Probe
• Royal Oak Woman Awakes to Peeping Tom

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