From The Detroit News:
Detroit tenant rights groups are protesting the death in July of a 45-year-old man by a court bailiff who was evicting the man from his Detroit apartment.
Sherman Lee Butler, 45, was shot and killed July 12 by a bailiff, who is an independent contractor with Detroit’s 36th District Court, when Butler failed to vacate his Palmer Park apartment when his lease ended, said Marc Landau, the attorney for the Manderson Road apartment complex.
Butler allegedly had a weapon and lunged at the bailiff, said 36th District Court Chief Judge William McConico. A Detroit Police Department officer used a Taser on Butler before the bailiff shot him, said McConico and Detroit police Cpl. Dan Donakowski.