Michigan Law Protects Repeat Felons

The arrest of a Flint Michigan City Councilman for beating his live-in girlfriend highlights how the state’s soft-on-crime policies protect its criminal population. As reported by Hudson Crozier of the Daily Caller News Foundation (published by Liberty Unyielding), Councilman Leon El-Alamin spent seven years in prison for gang-related drug and gun crimes before gaining early release and forming a non-profit dedicated to ending the “mass incarceration” of people of color and rehabilitating former criminals.  In the aftermath of the 2020 George Floyd riots, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer implemented the Clean Slate program, which allows convicts with up to three felony and an unlimited number of misdemeanor convictions to have their criminal records expunged.  After El-Alamin’s criminal record was erased under that program, he was able to receive a concealed-carry permit, which are not available to those with previous felony convictions.

Numerous photos posted on Instagram show El-Alamin meeting with Governor Whitmer, democrat members of Congress, including New Jersey Senator Cory Booker and at party events supporting Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign. El-Alamin has also been serving on city boards distributing millions of dollars in federal grants for housing and COVID 19 relief and he sponsored a measure adopted last March which prohibits landlords from considering a prospective renter’s criminal history, which he characterizes as “justice involved individuals.”

Following his arrest for domestic violence El-Alamin could not be denied bail because he had no criminal record. The court released him after he posted a $7,500 bond. Since his arrest, three other members of the Flint City Council have called for his resignation, but El-Alamin insists that the charges against him are false.

David Leyton, the Genesee County Prosecutor, emphasized last Friday that it doesn’t matter to him how high-profile suspect El-Alamin is.

“In my 20-plus years on the job, we’ve been very vigorous in our prosecution of men who beat up women,” Leyton said.

El-Alamin’s non-profit, the MADE Institute, claims a 95% success ratio at rehabilitating ex-convicts.