Reply #12: Publicity and comfirming rumors

[Az]

When I was in Japan I wore a teeshirt that said Detroit Summer. While being a 6' long haired blonde already had cleared space around me this teeshirt really cleared a path.

Detroit has a reputation. It's difficult to get rid of this sort of thing. The best you can hope for is for nothing to happen and some other city ratchets up the violence. Even then there will be a lingering memory of Detroit equals violent. But when something like this happens, despite it being one nut, it puts violence and Detroit back in front of the public eye. The association gets strengthened. And it becomes harder to remove again.