Dearborn Heights Police are walking back a statement made in a now-deleted Facebook post from two days ago that showed a mock-up of a police patch with the department name translated into Arabic.

Dearborn Heights Mayor Bill Bazzi now says the patch was an internal discussion among some members of the police department that should not have been made public or presented as an official prototype.

"The patch effort was an internal discussion among some within the police department, which was not put forth for consensus or further review," Bazzi wrote in a post on Dearborn Heights Police Department's Facebook page.

The patch, which was said to be optional, showed the words "Dearborn Heights Police" in Arabic.

“Should efforts like this be formally undertaken to make any changes to the Police

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