Detroit mayor charged with 2 felony assault counts

Agreed, we need a better class of politician and he doesn't have the decency to step down. He's a public embarrassment.

He's a shoe in for Mayor of whatever prison he should land in!

The sad thing is that he IS the chief of staff. I'm pretty sure he took the gig after Kwame's former cheif of staff resigned due to being indicted with him. So yea... what was once the 4th largest city in the United States has fallen so far as to being run by the high school buddy of the mayor that is facing nine felony counts.

Sources Please.?

Tried to post the link, but Newsvine will not allow links to be posted. Therefore, go to YouTube and run a search on Obama Kilpatrick endorsement, or something to this effect. You can hear for yourself Barack Obama stating that he is glad to call Kwame Kilpatrick a friend.

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Sources Please.?

Maybe this?

"And so I'm grateful to call him a friend and a colleague. And I'm looking forward to a lengthy collaboration in terms of making sure that Detroit does well in the future.

Or you can go to Powerline Blog (do a search for the web address since I can't post it here), then look at the August 7th, 2008 archive. There you will find the video of Barack Hussein Obama himself giving a glowing review of Kwame Kilpatrick and speaking of their friendship.

Thank you for the links and I appreciate that, Although Barack Obama can not be held responsible for a "Bad Egg" that from first appearances seems to be a good leader...?

Obama has not said a word about the Mayor of Detroit. I am from Michigan and Obama avoided him like the plague.

That's true since Kilpatrick landed in hot water. It makes for some pretty awkward positioning especially now that Ma Kilpatrick barely won her primary to run to retain her Congressional seat this fall. The Obama people will have to tread carefully around that one as the top of the ticket is normally expected to appear with other candidates for office. All of this is going to hurt Obama in MI come November -- fairly or unfairly.

to retain it? who is running against her? no one. Republicans don't run for office in Detroit.

She only won bu 1% around 800 votes. If there were 2 and not three people running she would have lost her seat.

Yes, she would have.

But that was a primary election and there is no Republican running against her.

He also lied in open court about having anything to do with the firing of the Police officers.

To Kwame Kilpatrick, it IS a joke. The reason for this is because all defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty. And Kilpatrick knows that in Detroit, there is NO WAY he will be convicted by a jury of his peers. A conviction requires 12 guilty votes from the jury, which will be made up of mostly (if not all) blacks. There's no way the prosecution will get all 12 jurors to vote to convict "The Nations First Hip-Hop Mayor". In the end, the rathole which is Detroit will refuse to convict him, at which time we will all get to witness his mocking the legal system and listen to his boasts of how "racist America" tried to lynch yet another innocent black man in a position of power. Sad, but predictable outcome.

Regardless how strong the evidence is against him.

Umm... actually... in Detroit circuit courts, jury pools are drawn from the entire county. There is a very good racial mix in the juries.

But all it takes is ONE to nullify a jury. With this in mind, I feel that he got poor legal representation. His attorney should have known that the prospects of a jury in Detroit voting unanimously to convict the nations "First Hip-Hop Mayor" would be nil to none.
This is in no way an endorsement of Kwame Kilpatrick, but rather an indictment of our current jury system. The current system is why extremely competent, high priced lawyers can get their rich clients off for crimes they committed. All it takes for some slick talking attorney to get his client off the hook is to convince ONE juror not to vote to convict, whether by twisting facts to confuse this one juror, or by playing on this one jurors emotions by planting racial questions into their mind. High priced attorneys are not only gifted as master manipulators, they are also well versed in psychological tactics.

A hung Jury is better than an acquittal.

Besides, this is all moot since he has pleaded to the count of perjury, resigned as Mayor, handed over his law license, and has been banned from running for political office for 5 years.

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Besides, this is all moot since he has pleaded to the count of perjury, resigned as Mayor, handed over his law license, and has been banned from running for political office for 5 years.

don't forget the "no contest" on the assault charge.

he pled no contest and is still only getting 125 days!! WTF!

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he pled no contest and is still only getting 125 days!! WTF!

Yeah

you'll never hear me claim the "justice system" is about justice

They already tried that...too bad the only white people really involved are Kwame's lawyers. *eh

It's always the first line of defence for the blacks...you need to get your head out of the sand.

"for the blacks"

Wow....

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree...take a good look at all the "good" things his mother has accomplished! Her wonderful charity which has been under the microscope before, I wonder why they didn't pull her license and funding after the first two incidents? What did she need $300,000 for?!?!

His mother raised a crack head and she is a thief & liar.

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree...take a good look at all the "good" things his mother has accomplished! Her wonderful charity which has been under the microscope before, I wonder why they didn't pull her license and funding after the first two incidents? What did she need $300,000 for?!?!

It was convenient that she was "unavailable" for comment when that story popped! Yes all the "great and wonderful" accomplishments...like pocketing $300,000! I guess she won't have to worry about her house going into foreclosure. Nice use of "quotes." heehee

Yeah, I saw that too. Maybe he's setting up his disability claim. Kind of like that Firefighter/body builder guy?

The belts they wear are kinda hard. You don't know the bone health of the Detective in question so how can you make a judgment? regardless if he has a fracture, the push constitutes assaulting an officer.

I'm fairly sure even my 93 year old grandmother would not have fractured her hip on a belt buckle when she was alive. If the officer's bone health was that poor, I'd think he'd be unfit for duty. As for the push, so far as I am aware this fracture is the only evidence that a push even occurred. If it did, why was he not arrested by the officer on charges of assault at that time, rather than waiting for the outcome of this court case before the charge of assault was raised? If you were an officer, and your partner had just been pushed into you hard enough to fracture his hip, would you let the assailant go or would you arrest him then and there?

There is no outcome!!! I live here and you need to read a little more. The shove came a few days ago, the guy is a mayor of a large city and has a lot of thugs... I mean personal police body guards who are his friends from school around him at all times. If two county detectives tried to arrest the mayor, they would have been arrested by his "body guards".

You also do not know what the evidence is. it is standard practice for the county sheriffs' to have cameras in their car filming their activities. I am sure it is on tape.

10.2. I wasn't making a judgement, I was making a humorous comment. Sorry you missed that-I understand they are selling senses of humor on E-Bay these days, if you're int he market.

I agree with you on the arrsting the mayor thing-that's not something that just is done like the run of the mill person. The cops want to have all their ducks in a row or they will end up collecting unemployment.

Have you started a recall petition yet? If not, why not?

You are aware that this is a written media and you have to add information into your comment to inform the reader of the intent you had if there is any emotion involved in it at all... right?

The council has already voted to get him recalled, and to ask to have the gov. remove him. I am sure the recall will be on the ballot in nov.

If you have ever looked at him from the front, you might think that both heads are of similar size.

I am one African-American Democrat who did NOT vote for him. Despite the investigations, many of us will never believe that he did not fix the 2005-election.

Mr. Kilpatrick also relies on his shady dealings with Big Business to keep himself in office. Like Jesse Helms, Mr. Kilpatrick exploits racism and ignorance. However, he wields them much more clumsily than Mr. Helms. And, granted, Mr. Helms (I can't even stand the man's memory) never engaged in such reprehensible behavior.

I know a little about Mr. Kandia Milton, Mr. Kilpatrick's temporary replacement, from personal experience. I would not trust the man with my garbage.

Michigan, when I lived there, often made fun of California's election of Arnold Schwarzeneggar. Michigan has some of the most hypocritical politics and mores that I had ever had the displeasure of living under. And, the Governator is actually doing a good job.

In Detroit politics, Democrat is pretty meaningless. To play in the city politics, you need to be a Democrat, people end up aligning on very strange issues.