LOL YOUR MARE IS IN JAIL

[Phoenix Dark]

DETROIT -- Judge Ronald Giles sent Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to Wayne County Jail for failing to notify the court of his trip to Canada and violating the terms of his bond.

Despite Kilpatrick's humble apologies to the court beforehand, Giles said he needed to treat Kilpatrick as an ordinary citizen and sent him immediately to jail.

Giles revoked Kilpatrick's bond and suspended all travel.

"What matters to me though is how the court overall is perceived and how if it was not Kwame Kilpatrick sitting in that seat, if it was John Six-Pack sitting in that seat, what would I do? And that answer is simple," he said.

Sheriff Warren Evans said at a news conference Thursday afternoon that Kilpatrick was going through the booking process and he will not be treated any better or worse than any other prisoner. However, Kilpatrick will have his own cell for his own protection, in an area designated for high-profile prisoners. Only the deputies guarding him will have access to Kilpatrick.

"Trust me I have been doing this for 35 years. I know how to protect prisoners," said Evans.

Kilpatrick will have access to a collect phone and his lawyers and direct family can see him.

Kilpatrick's attorneys immediately appealed the ruling, and an appeal was scheduled for 9 a.m. on Friday.

"The judge did what he thought was right. We don't agree," said defense lawyer James Thomas

Before Giles made his decision, Kilpatrick addressed the court and apologized for violating his bond conditions when he went across the border last month to push the sale of the city's half of the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel.

"Your Honor, I am asking for your forgiveness. It will never happen again," he said.

He told Giles that he violated his bond to save the city and close a $300 million deficit facing the city.

Kilpatrick continued to praise Giles and the court.

"I respect the heck out of you for taking this case under all this scrutiny," he said humbly. "I apologize. This was not at all affront to you or the court. I don't believe there is a person who has ever been through this process that respects it more than I do."

Kilpatrick also said he has been under intense pressure to continue to run the city and bear the burden and media parade of the trial.

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Killing strippers? Eh no big deal. Breaking bond? JAIL TIME

[Crushed]

[Eric P]

She is?

you don't hear her cries for freedom?

she must be hoarse

[Phoenix Dark]

so if Always Sunny gets canceled i'll know who to blame!

[duckman2000]

About fucking time.

[Fragamemnon]

this dude is a corrupt and criminal piece of shit. Detriot and the state dem establishment should have thrown him into the nearest great lake months ago.

[Madrun Badrun]

Now cohen will have to take ass shots from behind the glass. 

[duckman2000]

this dude is a corrupt and criminal piece of shit. Detriot and the state dem establishment should have thrown him into the nearest great lake months ago.

Problem being, of course, that the rest of them are seemingly just as corrupt. Somehow, a jailed Mayor seems about right for the city.

I think it would have helped him somewhat if he had admitted some fault. No one is going to buy that he's completely right and everyone who attacks him are completely wrong, even before this scandal. Everyone knew he was a bit of a thug, long before these recent scandals. But people accepted it, and I think they would have been more forgiving of his shit if he didn't pull this holy martyr on the cross stuff.

[Tauntaun]

"Nuke Detroit, it's the only way to be sure."

[Phoenix Dark]

I'm still shocked he managed to get re-elected. There are so many people who buy into his martyr bullshit. Woe is me the white man is brining me down bullshit. He's very good at playing the race card ("if you don't live in Detroit you have no business criticizing us")

[Great Rumbler]

Would it be wrong for me to assume that Robocop actually painted an accurate picture of modern-day Detroit?

[Crushed]

Woe is me the white man is brining me down bullshit.

[Tauntaun]

I'm still shocked he managed to get re-elected. There are so many people who buy into his martyr bullshit. Woe is me the white man is brining me down bullshit. He's very good at playing the race card ("if you don't live in Detroit you have no business criticizing us")

Have you seen the MI congress in session?  They're freaking crazy.

[laesperanzapaz]

Indeed, how can this man go as far as he has with the public's support, it behooves me

[Phoenix Dark]

He killed a stripper?

Tamara Greene was a 27-year-old exotic dancer who went by the name "Strawberry" and who claimed to have performed at the Manoogian Mansion party. While sitting in her car with her boyfriend, Greene was shot multiple times with a .40 caliber Glock handgun. Although official statement by Detroit Police Department claims that Ms. Greene was shot three times, sources from Homicide Division of DPD have claimed that she was shot 18 times. Her boyfriend was wounded, but he was not shot after the white Chevrolet TrailBlazer driven by the shooter(s) turned around and drove by a second time. This fact led Bowman to conclude that Greene was the intended target and not her 32-year-old boyfriend.[31] She was murdered on April 30, 2003, at around 3:40 am, near the intersection of Roselawn and West Outer Drive.[31][32] Her murder came after a first attempt on her life failed. This led to the theory that this was a "deliberate hit" by a member of the Detroit Police Department,[32] a theory that Bowman would investigate. He alleges his investigation was the reason that he was taken off of the case and transferred out of homicide.[31]

Greene's family filed a federal lawsuit against the city of Detroit for $150 million based on their belief her murder was a deliberate attack to keep her from talking to officers who were investigating the rumored party at the mayoral Manoogian Mansion.[32] A judge ruled that Norman Yatooma, the attorney representing Greene's 14-year-old son, can have access to text messages of Kilpatrick, police chief Ella Bully-Cummings and dozens of other city employees to ascertain if city officials blocked the investigation into Greene's murder.[33] Yatooma also wants the text messages and GPS positions of every city employee exchanged between 1:30 a.m. and 5:30 a.m. on April 30, 2003.[33][34] The city's communications provider Skytel has indicated it is prepared to release the text messages if the court rules accordingly.[33]

The lawyers for the city paid a retainer of $24,950 to the lawyers it hired to represent the city. City policy mandates that contracts $25,000 or more be approved by the city council.[35] Councilwoman Sheila Cockrel asserts that the amount paid "is small for a retainer" and "I think this is probably somebody's effort to get a deposit to a lawyer on an expedited basis in a case that's got a lot of scrutiny."[35] This is at least the second time the Kilpatrick administration has avoided council approval by entering into contracts just below the $25,000 threshold. The Lincoln Navigator SUV leased for the Kilpatrick family in 2005 with city funds costs $24,995.[35]

On March 1st, 2008, a ten-page sworn affidavit by former Detroit police lieutenant Alvin Bowman was filed by Yatooma in the U.S. District Court in Detroit. In that affidavit, Bowman states that "I suspected that the shooter was a law enforcement officer, and more specifically, a Detroit Police Department officer."[31] Bowman contends that the high number of .40 caliber bullets that hit Greene but not her boyfriend would indicate that the shooter had firearms training. In the document, Bowman explained how the highest levels of the police department, including then-police chief Jerry Oliver and his successor, Ella Bully-Cummings, deliberately sabotaged his investigation. He claims that files were deleted from homicide computers, reports were removed from the homicide file, and the Greene murder file itself was locked up so Bowman could not access it. Bowman states that eventually he was transferred out of homicide because he had asked too many questions about the Greene murder and the Manoogian Mansion party.[31] In the affidavit, Bowman says that Greene was employed with an associate of Kilpatrick, but did not name the associate. Bowman also stated that Greene's telephone records linked her to a high-ranking city employee not long before her April 2003 death. Mayer Morganroth, the lawyer representing the city said, "The Bowman affidavit is a little less than idiotic and more than absurd."[31]

In another sworn affidavit, Joyce Carolyn Rogers, a former employee for the Detroit Police Department stated that she read a police report that came across her desk in the fall 2002 which involved the mayor's wife, Carlita Kilpatrick assaulting Greene during the alleged Manoogian Mansion party. Rogers stated in the affidavit that Carlita had witnessed Greene touching the mayor "in a manner that upset the mayor's wife."[36]

Rogers' affidavit said that in the report Carlita Kilpatrick left the room and came back with a wooden object and began assaulting Greene. Two other men stepped in and tried to restrain the mayor's wife.[36]

Norman Yatooma attorney for the Greene family said that this new sworn affidavit shows that the Manoogian party was not "urban legend."

It's only a matter of time before he gets shitcanned for this. He fired two police officers over this as well as some other things, then denied it in court. Later a bunch of text messages came out which contradicted his reasons for firing the officers

"We must answer the question? Why was Gary Brown fired, It will be asked, I need short, powerful answer. ... I just need a good answer whatever it might be."

I don't see how he can possibly win in court. The text messages confirm he lied under oath

[Great Rumbler]

This guy's Wikipedia entry is amazing. It's seven screens long and nearly 2/3 of it has to do with various scandals he's been involved with. Seriously, how is this guy still in office?

[Eric P]

I'm still shocked he managed to get re-elected. There are so many people who buy into his martyr bullshit. Woe is me the white man is brining me down bullshit. He's very good at playing the race card ("if you don't live in Detroit you have no business criticizing us")

ah he read Marion Barry's The Nubian Prince.