Detroit Mayor Charged In Deputy's Assault

(AP)  Moments after a judge ruled that Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick could be released from jail if he pays a $50,000 bond, Michigan's attorney general announced he was charging the mayor with two felony assault charges stemming from a confrontation between Kilpatrick and a sheriff's detective.

The detective accused the mayor of pushing another investigator while recently trying to serve a subpoena on a friend of Kilpatrick's. The two counts of assaulting or obstructing a police officer are each punishable by up to two years in prison.

"In my almost 20 years, first as a prosecutor and now as an attorney general ... I cannot recall ever seeing let alone hearing of a situation where a police officer trying to serve a subpoena was assaulted," Attorney General Mike Cox said at a news conference.

Kilpatrick spent Thursday night in a one-man jail cell with no TV for violating his bond in a criminal perjury case that has dogged him for months. Then Wayne County Circuit Judge Thomas Jackson altered the ruling of the lower court judge who ordered the mayor to jail.

Jackson said District Judge Ronald Giles went too far by not attaching some kind of cash bond to his ruling.

In order to get out of jail, Kilpatrick must pay a $50,000 cash bond and wear an electronic tether. He won't be allowed to travel.

Cox, meanwhile, announced the assault charges after state police wrapped up an investigation of the confrontation between Kilpatrick and a sheriff's detective, who accused Kilpatrick of the pushing incident in July while the investigator was trying to serve a subpoena on Bobby Ferguson, a Kilpatrick ally and possible witness.

Brian White, who works for the Wayne County sheriff's office, testified Kilpatrick came outside of a house belonging to his sister, Ayanna, and threw him into another investigator. White didn't fall but said he may have a slight hip fracture.

White is a lead investigator in Kilpatrick's perjury case. The mayor and a former top aide are charged with perjury, misconduct and obstruction of justice, all tied to their testimony in a civil trial last year. At the heart of that case: steamy text messages contradicting their claim that they didn't have a romantic relationship.

To remain free while the case moves through court, Kilpatrick was required to notify authorities about business that required out-of-state travel.

He admitted violating that condition when he went to Windsor, Ontario - minutes from Detroit - on July 23 to discuss the sale of the city's portion of a tunnel connecting the U.S. and Canada. He didn't call prosecutors or inform the court.

Saying he wanted the mayor treated like any other defendant, Giles on Thursday ordered the leader of the country's 11th-largest city jailed. Kilpatrick was transported to jail in a sheriff's van, photographed, given a green jumpsuit and placed in a one-man cell for high-profile people. He wore a tan suit to his court hearing Friday morning.

Earlier Thursday, Kilpatrick and Christine Beatty waived their right to a preliminary exam in the perjury case. That means those charges now go directly to Wayne County Circuit Court. Arraignment for the pair was set for Aug. 14. Both deny the charges.

[jt_lancer]

Detriot voters picked themselves a winner in Kwame Kilpatrick.

Maybe democracy ain''t so great after all...

[terrorislamw]

MORE DEMONIC-RAT CORRUPTION,,,

DEMONIC-RAT CORRUPTION

Fascism, corruption and my Democratic Party
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?pageId=3012
Ten years ago, Newsweek magazine shocked mainstream America with a cover story headlined "Thought Police," a lengthy report on a new social /political movement developed on college campuses since the 1960s. Ironically, one year after the Berlin wall came down and one year before the fall of the Soviet Empire, Americans were being seriously warned that liberal academia had adopted a hybrid "Marxist" philosophy often called "PC." This new "Politically Correct" creed was being espoused, according to Newsweek, at hundreds of colleges and universities as a result of the growing influence of "a generation of campus radicals."

Democrat corruption over the last three months
http://www.boycottliberalism.com/Commentary/Corruption.htm

[triciawalsh1]

I SOLD Kwame Kilpatrick CRACK COCAINE AND ALSO HAD GAY *** WITH THE MAYOR

[triciawalsh1]

I SOLD Kwame Kilpatrick CRACK COCAINE AND ALSO HAD GAY *** WITH THE MAYOR

[patriot12436]

davidy07
Sorry you are correct my mistake.

[patriot12436]

kaileumego1
Yes when 13% of the population is responsible for 60% of the crimes coommitted in our country, i do believe it becomes a race issue.

[patriot12436]

keithle1
I listened to obama and considered voting for him. I didn''t care if he wwas black or not. I decided against him because of everything that has come out about him and the fact that the man cannot state his position on anything and canot answer a question without his teleprompter. It isn''t racism it is common sense.

[xtrabiggg]

This scandal and ensuing flood torrent of legal sewage is not about race or ***... like everything else, it''s about MONEY! The Mayor has tried to cover up his numerous crimes and indiscretions by having the CITIZENS of Detroit pay an $8 Million settlement to two Police Officers who were demoted and fired merely for doing their job investigating wrongdoings by the Mayor, his staff, his family and his ''Business Partners''. The citizens were not apprised of this secret agreement until the press found out via FOIA filings! Furthermore, he has arrogantly acted as if the law doesn''t apply to him, violating his bail conditions and committing felonious acts while out on bail!

[xtrabiggg]

The only time race has been injected in this whole fiasco is when Kwame Kilpatrick injected it! Using the ''N'' word in his State of the City address, making racist comments to the African-American prosecutor after throwing the Caucasian Sherriff''s Deputy into her, and saying that African-American Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy was motivated by ''suburban racists'' in her prosecution of him! Ironic coming from a man whose nearly all-white 14-attorney defense team is mostly from out-of-state! And he keeps feeding at the city trough by costing the taxpayers millions on what amounts to his PERSONAL legal defense!

As for those who continue to rip the City of Detroit... get a life! If you ever HAVE been to the city, it probably was 20 or 30 years ago, and you have no idea what strides have been made in bringing the city back from it''s depths. Sure, there''s a long way to go, but Detroit is far from the 30-year-old charicature that so many people, pundits and cretins continue to rely on as heavily biased ond totally inaccurate misrepresentation of where the city is today.

That being said, most of the credit Kwame takes for Detroit''s comeback is really the responsibility and hard work of others. In his term, he has done more to set this progress back than any other political figure in Detroit and SE Michigan history.

For the good of the city, state and region, Kwame''s gotta go!

xtrabiggg
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[libsluv2spit]

"Obama is a lot smarter than Kwame & DC''''''''s former Mayor Barry. He''''''''s at a higher level. Those two could never get a political office higher than Mayor.

Anyone who votes for McCain just because Obama is black is a fool.

Posted by Keithle1 at 02:41 PM : Aug 09, 2008"

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obama being smart is no question..that makes him more dangerous, he has the ability to push this misguided "if you dont vote for me, your a racist" excuse farther than these 2 ni ggers


and its obvious enough, with lack of experience and anything to base his ''changes''..they are voting for obama JUST BECAUSE he is black