Police Report: Monica Conyers Threatens To Shoot Kilpatrick Aide

This is from the first paragraph of a story in the Detroit News today (hat tip to The Corner at NRO): "An aide to Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick filed a police report Thursday claiming Monica Conyers, the short-tempered city council president pro tem and wife of U.S. Rep. John Conyers, threatened to get a gun and shoot him at a city pension board meeting."

There's more: "According to the police report filed Thursday by DeDan Milton, an assistant to Kilpatrick, Conyers 'threatened to shoot (Milton) with her gun' and made 'several aggressive movements' toward Milton 'in a threatening manner.' "

Milton also reported to police that Conyers said she would "have my brothers (mess) you up.'"

David Clark, chair of Detroit's General Retirement System, backed up Milton's account.

'She ran at him,' Clark told The Detroit News. 'She told him she would get a gun if she had to and that she has four brothers and they would whup his a-- if she asked them.'"

Monica Conyers denied the allegations, and she filed her own police report saying Milton threatened her.

Monica Conyers, and her relationship with the venerable lawmaker's staff, spurred a preliminary investigation by the House ethics committee a couple years ago following allegations that the Michigan Democrat was using his staff to help her campaign. The committee declined to take punitive action against him.