Detroit Mayor Thrown In Jail - With Video
Pictured: Kilpatrick tells the judge “I’m a pimp, and pimps don’t commit suicide,” while his side order of potato pancakes looks on.
You remember this guy and all his “I can’t wait to fuck your brains out” text messages he denied making to his *cough* Chief of Staff. What staff? That staff in your pocket there buddy?
You won’t hear too much from the Mainstream Media as to his party affiliation, I can guarantee you that…
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 said they immediately will appeal the ruling.
“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 a front 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.
“My life has been revolutionarily transformed and it’s transforming in front of the eye of these media people who don’t know me at all,” he said, referring to what he called intense scrutiny. “Your honor, I ask for your forgiveness…it will never happen again.”
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Nowhere does it mention that he’s a democrat!
August 7th, 2008 at 11:15 amhe want to be like pdiddy n shit!
August 7th, 2008 at 11:16 amI happen to be from the sorry state of Michigan and this has become the laughing stock of the news media. I don’t know who is worse Kwame or 2 Penny Jenny Granholm - our disgraceful governer. By the way, USA Today is the only one who identified him as a democrat.
August 7th, 2008 at 11:27 amI left MI 2 years ago….
I was there last month.
The SE area, save for areas of oakland co looks like an old eastern block country. Abandoned commercial and residential buildings, a large number of the cars are heaps. It is much worse these last 2 years. The ignorant residents lay it on the feet of President Bush.
The re elected granholm and kilpatrick, they got it coming.
Oh, and they are lining up for obama too. Assholes.
Shame, but fuck ‘em, I lost my ass getting out of there.
August 7th, 2008 at 11:35 amHey, Kwame, you gonna eat that cornbread? Bee-yotch?
August 7th, 2008 at 11:39 amThe folks there are just reaping what they have sewn in the ballot box….Now if only we can get rid of old Richardson, here in NM…..
August 7th, 2008 at 11:52 amKilpatrick hearts Obama
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080603/NEWS06/80603063
August 7th, 2008 at 12:59 pmThis was not at all a front to you or the court.
Is he busting some ebonics on the judge, or did this ignorant criminal really mean “an affront,” instead? This fucktard isn’t nearly as smoove as Obamessiah…no where near as articulate, either.
August 7th, 2008 at 2:04 pmKwame: you’re going to meet some real pimps in the slammer. My suggestion would be to bring plenty of lube for your criminal black ass.
August 7th, 2008 at 2:47 pm“Kilpatrick hearts Obama”
….and Bambi hearts the Mayor right back…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZNvC_-RW2Q
August 7th, 2008 at 6:03 pm