Give it up, dude...they're on your ass worse than Rep. Jefferson. They'll get you for spitting on the sidewalk next.
"It is a very serious case. ... I cannot recall, ever, seeing, let alone hearing, of a situation where a police officer trying to serve a subpoena was assaulted," Cox said, adding that he has been a prosecutor for 20 years.
The new charge stems from a July 24 altercation with Wayne County Sheriff’s Detective Brian White, who testified that Kilpatrick shoved him into his partner at the mayor’s sister’s house in Detroit. Kilpatrick’s lawyers said the mayor gently escorted White away from the house.
White said he was trying to serve the mayor’s friend, Bobby Ferguson, with a subpoena for a hearing in the text message case against Kilpatrick and his former chief of staff Christine Beatty, who also is facing multiple felonies in that case.
A magistrate today set a $25,000 bond for Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick in connection with two felony assault charges filed by the Michigan Attorney General's office.
Magistrate Renee McDuffee of the 36th District Court ordered the mayor to post 10% of a $25,000 bond, or $2,500 for release on the new charges. The mayor posted the bond this afternoon and was released.
McDuffee said she could impose conditions only on the case before her, the two assault charges stemming from an altercation with Wayne County law enforcement officers trying to serve a subpoena.
McDuffee ordered Kilpatrick to have no contact with witnesses in the assault case.
Kilpatrick, who spent the night in Wayne County Jail on an unrelated criminal case, appeared on a television screen in 36th District Court to face the two felony assault charges.
McDuffee entered a not guilty plea for the mayor. Kilpatrick made no comment. McDuffee then scheduled a preliminary examination for Aug. 15.
Kilpatrick attorney James Thomas argued for a lenient bond, saying that the mayor already has posted bond at considerable personal expense in relation with the perjury case against him.
During a new conference in Detroit this morning, Attorney General Mike Cox charged Kilpatrick with two counts of felonious assault for allegedly shoving a sheriff’s deputy into his partner last month.
"We are charging defendant Kwame Kilpatrick with assaulting ... police officers in the furtherance of their duties," Cox said.
The latest charges pose yet another threat to the livelihood of the 38-year-old mayor, who has steadfastly remained in office while battling eight other felony charges and possible removal hearings by the City Council and Gov. Jennifer Granholm. The other criminal charges all relate to the text message scandal exposed in the Free Press in January.
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Is tone deafness an
Is tone deafness an inherited birth defect in the Kilpatrick Family? Kwame's people, including his parents, could have rescued him from this labyrinth of his own making some time ago. Supporting him in his obvious delusion that the media and his political enemies are responsible for his troubles has only served to increase his intransigence and arrogance. I never thought Kilpatrick was ready for the job but, nonetheless, it is still sad to watch a young person self-destruct in this way and his elders are acting as if an intervention is not needed.
a Black man who messes with the Po-Lice over stuff
that doesn't have anything to do with HIM....
how many ways do I have to say
TRIFLING?