KILPATRICK PLEADS: 'I LIED UNDER OATH'
In four short words, Mayor Kwame M. Kilpatrick acknowledged his guilt this morning, admitting that he lied during the whistleblower case brought by two former police officers who claimed they were punished for looking into wrongdoing by the mayor's staff.
"I lied under oath," Kilpatrick said after he pleaded guilty to two felonies, a plea that will require him to spend four months in the Wayne County jail, to resign his office and to pay $1 million in restitution.
Kilpatrick will also agree not to seek office during the five years he is on probation and will surrender his state pension to the county. He will also surrender his law license.
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The fallout from the guilty pleas was immediate. Police Chief Ella Bully-Cummings announced her resignation as civic and business leaders sought to use the day to put a capstone on a scandal that had weighed upon the city since January.
Just before the mayor pleaded, Beatty, his co-defendant, did not enter a plea. Instead, her case was continued a week to allow for prosecutors and her attorneys to strike a likely deal.
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And its done...Justice was extracted from the former Mayor, Kwami Kilpatrick, like a favorite bone from a junkyard dog.
The damage beyond the financial done to Detroit could never be counted in dollars....who would invest in Detroit now?
Who has confidence in the people who were appointed by the Mayor?
How do you repair the reputation of a whole city when it's been dragged through the mud nationally ad nauseum?
Those in Detroit who blame the media and the suburbs surrounding Detroit really need to re-examine their criteria when electing someone to represent them.
To support or endorse a person of color simply because they are a person of color is prejudice of the worse caliber because it disguises itself as a justifiable action.
I unfortunately have to still maintain that most Detroiters are some of the most prejudiced people in the country, especially after watching the lies unfold one by one for the last few months.
To watch the Mayor accuse use of derogatory racial names against himself and his family yet it comes to light that the text messages he fought so hard to hide contained those same terms, wherein he refers to his former mistress, Christine Beatty, with those same derogatory racial names.
Except he used them as a term of endearment....hypocrisy is never excused...never,
Kwami diminished the ongoing problem of prejudice when he "talked thug" to his fellow community leaders.
No one word is banned for one race of people but allowed to be used by another race....to be used as an affectionate pet name no less after decades of use as a diminishing insult to a whole race of people....hypocrisy shouldn't exist at this level.....but it does.....in Detroit
Expect more to come out, soon the corrupt few left over from the Kilpatrick tenure will turn on each other making plea bargains implicating former colleagues, mark my words.
Detroiters who supported the former Mayor during all of this scandal will never elect a Asian person to the office of Mayor, will never elect a Hispanic person to the office of Mayor, will never elect a Caucasian person to the office of Mayor...it's more important to them that a person of African descent be Mayor than almost anything else...even to the point of interpreting criminal conduct as an acceptable practice.
It is not acceptable.
To accuse those in the suburbs and Michigan at large as responsible for Detroit's woes was just ridiculous and insulting to those in Detroit who do have ethics and codes of conduct they live and work by.
Detroit, Michigan.
Once one of the greatest cities in the world...a shell of what could have been, what should have been.
Once a city that people migrated to, not from.
Once a place you could say you came from with pride, not embarassment.
Crime riddled, corrupt leaders, drug soaked, filthy streets and playgrounds, infrastructure failing at nearly every venue of support.
Who would to come to Detroit now?
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