Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick goes to jail

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In January the Detroit Free Press published some of the sexually explicit text messages between the Mayor and his then Chief of Staff Christine Beatty.

Both Kilpatrick and Beatty denied under oath in court that they had ever been romantically involved.

In a report here the city of Detroit ended up paying three police officers a total of $8.4 million when they filed a lawsuit about this.

A timeline of Mayor Kilpatrick's text Scandal was published by ClickonDetroit on August 7.

Last month on July 24 at the home of the mayor’s sister, Ayanna, law enforcement officials were sent to serve a subpoena to the mayor's friend Bobby Ferguson.

Wayne County Sheriff Warren Evans said an investigator and a Wayne County sheriff’s deputy assigned to Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy’s office had gone to serve a subpoena on Ferguson. The servers reported that Kilpatrick came out of the house and pushed the deputy “with significant force” into the other investigator

The two left the home and returned to the office and reported the incident.

On July 26 Kilpatrick sat in court wondering if he would be able to return home or end up in jail. He sat while he listened to an accusation that he had manhandled a Wayne County sheriff's deputy and spewed profanities and racially charged remarks to the officers.

He has been free on bond after being charged in March with eight felony counts for the lies he told at a police whistle-blower trial.

After hearing all the testimony Judge Ronald Giles revoked the mayor's personal recognizance bond and required him to post $7,500 cash bond. There were new restrictions imposed on Kilpatrick's personal and business travel and he was ordered to undergo random drug tests.

On July 23 Kilpatrick crossed the border into Canada and met with Windsor Canada's Windsor Mayor Eddie Francis about a plan to sell Detroit's half of the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel for $75 million. He failed to get court authorization first.

According to Chief Judge Marylin Atkins of Detroit's 36th District Court Kilpatrick is required to give court officials written notice of travel, which he failed to do.


Today Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick appeared in a Detroit court again before 36th District Judge Ronald Giles to hear what would happen for violating his bond.

In his plea Kilpatrick talked about his sons who were watching the proceedings, he told of his respect for the judicial process and his love of the city.

He said to the judge, "

Your Honor, I am asking for your forgiveness. It will never happen again."

According to freep.com

" As Kilpatrick's lips quivered, Giles ended a short speech by concluding: "If it was not Kwame Kilpatrick sitting in that seat, if it was John Six-Pack sitting in the seat, what would I do? That answers something. So I go back to my original, 'Keep it simple.'"

Giles added

,"That's what I have to do ... the court is revoking your bond, that all travel be suspended, and two, that you to be remanded to Wayne County Jail."

Kilpatrick was taken by Wayne County sheriff's deputies from the 36Th District Court at 12:55 p.m. and transported to the main jail in Detroit.

He will spend the night in jail as his attorneys appealed to Wayne Circuit Judge Thomas E. Jackson, but he said he will hear the appeal at 9 a.m. Friday.