Since 9 am the breaking story is Detroit mayor Kwame has been told by a judge he has to go to jail. He was allowed to travel as long as he kept his nose clean and notified the court if he wanted to travel outside their jurisdiction. He got into an altercation with a policeman (shoving and pushing) . He continued to travel and ignore giving the notice.
The judge said he should not get special treatment because he is mayor. And that if another citizen did what he did they would be jailed. So he goes to jail OVERNIGHT. Thats it . Not serving time.
The story has taken over all the local stations since 9 and is still the only story on. One reporter said I feel sorry for his kids having to spend the night without their dad. Didn’t they have to go without him when he traveled outside the area over and over? It is still on 3 of 4 stations as an exclusive story. Talking heads talking over and over. Legal experts with opinions over and over.
Those pricks should go to jail for murdering a story. Give it some air. Its overdamn night. It is not a big deal.
It is preempting Jeopardy.
I live in southern California and it is all over the news here too.
And you have Jeopardy in the morning out there?
Preempting Jeopardy! ?? Take the TV station’s license!
12:30 and then at 7 pm
I’m in LA and saw this story on national news.
Anyway, I may have misread the story, but my understanding was that he was jailed overnight pending an appeal because the appeal won’t be heard until tomorrow at the earliest. I thought there was potential for him to spend a great deal more time in jail.
So watch it at 7. It isn’t every day your mayor goes to jail. The best we were ever able to manage back home in Pittsburgh was the president of our city council, though that was the federal pen.
Here in Detroit we had a mayor that’s claim to fame was as a civil rights leader and yet he managed to get in trouble for trafficking in South African Krugerrands. Those were the days, back when the office of the mayor had dignity…
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You are correct. His bond was revoked. Unless that ruling gets overturned somehow, I do not think they say “OK, let’s give you another round of bail so you can try again.” Not even for Kwame.
Cup Fever…Catch It!
Yes, I can think of a some mayors who ought to be in jail. She-lie Dixon in Baltimore, who didn’t think no-bid contracts going to the manager of her campaign, or development projects going to the guy she was fucking were ethical lapses. Teflon John Street, and his shakedown artist brother Milton, who raped Philadelphia eight ways for Tuesday, starting back in the 1970’s.
Different ones.
I didn’t become a resident of this lovely area until 1998, and I have never resided in Washington. In the time I have lived here I have rented and owned in Arlington and Prince William County, Virginia.
Marion Barry served his jail term in 1990.
I was merely speaking of convictions of local officials I have seen firsthand and gave a crap about at the time. When Ben Woods was sent off to federal prison in the 1980s for racketeering charges, it didn’t help Pittsburgh’s image much - and it doesn’t help now that he’s an elected ward leader for the local Democratic Party.
The hits just keep on coming. Hearing was on TV this morning. His 7500 dollar bond was revoked. It now is 50 k . He has travel restrictions and must wear a GPS tether.
That trial was followed with the Atty. General Cox filing new charges. Two weeks ago ,2 police officers were attempting to serve a friend of the mayor. When they went to the house to serve him the mayor was there. The mayor stepped into the process and was screaming at the officers. He then pushed at least one of them. (allegedly).In 2 weeks will go to court for felony assault. They did not arrest him on the spot because there were 4 armed mayor bodyguards there. They thought it could get ugly.
Saw a lawyer on Tv saying the Feds got a case on Kwame coming pretty soon.