ASS CLOWN MAYOR STRIKES AGAIN

Check this out from today's Free Press! I've highlighted Kilpatrick's lawyer's quote about halfway down the story because I find it so laughable. This clearly happened, so the lawyer's next move when he can't outright deny it is to try to spin it and pretend like the mayor in some genteel fashion escorted them off the porch. LOL HAHAHAHAHA Come on!!!!! This mayor should have his bond rescinded and be placed in jail awaiting trial. This stupid prick thinks he's Marsellus Wallace straight out of Pulp Fiction. Mr. Mayor, every time you think you shouldn't resign and let this city have a chance, remember, that's just pride fuckin' with you!


Mayor faces new probe for run-in with officers
Deputy says he was pushed, but Kilpatrick lawyer says there was no roughness
BY M.L. ELRICK, JIM SCHAEFER, BEN SCHMITT and JOE SWICKARD • FREE PRESS STAFF WRITERS • July 25, 2008


Michigan State Police are investigating whether Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick assaulted a deputy trying to serve a subpoena at his sister's house Thursday -- an incident that could lead to additional criminal charges against the mayor.
In court today, prosecutors could present testimony about the incident in a bid to prove Kilpatrick violated the bond set after being charged with eight felonies stemming from the text message scandal the Free Press first reported in January.
The mayor is due in court at 8:30 a.m. to learn whether Detroit 36th District Court Judge Ronald Giles will release new text messages, including messages prosecutors say show the mayor lied about extramarital affairs in addition to the one with his former chief of staff Christine Beatty.
Kilpatrick's latest troubles began around 4 p.m., when a Wayne County sheriff's deputy and an investigator from Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy's office went to Ayanna Kilpatrick's home in Detroit to serve a subpoena on Bobby Ferguson. Ferguson, a controversial city contractor, is one of the mayor's best friends. His cousin, Daniel Ferguson, is married to Ayanna Kilpatrick.
"The officer alleges that the mayor pushed him with significant force to make him bounce into the prosecutor's investigator," Wayne County Sheriff Warren Evans said at an evening news conference. "We don't know at this point exactly what we have."
Evans said the two officers "wisely" left Ayanna Kilpatrick's property and returned to their office to report on the incident. He said the mayor was with his police bodyguards.
"There were armed executive protection officers. My officers were there armed. And all of them had the consummate good sense not to let it escalate," Evans told reporters.
He stressed repeatedly that he did not know more than the broad outlines of the incident.
"Anytime one of my deputies is assaulted," he said -- stressing "if" he was assaulted -- "it's a big deal to me."
Sources told the Free Press that Kilpatrick pushed Deputy Brian White, who takes witness statements, serves subpoenas, arranges interviews and helps locate witnesses. Bobby Ferguson is listed as a prosecution witness in the Kilpatrick case.
Evans declined to say if he believed the mayor committed a crime, saying that was a decision for prosecutors.
Under Michigan law, a person assaulting or obstructing an officer "or duly authorized person" trying to serve court papers could face a felony with a maximum two-year prison term and/or a $2,000 fine.
Evans, whose daughter works for the mayor, said that because of the "politically charged nature" of the event, the incident has been transferred to the Michigan State Police to investigate.
James Thomas, the mayor's lawyer, said Kilpatrick merely told a process server Ferguson was not there and asked him to leave.
"He gently took him by the arm and escorted him off the porch," Thomas said.
Thomas said he did not know why Kilpatrick did not ask his police bodyguards to handle the matter.
Thomas said there is no reason to bring criminal charges.
"There was no altercation, there was no pushing ... no one got hurt," he said.
Asked if Worthy's officers acted professionally, Thomas said of their visit: "I think that it was perceived to be harassing. ... I don't think that anybody has a license to stay on anybody's porch when they're asked to leave."
Jim Parkman, another one of the mayor's lawyers, said one of Worthy's officers inquired about a truck registered to Ferguson parked at the address.
"When a process server is told he has the wrong house and that the truck is just registered to Ferguson's business but driven by someone else, that should be the end of it," Parkman said.
Thomas said the mayor was at his sister's house just west of the New Center area on LaSalle visiting when the officers arrived. The house is next door to the home of the mayor's mother, Congresswoman Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick.
But sources said Kilpatrick acted aggressively.
One source said an initial conversation with Kilpatrick's police security was cordial. The people inside the home then told Worthy's officers Ferguson was not there.
One source said the officers then heard someone shout, "Who the (expletive) is that?"
The mayor then charged out and shoved one officer backward into the other, the source said. The officers left.
Tensions between the mayor and Worthy have heightened in recent days. Kilpatrick accused Worthy earlier this week of inflaming racist sentiment to win a conviction.
Defense lawyers have argued that the prosecutors want to taint a jury pool if there is a trial. They further claim that prosecutors broke federal laws to get the messages and the release would violate legal privileges protecting communications with attorneys and spouses and about some official city deliberations. The mayor also has not admitted that he wrote the messages, and in fact has questioned their authenticity.
Prosecutors counter that the messages were legally obtained.
Ferguson has been one of the mayor's best friends for a decade. His personal troubles have occasionally caused public embarrassment for the mayor.
In 2005, Ferguson pleaded guilty to a charge that he pistol-whipped an employee.
Ferguson Enterprises Inc. came under scrutiny in April after the Free Press exposed text messages indicating Ferguson got favors from the mayor's office to gut the Book-Cadillac Hotel.