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| Mayor's aide files police complaint after threat |
| 2008-02-15 |
| The civility and decorum that is Detroit local politics is here revealed in all its glory An aide to Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick filed a police report Thursday claiming Monica Conyers, the short-tempered City Council president pro tem and wife of U.S. Rep. John Conyers, threatened to get a gun and shoot him at a city pension board meeting. But a spokesman for Conyers says she was the real victim in the hubbub. According to the police report filed Thursday by DeDan Milton, an assistant to Kilpatrick, Conyers "threatened to shoot (Milton) with her gun" and made "several aggressive movements" toward Milton "in a threatening manner." Milton also reported to police that Conyers said she would "have my brothers (mess) you up." David Clark, chair of Detroit's General Retirement System, backed up Milton's account. "She ran at him," Clark told The Detroit News. "She told him she would get a gun if she had to and that she has four brothers and they would whoop his a-- if she asked them." . . . Sam Riddle, Conyers' chief of staff, said Milton was the one who had to be restrained. Riddle, who said he witnessed the squabble, said Milton started it by telling Conyers to shut up -- and used an expletive. Late Thursday, Conyers filed a police report of her own, accusing Milton of being the perpetrator. Milton declined to be interviewed, and Riddle said Conyers didn't want to talk about the confrontation. Riddle said he is recommending that Conyers, as the wife of a congressman, seek protection from the U.S. Marshals Service. "We don't know who we can trust in the city of Detroit," Riddle said. I'd say that's the one unquestionably true statement in all of this. |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #3 who could expect anything different when you vote based only on the 'group identity' of a candidate without regard to their ability. patronage politics at it's finest. |
| Posted by: Abu do you love 2008-02-15 21:09 |
| #2 Detoilet politics look more all the time like what you can see in many a third world venue... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2008-02-15 13:13 |
| #1 This is better the "The Jeffersons"... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-02-15 11:06 |