Updated video included- Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and former chief of staff Christine Beatty surrendered to Wayne County authorities this afternoon after Prosecutor Kym Worthy charged them today with perjury, obstruction, conspiracy and misconduct. Kilpatrick said that he expects "full and complete vindication."
http://freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080324/NEWS01/303250001
KateB's original observation: The only positive about this horrid situation is that for once it isn't our Mayor getting bad press.
View video of the events today:
Note the conspicuous absence of a SWAT team and a no-knock warrant. Instead the alleged criminals were allowed to surrender at a mutually agreeable time and location, and
They were fingerprinted, their mug shots taken, and then released. The news media were kept far away.
They were provided with privacy from the commercial news media. We're all equal in the blind eyes of justice - it's just that some of us are more equal than others.
I wish to be a juror in this case. About a year from now we will hear all the details but I have already decided. His lies cost too many and now he should be made to pay.