Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick Talks New Chapter
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- Опубликовано: 20 апр 2022
- Kwame Kilpatrick was the youngest person to serve as mayor of Detroit, Michigan, seeming to embody the strength of the motor city. He would later face criminal charges and serve time in state prison. He speaks with TODAY’s Craig Melvin about having his sentence commuted by former President Trump and starting a new chapter of reflection.
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He’s a bigger con now than he was before
A host of those charges were trumped up... even the judge admitted it but dismissed it. There are millions of folks locked up for crimes they didn't commit. Folks are so blinded and hypocritical. As if that DOESN'T happen... ESPECIALLY TO BLACK MEN. It seems as though the whole world suffers from selective amnesia or either the Mandela Effect. Pathetic!
Exactly
Idk him personally but apparently you do
Absolutely .
Forget the fraud charges! If he’s so godly now, he needs to come clean about what happened to Tamara Greene. God would want honesty.
God is pretend like Santa Clause.
Forgiveness is key
3:10 it’s interesting how they always end up becoming ordained ministers
Gotta get that bread some way some how baby
@Alleycat20507 right
For TAX purposes. LOLOLOLOL.
Because of the tax free money
Praise the Lord. 😅
The people of Detroit have not accepted your apology. Pay back the money you stole from the pensions of city workers
What does he know about Tamara "Strawberry" Green?
HE OWES HER CHILDREN AN EXPLANATION!!!
CAME TO THE COMMENTS JUST FOR THIS COMMENT. REST EASY QUEEN YOU'RE NOT FORGOTTEN
This explains his KARMA may she rest in Paradise 🤲🏼
The one question that the interviewer should have asked was why did he fire those two detectives who were investigating Tamara's murder. That would have put Kwami on the spot. People forget that he did that. NBC probably had to agree to not ask that question in order to get him to do the interview.
They owe themselves forgiveness
He needs to go back to prison
Such a hater. Relax
@@williejamesharris ok so you drunk the delusional punch 🤦🏽♀️🤡
@Lc-sh7uk not at all. Just know more than u. You internet gangsters are hilarious
@@williejamesharriswhat do you know that we don’t. Enlighten us please 🙌
A Detroit Hustler!
A fine citizen my friend.
He still lying 😂
he is literally the most convicted politician in US history
Once a liar always a liar
Idk him. You obviously do tho
It’s hard to believe him he is only talking about his adultery and not all the stuff he did to his city
Mike duggan doesn't either
What did he do specific that warranted a 28 year sentence?
@@goodnight3663 Mike Duggan is a snake Detroit will see
You mean rebuild the downtown?
@@Rasslinwithracism apparently you don't want Detroit doing well.
He had Tamara killed
That's yo opinion.
O lawd!!! So now he is a minister 🤦♀️!? What a surprise 😂. They aren't ready 🐍🐍!!
Exactly!!! But it ain’t going to last long cuz Jesus Christ is amazing and Ms. Green’s family and all does people of Detroit that got taken by this demon will have their justice, it’s a matter of time. What’s done in the dark Jesus Christ will bring to light 🙏🏻
When did you realize things had gone off the tracks...
When I started stealing money from the city that I purported to love and spending it on strippers and cocaine
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHHA.
You mean selling it and using it at the same time and getting a percentage from all the big time kingpins
We will never forgive what this man costed all of us in Detroit, and the state.
As well you shouldn’t.
Let’s talk about his wife killing the woman he was having an affair with
Look at this ungodly thief.
He and his new old lady are shameless hose. Asking for cash makes them felonious - again. Being a pastor makes him more notorious and cliched. He and his brood ruined that town...Yeah
How does raising money make one a felon? Stop being so triggered and dark hearted. When the time comes for you or a loved one to need an extension of grace, remember your attitude towards him. His life is in the Creator's hands, and he shouldn't have to walk on eggshells to avoid unwarranted public backlash. Pray for the man, wish him well, and keep it moving. You're holding the wrong kind of space for him in your heart and in your thoughts. That ain't going to fare well for you in the end.
Don’t trust it!!
Trust me he's still crooked....he's still in denial...look at his body language 🤦🏾
This guy should still be in prison.
Your president thought overwise
Charlie sheen should be in prison yet y’all still watch his shows and reruns.
Why does his being released hurt your feelings? You're just following the crowd. Did you feel that way about Gov Snyder or any other white politician who engage in even worse activities?
@@takodawhitefeather No, it's all about him being black. Everything is about race. I like Trump because I'm a racist too....are you happy?
@@macneoh7418 Your pathology, your words, your trite cynicism, not mine. None of the above determines anything for me, especially not my level of happiness.
His butt should have stayed in jail.
A minister he's a manipulator
Coming from a person who knows nothing....
Did you have Tamara Green killed?
Next chapter should be dedicated to all MI citizens. Speak against Nestle stealing the people’s groundwater for profit! MI residents are paying exorbitant rates to drink polluted poisonous treated wastewater. Restitution is in MI not GA or FL.
THAT WAS RICK SNYDER NOT HIM FOOL. HE WAS IN PRISON!!!!
I agree. That's really out of Kmame hands.... but next question 😊
As a Detroit tax payer. Can say
We've moved on.
You're restitution Nobody at the ground level will receive. If paid. Your faith is your business. To sell that now is blasphemy.
Well, that "blasphemy" is happening in EVERY SINGLE church that takes up lies and offering, oops, tithes and offering. Every single so-called pastor is selling faith and false hope. Why single him out for sharing his faith or for collecting contributions to support his livelihood? If he's crooked for doing so, then so are they.
Trump does nothing for free! In 2024 Kilpatrick will be expected to wear his Blacks for Trump t-shirt in the stands and rafters during Trump’s political rallies.
No one does anything for free. Trump 2024
If Trump said he will deliver tangibles for black Americans then I don't see none not voting for him except the democrat bootlicks and shields. The dems only give us symbolism. Enough is enough.
20 years knocked off his sentence... I wouldn't be mad at him... F what anyone thinks!!!!
What did Obama do for him?
@@mrwoodsmoke357 I will judge Obama based on what the next black president does.
I am expected to pay my bills or else face a shut off or repossession. He got a get out of prison card from Trump. I don't care if he travels, but PAY DETROIT THE MONEY OWED
He's home and he still looks crooked look at his eyes...trust me he's still in denial
Went from conning the people as the mayor of his city to conning people that follow him in church. Sounds about right. Con men gonna con smh.
If it were anyone else.... Would still be in prison
Thanks Trump!
Like Charlie sheen and Biden/Trump? What excuse those mentioned?
He wouldn’t have gotten 28 years for white collar crime.
Lol from one grift to another.. these criminals need way more time..
Tamara Greens children deserve answer!!!! 💙🫶💙🫶💙
People do you realize he took lots of money from people and there pensions and he his asking people to give him money so he can live in million dollar mansion and help him and his new wife and new kid live in luxury
Man please go somewhere and sat down!
This Dude was not convicted of 1 but 24 federal counts what was it about him that Trump parten him after he served such a short sentence. That could be something to dig into. There's no transformation just a new con. Im a Pastor send me money smh
A host of those charges were trumped up... even the judge admitted it but dismissed it. There are millions of folks locked up for crimes they didn't commit. Folks are so blinded and hypocritical. As if that DOESN'T happen... ESPECIALLY TO BLACK MEN. It seems as though the whole world suffers from selective amnesia or either the Mandela Effect. Pathetic!
His wife is due in June ? Wow.
Busy guy
@@benedictcaterinicchio4800 After being locked up for 8 years, yuh think?? What, he should mope around and live like a bum just to show some form of penance to please his naysayers??
Good for him. He's moved on with his life and is trying to find JOY and PEACE in it. Folks loooove to revel in demise of others. SMH
@@takodawhitefeather I aint trippin , live and let live ,, good on him
@@takodawhitefeather the man stole 800k to buy a house.
This man should be in prison rn. Such a misuse of justice. Trump really messed up on this one.
I want to judge him so badly for what he has done! However, I drop my stones. I can’t judge because we all have made bad choices and mistakes. Besides, I have been to prison myself. He doesn’t have to answer to me, but to GOD ALMIGHTY. Period! Peace.
Hasn't REPENTED from his sins though... maintains his "innocence," of which there is NO forgiveness for an UNREPENT heart. -And yes... we are called to judge RIGHTEOUS judgement... and I just did.
@@Onlybhstrpes - I got u! Peace.
He cheated and admitted it. Let God judge him
@@williejamesharris - GOD will one day! That is on him. I have my own issues to deal with. Peace.
@@darincampbell171 sorry but not all of us have made bad choices as to murder .. now he blasphemy using god’s name in vain!!!
Soft interview. I wouldn't give Kwame any airtime.
And who might you be?
And use a black person to interview him; racist NBC.
Don't come to Detroit then
This guy used city funds for personal reasons he should not be let off the hook.
Ok Larry and u never done any wrong 🤔
@@BigDawg76773 I never committed mail fraud, racketeering, and I didn't use taxpayer money to hire strippers at parties in the mayor's residence.
Ok Mr. Perfect tell what u did do since u wanna be so call honest chump
And guess what he's free now ain't nothing u or any of ya people can do about it 😂😂😂💪🏿
Hollywood should make a movie about him played by Forest Widiker or Denzel washington even Jamie foxx playing him
Craig Melvin: Bank Fraud, Wire Fraud, Conspiracy, etcetera, etcetera,etcetera...
Kwame Kilpatrick: wasn't me...
Enough already...
A host of those charges were trumped up... even the judge admitted it but dismissed it. There are millions of folks locked up for crimes they didn't commit. Folks are so blinded and hypocritical. As if that DOESN'T happen... ESPECIALLY TO BLACK MEN. It seems as though the whole world suffers from selective amnesia or either the Mandela Effect. Pathetic!
Wht happened to STRAWBERRY?? Ask him yall ask everyone els the "hard" questions!
How could anyone with common sense attend this mans church? From prison to pastor,'What'Wow.
Lol Not only wouldn't I attend his church; I don't even want to go to heaven if he's going.
Trust he aint changed he just more carefull THEY never change
Just switched games. Religion the ultimate scam and tax free 🙌
This devil had a nerve to meet in a church..
It's a false church anyway .. to even let that happen..
I don't blame his wife for leaving him because of all the affairs, lying and the adversity he has caused.
Disgusting you didn’t press him harder. Now he’s able to scam people tax free as a pastor!?
He prolly stole canteen honey buns while in prison. Dude was that way. It's a Detroit politician thang 😎
How could anyone believe a guy that jas naked strippers that get murdered in a cold case while hes parading as a vity mayor with a wife and young children?? Is he involved in that murder too?? I have no idea.....but i certainly would keep my distance...... someday...... maybe not until he is gone and buried....there will be clarity for him. I remember his early days as a Mayor. His disposition was similar to this interview at that time. He came across..... intentionally and fakely....as a happily married father with great intentions for the city of Detroit. He dressed the part....he talked articulately..... and he stepped as if he was the savior of.a failing city. Today i hope he is humbled enough to realize hes a man with sin.... and i hope he lives a dignified life for his family.
Time will tell…
Kwame and his New Beginnings.
I see what you did
I see at least two people figured this one out. Nice.
Detroit. What up doe
Don't trust kwame
Only in Detroit.....
Really now? I think you should recalibrate and try again. ALL of America, and the whole world over, is full of heinous crimes and nefarious scenes perpetrated by his counterparts (you know who I'm taking about).
Detroit is but a drop in the bucket. Political crime begins and ends with European males. They just get away with it.
But him and his new wife have a crowd fund to help them purchase a brand new house tho.
Why is that a problem?? Millions of people are using crowd funding for innumerable reasons. Why is it a cringe for him? Y'all are holding the wrong kind of space in your hearts for this man. This is a really dark world.
@@takodawhitefeathermaybe if he didnt steal from people almost make them homeless.... then now wants to beg online after everything shady he did? serves him right i hope he never lives it down! i see him ill spit on him for what he did to the poor workers of detroit
YT always deleting comments that speak the truth. Cowards!! I said what I said.
U madd😊
Dude looks like David Banner
Control the preachers and take in the untaxed money. His parents being cogs in the political machine should have been an omen. Nobody grows up in family politics without being afflicted with the alcoholism of being drunk with power.
Never accepted
🙏🏾💪🏾
🤮
28 years and already out smh
🤣🤣🤣Bible studying 🤣🤣🤣
He's trying wtf
The ministry game is about the fastest way he can get money again.
Jail doesn’t change you it’s the fact you can’t do anything
Kwame Lil Patrick song
How is lying about a affair a crime and thats what they got him on total bs
Uhhh you can't lie in a grand
Jury proceeding. Kwame was ousted from being Mayor for more than being
A cheating husband. He went to jail on federal
Charges. Which has nothing
To do with cheating
They also got him on 24 counts of a lot of other felonies. Remember that. This guy was an arch criminal.
Ashley Dear please get out of that lifestyle. Your Mama Bear certainly wouldn’t want you following in her footsteps! I pray for your healing and I pray God opens doors no man can shut and most of all I pray for Justice for Tamara Greene! May she rest in eternal peace. Lord protect her children. In Jesus Mighty Name Amen ❤
Can’t make money in politics run to the next hustle.. preaching
What a con artist. Him and his wife already busted scamming his followers to get them to pay for a $800k mansion in FL. ..smh
asking for donations to buy a house is not a scam! if he purchases a yacht instead, that's a scam
@@malikgod it is a scam if you're not reporting all income to the feds who are monitoring your finances because you still owe the city of Detroit hundreds of thousands of dollars.
@@klmbaby6 that's not a scam. your being emotional! why i don't know.
@@malikgod bro..the feds just seized the cash him and his wife had rec'd thru the GoFundMe site because it was unreported income. Of course it was scam to avoid paying them what he owes and he used the public to do it.
How does raising money make one a con artist? Stop being so triggered and dark hearted. When the time comes for you or a loved one to need an extension of grace, remember your attitude towards him. His life is in the Creator's hands, and he shouldn't have to walk on eggshells to avoid unwarranted public backlash. Pray for the man, wish him well, and keep it moving. You're holding the wrong kind of space for him in your heart and in your thoughts. That ain't going to fare well with you in the end.
You help destroy a city sir. This is ridiculous.
Him and his crew stole millions and a lot of people lost their jobs. Pay the money back to the City of Detroit crook!
i'm all for forgiveness, but Deroit isn't that nice.
He still maintains that he's innocent. That fact alone should have worked against him getting released from prison. It shows that Trump didn't do his do diligence in assessing whether Kwami was worthy of an early release.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Dude is a creep
Trump done saved his behind...cause they are like minded for sure lol...
Kwame go get ya
Him being in prison isnt going to change anything, he is unable to do any government job, so whyare people so mad that trump let him out early after spending 8 years in prison. Detroit was already going into the gutter before he was Mayor, he just put it over the edge
Hahahahaha online ministry-yup makes sense. How many idiots are going to give this guy money, tons I bet.
If a person is truly sorry, you live I'm sorry, he has alot of making up to do.
28 years was a bit excessive
As a former Detroit resident, Kwame could have been a political heavyweight. The lies. corruption. infidelity and narcissism caused humiliation to Detroit.
I’m done with him. I can’t judge Kwame. His mother was a teacher at Murray Wright HS in Detroit! A very nice person…. Too bad he didn’t get his mother’s attributes. What a disappointment!!!!!
He may fool some, but not many!
How I goin to scamagain
DISGRACE!
He should be in prison…
Y’all going to his church? 😂
One usher talking to the other usher after taking offering " Tyrone where are all the fifties and hundred dollar bills "?
God is good. He has paid for his sin. People need to forgive for their own good
Found his new hustle, tax free money of religion
To does Christians who are ready to follow him, remember you r called to follow Christ, here's the thing as American we have the freedom to pursue wherever we want, so we don't have to be called by the Lord, with good credit we can get a loan, buy a building and start a church that is our American right we have the right to say it's God, so be careful Christians, pray, read your Bible and obey the Lord he will guide you it's not man's job to do.
Kwami Kilpatrik spits in the face of black people and some of us just stand there with our mouths open.
He ain't learned his lesson
I wish him well, please do some good for your people. I will be watching..❤️
I remember hearing about this guy on American Greed. Totally agree I hope he’s genuine and given a 2nd chance.
@@JustHearMeOut_YT I watched the Ex Mayor's case closely.There was definitely a pay-to-play scheme going on in the city of Detroit when he was mayor. We had the same thing going on in Washington DC on a much larger scale money-wise.. the ex mayor of Detroit got 28 years for his crimes. It appears we have several systems of Justice, one for black and white, and one for rich and poor.☹️
Are you a bit naive there? Don't you think. Guy believe he's innocent to this day, he's a fraud and not have the gut to confess of what he did and all this crap about he's faith is there to fool you.
And so will the US Justice Department 👁
Yes trump card ♠️
Trump 2024😊
So since your a Godly man ADMIR THAT U HAD HER MURDERED
He's an arch criminal.
Ordained pastor😆: the grift continues
Killer
Adulter
KIL WANNA Rewrite. AL THAT S*** He did in the dark came up out thru the light......New 🆕 Chapter . God is in Control and God is in Charge.
Now he’s asking for y’all money to get a new crib in Florida he ain’t rewriting nothing lmao 🤣 he back at it. Bird man hands activated 👏
Junebugg turned politician