DETROIT -- Former Assistant Police Chief Gary Brown testified in a Detroit court Wednesday in the whistleblower lawsuit filed against the city of Detroit.Brown and a former mayoral bodyguard, Detective Harold Nelthrope, claim they were retaliated against for investigating and reporting possible misconduct linked to Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and members of his inner circle.Brown read the letter in court Wednesday that he received from the city, which relieved him of his duties."You are hereby relieved of your appointment of deputy chief of the Detroit Police Department. I wish you success in all your endeavors,” said Brown. "I was stunned --it hurt."Brown said he was especially upset that the city said he was not fired but sent home.“When they call you on a Friday night, they take your badge, your I.D. card, the keys to your car, your phone, and then they kick you out of your office and send your belongings home in a box and then they say that they didn't fire you," said Brown. "They fired me."While on stand, Brown said the mayor’s protection unit, bodyguard and friends, officers, Mike Brown and Lorenzo Greg Jones, “ran amok… and started his troubles,” said Brown."There were other executives and other officers coming to me with complaints that the two officers were running around the city, and running around the police department acting like assistant mayors, telling other executives what to do when they were only the rank of police officers," said Brown.Brown said he began investigating them after he received complaints of their alleged improper use of impounded Harley Davison motorcycles and then the infamous Manoogian Mansion party.On Monday, Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Michael Callahan issued a gag order on both sides.The move prohibits lawyers for the plaintiffs and Mayor Kilpatrick from talking about the case.Kilpatrick's lawyers asked for the gag order. The attorney for the former officers did not oppose the request.The two sides also agreed that the mayor's wife, Carlita Kilpatrick, would not be called to testify.Mayor Kilpatrick will testify in the whistleblower trial later in the week or at the start of the next week.
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