Kimmy

Unless you've been hiding under a rock for the past three months, just about anyone in the metro-Detroit area believes that Mayor Kwami Kilpatrick is a criminal, even if he himself wouldn't agree.

Kym L. Worthy also seems to believe that the Mayor is a criminal. She uses extensive legal jargon that comes across as logos, mixed with pathos that the citizens of Detroit are feeling themselves.

The first example of pathos, and perhaps even a bit of ethos, as if pries on the lack of integrity that the Mayor holds. Kym states that, "The public trust was violated." This is an example of pathos because the public are the ones that the mayor is supposed to represent. They voted him into office expecting him to uphold the law and represent the people. Sure, having an affair could represent some people of the city, however, the Mayor should be an example of how to live an acceptable life.

Kym also makes a logos allusion to the fact that this is a hard case because people expect the legal process to happen so quickly because of television programs like Law and Order, where the crime and punishment are taken care of in forty-four minutes. She clearly states that this is not the case and it will take time, months, a year even for all the evidence to be reviewed, that this is real life, not tv.

"The city, through it's lawyers, would continue to try to drag their feet and drag our investigation out forever," Using a metaphor, Kym states that the city is going to hold back the investigation because of their personal bias and obligation to the scandalous mayor.

"Honesty and integrity in the justice system is everything." This is obviously an example of ethos, as she states that there would be no such thing as just justice if people were lying on the stand, just as Kwami did. This perceives the public to ask the question, if the Mayor is a part of the justice system and not honest, then isn't he a hypocrite?

Kym also uses the "everything I need to know, I learned in kindergarten" strategy of logos. She claims that the legal process is based on basic principals that even a child could understand, to tell the truth, take responsibility of your actions and admit when your wrong, etc. This is logos because, obviously, when you are told to "tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth," you don't do this by lying on the stand as a mayor, above all. This not only makes the mayor out to be a liar, but look stupid as well. Apparently he didn't pass kindergarten.

Using pathos, she quotes president Roosevelt saying that no man is above the law. This is especially true for Kwami. Just because he gets to make laws, doesn't mean he can not uphold them or choose when they apply and not. He is supposed to be an example, leading Detroit out of the slums, changing it for the better, so that his children can live in a safe place. However, he put himself outside of the law, and Kym won't stand for this. She knows she can charge him with Perjury, which she makes clear, that she isn't going to sit down and let this injustice go, she won't look the other way.