Shortly After the First Domino Fell

the second one went down.

Detroit Police Chief Ella Bully-Cummings has announced her retirement effective immediately. Her resignation was issued just moments after Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick plead guilty to two counts of perjury and announced his impending resignation.

Even before she became chief, Bully-Cummings showed poor judgment when she hitched her career's star to that of Kwame Kilpatrick. She become involved in a behind the back scheme as assistant chief with Kilpatrick and his chief of staff in an attempt to reorganize the Detroit Police Department without the current chief being aware of the changes. The mayor was under police investigation at the time, a reorganization of which would make the investigation more difficult to pursue. When Jerry Oliver, the then current chief resigned, Bully-Cummings assumed the post at the appointment of Kilpatrick.

The back door planning scheme was exposed in the text message scandal involving Kilpatrick and his chief of staff that ultimately led to the perjury charges that felled the mayor.

After assuming her job as chief, Bully-Cummings hit the ground running and quickly became involved in the leasing of a $57,000 luxury Lincoln Navigator for Kilpatrick's wife.

As police chief, she was also accused of protecting the mayor's chief of staff from traffic police and generally being at the personal behest of the mayor and covering up for him.

Two birds with one stone. Let's see how many more dominoes fall.