Detroit Mayor Pleads Guilty, Agrees to Resign Mayor Kwame M. Kilpatrick of Detroit will step down after months of defiantly holding onto his job leading the nation’s 11th-largest city. By SUSAN SAULNY Published: September 4, 2008 DETROIT — Kwame M. Kilpatrick, the charismatic mayor of Detroit who has been embroiled in legal problems stemming from [...]