Not him, mind you . . . just the city.

From brief DetNews excerpts of newly published Jet mag interview:
I was out there on a snowplow; if there was a shooting, I was there. Nobody had ever done that before, but I missed my kids' games, dinners at home, anniversaries with my wife -- nothing mattered except doing my job for the City of Detroit, and in doing that job, I failed.

I called that [99-day jail] experience a purification process. Lord knows I don't ever want to go back, but it was not all negative, and I need to say that. God had me right where he wanted me.

If the issue is money, then please let me work. I've never missed a [restitution] payment. My wife and children have suffered enough. Give me an opportunity to work and pay the city back. If it's not about the money, then what is it about? This is not about a probation violation.

I don't think it's time yet [to return] I think the city has more healing to do.