Warren City Councilman Calls For Mayor Jim Fouts To Take Lie Detector Test Or Resign

WARREN (WWJ) - One Warren councilman wants the mayor to take a lie detector test to see if he's telling the truth after the mayor denied that the voice on those controversial tapes is actually his.

Scott Stevens, will submit a resolution at Tuesday night's council meeting to have Mayor Jim Fouts submit to a lie detector test or resign.

Stevens says he knows for a fact it's Fouts on the tapes saying unflattering comments about handicapped people, and is appalled.

Macomb County Executive Mark Hackel last week released audio recordings that appear to have Warren Mayor Jim Fouts saying disabled people are not human and should be in cages.

Warren Councilman Scott Stevens spoke with WWJ legal analyst Charlie Langton about the audio tape.

" ... requiring that the Mayor take a lie detector test in regards to this and if the lie detector test are shown that he is the person, definitely on the tapes, then the city council shall call for his immediate resignation," said Stevens.

Fouts wrote on social media that the offensive remarks about the disabled are not him. He posted on Facebook Thursday evening that the release of the audio which refers to the mentally challenged as "not even human beings," is a tactic by Hackel to distract people from claims of illegal dumping at Freedom Hill.

"In response to the nasty tape recording released by Mark Hackel. It's clear this an attempt to silence me and intimidate me, I question the validity of this AWFUL tape," read a Facebook post from Fouts account.

"This recording was not me! (he has the expertise available to him to electronically engineer it) This is a PHONY tape with more to come. As I said when Mark Hackel can't argue with facts he attacks. This was a garbled tape. A vicious attempt to discredit me. Mark Hackel will do anything to cover up his crime even the use of anonymous phony tapes."

Councilman Stevens says that the remarks attributed to Fouts call for his immediate removal.

"That these people are lesser than us," says Stevens. "And that they should die? Makes references to Kevorkian and stuff like that -- that's insane. Maybe we should also require that he gets a psychological examination too -- now that I think about it."