On Tuesday, Bryant was charged with criminal negligence causing death and dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing death in the wake of an alleged confrontation with courier Darcy Allan Sheppard Monday night.
Sheppard, 33, died of head injuries sustained after he was dragged along a stretch of Toronto's Bloor Street.
As he offered his resignation Wednesday, Bryant said in a statement that he's innocent of the accusations against him.
"Let me be clear: I am innocent of the very serious accusations made against me," Bryant said in a letter written to Toronto Mayor David Miller.
"I do not believe, however, that I can continue in this position on account of the circumstances of the past two days."
Bryant was appointed last May to head Invest Toronto, the city's new business development agency tasked with promoting the city to investors.
Miller issued his own statement a short time after Bryant's statement was released to the media, saying he accepts Bryant's resignation. He also called the events of Monday night "tragic and sad on many levels."
Police say Sheppard grabbed onto Bryant's car following an alleged altercation with Bryant. Witnesses say Bryant drove away with Sheppard hanging on to the side of the vehicle. The cyclist, who was on foot when he took hold of the car, then fell and suffered fatal injuries.
The car was later photographed parked nearby with its top down.
Sheppard's girlfriend says he was drinking the night he died. Police have said they responded to a call about Sheppard at the woman's apartment barely an hour before his death.
With files from The Canadian Press
Commentary by the ottawa mens centre
Bryant's complete lack of remorse speaks volumes.
He knew or ought to have know, the moment he stepped on the gas , that he was
about to end the man's life. When he decided to accelerate to 90K going down the
wrong side of the road and aiming Sheppards body at lamp posts and mail boxes
that he was going to kill him.
No, Bryant may be innocent of criminal negligence, he is more probably guilty of
Murder.
Now watch the establishment do everything it can to help one of their own out.
This is the old boys school at its best. If Bryant was anyone else, it would be
a very very different story.
His facial expression says "God help me keep my mouth shut".
Only one problem, keeping his mouth shut fails to show any remorse and thats
part of his high stakes poker game , he is allready betting that he will get
off. All by Blame the Victim.
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Posted 3:10 pm
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Notice the Lobby Posts?
The CBC should take a close look at the incredible number of very obvious Lobby
Posts on behalf of Michael Bryant, These posts have all the bells and whistles
of having been written by experts who like to play with the facts, that is,
write a number of facts that most readers will agree to and then conclude with a
comment that will be read as a criminal defense.
Take the classic "Sounds like the drunk cyclist / drunk freak, caused this and
charges should be dropped...
Readers should read the Pro Brant posts very carefully, they appear to be part
of concerted publicity effort to control the political and legal damage to
Michael Bryant.
Mr. Bryan't has a long history of acting impulsively, acting with out thinking.
When you do that and kill someone its M U R D E R,
He knew he had an anger problem and what did he do about it?
He let it control him, but that's not an acceptable criminal defense.
So far, the best they can think of is "Blame the Victim", That would have us all
say the Victim deserve to die because he pissed off Michael Bryant.
Mr. Bryant's lack of compassion and anger are just two facets of personality
disorders commonly shared by those who kill another human being for inexcusable
reasons. Mr. Bryant would have us believe that his taking of another human life
in a moment of Road Rage was justified because "he was afraid"..
Mr. Bryant has leaned his lessons well, the entire Ontario court system is
corrupted by "I was afraid of him" and put's innocent men in jail by the
thousands. Its part of Ontario's War on Men, a semi official program of Male
Gender Apartheid and Mr. Bryant will now play that same old tune until the
public are sick of it.
This is one trial that won't be going to a Jury.
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3:27pm
Mr Bryant's hiring of a Public Relations Firm who are SWAMPING forums such as
this CBC forum is tantamount to an attempt to Obstruct Justice.
Its also tantamount to an admission by Mr. Bryant that in the Court of Public
Opinion that he is as guilty as hell.
NOTICE how Mr. Bryan'ts publicity team is hitting Approve of its own articles
and disapprove of anyone that points out what they are up to?
JUST WHY is Mr. Bryant attempting to insult the intelligence of Canadians?
I'm not fooled, its VERY ... VERY OBVIOUS, its so blatantly Obvious that it will
go down in history as perhaps the very first criminal trial where such an
incredible effort was made by the ACCUSED to Manipulate the Court of Public
Opinion.
It makes you wonder who will take money to help Mr. Bryant with his Highly
Improper publicity campaign.
Mr. Bryant should take some time to reflect on the trail of destroyed lives left
behind by his Department that cares little about justice but protecting the
Cartel that Mr. Bryant is part of.
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3:33 pm