I live pretty close to this suburb. Very cliquish and quaint. Also is top news here at work. I can understand….to a finite point the frustration felt by Charles “Cookie” Thornton but to kill people over this was uncalled for. I don’t care how frustrated you are at “the system” it doesn’t give you any right to take someone else’s life:
KSDK)– St. Louis County police say six people, including two Kirkwood police officers, three Kirkwood officials and a gunman are dead following a shooting both inside and outside the Kirkwood City Hall Thursday night.
Authorities say the three city officals and one police officer were killed inside the city council meeting by a man who rushed the council chambers and began firing as he yelled “Shoot the mayor!”
Another Kirkwood police officer was killed just moments before, outside in the parking lot of the Kirkwood City Hall.
Motive For Shooting Unknown
But NewsChannel 5 is learning more about what might have precipitated this tragedy.
Just last week, a federal court judge for the Eastern District of Missouri ruled against Charles “Cookie” Thornton in a suit between him and the city of Kirkwood. Thornton sued Kirkwood because they had banned him from speaking at city council meetings.
Thornton says the ban violated his first amendment rights.
At a meeting last may, Kirkwood’s city council held two public hearings relating to the expansion of two businesses. During the comment period, Thornton made harassing remarks about Mayor Mike Swoboda.
Then in June, Thornton went to another city council meeting. At that meeting, he began remarks by calling the mayor a “jackass” three times and said Kirkwood was plantation-like.
Last week, the judge ruled that any restriction on Thornton’s speech was reasonable.
She ruled that Thornton did not have a first amendment right to engage in irrelevant debate or to voice repetitive, personal, virulent attacks against Kirkwood and its city officials.
Again – this is all documented in a federal lawsuit.
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