BREAKING: CHARGES FILED IN KENNETH GLADNEY CASE!
Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, November 25, 2009, 4:11 PM
CHARGES WERE FILED TODAY IN THE KENNETH GLADNEY CASE!!
—6 Are Charged in Town Hall Disturbance and Beatings!
They were charged with “misdemeanor” violations for smashing a black man on the cement and calling him n*****.
The Post Dispatch just broke the news:
Six people arrested in August outside a raucous town hall meeting in south St. Louis County have been charged with misdemeanor ordinance violations.
The six, including a Post-Dispatch reporter, had attended a demonstration outside an Aug. 6 forum called by U.S. Rep. Russ Carnahan, D-St. Louis, at Bernard Middle School in Mehlville to discuss health care reform.
The charges were filed Tuesday by the St. Louis County counselor’s office, which prosecutes misdemeanor ordinance violations in unincorporated areas. All are to appear in court Jan. 21.
The maximum penalty upon conviction would be one year in jail and a $1,000 fine.
Some bloggers have been writing for months about the lag between the arrests at the politically-charged event and the filing of charges.
County Counselor Patricia Redington insisted it had nothing to do with politics, influence or pressure from any official.
“These charges are like the 90,000 other charges we file each year,” she said.
Post-Dispatch reporter Jake Wagman, 30, of University City, was charged with interfering with a police officer. The charges allege that he failed to obey repeated commands “to leave the site of an ongoing disturbance.”
Elston McCowan, 47, of St. Louis, and Perry Molens, 50, of De Soto, each were charged with assaulting a person and interfering with police. They are accused of scuffling with and injuring Kenneth Gladney, a demonstrator with the Tea Party, a group generally opposed to Democrats’ universal health care proposals.
By the way… Gladney was not a protester. He was selling merchandise at the event.
Kenneth Gladney was beaten and stomped on by SEIU thugs outside of the Russ Carnahan town hall meeting in August:
Dana Loesch has more on the charges.
24th State says the violent thugs were also HCAN volunteers.
Post-Dispatch writer Jake Wagman just tweeted the news that he was charged:
So do you think Jesse and Al will get involved now?
…Me either.
Happy Thanksgiving.
** This was cross posted at Big Government.
More… Michelle added this:
I love how they waited til late Wednesday before Thanksgiving. So typical, hoping it will all be forgotten by Monday. They don’t know us very well, do they!
UPDATE: John at Power Line adds:
It occurs to me that if these union thugs had been Navy SEALS apprehending a terrorist mass murderer of Americans, rather than agents of the Democratic Party trying to suppress expression of a political view with which the Democratic Party disagrees, they would have been treated far more harshly. Why do you think that is?
UPDATE: Drudge is reporting on the health care town hall beatings tonight.
UPDATE: Kevin Gladney’s brother Keith said tonight, “The charges should have been more serious.”
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Lee__ commented:
Darn! I was just going to buy carbon credits for Christmas gifts…..
Col.Smeag commented:
Watch they will probably end up charging Kenneth.
squeaky commented:
Col.Smeag
November 25th, 2009 | 4:19 pm | #2
i wouldn’t be surprised. breibart had a post about the document dump behind the acorn
office in san diego and a tape of the acorn head
talking at a meeting about jerry brown and the people doing the filming being the ones in trouble…….
http://biggovernment.com/2009/11/23/breaking-san-diego-acorn-document-dump-scandal/
Dell commented:
Wouldn’t surprise me at all to learn they charged Gladney with something….mopery with the intent to gawk, or something similar, just to keep the union thugs from burning down city hall.
Just Plain Bill commented:
So, let me get this straight.
In St.Louis, assaulting and injuring someone is a misdemeanor?
I think I have some people I would like to invite to meet me in St. Louis then.
Dan F commented:
What did they charge Mr Gladney with?
/sarc
In this upside down world, who knows.
Rosemary Woodhouse commented:
Well, it’s about time! Happy Thanksgiving, Mr. Gladney, and may the thugs who assaulted you be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law!
Elizabeth commented:
Misdemeanor charges?!?! After he was beaten, kicked and stomped on for simply exercising his first amendment rights? Outrageous!
gus commented:
Will they try the LIBTARDS in NEW YORK so we can have a circus?
Opus #6 commented:
Sick that a political beating has so little weight in the judicial system. A lack of justice will only make the civil society less civil.
MikeGSP commented:
Gee, where are the hate crime charges?
crystal commented:
And our military troops are being charged for busting the lip of an admitted terrorist who murdered our troops.
Really.
flyoverland commented:
Nothing like dumping the news right before a big holiday. By the way, the Biz Journal is reporting the SEIU in STL just made a donation to raise taxes for the METRO bus system.
Mike W commented:
Hate crimes can only be committed by WASPs and it is no longer a felony to assault a right winger, or anyone else for that matter, if done by union thugs.
Sequoia commented:
It should be felony assault. No question. Also, if the politics in this were reversed, the trolls would be screaming about federal hate crime charges. These guys need to get the max. Also, a sincere thanks to new media for not letting this case evaporate into the mists of time.
Conservative1st commented:
What about the state Attorney General? Or the U.S. Attorney’s office?
Wonder if Kit Bond could look into this and put pressure on prosecutors for charges of felony assault?
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