Coming through the grapevine: charges are filed in the Kenneth Gladney case.
Three months later, the next step in justice for Gladney, right before Thanksgiving, no less.
Backstory: Gladney was beaten by SEIU members outside the Russ Carnahan townhall.
Also:
Jim Hoft was there when Gladney was brushed off by the county counselor’s office yesterday to talk about his case. I know Patricia Reddington’s office was feeling pressure from area residents concerned that justice had not yet been delivered in the cases of Gladney and Kelly Owens, the woman assaulted on camera by one of the SEIU crowd:
Developing this story … as I was drafting this:
BREAKING: CHARGES FILED IN KENNETH GLADNEY CASE!
Six people arrested in August outside a raucous town hall meeting in south St. Louis County have been charged with misdemeanor ordinance violations.
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.
Yes, it took 90 days to process (misdemeanor – would they be misdemeanor if Gladney was a liberal with Sharpton connections? Rhetorical) charges; yes, Reddington’s office previously filed charges in the Gephardt case the day after (and on a holiday, no less) but hey – Gladney is seeing justice.
The paper incorrectly identifies Gladney:
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.
No – good grief, he was a VENDOR. He was SELLING MERCH AND GIVING AWAY FLAGS. Is this an attempt to invalidate the offense caused him by identifying him as part of a movement that the state media has ridiculed since spring or is this an honest, incompetent error?
Related:
Does Justice Move Faster For Democrats in St. Louis?
St. Louis Protects SEIU: A DA Ignores Charges in the Gladney Beating
****Exclusive: Police Report on Gladney Beating by SEIU Thugs****
I’m thankful for a lot of people for being just who they are.
I’m thankful for our brave men and women who protect our freedoms and I’m thankful for their families who keep the home fires burning in these soldiers’ absence.
I’m thankful for the lot of people I’ve met this past year.
I’m thankful that there are two sides to a debate because no one side can ever be trusted completely.
I’m thankful for grace and those who demonstrate it.
More later. I’m taking care of some Thanksgiving-related business today.
DUDE.
“She’s into education and rehabilitation and thinks Obama is all about welfare and handouts. She thinks Obama is really a socialist in disguise,” adds the source.
“Angie isn’t Republican, but she thinks Obama is all smoke and mirrors,” the source says.
She was pro-Iraq and undecided last election – from her own mouth, not a “source.” Walks and talks like a duck? Check. She’s almost a dream woman now.
I wish more celebrities were as ballsy with their beliefs as Pat DiNizio.
Cue everyone attacking her in the US Mag comments about adoption now.
Last night Bill Hennessy and I announced the speakers for the next St. Louis tea party, this Saturday, 12 noon, at Kiener Plaza.
ACORN buster James O’Keefe will be speaking, along with conservative filmmaker Pat Dollard; Dave McArthur, Mike Carey, Stephanie Rubach, Jay Stewart, myself, Jim Hoft, Gina Loudon – emceed by Hennessy.
There will be several surprises as well, including crowd participation. You’ll also be able to mingle with the St. Louis Tea Party Youth.
Here is info on the St. Louis Tea Party site; Hoft has written about it as well.
The KMOV report, via Sharp Elbows:
TCB … I’m recovering from some wonderful sedation dentistry under the care of the good Dr. White. In the meantime, check out Andrew Marcus’s great videos of the Show Me Institute panel about new and old media on which myself, Jim Hoft, Jake Wagman, and John Loudon sat.
