St. Louis County Counselor Redington: Gladney Beating ‘Has Not Been Swept Under the Rug’
by Capitol ConfidentialThe story of Kenneth Gladney may finally be getting somewhere. County Counselor Patricia Redington, after waiting three months, has been forced to come out and defend her office in emails and in an interview with KMOX, a local St Louis radio station. We’d say it was quick work, but waiting to look into charges of political violence until after healthcare reform comes to a vote seems to be the plan. In previous columns, we identified a time difference for assault charges of 3 months versus 2 days. 3 months to start looking if you’re a black man beaten by union thugs and 2 days if you’re a Republican running for Congress against Dick Gephardt.
Redington is now responding to emails saying she is looking into the events, the investigation is still under review, and her office is interviewing witnesses. This is one of her responses to a St Louis county resident about the affair.
There were several incidents at this event which required police intervention, and our office is reviewing the police report and has been interviewing various witnesses before making a final decision on what charges may be issued.
One wonders just what exactly if anything new is being done. Three months seems a long time to wait to bring charges, especially in the case of Kelly Owens, where the incident is on video camera and witnessed by a police office. The answer given by Redington is noncommittal, and basically says ‘we’re looking into it.’ But are they? The pressure of the police report, the line drawn between St Louis County Prosecutor Robert McCulloch and the Obama truth squads, and the background stories on Perry Molens and Kelly Owens got local citizens up in arms and interested KMOX reporter Kevin Killeen enough to ask some questions. This is Redington’s response to Killeen’s questions.
Six people were arrested by St. Louis County Police, with at least two suspects booked on suspicion of assault. But the person who will decide whether to file charges, St. Louis County Counselor Patricia Redington, is still sorting it all out. “There were multiple altercations and police involvement,” Redington said. “We’re looking at the whole evening and the charges that may be filed as a result of that.”
Redington says there were half a dozen possible criminal incidents at that event and she plans to announce her findings all at the same time. She did not give KMOX a timetable for the announcement. But, according to Redington, the incident, ‘definitely has not been swept under the rug.’”
It’s interesting that Redington says the incident is not being swept under the rug. I wonder if she would admit that it has been slowed to a crawl so as not to bring to light the fact that five HCAN supporters were arrested the week that Margarida Jorde sent out instructions on how to counter Townhalls? And let’s not forget Jake Wagman, the silenced reporter arrested that night. If the Post Dispatch had done their job as a news organization and asked a single question about the event anytime after August 14th, perhaps we wouldn’t still be waiting to find out if it’s acceptable to punch and kick your political opponents to send a message. It is only when KMOX contacts Redington that we hear the investigation is moving forward. And yet the question remains whether Redington is telling the whole truth, or counting on the local press to cut her some slack.
In the email above, Redington says her office “is reviewing the police report and has been interviewing various witnesses.”
Allow us to remain slightly skeptical and ask, just who exactly is Patricia Redington interviewing?
- She hasn’t spoken to Kenneth Gladney
- Redington hasn’t spoken to Kelly Owens.
- Redington hasn’t called any of the witnesses on the police report.
- Redington hasn’t contacted any of the Tea Party members that are seen on video
- Redington hasn’t contacted any of the people who shot video that night and whose YouTube urls are listed on the evidence page
Who exactly is Redington interviewing? If she’s talking to witnesses, she’s only talking to ones pre-approved by SEIU’s defense lawyer, the high powered Paul D’Agrosa. We should keep in mind that D’Agrosa is being paid by SEIU Local 2000, the employer for Elston McCowan and Perry Molens. He, like SEIU and their new media spin team, have fallen silent. Despite her protestations, it’s very clear that Redington is delaying action for some reason. If Big Government hadn’t broken the story, it’s not hard to imagine no word of this would have been spoken until healthcare was passed and the charges could be filed or pled down over a busy holiday weekend.
Redington was forced to act because KMOX asked her a question. Compare the foot dragging of one serious assault and one face punch to her quick work filing charges when a Democratic staffer claimed he was pushed after jamming his camera into a Republican’s face. We’re wondering just how much pressure Redington is under because McCulloch is pushing all the heat to her. Email responses from McCulloch’s office claim the problem is all Redington’s, but that is passing the buck as well. Political and racial violence could easily give him the authority to prosecute under Missouri state laws, as could Gladney’s medical reports, which could elevate the assault to a felony. McCulloch is not interested. It seems he’s more concerned with prosecuting citizens who don’t pay $600 to a mechanic than investigating clear attempts to use violence to frighten away legitimate political protest. It’s a shame. He could have made quite a name for himself as a staunch defender of St Louis citizens if he had the courage to at least bring the matter to the attention of the press. We are unconvinced with the argument that a prosecutor with a 20 year political record has no influence in a story as big as the beating of a black man by union members and the arrest of five Healthcare for America Now volunteers.
For Redington to tell citizens and reporters the investigation is ongoing is a sign that pressure is getting to her. If you’re from St Louis, keep it up. And if you’re the Post Dispatch, anytime you want to pretend to be a real paper, you’re welcome to get involved. We’ll even give you our notes.
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Dithering. It is the stall tactic when there has been pressure to ignore charges.
She is bluffing.
Allow us to remain slightly skeptical and ask, just who exactly is Patricia Redington interviewing?
•She hasn’t spoken to Kenneth Gladney
•Redington hasn’t spoken to Kelly Owens.
•Redington hasn’t called any of the witnesses on the police report.
•Redington hasn’t contacted any of the Tea Party members that are seen on video
•Redington hasn’t contacted any of the people who shot video that night and whose YouTube urls are listed on the evidence page
This is how vigilantism gets started. When a society feels that their rights are not protected, people will begin to take the law into their own hands. Very dangerous game these idiots are playing, very dangerous indeed!
Ya don't reckon Patricia Redington would be flat out lying, do you? Imagine that!
how can there be two sets of law. one for them and one for us????
That a bluff or an outright lie?
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I know. She has been caught lying. The test was to call the person that was injured to see if they had asked for a medical report. They can't call ER and a single peep without consent. Reddington is lyin g to save face.
You didn't know about that?
There are various sets of laws.
There are laws for Democrats, and there are laws against Republicans..
There are laws for Black folks, and there are laws against white folks.
There are laws for Mexicans, and other folks who broke the laws to get here.
There are even laws as citizens for non citizen Murdering Muslims who blow shit up and kill Americans.
Understand now?
If they keep dithering, they may find lots of people reloading
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thanks cowboy, you are a great american. keep up the good works.
Really? In that case, I would like to invoke some change, and become a Black Democratic Muslim and renounce my wayward White Conservative Christian background.
Praise the Lord, and pass the ammunition……….
Maybe you St. Louis County people need to hold onto your county tax payments until Redington prosecutes or resigns or gets fired. She sounds like partisan hack who needs a strong Justice Department investigation.
The St. Louis readers may want to start asking questions of KMOX to look into the "interviews" and when they were conducted…
Trip Redington up, and hard…put her on the spot for saying there were interviews, when there weren't any, or only when pressure was brought to bear from public scrutiny…
Gladney's call for justice in this matter may be denied IF the statue of limitations runs out before charges are brought…and that MUST BE PREVENTED at ALL COSTS…
The new plantation is on the left. This is a perfect example. The left feels that they own the black man (um, demographic). If the black man has the gall to stray from the liberal plantation he will be hunted down and punished with ridicule or in this case, much worse. The lack of vigor of this investigation is a shame and typical of the St. Louis liberal political machine.
The one thing that would get Redington's attention would be for Kenneth Gladney to file a racial discrimination suit against the city. That always get's their attention.
Why doesn't Kenneth Gladney file a civil right's lawsuit in Federal Court against the city. That would get their attention.
Well, it's pretty obvious she expected the whole thing would get swept under the rug. St. Louis has perhaps softest media of any large city. Soft and liberal. But mostly soft. About the only thing that has really outrated them was the McGwire thing, and that was years after the fact.
I'm shocked KMOX did anything. I'm actually shocked people actually listen to KMOX, since the Cardinals left.
Don't ever expect the PD to act like a real paper. They only have one real reporter on staff, and he covers the Cardinals.
KMOX should investigate whether Redington is telling the truth about the interviews. Dates and names, particularly since others have checked with the key individuals, and no one was approached.
That "Pretend you're a real newspaper/Pretend you're a real reporter" stuff really hits home. Use it the way big city Democrats vote, early and often.
Perhaps we could take up a collection and send a pail of tar and a bag of feathers to County Counselor Patricia Redington? Think that would help her make some progress on her interviews?
Sorry for the OT… but the Hadley CRU has been hacked. emails and documents now viral… see wattsupwiththat. This blows the cover off the AGW crowd.
Justice Department investigation.Now thats a laugh.
Thats goiing to be 3 sets of laws and soon.
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=55660
You forgot the laws for liberal Black folks, and the laws against conservative Black folks.
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Agreed 100%. Add to the mix that the costs of fewer police and more rulers is going up -> taxes going up -> # things they will tax going up… it's a brew that will only get worse.
This is being swept under the rug, that would leave traces. It's being swept into the incinerator.
Stan H is correct. When the fix is in, and neither those responsible for pursuing justice for the citizenry, nor those who duty, not job, duty, is the pursuit of the facts and the truth, not just competing 'narratives', ("Some say…while others disagree..") what is left? "…all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security." Is the SEIU and their attorney the King's agents? The County Counselor but the King's Law? The ineffectual watchdog press but the King's lapdog?
One last thought. The above do these things, as Pres. Clinton said, "Because I (they) can".
Yup. Find a lawyer, sue the scumbags. Bring it out into the open.
She is a pathetic person.
Time for a federal civil rights probe?
Oh yeah, Eric Holder is strill hiding under his bed after being spanked by Lindsey Graham.
If anyone is interested in calling the counselor office to voice your concern – 314-615-7016
Where is Redington's office? Why aren't there 500 angry citizens in front of it every day until she quits? And when did St. Louis County get so damn leftist? Didn't it used to be conservative?
Everybody is focusing on the politicians when it is the bureaucrats that are writing these bills. The people who hold their job no matter who is in office. They are not elected and are not held accountable by anybody. In there is where our freedom is going to be lost. and saying that we need to focus the real threat to us all.
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This is KMOX and KSDK we're talking about.. they're so into the pockets of the local city/council councils here, they could "care less" about the follow-up questions.
Even Larry Connors hasn't touched this story (and while we obviously disagree, hes' the ONE guy I thought would at least dig into the issue).
Where is Stedman. I mean holder on this??
Let's just say, for example, that the assault had been done by police. Would three months have passed with no action? Would the prez have not commented?
Patricia Redington is very busy filing over 900 citations for violation of the County's trash program. After all, these people are supposedly violating an illegal regulation and should be punished.
Wake up America! This prosecutor is exactly whats wrong with the system. She' just a political hack who wants to go higher in the politcal hack system. If she des her job she won't get the parties backing. Obama is SEIU's biggest supoorter and they are his biggest campaign briber. three hundred and fifty milion thru the parnet organization and the then the PACS, Committees and such fro the rest. The President of the union spends mote time at the WhoiteHouse than representing the union. He's a lobbyist that hasn't registered, which is illegal, but no one in the justice department will prosecute because they'd be fired by OBAMA. Wake Up America! This prosecutor is corrupt and needs to be stripeed of power and kicked out of office for the good of yopur community. If the elected officails higher up won't do it kick them out as well! wake up America! take back our country from those who see public service as the public serving them and not right way around! Wake Up america!
Now that Obama has his own KGB to keep the opposition in line, and the prosecutors to back them up, what hope do we have in America, except to really clean house in 2011. Did I say KGB, oh excuse me, I meant SEIU!
The left always wanted to keep the "plantation' going. It was the democratic governors and law makers down South that wanted to keep blacks from going to any school, made them ride in the back of the bus, couldn't drink water out of a "white" fountain etc. It was that party that wanted them to remain slaves during the Civil War.
This delay is absurd!. I spent 25 years as a prosecutor and cannot imagine who this loser in St. Louis thinks she's kidding. She's just hoping the witnesses and the victim will disappear or lose their memories. Hope and change? What a crock!
Maybe, or fhoping for a better job? Maybe with the Justice Dept? An assistant to the AG of these United States. The guy who dropped the case against the New Black Panthers intimidating voters in Philadelphia?
Why do 90-95% of Blacks still vote Democrat ??
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