Thank you very much for your time.
Sincereley,

Kenneth Gladney

*************

The process for contributing to the Kenneth Gladney Trust:

1) Go into Bank of America; you cannot call to use a credit card over the phone.
2) Ask the teller or service rep pull up the name “Kenneth Earl Gladney Trust.”
3) Tell them you are a contributor or you want to donate to this trust.
4) Give them the dollar amount, and that’s it.
5) Please REMEMBER! The trust is not under “I Am Kenneth Gladney.”

Kenneth Gladney is not doing well at all.  He has found out that he has three bulging disc in his back and neck and may need surgery. He has back pain all the time and has to have medication to help the pain subside. Since the incident on August 6th of last year when he was beat up by SEIU thugs while selling flags and buttons at a Russ Carnahan town hall meeting, Kenneth has had nothing but problem after problem with his health and his financial situation. The family is trying to help him as much as we possibly can, but we just can’t afford the cost of his meds and doctors visits. This is why we need your help.

I was fired from my job with St. Louis County. Prior to my firing, I had been speaking out about how the county was deliberately holding up the prosecution of the SEIU members. I am still unemployed so it is very hard for me to help my brother and support my family. We really need your help!

-Keith Gladney

Photo by Dana Loesch

St. Louis County Prosecutors watered-down the charges in the Kenneth Gladney case from a misdemeanor to an ordinance violation without so much as even calling St. John’s Hospital, where Gladney received treatment for his injuries, and checking Gladney’s hospital record or speaking with care providers on site.

Elston McCowan and Perry Molens were witnessed on video assaulting Gladney who is seen being taken to the ground. Cheryl Johner punched Kelly Owens in the face – which Owens caught on camera, an assault witnessed by a police officer, according to the police report – and all three get off with nothing more that ordinance violations.

Owens beating recap:

It has been discovered that no one from Patricia Redington’s office ever accessed Gladney’s medical records for use in determining the charges filed in the case.

Not only did the prosecuting attorney’s office fail to immediately file charges after the assaults, but now it would seem that partiality is being shown as evidenced by the downsize in the severity of charges without even checking on the extent of Gladney’s injuries.

Remember that Patricia Redington’s office made sure to file charges against Bill Federer, on behalf of Dick Gephardt campaigner James Larrew (which were subsequently tossed) on the following day, which was a national holiday. Redington is said to not have actually interviewed any witnessed, either.

So:

No witnesses interviewed.

Medical record wasn’t accessed.

They must have a magic crystal ball because I don’t know how you can file charges without actually investigating the case.

Gladney beating recap:

Developing …

*Update 1: I’m hearing that the review fell under Assistant County Prosecutor Brian Malone. Contact info:

100 S Central Ave
St Louis, MO 63105-1732
(314) 615-2600
(314) 615-7042

Related:

Anatomy of a Beat-down Part 1: Why Kenneth Gladney was Beaten, and by Whom

On October 9th, 2000, Patricia Redington, a newly appointed St. Louis County Counselor showed such dedication to her job, that she opened the office on the Columbus Day holiday in order to file assault charges against Republican candidate Bill Federer.  This is in contrast to the way she handles the, typical case and the way she is handling the case of Democrat SEIU members pounding a businessman.   St. Louis area patriots smell a rat and show no signs of letting up until justice is served.

Realizing that workers can lose their initial zeal for their jobs, we can understand why Counselor Redington now says that despite what she did for Federer, her typical time to get charges written up and filed is six to eight weeks.  That is unfortunate for Federer who had an election in four weeks and might have appreciated a delay.  He lost his election as voters had to choose between throwing out Gephart and voting in a guy under a legal cloud and media scrutiny.   The respected author, historian and family man just might be mentally unstable considering he had in fact, been charged with a crime.  Redington, by the way, is a Democrat.

Now Redington is getting some renewed attention for the ordinance violation charges she filed on Thanksgiving “Eve” over three months after she received the police reports.  The timing smells like a “dump” tactic typically used by politicians who dump bad news on Friday afternoon hoping for minimal public exposure.  This action came only after a steady drum beat of pressure by St. Louis bloggers then Andrew Breitbart’s Biggovernment.com, and finally Glenn Beck.  It was not until the Beck coverage that a single major St. Louis media outlet other than our conservative talk radio station, KFTK, picked up the story.  Chalk one up for new media lighting a fire under old media.

This time the accused assailants are Democrat campaign operatives, members of the Service Employees International Union sporting the latest thug fashion, purple people beater SEIU t-shirts.  The victim, Ken Gladney was a black guy just trying to make a buck selling Gadsden flags and buttons to the attendees at a Congressional Town Hall meeting.  The “courageous” Congressman Carnahan was so nervous about what his constituents might say to him that he provided a “union only” entrance and put bussed-in union members in the first 300 seats making his constituents settle for the 200 nose bleed section seats left over.  Hundreds were stranded outside.

Perhaps it was the sense of entitlement.  Did they fancy themselves “made men”?

The President, whose White House was quoted saying of the Tea Party protesters “if they are going to hit us, we will hit them back twice as hard”.  The SEIU thugs have a union president Andy Stern, who is the number one White House visitor with 22 visits which is five times the number two visitor, carbon tax speculator Al Gore.  Stern believes he bought the Presidency for Obama.  So it is no surprise that the union is paying the legal expenses for the accused assailants, one of whom was so convinced that pounding people was official union business that he filed a workers’ compensation claim for injuries he gave himself during the melee’.  The insurance company did not see it that way and refused the claim.   Meanwhile, contributing to the speculation about how far the arm of the SEIU reaches into the Democratic establishment is the way Redington is handling the case.

Redington charged Federer in two days.  Her average is six to eight weeks.  In fact, every single case filed by Redington’s office in August has been filed, and 37% were even adjudicated before she made time for the SEIU thugs.   Worse, for beating Ken Gladney and calling him the “n” word for expressing a political view, the assailants are charged with an ordinance violation.  Victim Ken Gladney, a black man facing justice denied, is in disbelief.  The St. Louis Tea Party is not going to let this story die quietly.

Redington denies that she was sweeping anything under the rug.  Maybe, but waiting over three months to bring pathetically inadequate charges is worse, especially from someone with such a peculiar track record.  According to reports, she brought these charges without ever interviewing the victim or obtaining hospital reports detailing the extent of the injuries.  The black Democrat County Executive Charlie Dooley a union autoworker, could take sympathy with Gladney and remove Redington.  He has remained totally silent.  Democrat County Prosecutor Bob McCullough could file real felony state charges including the application of Missouri’s hate crimes law.  He is ducking.

There is a cynical observation of American politics that is rather crude but thought provoking in defining the difference between a liberal and a conservative.  It holds that a conservative is someone who has been a victim of crime and a liberal is someone falsely accused.  In Pat Reddington’s St. Louis County it appears that “victim” is a status reserved for liberals, and “perpetrator” is a status reserved for conservatives.

Big Government featured Harris Himes in a report in early November:

Harris Himes is pastor of Big Sky Christian Center in Hamilton, Montana, and was ordained by Chuck Smith of Calvary Chapel and his board. He is also a Vietnam vet who commanded a tank platoon of young Marine heroes on the DMZ, 1967-68. Prior to Vietnam, he graduated from Cornell, then, after Vietnam, went to law school nights in California where he practiced for almost twenty years. He is a voluntary attorney with the Alliance Defense Fund and is the author of Stand, a book aimed at galvanizing the church and her pastors and priests and leaders to regain the moral leadership in the public forum which they once held, dating from before the Revolution—to become God’s Watchmen, warning the people, before it’s too late.

Sandra Himes, Harris’s wife, is also a Marine officer. Born in Arkansas, she is a true Southern belle—and speaks like one—graduating from Ouachita Baptist University.

Harris Himes and his wife witnessed the Gladney beatdown. Harris cannot believe that only misdemeanor charges were filed in the case.

From the video:

Question: What do you think of the charges that were filed this past week?

Harris Himes: Well, I am not only a pastor but I am also a California attorney and I think misdemeanor charges for something that was a blatant assault like that are way too light. And, I think also, just as people have said, it wouldn’t have happened (the charges filed) had there not been as much press and pressure as there was but still I think they’re sliding.

—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.

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 Gateway Pundit.

Ken Gladney is pictured here after his public beating by SEIU thugs. Kenneth Gladney attended this protest against SEIU violence in August in St. Louis. He was beaten, kicked and called racist names by Russ Carnahan’s SEIU supporters after the town hall meeting earlier that week. St. Louis County officials have yet to press charges.

It’s been over 3 months and still St. Louis county officials have not met with Kenneth Gladney to discuss the case nor have they press charges against the SEIU thugs who beat him.

Today after Kenneth set up an appointment with the county officials to discuss the crime– they blew him off. Kenneth made the appointment and they totally ignored him.

Later today Kenneth Gladney talked about how the county is ignoring the crime against him:

Kenneth Gladney was beaten once in the street in a hate crime. But, it doesn’t matter to county officials.

They have better things to do than protect a black man who was assaulted by SEIU thugs.

Cross-posted at GatewayPundit.