'A lawsuit faults an unarmed private security office for allowing Charles "Cookie" Thornton into a Kirwood City Council meeting the night he fatally shot six people and was killed by police.
"This wasn't some fellow that was unknow to the city of Kirkwood," says Chet Pleban, attorney for the daughter of Constance Karr, a council member and mayoral candidate slain that night.
"This was a fellow who had an extremely adversarial history with the city and he's permitted to walk into the city building without any sort of scrutiny whatsoever, carrying a sign and two guns after shots were heard int the parking lot."
Thornton had previously disrupted meetings to draw attention to claims the city had
mistreated him over ordinance violations and other issues.'
The main issue here that I wanted to touch on was not that of the security officer, but that of Thorton and his rights as a citizen. I just wonder how this might be a part of public forum, apart from the shooting? I am referring to the entrance into a city hall with just intentions of stating claims of mistreatment. At least aren't the steps leading up to the city hall building a place to have public forum? My main proposed question is how and when do you determine when the puclib forum "spot" becomes no longer a public forum area?
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