Kim Gardner needs to be fired.

Posted on: September 7, 2019 at 10:12:37 CT

From the STL Metropolitan Police Department:

"Today was a rough day for our officers. Two of our officers were involved in a harrowing life threatening situation. Responding to resident complaints of open and notorious drug dealing, officers were patrolling an area known for dangerous drug trafficking. Just before 1:00 am, our officers approached a vehicle to investigate suspected drug activity. Pictured below are the illicit drugs (marijuana, Xanax bars and crack/cocaine) recovered by police. When police attempted to effectuate an arrest, the suspect initiated a struggle. Police’s attempt to use a taser to subdue the suspect was unsuccessful. The struggle continued and the suspect attempted to pull the gun pictured below on officers. Officers were required to use deadly force to neutralize the immediate threat to their lives. Shockingly, the suspect had a 7 year old child in the in the car where he peddled dangerous drugs while armed. Thankfully, the child escaped the car during the struggle and was unharmed.

Thankfully our officers escaped the altercation with only minor injuries. In what has become an all too familiar refrain, the anti-police faction began spinning false narratives that a helpless weed possessor was murdered for no reason. Shockingly, however, the elected prosecutor Kim Gardner, tweeted an ominous threat to police. She agreed with notorious cop hater Alderwoman Megan Green that the “interaction” with the armed drug dealer dealing drugs in a car with a 7 year old girl “never should have happened.” Pre-judging an officer involved shooting and twitter threatening these brave officers is horribly unethical. Under the Rules of Professional Conduct, Gardner should recuse herself and her entire office from proceeding in any way in this case.

Of course as truth comes out we find out the suspect was a 4 time felon, who had his probation revoked and recently was released from serving 9 years in prison. What is stunning is that the prosecutor who prosecuted all the cases against the suspect was none other than Assistant Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner. She is intimately familiar with the suspect’s career in crime making her public twitter threat against police even more unconscionable.

This blatantly dereliction of duty and unethical threat by this “prosecutor” is nothing short of alarming. The Mayor, the Director of Public Safety and the Chief of Police have stood silent while Gardner abdicates her duty, promotes a false narrative regarding this incident and publicly threatens officers. Their silence is deafening and it is having profound negative impact on the police force they expect to protect our City’s citizens. On Tuesday, the Mayor spoke about her support for Police at the Police Foundation luncheon. By Thursday, she was standing idly by while her police officers were lied about and threatened for doing their job.

This situation is completely untenable. When elected and appointed officials promote the systematic demoralizing of this City’s Police force, the detrimental effect on the citizens of St.Louis and our police officers is incalculable. We will not stop holding these people accountable. We will not stand idly by and let them continue to dismantle the safety and security of our City and its people."

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