The Tragedy of Kirkwood shootings

I go to school in Kirkwood, Missouri and I was in school the day of the shooting when my teacher Robert Lee ph.d said that we dont have to worry about violence in America and people getting blown away at every turn.I wanted to tell him that I thought about it all the time. That same day 2 miles away it happened. I cannot believe he shot the mayor. The shooter was a sucessful and popular man named Cookie Thornton and he was even friends with KMOV Channel 4 Newsman Doug Vaughn. In the last 3 months he snapped after a long and loosing battle with Kirkwood.He had been fined roughly 85,000 dollars in 7 years. He also stated that he felt like he was on a plantation. So maybe he should have called some one who can help him like Al are Jesse who could have helped in this case. Instead he went for a ruthless act and opened fire on one completely innocent cop, 1 cop who had no clue what would happen, and 4 targeted victims who were all in the city council. May god have mercy on his soul. It seems weird that a man with only little fights with the city of such the variety as a Martin Luther King protest grown into a cold blooded killer. The area in which he lives is a relatively peaceful community of predominantly blacks. This community over the last 3 years has shown complete hatred of police. Not the kind of hatred that a teeneager feels after getting a ticket but instead a hatred to kill. In 2005 a cop was murdered by a young kid. That Kid Johnson was sentenced to death. Some thing that was way over board. The situation occured because Johnson lost his brother that day to natural death.He went nuts and shot officer McInty who was trying to calm him down. The kid had a bad temper but was not really bad.Last year in January Michael Devlin was living in Kirkwood with Ben Ownsby and Shawn Hornbeck whom he had kidnapped. Hornbeck had been captured for 4 years. The Meacham Park area named after a St.Louis civil rights pioneer who gave up his life to teach blacks to read before the civil war. This area had recieved nice new homes in the previous 4 years but these homes were given to them kind of in a ethnic redistribution plan in which for all practical purposes besides physical violence to the extreme it was ethnic cloning.There has been a complete civil unrest between Meacham Park and Kirkwood and it is on a point of a physical war with Kirkwood in which innocent victims could be given martyrdom with there lives not just only in the wallet. To fix the problem in Kirkwood the whites in the city government should give the blacks of Meacham Park more of a say in the city government. They should have some of there own representatives and they should be given black cops to control the area of Meacham Park as this is not really a violent place and in many of the homes are about as nice as my families house.To achieve peace they should be given a chance to prosper and do commerse on there own while the whites should gain the freedom of safety from violence and all would be better. Until then the city is on the brink of a civil war inside the United States of America. Free the Jena 6.
Chris C. South County