On the evening of February 7, 2008, a chilling scene unfolded within the Kirkwood City Hall in Missouri, forever altering the community. Mike Emil Swoboda, a 69-year-old White male serving as the city's mayor, was presiding over a public council meeting. The proceedings had just begun after the Pledge of Allegiance when a local businessman, Charles Lee "Cookie" Thornton, 52, entered the chambers and unleashed a violent rampage.
Thornton, who had a history of contentious disputes with the
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