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Missouri AG wants Kim Gardner to leave office earlier than June 1
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ST. LOUIS – One day after Kim Gardner announced her upcoming resignation as St. Louis Circuit Attorney, the Missouri Attorney General is pushing for her to leave office earlier than planned.
After months of calls, requests, and demands for her to resign, Gardner will officially step down on June 1. Before this announcement, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey had challenged Gardner with a quo warranto lawsuit, accusing her of neglecting her duties as circuit attorney.
Bailey visited St. Louis on Friday and spoke one-on-one with FOX 2 about Gardner’s announcement and his next steps.
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“Yesterday was an encouraging development, that the circuit attorney has noticed an indication to vacate the office on June 1,” said Bailey. “But until such time that she is gone, and there are structural mechanisms in place to prevent this from ever happening again, we are going to continue to pursue the quo warranto action. Because right now, she is still in office.”
Bailey led the charge to oust Gardner and doesn’t want to wait until June 1 for her departure.
“I’d rather see her leave immediately,” said Bailey.”I’m concerned about the damage she can do between now and June 1. Her office has been described as a ‘rudderless ship of chaos.’ So I’m not sure [if] she’s going to be capable of an orderly transition when she can’t even show up to court because she is attending nursing classes.”
At some point in the future, Missouri Gov. Mike Parson will appoint a circuit attorney to finish Kim Gardner’s term, which will be up when voters elect a new circuit attorney next year. Parson said in a statement Thursday that he is committed to finding a candidate who represents the St. Louis community, values and public safety.
As for Gardner, our partners at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch obtained audio recordings of her from Thursday thanking her staff members for their hard work and informing them of her June 1 resignation.
“I brought you here not just to send condolences to our staff,” said Gardner in the audio recording. “I want to thank you guys for being with me every step of the way. I want to thank you for being the dedicated professionals I know you are. I know, because of me, you guys have been criticized, have been traumatized. … Because of that, I’m going to resign.”
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In her resignation letter publicized Thursday, Gardner speaks about fighting to preserve the fundamental voting rights of St. Louis against what she calls “people outside of the city” who are trying to advance agendas.
For more reactions from Bailey, Parson and other Missouri officials and lawmakers over Gardner’s resignation, click here.
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JEFFERSON COUNTY, Mo. – Two people are behind bars after a man reportedly attacked a Jefferson County deputy with a screwdriver during an attempted arrest over the weekend.
Prosecutors have charged Nicholas Davis, 47, and Amanda Davis, 45, of Dittmer, Missouri, with felonies in the investigation.
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The alleged attack followed a traffic stop of a driver in the 9500 block of Jones Creek Road on July 7, though the driver was not Nicholas or Amanda.
According to court documents obtained by FOX 2, Nicholas reportedly came out of his nearby home, yelled at a deputy and started approaching him while holding a screwdriver. The deputy initially ordered Nicholas to back away, then used pepper spray.
Per court documents, the deputy attempted to arrest Nicholas, who then struck him in the chest with the screwdriver. Amanda reportedly approached the deputy and pulled him away from Nicholas before both ran inside their home.
The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office says the situation prompted an hours-long standoff involving negotiators, a SWAT team and a K-9 deputy. The situation led to Nicholas refusing warnings and being bitten by a K-9.
Nicholas and Amanda are both jailed in the Jefferson County Jail without bond. Nicholas is charged with first-degree assault on a special victim and armed criminal action. Amanda is charged with resisting/interfering with arrest.
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ST. LOUIS — The new St. Louis schools superintendent will be officially sworn into office today. Dr. Keisha Scarlett took over the job in July after the retirement of Dr. Kelvin Adams. She was assistant superintendent in the Seattle Public School District. The installation ceremony is at 6:15 p.m. before the regular school board meeting.
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ST. LOUIS — A gasoline tanker truck crashed into a Metro transit center near Riverview and Hall Streets early Tuesday morning and knocked over a power pole. The pole is leaning on other power lines. Police have the area blocked off here because there is a downed power line. Ameren and Metro crews are also on the scene.
The incident happened around 12:30 a.m. It’s still unclear exactly what caused the crash, but we do that there was a second vehicle somehow involved. The airbags on that second vehicle did deploy.
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Police at the scene have not been able to give us a lot of details. Metro officials tell FOX 2 that the transit center here is operating this morning for passengers and buses. Access to certain areas will be limited here as clean up unfolds.
A Metro spokesperson says half of the station isn’t being used right now because of safety issues. It isn’t impacting overall bus operations, everything is just happening on the other side of transit center.
The extent of the damage to the actual transit center is still unclear, but I’m told it does not appear to be extreme. A Metro spokesperson tells me there were no injuries to any metro workers or passengers. The tanker driver also was not injured.
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