Illinois criminals think the rest of the nation is like the Land of Pritzker… you know, soft on crime and coddling of criminals. Darius Kennedy, aged old enough to know better, decided he was going to camp out at Lambert International Airport in St. Louis.
Suffice it to say when police went to move him along, he declined and pulled out a knife. As if that was going to make the police go away and leave him alone. That might work with his fellow homeless bums but doing that with the police is playing the FAFO game.
And dear old Darius found out the hard way that the St. Louis County Police aren’t gonna let him run towards officers or members of the public with a big old knife at the ready to stab someone.
Instead of calling a social worker, they shot him four times.
That took the hostility and threat right out of him as he folded like a cheap suit.
And then he bled out.
Initially, the rabble rousers in Peoria were upset that an “unarmed” man – who “only” had a knife and wasn’t directly stabbing anyone – was dealt with so harshly. Or that he had mental health issues that went untreated. And that we should all have compassion for him.
Unfortunately, we only have a limited amount of compassion and we can freely save or give it to people whom we believe deserve it.
ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo (25News Now) – St. Louis County Police released videos Friday of a Peoria man who was shot and killed after officers said he refused to drop a knife he was holding at St. Louis Lambert International Airport in November 2025.
That shooting happened Nov. 21 at about 1 a.m. Police were doing routine security checks at Terminal 1 when they found 31-year-old Darius Kennedy, who last lived in Peoria on West Trewyn Avenue.
Officers said Kennedy was carrying a knife. When officers asked him to drop the knife, Kennedy refused.
That prompted one officer to use a taser, but it did not stop Kennedy, and officers said he continued moving toward police. Another officer then pulled out his firearm and shot him.
Kennedy was pronounced dead in the airport terminal.