KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A man who appeared to be upset over charges filed against a Kansas City, Missouri, police detective entered the downtown Jackson County Courthouse early Friday morning and demanded to speak with the county prosecutor.
Michael Mansur, a spokesman for Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker, said the man went upstairs to where the prosecutor’s offices are located around 8 a.m. and began yelling that he wanted to speak with Baker.
He also banged on office doors, Mansur said.
Jackson County sheriff’s deputies were called to the courthouse and removed the man, who was not arrested, from the building.
The prosecutor’s office, which continues to have limited staffing because of the COVID-19 pandemic, closed early on Friday as scheduled in observance of Juneteenth.
Baker announced Thursday that a grand jury had indicted KCPD Det. Eric DeValkenaere on charges of involuntary manslaughter and armed criminal action in the Dec. 3, 2019, shooting death of Cameron Lamb.
