Missouri GOP Officials Seek Immunity For Posts That Falsely Named Man As Migrant And KC Mass Shooter

September 24, 2026 Mass Shootings, Republicans

Courthouse News reports:

Two Missouri officials asked the Eighth Circuit on Thursday to grant them qualified immunity for social media posts related to a shooting at the 2024 Super Bowl parade for the Kansas City Chiefs.

Missouri Senator Rick Brattin and Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins, who was a senator at the time of the posts, argued they are covered by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, a federal law that protects internet websites, platforms, and users from being treated as the publisher or speaker of content provided by other people.

Denton Loudermill filed an invasion of privacy lawsuit against the politicians due to social media posts made in the aftermath of the shooting. Hoskins and Brattin reposted a picture of Loudermill in handcuffs following the shooting on Feb. 14, 2024, that falsely named him as the shooter. Brattin and Hoskins added statements about violent illegal immigrants to their reposts, which Loudermill claims falsely painted him as such.

Police released Loudermill after 10 minutes, realizing that he had nothing to do with the shooting. Loudermill, who claims he received death threats due to Hoskins’ and Brattin’s posts, died while the suits were pending, but his sister, Reba Paul, was substituted as his personal representative.

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Loudermill’s family says that he died in a drug overdose due to PTSD from having been branded a terrorist.

Hoskins and Brattin appeared here over the summer for their anti-LGBTQ crusade against a local library.

Brattin has since won his US House primary and Hoskins is about to return to the Supreme Court for third time in the ongoing battle over Missouri’s MAGA US house map.


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