A woman in Omaha, Nebraska, is suing the city’s mayor for violating her First Amendment right after he allegedly deleted her comment and blocked her from his official Facebook page after she complained about his failure to fix a large sinkhole near her home.
In a lawsuit, filed in Nebraska’s district court Monday, Omaha resident Lisa Kilker claims Mayor John Ewing Jr. deprived her of her right to participate in public discourse and is now preventing her from viewing public announcements.
The lawsuit alleges Ewing blocked Kilker from his official Facebook page in early October after she left a comment on a post criticizing him for failing to fulfill his campaign promise of fixing a large sinkhole that opened up in downtown Omaha near her condo building…