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Ariana Baio

Nebraska resident sues after her comment about a sinkhole gets deleted from mayor’s Facebook page

The sinkhole, in downtown Omaha, pictured in the lawsuit filed by Lisa Kilker - (District Court of Nebraska)

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.

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