United States Court of Appeals For the Seventh Circuit ____________________ No. 13-3766

JOHN MICHAEL WOODS, Plaintiff-Appellant,

v. CITY OF BERWYN, * Defendant-Appellee. ___________________

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division. No. 12-cv-1900 — Matthew F. Kennelly, Judge. ____________________

ARGUED SEPTEMBER 30, 2014 — DECIDED OCTOBER 15, 2015 ____________________

Before KANNE, WILLIAMS, and HAMILTON, Circuit Judges.

WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge. When John Woods told a co- worker at the Berwyn Fire Department that “he wanted to

* Although the caption originally reflected Ronald Hamilton as an appellee, we have removed him since the only counts in the complaint relating to Hamilton were not part of this appeal. 2 No. 13-3766 kill somebody, all of them” and that his children were going to “go o