Judge Says Not His Fault?

[Lawdog Dago Dom]

Two Chicago cops were shot over the weekend.

One has died.

One is still critical.

This one is a little personal as we were in Chicago for our youngest granddaughter's first birthday celebration.

Staying with our son at his apartment we heard the cries for help over the scanner.

Then a bunch of CPD vehicles, running hot escorting the ambulance, blew past us.

With a cop inside clinging to his last moments on earth.

It felt weird that we were going to a party when across town another family would be picking out a casket.

At the party I bumped into an old CPD friend.

He said the cops were on a hospital detail. Any prisoner can claim any illness and get a hospital trip. Supposed to be a routine, low risk assignment. Usually staffed by more senior officers.

Bad guy had a gun concealed and shot both cops at the hospital.

Plenty of "finger pointing" to place as well as to avoid blame.

We have a niece who is a prosecutor in a county next to Cook County.

Bad guy had cases pending there also. She said she would immediately jack up his charges there. With NO bond.

I guess if Cook County can't find a reason to hold him, other counties will.

Ridiculous if you ask me.

Click on the link to Second City Cop. There is a link to CWB Chicago (last vestige of honest reporting) who reported how the judge/system failed.

Be warned, it is so sloppy it is infuriating.

 

Second City Cop: Judge Says, "Not My Fault"

[Eyesa Horg]

Disgusting 🤬

🙏Prayers up for the CPD and these officers families.🙏

[DeaconKC]

Prayers up for the families.

[John Kloehr]

I think "not my fault" may be a marker of a certain kind of thinking. Someone can still be responsible without having fault. Considering the history, I'm sure there was some discretion for the judge to hold the criminal without bail on the four open charges. For this, I can hold the judge responsible.

[El Chapo]

I'm glad we still live in a country with the presumption of innocence.  Liberty isn't safe.  RIP to the fallen. 

[Blackwater 53393]

The presumption of innocence is all well and good, but someone suspected of repeatedly violating the law in violent crime should be physically detained until that innocence is either affirmed or disproved.