Posted on 10/05/2021 6:40:03 AM PDT by Salman
Mayor Lori Lightfoot and a group of City Council members urged Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx Monday to reconsider prosecuting five suspects in a deadly gang-related shootout last week in Austin after they were released when prosecutors rejected charges against them.
Chicago police sought to charge all five suspects with murder and aggravated battery after they allegedly engaged in a Friday morning gunfight between two factions of the Four Corner Hustlers street gang, the Chicago Sun-Times first reported.
The state’s attorney’s office, however, declined to charge any of them, calling the evidence insufficient. A police report further noted that prosecutors told investigators charges were rejected because the shootout involved “mutual combatants.”
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Sorry Lori, this is the world you and yours made even if it finally reached a point you consider too much.
For completeness, here is the same story in the Trib:
https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-chicago-shootout-west-side-kim-foxx-lori-lightfoot-20211004-lxl6df5kwbfldd3fctljbzn32y-story.html
This precedent would have real potential if it also applied to vigilante-gangster violence. But I’m sure a Soros prosecutor would come down hard on that.
Things were heating up just before the rumble
Translation: "They aren't white."
Sounds like Kim Foxx and the prosecutors are afraid of these animals. Their decision will just make things worse.
That is Oak Park, it appears.
What has caused gang activity to happen in Oak Park? That was a higher end, western suburb.
Pray for the law-abiding people of Cook County who can’t afford to vote with their feet.
God help them.
Every day it becomes more evident that urban America is unlivable. Any place with a critical mass of Democrats is alien to rational and decent people.
Criminality, like nature, abhors a vacuum.
Kim Foxx is a paid liar. Wasn’t she the one defending a World Class Championship Liar named Jussie Smollette?
Translation: We might get caught in the crossfire on our way to the "Defund the Police" rally.
So we know when we see it.
When corruption is the norm in the Mayor and AG’s office...
Mutual Combatants!
Is Kim Foxx a Soros Puppet ?
The main problem with the shootout is, there was more than one survivor on both sides.
Suck it Shy-Town
So evading the police, illegal possession, discharging firearms, felon in possession, are just a few things I can come up with that are illegal and prosecutable for all these jokers regardless of who shot first and who was defending. Also, it is a pretty safe assumption that vehicles entering this neighborhood were not ambushed but were the perpetrators. I don’t see this as muddled as the prosecution says it is. At a minimum, they should get these idiots of the street for a year or two.
Didn’t Oak Park, along with Morton Grove completely ban handguns years ago?
https://dominicanstar.com/oak-parks-vote-on-stricter-gun-laws-lead-nowhere/
How did that work out for them!
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