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A fugitive task force tracked him down for failing to appear in court. The judge let him go again.
CWB Chicago ^ | November 19, 2023 | CWB Chicago staff writer

Posted on 11/19/2023 7:38:05 AM PST by Salman

CHICAGO — Marcus Brewer has the rare honor of being mentioned in two Cook County sheriff’s office press releases in under a month. The first announced that he had been swept up in a human trafficking and prostitution sting. The second announced that deputies and a U.S. Marshal’s task force tracked him down after he failed to appear in court.

So what happened after the task force hauled him before a judge for failing to appear in court last week? The judge released him again.

Brewer, 36, was charged last month with promoting prostitution after a sheriff’s office vice unit investigation determined he rented a room for a victim prostitute and provided security while she met with customers, the sheriff’s office said.

Judge Linzey Jones put out a warrant for his arrest after he failed to appear on October 24, according to court records.

Last Wednesday, the sheriff’s fugitive apprehension unit and the federal task force tracked him down at a motel in Naperville. In court the next day, Jones let him go and told him to come back Tuesday.

(Excerpt) Read more at cwbchicago.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
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My immediate reaction was a rant about liberalism. But it's Chicago. A payoff is just as likely an explanation.
1 posted on 11/19/2023 7:38:05 AM PST by Salman
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To: Salman

No rule of law means the people become vigilantes as their government fails them.


2 posted on 11/19/2023 7:40:03 AM PST by CodeToad (Rule#1: The elites want you dead.)
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To: Salman

Until these judges start paying a steep and personal price for unleashing this savages on innocent people this will continue.

L


3 posted on 11/19/2023 7:40:06 AM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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To: Salman

Jones let him go and told him to come back Tuesday.


I’m not a lawyer, so this might be a stupid question. What actions could the judge take next Tuesday that he couldn’t take when he had the guy in court on Thursday?


4 posted on 11/19/2023 7:46:59 AM PST by hanamizu ( )
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To: Salman
"Worse is Better"

-Karl Marx

5 posted on 11/19/2023 7:51:27 AM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) My dog Sam eats purple flowers.)
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Jones let him go

Is Jones his mama or his dog walker? We'll never know from this author who obviously failed Journalism 101.

6 posted on 11/19/2023 7:54:18 AM PST by bgill
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To: Salman

If some enterprising person without a criminal record killed this jerk it would mean prison.


7 posted on 11/19/2023 8:03:04 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Successful People Have a Sense of Gratitude. Unsuccessful People Have a Sense of Entitlement)
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To: CodeToad

The reason vigilantism isn’t likely is pretty mundane. It requires skills the average guy doesn’t have, as well as the ability to track and find someone which the average person also does not have. If you look at the vigilante movies, “Taxi Driver,” “Vendetta,” “John Wick,” they all have means and opportunity. The reason average people don’t run around solving crimes, aside from getting arrested for interfering with the police, (Or, whatever they want to charge you with to make you stop) is because we don’t have means, opportunity or motive.

Trust me, the police would never stand for someone like Sherlock Holms or Batman or even an average Joe solving or preventing crimes because they don’t like the bad comparisons that would result. If anyone did those things you can bet the government would be much more interested in preventing them from being successful than it is in solving or prosecuting the crimes the “hero” is resolving.

Every time Commissioner Gordon turned on the Batlight it was an admission that he’d failed in his job and his whole department needed to be replaced by a guy in a cape. A real commissioner would rather the entire city burn to the ground rather than make that admission.


8 posted on 11/19/2023 8:03:12 AM PST by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: Salman

Until we again GET CONTROL of the Justice System anyone with half a brain knows to STAY CLEAR of our cities.


9 posted on 11/19/2023 8:06:20 AM PST by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart, I just don't tell anyone)
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To: SaxxonWoods
From the article:

Brewer, 36, was charged last month with promoting prostitution after a sheriff’s office vice unit investigation determined he rented a room for a victim prostitute and provided security while she met with customers, the sheriff’s office said.

What gives you the idea that providing security for a prostitute justifies the death penalty?

10 posted on 11/19/2023 8:08:04 AM PST by SauronOfMordor (Either you will rule. Or you will be ruled. There is no other choice.)
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To: bgill

There’s a clue in the previous sentence: “Judge Linzey Jones”.


11 posted on 11/19/2023 8:08:09 AM PST by ken in texas
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To: SauronOfMordor

Never mind, you missed the point entirely.


12 posted on 11/19/2023 8:20:28 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Successful People Have a Sense of Gratitude. Unsuccessful People Have a Sense of Entitlement)
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To: Salman

Crazy. In less than 100 years we go from “Hangin’ Judges” to “Freein’ Judges!”

Jesse James is spinning in his grave.


13 posted on 11/19/2023 8:35:21 AM PST by bigfootbob (Arm Up and Live Free!)
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To: Salman
The Judge, a Jewish Democrat with with wife Gloria (left) and mother Diane Jones, nee Goldfinger

The black pimp/thug


14 posted on 11/19/2023 8:46:34 AM PST by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater in 2024)
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To: Gen.Blather

” It requires skills the average guy doesn’t have”

Total BS. To claim otherwise is to claim those in government are our betters and they are definitely not. The idiots go to government. We all know that, expect maybe you. I spent decades working with those in government and they collectively are morons.


15 posted on 11/19/2023 10:13:53 AM PST by CodeToad (Rule#1: The elites want you dead.)
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To: SauronOfMordor; SaxxonWoods

“What gives you the idea that providing security for a prostitute justifies the death penalty?”

What gives you the idea that knowingly becoming an accessory to human trafficking is a mere business transaction?

Do you think prostitution is a victimless crime? Is that what you tell yourself to justify it?

The character Vampiro (aka Batman) in the movie “Sound of Freedom” is based on a real person who learned how his participation as a customer of prostitutes enabled the exploitation of women and children. This is just a tiny example of the harm done by society accepting prostitution.

Providing “security” and facilitating the financial transaction of prostitution is not making victims more secure or safe from harm, it is merely protecting someone’s financial interest in the business. Even most women who willingly participate in prostitution do so out of financial desperation. It’s not exactly a lifestyle choice.


16 posted on 11/19/2023 10:14:39 AM PST by unlearner (Keep the faith. )
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Even most women who willingly participate in prostitution do so out of financial desperation. It’s not exactly a lifestyle choice.

Right. A large percentage are addicts, which means they need more money than than they could earn as a supermarket clerk, and they are too dysfunctional to hold a regular job anyway.

17 posted on 11/19/2023 11:28:46 AM PST by SauronOfMordor (Either you will rule. Or you will be ruled. There is no other choice.)
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To: Gen.Blather

“The reason vigilantism isn’t likely is ... that it requires [tracking] skills the average guy doesn’t have”

I think the poster was considering the case where the cops and courts aren’t keeping citizens safe — a breakdown of the justice system.

That is not the case where I live, which is not in a big city.

I will say that as cities, governments, corporations — all organizations — get bigger, their actions are more likely to stray from their primary purpose.


18 posted on 11/19/2023 1:10:01 PM PST by cymbeline
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“I will say that as cities, governments, corporations — all organizations — get bigger, their actions are more likely to stray from their primary purpose.”

The people who start organizations are on a mission to accomplish something, say, X. As time goes on, they retire or age-out and the people they hired, who are just doing a job, not a “mission” take over. They hire people who are attracted to the power, money or prestige. Those people blend in with the “mission” early on, until they are running the show. Liberals slowly take over and subvert the organization to service their proposes. The Annenberg Foundation comes to mind. Annenberg left money to promote conservative causes, but a couple of decades later it’s promoting Barak Obama and his communist buddies in the Socialist Chicago school project, which even they admit failed. Then there’s the Catholic Church, which I don’t even recognize anymore. The FBI was probably a good idea, although the guy who started it hung on for a few decades too long and arguably went Loonie tunes. Organizations get to a certain size like Digital Equipment Corporation or even Microsoft, and they just get lost and die. Microsoft was once cutting edge. I’d argue it’s now a blunt instrument....a dead corporation walking. GM would have been much better off if they’d been allowed to declare bankruptcy rather than getting turned into a zombie company.


19 posted on 11/19/2023 1:22:44 PM PST by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: Gen.Blather

MSFT owns 49% of OpenAI ... so there’s that ...


20 posted on 11/19/2023 1:34:18 PM PST by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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