Mary Mitchell Does it Again

Reading her claptrap so YOU don't have to - all part of our service.

It is always amazing that a human being can be so clueless and so ignorant and still make it to adulthood while landing a decent paying job. She writes today:

• What is it going to take before the Chicago Police Department realizes that a lot of black people are fed up? And when will the aldermen open their eyes and see that many of their constituents are sitting on a powder keg? This is true not just because a 14-year-old boy from Cabrini-Green was critically injured when he allegedly pointed a replica of a 9mm Smith & Wesson at officers.

  But because too many people are complaining about being mistreated by police officers.

Last time we checked, complaints against the police were down. Down significantly. Because people are unwilling to sign a piece of paper attesting under oath that certain events happened the way they claim they happened. Of course, to Mary and her ilk, one complaint would be "too many" as the police are supposed to stand idly by with feather dusters instead of guns and sticks while kids with fake guns stick up citizens.

• People will argue amongst themselves about whether the Cabrini-Green teen brought the shooting on himself since BB guns are illegal in Illinois.

  Some of them will blame the boy's parents for not knowing he had the fake gun. Others will blame the cops for shooting first and asking questions later, even though police have been killed by gun-toting teens.

  Unfortunately, a lot of black people are more willing to believe that a white cop would shoot an unarmed black kid than they are willing to listen to the cop's side of the story.

People with an ounce of sense who bother to acquaint themselves with Illinois Law won't be arguing among themselves. And people who take the effort to raise their children with the proper respect for guns, other people's property, the police and the illegality of doing stickups won't be arguing either. Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to cover a lot of the Cabrini families, what with dad's 33 arrests for various felonies and misdemeanors. As to what black people are willing to believe, they still believe that the CIA introduced crack into the ghetto, AIDS was introduced into this country by the government and anything coming out of Farrakhan's and Jesse's mouth. Why is that?

• There is a good reason for black people not to trust the cops.

  Even people who have never had a run-in with police know there is something terribly wrong when hundreds of black suspects are tortured into giving false confessions, and the man primarily responsible for those tortures is rewarded with a fat pension and time to spend cruising in a boat called "Vigilante."

  Even people who have never seen the inside of a jail and couldn't care less when drug dealers and gang-bangers are locked up know that something ought to have been done about Jon Burge and his posse.

Hundreds? You exaggerate again Mary. There were less than a dozen cases that had any sort of sustainability in a court of law. And for those, the statute of limitations ran out. We think we may have just found one of the reasons black people seem to believe a lot of otherwise completely bat-shit insane theories everyone else dismissed years ago - you (and others) keep repeating it as if it were true.

• Because the city did nothing to stop this racist cop back then, and because the law says it's too late to do anything about him now -- we shouldn't be surprised that a growing number of citizens in black communities are complaining.

Then change the law Mary. We are a nation of laws. You don't like it, change the law. Or move. It's still a free country.

• A reader called me a week ago about a scene she witnessed at 15th & Homan on the West Side, where a squad car was involved in an auto accident.

  "The people ran out of their houses, and one guy got the policeman out of the car. It was amazing to see how people pulled together," the reader said.

  "Other squad cars showed up and the street was taped off. A female officer told me if I didn't get away from my car, I was going to be arrested. The way they treated those people was so rude. These were the same people that got the cop out of his car. Instead of being rude, they really needed to give those people a block party."

We had a bunch of readers contact us, too Mary. And for some reason, we hear that there is still a bunch of Police Department equipment and officer's personal property missing from the scene of the accident. Why would that be? Please explain?

The rest of the article is equally as lame, bringing up the incident on 015, which of course is an on going investigation and hasn't even come to a conclusion yet. No one knows anything yet, but Mary has already passed judgment on the whole incident and found the white officers guilty of spreading dissent and ill-will. Only a reporter could equate what Jon Burge was accused of doing to restrained prisoners to an officer exercising his rights and his duty to use deadly force to protect his life or the life of another. What an ignorant and lazy piece of writing. But again, we think we've discovered ONE of the reasons the African American community continues to believe every single conspiracy theory that comes down the pike.

Look in the Mirror Mary.

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