Ban Trains!
We don't know why this obvious step hasn't been taken before, what with all the apple-picking going on:
- A 37-year-old man was beaten to death on a platform of the Green Line late Saturday morning in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side, according to authorities.
The victim, whose identity was not being released Saturday night because his family was not notified yet, was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital where he was pronounced dead at 12:13 p.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.
It was not immediately clear what sparked the attack, but one "large" man walked up about 11:30 a.m. and started beating the victim, who was standing on the platform in the 300 block of East 43rd Street, according to police.
And if you thought the CTA was bad, even the police aren't safe in Metra stations:
- One person is under arrest, accused of stabbing a Metra police sergeant who was breaking up a fight at Union Station Saturday night, Chicago police said.
A fight erupted near the food court inside Union Station and the male sergeant was stabbed three times in the leg while trying to break up the altercation, police said.
Metra spokesman Tom Miller said the fight happened outside a McDonald's restaurant in the upper level of the station.
Best wishes to the Metra officer for a speedy recovery.
Labels: crime, officer injured
posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
85 Comments:
They should ban McD's. It sounds like fights are breaking out all over and the underlying factor is McDonalds. Must be the new mighty wings. They are delicious though. I'm calling Hamburger U in Oakbrook to relay my displeasure. Can't even enjoy a Big Mac in peace anymore.
Real damndiculous.
Stay off the trains in 014!!! The blue line is just horrible. The robberies and snatch and grabs are just crazy!!!! As a citizen what is wrong in my city?
You mean the camera didn't intervene eh? Sad day for you mister. Maybe Rahm and Garry can send the family a copy of the video if they have one along with the top ten reasons Chicago should not have conceal carry on trains.
Should fax the case report to George Zimmerman's attorney. Stand your ground!!!
Wasn't he aware of his surroundings? He's suppose to be aware of his surroundings and be vigilant.
DHS says to pull out scissors to fend off an attacker.
Colo. law makers say he should of stabbed the attacker with a ball point pen!
I'm confused. Because then scissors and ball point pens are weapons. We not supposed to carry weapons on the streets are we?
Oh well. Too bad a house wife or single girl wasn't alerted to the commotion. She could of followed Joe Biden's advice to start shooting her shot gun in the air to scar him away.
/sarcasm <---as if I need to add this tag.
OT BUT, the 019th district did a great job controlling the drunk assholes on Clark, even though they were short staffed.1/2 the crowd from last year, but double the arrests for sure.Proud of you guys tonight. I hope bar time is just as good. Keep up the good work Tact teams ans SAT teams to.
What is going on? Is Rahm really this much of an ostrich???
Thank goodness Madigan's drones in the legislature are fighting hard to keep CCW illegal in public transportation. I'm sure the victim's family will take comfort in the (hopefully functioning) video cameras that are protecting us. Perhaps Representative Mell sees this and rethinks her advice for people to yell for help if someone attacks them on the train.
(Note to drones: this is sarcasm)
seems to be an inordinate amount of people found pinned under trains in a CTA medical emergency lately...no?
Maybe Rahm can levy a new "VIOLENCE TAX" on all who enter a CTA/Metra station...he could get the outline on the proposal from Feinstein
In AOL News today, Sunday 3/17/13.
Ohio judge calls speed cameras a "scam," earns spot on our Christmas card list. He rules against the town. When they gonna take the case to Chicago?
When IDOC paroles a guy named "Deathray" we're all in trouble.
The following have been charged with home invasion and armed robbery: Rodney G. Parks, 22, of the 1500 block of Fairmount Avenue, Joliet; Darius Strong, 25, of the 7100 block of South Yates Avenue, Chicago; Deathray Anderson, 22, of the 100 block of Richardson Avenue, Joliet; Elijah Watson, 17, of the 100 block of Wallace Street, Joliet; and Mitchell M. Thompson, 18, of the 1600 block of 5th Avenue, Joliet.
I'm really starting to hate the barbaric behavior of these Pilgrims. Where are their leaders and why are they doing nothing about this behavior?
Perhaps if someone gave these Pilgrims some money, they would have hope for a better future and not act like savages. Let's give them more money. They just need opportunities in the community, because it's really a solid community based of puritan values.
This is something Bloomberg should ban.
It's all those "assault weapons" out there!
I was at the Citigroup building yesterday and observed nothing but gangbangers coming out off the train station with their green on and beautiful tattoo'ed faces! Another reason not to go downtown.
Read the report on green line the offender and victims description are reversed.
Ditto on the 'speedy recovery' for our brother Metro Po-lice.
All the best in the future, Sarge.
(OT) Found this on another post and would like to employ as it is important to all coppers:
Anonymous said...
Any Sworn who did not take the 55 and out is a COMPLETE DUMBASS!!! Gone and pay the grand a month for someting you could have had for FREE. WOW guess working a day off made you feel good! Do the math strokes. Fucked youselfs but do I care? HELL NO. IDIOTS. More for us who had common sense. HAHAHA
3/16/2013 07:17:00 PM
Talked to Mike Shields and he said this is in no way going away as the city saves to much money, lets hope he is telling the absolute truth. 1 question I did not ask,if I will be. 55 next year and we are still under old contract as we are, if myself or others put in for it now will the city be forced to honor it?
Can we ban Geiger? Save one child you save the world.
What about banning the animals that apple pick and look for their prey on or around trains? Would that be racist?
The city will next issue a commemorative video of your assault, mugging or your family members murder for a small fee. It's a good revenue idea. After all the city needs the money.
12:11
While you're at it, time to ban "Dat Chuckies Cheese". Was in Skokie last week going to Barnes Nobel. See ghetto rats all over the lot, being...well, ghetto. Then I realized they were going to the Cheese.
I only travel in my new Nissan electric car with climate control that I can activate with my I-phone. It is much safer.
Now, Kees me you fool!!!!
" What is wrong with my city?
Look no further than City Hall, the rubber stamp City Council & Police H.Q.
Need more decoy teams
Surely your not serious!!
Yes, and if you listen to the people who run the CTA, we must ban all legal concealed carry on public transit. It would be unsafe for the average crimninal!!
Anonymous said...
Maybe Rahm can levy a new "VIOLENCE TAX" on all who enter a CTA/Metra station...he could get the outline on the proposal from Feinstein
3/17/2013 04:47:00
Yes, Great Idea! The new violence tax would help pay the medical bills of all of the injured duirng purse snatching, robberies of cell phones and wallets. Tell Preckwinkle this and maybe the county will also add a tax.After all the people who use public transit must bear some responsibility for the crime on the CTA. After all, if they were not there who would be the victim??
Where was ceasefire during all this?
if Tiny and Mc535 are freaking out now. wait till Chalkie returns with a vengence red and green lines will be known as BloodShedCity line
"Vomit on your attacker!"
"Piss yourself and your attacker will go away!"
"Jab your attacker with a ball point pen!"
"Blow your whistle to attract the attention of the Police!"
"Don't worry, we DO have surveillance cameras on CTA trains and platforms!"
"We don't need any additional Police... We have plenty. We just have to be smart in how we deploy them!"
"Forty-nine other states are wrong for allowing concealed carry for their citizens!"
If we can just ban and consfiscate all guns, Illinois and Chicago will prove that everyone else is wrong!"
Heh...
Reality?
You'll be a beaten, broken, bloody, self-soiled and violated lump of flesh pudding toothlessly begging for your life or begging Skull Man to kill you and put you out of your misery...
Remember... The liberal demo-commies say you're a mean and vile "conservative" if you harbor any notion of fighting back to save your own life.
Especially if the fight is against a catered to constituent or a sanctuary city dweller type.
The liberal demo-commie can't wrap their heads around fighting for a damned thing unless it's fighting for their agenda of wholesale disarmament of upright, self motivated and decent people who might harbor funny ideas like self defense with maximum prejudice against harmful, life-threatening things.
Disarm the Armed Wing of the Catered To Constituency first...
O_o?
*We can't do THAT! It'll be like trying to disarm the warlords and militias in the Middle East and the Horn of Africa! We don't have the political will For that! We'll disarm ALL the DECENT LAW-ABIDING PEOPLE.*
O/T...
Why can't Cook County have a REAL sheriff unlike Tom Dart? http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03/17/colorado-sheriff-says-new-state-gun-laws-wont-be-enforced/
Happy St. Paddy day and remember what do you do with a drunken sailor? Have Paul Geiger use him. Screw you Paul.
"You mean the camera didn't intervene eh? Sad day for you mister. Maybe Rahm and Garry can send the family a copy of the video if they have one along with the top ten reasons Chicago should not have conceal carry on trains."
an excellent point....the family could play the killing video at the funeral services, along with a video of the liberal Democratic politicians speaking against concealed carry on public transportation.....it would make a nice post death present
Off Topic!!!
But real important as it relates to "contact card quotas" and stopping people on the streets of New York!
Something similar to what we are forced to do here in Chicago, if we want overtime!
http://news.yahoo.com/trial-over-nypd-stop-frisk-tactic-set-begin-175924729.html
I would be very careful of Contact Cards, if I were you guys!
There are going to be people being thrown under the bus over these tactics!
Supt. Mc Doofus and all Exempts, are going to plead ignorant as Police Officers are hauled into Federal Courts and get sued!
CCW
Time to move out of this dump?Lol!
Anonymous said...
What is going on? Is Rahm really this much of an ostrich???
3/17/2013 01:32:00 AM
Gotta wonder how much time he really spends in Chicago, anyway, after that DNC comment that 'all he needs is a cell phone'. He's playing at being mayor, not invested in it beyond his desire to run for President.
Anonymous said...
Stay off the trains in 014!!! The blue line is just horrible. The robberies and snatch and grabs are just crazy!!!! As a citizen what is wrong in my city?
3/17/2013 12:13:00 AM
It's infested with and being run by libtards with the entitlement disease!!!!!
I do the reverse commute from downtown to the 'burbs (where all the jobs are) and walk by that McD's daily. I hope the rail cop gets better.
BAN RAILS
Paul Geiger once kicked a puppy. Saw it wiff my own eyes!
I've seen fire and I've seen rain..
Illinois liquor store employee shoots armed robber during attempted hold-up
{...]..
The two robbers were seen sneaking around outside the store before they entered, and that’s when the employee armed himself with a revolver. The two entered the store shooting. When one of them, identified as 20-year-old James Taylor, jumped over the counter, still shooting, that’s when the employee, who wishes to remain anonymous, shot him.
He tells WIFR News 23:
“I didn't think they were going to jump over the counter. One of them did, and started shooting at me. So it was just like, shoot or get shot, you know?”
Oh hell yeaz
The second robber fled the scene
A speedy recovery for the Metra Police Sgt. Also good to hear that nothing happened to those officers involved in the shooting in Albany Park. Stay safe my brothers in blue.(CCSD).
"A fight erupted near the food court inside Union Station and the male [Metra PD] sergeant was stabbed three times in the leg while trying to break up the altercation..."
Wasn't there, but...
...it will never enter the mind of some worthless POS that he continues to draw breath only because of the consummate professionalism of a police officer who may well have withheld the use of legally justified lethal force for fear of injuring innocent people.
That has got to hurt bad. Prayers and best wishes to the sarge.
Nice job boys!
Remember the downstate raffle of the AR-15 with the 30 round mag for a youth baseball team in Atwood IL.?
Big interest in Ill. gun raffle for youth baseball
"Why can't Cook County have a REAL sheriff unlike Tom Dart? http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03/17/colorado-sheriff-says-new-state-gun-laws-wont-be-enforced/"
you're looking for a real sheriff? meaning, someone who knows something about law enforcement, and someone who could actually find a criminal inside of Cook County Jail, and....someone who was not beholden to the political corruption of the Chicago, Cook County, and Illinois liberal Democratic Socialistic party?....eh?
"When IDOC paroles a guy named "Deathray" we're all in trouble.
"The following have been charged with home invasion and armed robbery: Deathray Anderson, 22, of the 100 block of Richardson Avenue, Joliet"
3/17/2013 07:07:00 AM
Face it -- there is not the brain matter, not the context present here to pick up on that sci-fi movie thing.
Just another meaningless, made-up name from the barrel, around and around it goes. They throw all the syllables in and turn it, then reach in and whatever they fish out goes on the kid.
"De ATHray!" would be the pronouseeation, yo.
Walk backwards down the middle of the street at 4 AM shouting the name up at buildings and bustin bottles, and you down wid it.
Like you say, it's all on the IDOC track from the get go...
Hey 9:48 AM Shields has NEVER told the truth so believe him if you want. And to answer your other question-HELL NO! CPD is far below manpower with retirements. Trying to raise minimum retirement age guy-can you read? And city did NOT pay for 55 and out. The Fed Govt did. And hopefully you can see that the fed be all fucked up! Bottom line is U R FUCKED! Pay your shit every month. You waited pal then shame on you. Why does nobody believe this. Maybe cause they don't want to. Oh Well aint my problem.
"seems to be an inordinate amount of people found pinned under trains in a CTA medical emergency lately...no?"
3/17/2013 03:25:00 AM
they jus clownin
Why didn't the cameras prevent these horrible crimes? And why isn't the media questioning that????
Chalkie is just getting warmed up! Soon he will let the fun begin, Are you listening Rham and Gerry? Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha (Evil echo laugh)
O/T...
Why can't Cook County have a REAL sheriff unlike Tom Dart?
What the F-ck you talking about. Arrest are up. Crime is down in Cook County areas and no bs like the Head Chicago Cop.
Anonymous said...
Surely your not serious!!
3/17/2013 11:36:00 AM
I AM serious, and don't call me Shirley.
I'm really starting to hate the barbaric behavior of these Pilgrims. Where are their leaders and why are they doing nothing about this behavior?
3/17/2013 08:10:00 AM
because doing nothing is their doing something.
"The city will next issue a commemorative video of your assault, mugging or your family members murder for a small fee. It's a good revenue idea. After all the city needs the money."
It can be like at the end of the rides at DisneyWorld. When you get off the train, you and your family can go to the booth to see if you want a commemorative picture of your beating and/or robbery. The City better move fast or Toni and the County will be all over this idea.
Off topic:
It's been an interesting turn of events here at the UCPD since the big student protest concerning the new U of C hospital a couple of weeks ago. Our brilliant chief, Marlon Lynch, laid a plan to place an undercover detective in with the student protesters. Since she's a relatively new hire in our dept. (and quickly moved up the rank to detective), she didn't have a lot of experience with this sort of thing, and the students discovered her very early in the protest. The U of C Maroon student newspaper is filled with pictures of her texting our Asst. to the Chief, Milt Owens, informing him about how the protest was going. Several students took pictures of our newly appointed detective as she was doing this, and those pics are all over the Maroon newspaper too. What's really interesting is that our Chief initially denied that this undercover operation ever came out of his office. Lynch has now had to backtrack off of that, since someone leaked the official plan of the use of the detective in the student protest to...you guessed it, the U of C Maroon! Lynch has actually made several statements concerning the incident now, with 3 different versions of how and why this operation took place. He's also placed the newly promoted detective and Milt Owens on 'administrative leave' as the matter gets sorted out; it seems U of C president Zimmer has pulled his head out from under the panties of the college professor he left his wife for and is quite upset about how this all came about, and has ordered an immediate outside investigation into the matter. When you're placed on administrative leave here at the UCPD, it's usually the kiss of death, with termination after the two weeks. It's a shame that the detective would be fired simply for following orders from two incompetent fools at the top, but she won't be the first if she's fired, and she certainly won't be the last. The madness here continues here at Peyton Place by the Lake!
Anonymous said...
Where was ceasefire during all this?
3/17/2013 12:02:00 PM
Spring Break. Lauderdale, maybe?
Yeah...
You can forget about "decoy teams" and other such "task force" types of Policing...
Rahm, the alderfools and the rev'runs can't have the Police killing the shit out of members of the armed wing of the catered to constituency by the dozens per month on public transportation...
Heh...
Good Policing with the maximum of prejudice allowed by law = Bad political fall-out.
One of our elder subject matter experts mentioned an incident (late 1950's early 1960's) in which an armed robber was chopped to pieces on a CTA train by detectives of which a couple were armed with Thompson SMG's...
The public recoiled in horror...
Daley I had a shit-fit...
"How can The Police be allowed to be so ruthless, hard and callous?"
(A truth... The Police should inspire more fear and outright terror than these fools currently rendering vast swaths of this city unliveable. Nowadays, people are so broke out with contagious crazy, they feel no guilt in ringing the district phones about an officer who was "unfriendly and didn't smile" regardless of how professional their Police demeanor actually was.)
The beginnning of the end of Policing out loud?
The "Choppers" were commanded put away... Until April 4th 1968...
"You guys are just mad cuz it isn't 1960 anymore..."
Mass transit has the most aggressive tact teams in the city especially the day watch. If you sell loose cigarettes or beg. They are all over it!!!
Screw DHS and thier suggestions of pissing your pants or using a pair of scissors. My prefferred method of protection is Glock 21 with 230 grain +p+. and I carry 2 extra mags off duty.
CCW is coming and crime will go down soon after a few of these wolves get taken out.
Seiser still runs it!!! Good job
The best is that Securitas will no longer patrol the CTA system starting 01 April due to not being paid by the city.
Seiser runs it! Way to go saving a baby and making CPD look good 018 district Officers keep up great work!
Has anyone ever seen Paul Geiger and Mike Masters in the same room?
Anonymous said...
Maybe Rahm can levy a new "VIOLENCE TAX" on all who enter a CTA/Metra station...he could get the outline on the proposal from Feinstein
3/17/2013 04:47:00 AM
The "VIOLENCE TAX" will be imposed on all Victims' beginning in the 2nd quarter of 2013.
If the citizens are careless enough to be victims then they can pay for it.
Love rahm.
Why don't cops just say they won't arrest a person carrying a gun if the person has a FOID? Instant CCW. Stand up for the people you're supposed to protect. Is your job to protect or is it to generate revenue? Stand up for the oaths you pledged to the Constitution. Was that oath just lip service so you could carry a gun and bully people? Earlier posts mentioned the sheriffs from Colorado, those sheriffs are willing to stand up to oppressors and protect the law abiding citizens from unjust laws within their jurisdictions. What are the officers in Chicago and Cook County doing? Letting the innocent people get caught between the filthy gang bangers, murderers, rapists, muggers and the pieces of shit politicians. You want to know why we don't have sheriffs like those you read about? It's because no law official has the balls to stand up to the Daleys, the Madigans, the Preckwinkles, the Burkes and their ilk. Thank you for posting all this brave crap. But fuck you all for not standing up in public where it counts.
Mice..five savages storm a Red Line Train and pistol whip a 57 y/o and start punching women, one of which was pushing the alarm button.
Since the political jackazzes are fighting to keep CCW off the trains and make it a gun free zone it's like open season for the mutts.
NICE JOB GARRY AND RAHM!
Oh he's on video. ha--ha-ha-ha I'm so sure that the four that got away are losing sleep over it and the victims are jumping for joy hoping for their very own high def. video to show their friends.
You two ain't making SHIT safer.
Seiser Runs It !
You're Dead and can't complain... the democrats are happy and the assailant will vote again.
Anonymous said...
Hey 9:48 AM Shields has NEVER told the truth so believe him if you want. And to answer your other question-HELL NO! CPD is far below manpower with retirements. Trying to raise minimum retirement age guy-can you read? And city did NOT pay for 55 and out. The Fed Govt did. And hopefully you can see that the fed be all fucked up! Bottom line is U R FUCKED! Pay your shit every month. You waited pal then shame on you. Why does nobody believe this. Maybe cause they don't want to. Oh Well aint my problem.
3/17/2013 04:49:00 PM
Guess I am fucked, then! But hard to walk away from $130,000 a year for a $60,000 pension, and then cannot contribute the max to deferred. At 55 I am in a good unit make extra, enjoy the coppers I work with, guess I am fucked! You know what after reading some of he rude comments in other threads about this glad I am staying,if it is 60 and or 63 ok then! He ignorant responses,when only asking a simple question,are you retired guys that took the 5 and out really that mad you left the job?
Bring back TO-SPOT!
Start looking at the 5th floor at City Hall.
If you voted for the current regime,then look in the mirror.
3/17/2013 04:49:00 PM
Guess I am fucked, then! But hard to walk away from $130,000 a year for a $60,000 pension, and then cannot contribute the max to deferred. At 55 I am in a good unit make extra, enjoy the coppers I work with, guess I am fucked! You know what after reading some of he rude comments in other threads about this glad I am staying,if it is 60 and or 63 ok then! He ignorant responses,when only asking a simple question,are you retired guys that took the 5 and out really that mad you left the job?
3/17/2013 11:55:00 PM
Well, you are in the minority of the clout-heavy. The rest of us must not be as smart or hard-working as you.
GFYS, asshole.
Talked to Mike Shields and he said this is in no way going away as the city saves to much money, lets hope he is telling the absolute truth. 1 question I did not ask,if I will be. 55 next year and we are still under old contract as we are, if myself or others put in for it now will the city be forced to honor it?
3/17/2013 09:48:00 AM
The agreement is on the FOP 7 website. Your answers are there.
Anonymous said...
Surely your not serious!!
3/17/2013 11:36:00 AM
I AM serious, and don't call me Shirley.
3/17/2013 05:56:00 PM
Do you like gladiator movies?
Anonymous said...
Where was ceasefire during all this?
3/17/2013 12:02:00 PM
Spring Break. Lauderdale, maybe?
3/17/2013 06:59:00 PM
They were in Cancun stopping that shooting in a nightclub.
You know what after reading some of he rude comments in other threads about this glad I am staying,if it is 60 and or 63 ok then! He ignorant responses,when only asking a simple question,are you retired guys that took the 5 and out really that mad you left the job?
3/17/2013 11:55:00 PM
No. All those comments are from one very angry man.
Anonymous said...
Seiser Runs It !
3/17/2013 11:23:00 PM
Really thought the Seiser thing was just a running scc joke til I saw the guy on tv in that 'saved the baby' story.
"Securitas will no longer patrol the CTA system starting 01 April due to not being paid by the city."
3/17/2013 08:53:00 PM
Now there's a huge loss.
"Patrol?" You have to be able to physically heave your bulk out of your vehicle before you can start to "patrol" anything.
Anonymous said...
Anonymous said...
Where was ceasefire during all this?
3/17/2013 12:02:00 PM
Spring Break. Lauderdale, maybe?
3/17/2013 06:59:00 PM
They were in Cancun stopping that shooting in a nightclub.
3/18/2013 09:38:00 AM
Maybe they went on one of those cultural excursions, instead, or joined in on building a home with Habitat for Humanity.
But, I'm betting on a Carnival cruise.
Hey 11:55 PM Sober up pal. You sound like a real asshole. Have another drink lushhead.
3/17/2013 04:49:00 PM
Guess I am fucked, then! But hard to walk away from $130,000 a year for a $60,000 pension, and then cannot contribute the max to deferred. At 55 I am in a good unit make extra, enjoy the coppers I work with, guess I am fucked! You know what after reading some of he rude comments in other threads about this glad I am staying,if it is 60 and or 63 ok then! He ignorant responses,when only asking a simple question,are you retired guys that took the 5 and out really that mad you left the job?
3/17/2013 11:55:00 PM
I ewtired last fall at age 60. I have not a regret in the world. I am glad I worked on the CPD for all those years and I am happy I left. It was a complte journey. A great experience, I could have worked longer but you all know how it is there now, I just wasn't excited about going to work. Now I am getting a pension and miss some people but do not miss the job at all.
There is some adjusting to do but I do not look for reasons to go visit the station. Not at all. My only regret is not putting more in deferred comp. That is it. Hey, union meeting tomorrow, I will be there and say hello to some of the people.
Thank you for posting all this brave crap. But fuck you all for not standing up in public where it counts.
3/17/2013 10:52:00 PM
Why don't YOU stand up in public?
People who voted for the politicians that are in office now have caused this societal disaster and you expect the Police to be your sacrificial lambs?
You want someone to blame? Look in the mirror.
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