Maldonado Whines
- Ald. Roberto Maldonado (26th) filed a complaint accusing a Chicago Police officer of racism after he was ticketed for illegally passing a turning a vehicle.
The incident that triggered Maldonado’s complaint occurred shortly after 9 p.m. on May 1 after Maldonado picked his children up from swimming practice.
The aldermen said he was stopped at a traffic light at the intersection of North and Leavitt when the car in front of him was turning left. Instead of waiting for the turn to be completed, Maldonado said he drove his 2004 Honda Pilot around the turning car on the right.
Maldonado said he was pulled over by a Chicago Police squad car about a mile west of the intersection.
Maldonado then starts dropping hints about holding press conferences and finally drops the "don't you have better things to do" line and tells the officer he's calling the commander and manages to get his license back...temporarily. When he finally gets the tickets, he calls the commander, a sergeant is sent out and the status quo remains.
Maldonado insists this was a white officer and he was intimidated. Our comment sections state both officers were hispanic in ancestry. Time will tell, but Maldonado looks whiny and the Sun Times comments aren't very kind to him either. They'd be less kind if they realized how many times he's been pulled over for driving like an ass and gotten off playing the "aldercreature" card.
Maldonado insists this was a white officer and he was intimidated. Our comment sections state both officers were hispanic in ancestry. Time will tell, but Maldonado looks whiny and the Sun Times comments aren't very kind to him either. They'd be less kind if they realized how many times he's been pulled over for driving like an ass and gotten off playing the "aldercreature" card.
Labels: scandals
posted by SCC at 12:07 AM
80 Comments:
Another "I'm better than you" piece of shit. Pay your ticket, asswipe. Drive better, asswipe. Leave the race card in your pocket, asswipe. Quit stealing the taxpayers' money, asswipe. Once again, term limits need to be enacted.
Time to start fighting these wretched politicians and media people back...
Sue the alderman for defamation
The kicker is, if the guy had taken the ticket and paid it, he would have gained some respect.
Instead, he shows himself to be a whiny adolescent.
A lot of people don't like our dash cameras. I have no problem with them. I hope the officer had a working camera and a working microphone; and used them.
Maldonado is lucky he wasn't driving through my district. I'd teach him a thing or two about respect.
- Leo Spitz
Well, I think Maldonado is an idiot and pretty worthless as a human being, but really??? Going around a vehicle who is turning so that you can be on your way? Have many of us haven't done this before... Have we become that desperate to fill our VRI quotas... I personally think it's a shame we are stoping citizens for such trivial incidents
Passing on the right is legal. Hope he wrote him up for another one:
The driver of a vehicle may overtake and pass upon the right of another vehicle only under the following conditions:
(1) When the vehicle overtaken is making or about to make a left turn and there is sufficient safe clearance distance between the turning vehicle and the right edge of the roadway;
50 alder scum bags @ 100 K a year and no money for our criminally misfunded pensions. Democratic liberals are destroying this state. Hopefully allot of them fall victim to change they can believe in this summer.
This man should set an example not be part of the problem...pay your ticket like the rest of us Chicagoans Alderman.
I am not a big believer in lawsuits, but his statements and actions are libelous.
No keeses for him.
I once wrote a ticket to the husband of a Federal Judge. She was sitting in the car next to him. He was also a lawyer. Neither of them said a word. I found out after the whole thing was over. These were class people. The situation involved a traffic accident. That Mr. Moldanado is how you act when you are wrong, you pompus cry baby. Ret. CPD
Time to trim the fat. When are we starting the next reduce the amount of aldermen petition? Lets give ourselves enough time to get the signatures this time around.
from a troll: Someone, probably a cop wrote on the first thread something like its no big deal, its part of the job. Well that is partially correct. There are a lot whinny pissy people who will bitch about getting a ticket and some will do more than bitch. (Me excluded. I never got a ticket I did not deserve. BFD) But this Maldonado asshole is purportedly an elected offical of government and should conduct himself accordingly. The fact is he did not and comported himself as the previously mentioned asshole I think he is. And this is where Franny dropped the ball. She should be pressing him about how HE handled himself. She should be confronting him about HIS conduct. Why does he think he is above the law. Why does he think politicians in general by their actions think they are entitled and above the law. But she handled it like Sneed and all the other so called journalists who stopped challenging politicians years ago. Now, the only people keeping these dirtbags in line are the people working in the US Attorney's office. And in my opinion, they are not working hard enough! Politicans in IL should be reporting to Federal prisons by the score.
Where was "Tazer, Tazer Tazer" when he started to act up?
Maldanado and Dixson sounds like enough trash to have a week long special on who watches the Alderman.
Rap it up with Burke putting blue light cameras by his house and Munoz father selling fake ID'S for the cartel.
What do u think chubby chuck goudie???
What's the difference between an Aldercreature driving like an asshole and an off duty officer driving like an asshole. I am so sick of it!
Maldoanodo sounds like a whiny bitch. A lot of off duty officers drive like assholes. I am so sick of it also. I live in 016 and I have to put up with this shit.
Sue his ass! You know he has goops of cash laying around!
I would give that Scumbag Aldermann Maldonado asshole a few tickets if given a chance! What a jagoff! Da Pelon
This is where the in car camera comes into play but even if the officers had one or had it logged on, the footage is probably gone bye-bye.
What a little bitch
Sooooo Aldermen don't have to get tickets??
The stop was racist.
The coppers were preventing Maldonado from upholding the rights of the illegal immigrants - over those the constituency he was elected to serve.
Ain't America grand?
According to a Sun Times article, "Top Pols go to Bat for Cop Killer" dated Oct 27, 2003 Robert Maldonado apple added to the Illinois Prisoner Review Board for the release of convicted cop killer Ronnie ' Mad Dog ' Carrasquillo.
This POS what's to garner favor with the Imperial Gangsters NOT the CPD. Make no mistake about it he is truly a POS.
Fellow petitioners are as follows: Luis Gutierrez, Rep.William Soto, Cynthia Soto and Ald. Billy Ocasio.
They were NOT successful.
Mad Dogs original sentence 200 to 600 years.
And these fucked up politicians wonder why we have a violence issue. A gangbanger can get a sentence such as this and be eligible for release. Don't forget Luis Gutierrez jumping on the anti gun nonsense. HYPOCRACY !!!
God rest the soul of Officer Terrence Loftus.
Please remember to sign petitions and take the ride down to Springfield compliments the Memorial Foundation.
Gold Star Family Member, K. Kaner
I personally think it's a shame we are stoping citizens for such trivial incidents
5/07/2013 01:40:00 AM
Hey stoop. Couple of things to rattle around in that tiny brain of yours: 1) You are taking his word for the reason he was stopped. 2) Why do you make traffic stops (if you ever made one) - to write tickets or to check suspicious behavior? Moron.
What an asswipe this alderman is! Take your ticket and pay it...you are not above the law just because you are an aldercreature!
Anonymous said...
Passing on the right is legal. Hope he wrote him up for another one:
The driver of a vehicle may overtake and pass upon the right of another vehicle only under the following conditions:
(1) When the vehicle overtaken is making or about to make a left turn and there is sufficient safe clearance distance between the turning vehicle and the right edge of the roadway;
5/07/2013 01:59:00 AM
And of course it happen just like Maldonado said....thanks for the traffic law lesson asswipe
Did he cry for his mama too?
John Kass is discussing this now on WLS AM890. Talking point are verbatim from your blog. It seems people with a voice (both in print and over the air) do take notice.
Maldonado's quotes from the Sun-Times article:
“This was a white officer. He was belligerent and disrespectful. He said, ‘No. Give me your driver’s license back. I’m going give you as many tickets as I can,’” Maldonado recalled.
“I said, ‘You’re being completely disrespectful. I settled with the other officer and now you’re coming with this? You’re acting racist. I feel discriminated by you.’ I said, ‘I’m not going to get out of the car. I’m going to call the commander.’ ”
Apparently, in the brave new world we live in, you are being "disrespectful" if you hold a person to certain standards and expect others to comply with the rules and laws of a civilized society.
Also, Alderman Maldonado, much as I hate being the grammar guy, the phrase "I feel discriminated by you" makes no sense. You could say "I feel discriminated against by you" or "I feel you are discriminating against me" or "Because I am too fucking stupid to realize that Hispanics can look "white" I am going to assume that you are "white" and I am going to claim that you discriminated against me because you are "white" and I am a Puerto Rican." You could say all these things and be grammatically correct. You'd still be factually wrong (except for the part about being stupid), but at least your grammar would pass muster.
For those of you with short memories, Meeks traffic stop was the cause of this, as in his role as state legislator, he pushed for cameras after the stop. Oh, and the TSSS is his creation as well.
So is this piece of crap telling us that we shouldn't be writing tickets for petty traffic violations? Well then we should stop writing tickets all together and then the city will see how quickly the money generated from these petty tickets dries up. What a piece of shit. Too bad we don't have a super or an fop pres that has the balls to hold their own press conference blasting this alderman for his actions. The the officers need to hire a lawyer and sue. Make the department give up the in car camera videos so everyone can see what really happened
As a citizen I,am totally sick of these assholes.Your top two topics have something to do with Cook County officials,who, are better than us!Is it possible, voters will ever get sick of these Pricks?
Back when, we locked up the alderman's secretaries kid for delivery and locked up the alderman's jocker right in front of her. She tried to intervene but I told her I would Lock her up for I interfering with a police investigation if she didn't step back, well she did step back. We also impounded his vehicle.......needless to say she did get to the judge who threw everything out......but the judge soon after got thrown off the bench for representing gang bangers with guns ......so....... don't back down from an alderman, ever!!!!
He's making the City, the Aldermen and Rahm Emanuel look foolish. The city council should give him an ear full for acting so childish. And then to throw out the race card is a true embarrassment. Hopefully the voters will be embarrassed to and not re- elect him
Anonymous said...
Ahh.. the "honorable" Luis Gutiérrez.
I spoke in favor of our District Commander at a "neighborhood" Police Board Meeting. He spoke against.
My idiot X wife wrote our real address down in the guest book. Later that nigh at 2 am in the morning - 5 shots through our front windows.
Ahh.. the "honorable" Luis Gutiérrez.
5/06/2013 05:49:00 AM
And you took that shit? Listen, pal. There's no justice in this banana republic socialist town we live in but what you make for yourself. If that happened, you let the dish cool and hit back hard. That little sissy would be pissing his panties.
Anyone who pulls the "don't you know who I am "is a complete tool, but a ticket for passing on the right of a turning vehicle is a bit bogus
Upload that video anonymously to Youtube. Let the Alderman hang on his own words.
NO VEHICLE MADE A LEFT TURN. The two vehicles he passed were continuing w/b on North Ave. Lying is in a politician's nature.
I hope that I have the opportunity to be in front of him one day while I see him trying to pass me. I would slam on the brakes and hope his alderass hits me. Then its a ride to the ER for me and a long 11 months off. I would ask him, " alderass didn't you see all the brake lights on my squad and the 2 extra brake lights on the light bar"?
Anonymous said...
Passing on the right is legal. Hope he wrote him up for another one:
The driver of a vehicle may overtake and pass upon the right of another vehicle only under the following conditions:
(1) When the vehicle overtaken is making or about to make a left turn and there is sufficient safe clearance distance between the turning vehicle and the right edge of the roadway
Thanks Barney
"I'm sorry officer. I was in a hurry, and got impatient. It won't happen again." That would result in what? Probably Stern lecture, don't let it happen again...
Same alderman that gets on the stage at Puerto Rican fest and says this is our community. And don't let the whites take over.
SGT was No help to the POs
*Do Nothing Fuk the White Shirts
Im guessing the alderman had to change lanes to pass the turning vehicle. You can not change lanes within a certain distance of an intersection and did he signal his intended lane change? If you want to play the police at least act like you know the traffic laws.
Another "holier than thou" a$$hole alderman who thinks he's a fkn royal prince in some monarchy. He's a useless political flunky who makes 100K/yr to do what exactly?? And he's acting like "don't the police have anything better to do". How about "doesn't an alderman have more important and pressing issues to address than making phone calls and using city resources to exempt himself from a menial traffic citation??" He makes enough money to pay the fine, or the traffic safety school option - it's even available online so you don't have to waste a saturday sitting in a classroom. And playing the race card- that crap is so outdated it's actually comical and more pathetic than anything to hear anyone claim racism. Whenever I hear someone use that as an excuse it makes me believe that their position is so weak that in order to defend themselves they must invoke this type of argument to gain support and mask their true culpability in the situation. It has been a common ploy of career criminals for years, and has a long record of success especially in this city.
Anonymous said...
Time to start fighting these wretched politicians and media people back...
5/07/2013 12:37:00 AM
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Follow Rahm's leed and hit them where the money is coming from, their corporate campaign donors.
We don't have to do business in their wards or more specifically the larger donors in their wards.
Don't have to do business in the county either...or the state.
Some will say it's just not realistic but it doesn't have to he ALL or nothing.
Bottom line is that you don't have to wait until election time to express your feelings. Hit em in the wallet. I mean why would you want to do business with a company that is supporting a politician that is not representing you. Vote with your money, take your business elsewhere. Do it today!
Widespread in Illinois -- the laws don't apply to me attitude.
Tuesday, May 7,2013
City lacked approval to destroy records
Police files shredded anyway
By Bruce Rushton
Springfield police destroyed internal affairs files older than four years just eight months after establishing a five-year retention period under a state law that requires records to be preserved according to retention schedules approved by a local records commission.
The city last September applied for and was granted a five-year window to retain the records, said David Joens, director of state archives with the Illinois Secretary of State's office who sits on the commission charged with determining how long records should be kept. Absent a retention schedule approved by the commission, such records should be kept indefinitely, he said.
"If it's a record, which it (an internal affairs file) is, it has to be on a retention schedule," Joens said. "If it's not on the schedule, it's supposed to be kept indefinitely."
http://www.illinoistimes.com/Springfield/article-11330-city-lacked-approval-to-destroy-records.html
Another JO politician. Why worry about a ticket when they have so enormously unjustly enriched themselves stealing from anyone and everything that has a pocket to pick. What an A-Hole
5/07/2013 01:59:00 AM &
5/07/2013 01:40:00 AM
You are assuming his version of the events are accurate? I guess when some asshole beefs because the big mean police hit him for absolutely no reason you believe him too? Please stay in your office and leave the police work to the police.
Get a load of this..
...Republican Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois wants help from the feds to take down the city's most violent street gangs.
"I would like to crush them, because they shot Hadiya," Kirk told Fox Chicago in an exclusive interview.
The senator wants to crush the gangs becuase they shot Hadiya WTF? All the other issues do not matter. They shot Hadiya!!
What about the thousands of other people shot, many of them killed? Surely not every single one of them was a gang member. What about the coppers shot in the line of duty?
They don't matter? What about doing it for the 2.8 million people living in Chicago? Nope, we need to raise this girl to martyr status.
So when's the Hollywood movie? You know that has to be next.
This family must sure have a lot of money as why else out of all the people impacted by violence in this city -- she is the ONLY one being treated as a martyr by politicians trying to get their hands on some of that money.
Kirk continued, "We have that Al Capone image," telling Fox that when he's traveled abroad strangers will do things like pantomime shooting a Tommy gun when he reveals where he's from. Kirk believes the gangster image "hurts our economic growth."
"My top priority is to arrest the Gangster Disciple gang, which is 18,000 people," Kirk said. "I would like to a mass pickup of them and put them all in the Thomson Correctional Facility, I will be proposing this to the assembled federal law enforcement: ATF, DEA and FBI."
In April, Kirk met with Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy to devise strategies that would curb gang violence and the illegal flow of weapons into the city.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/03/mark-kirk-chicago-gangs-s_n_3209189.html?utm_hp_ref=chicago
Yeah, Federal troops decend on Chicago and round up 18,000+ gang members on a door to door search. Put them in boxcars and send them to Homeland Security prison camps.
Okay, let's see, 18,000 gangster disciples locked up at a cost of $143/day. Has he checked in with Gov Quinn and his prison closings or with Preckwinkle on her views?
Where's the $2,574,000 per day going to come from when Illinois and Chicago are both broke? Is there even space in the prison for them all?
Anyways, as fast as they are locked up the illegal immigrant drug cartels will move in and be given sactuary to replace them AND THAT'S JUST ONE MORE TOOL THAT POLITICIANS CAN USE to extract more protection money from the middle class taxpayers.
Yes, protestion money. Like the mob.
We lock up all 18,000 of them economic growth as measured by GDP will be soaring though, right?
$2.574 million additional dollars a day taken from disposable income, savings, pensions, retirement to be spent on prisons!
The city will have to give up the equiv of a Maggie Daley park ever single month they are held. Rahm will most likely find that unacceptable.
Yep prisons are a service and the money spent on them is counted on GDP I think so... the economy will be soaring. Look at the growth the politicians will proclaim.
No, don't look at the DOJ running guns to the drug cartels. Don't look at DHS and illegal immigrants that are bringing the contraband into the city that provides the funding for the criminal activity. Nope, treat the sympton and use it as a tool to get cash flowing into your scope of power and influence. That's how this game is being played.
All the spin of an E-6 tornado
Declare the gangs suspected terrorist and send in the drones to do missile strikes in Washington Park and Englewood. Pretty much the road we're on why sugar coat it.
Sue his ass!
Maldonado, ignorant and uneducated people play the RACE CARD. Also people that are guilty. Are you a PINNOCCHIO or just can't tell the differece in race? Please don,t embrasse US.
The kicker is, if the guy had taken the ticket and paid it, he would have gained some respect.
Instead, he shows himself to be a whiny adolescent.
If he would have taken the ticket, got it non suited or fixed in court, no one would know Its all about being above the law
Maldonad was intimidated by a "white" police officer? Maybe we should put 4 or 5 cops in every car: a black one, white one, yellow one, brown one, and a mix of all 4 so only the 'correct' officer writes his own kind?
Time for a Beer Summit................
to the opfficer who wrote the ticket i m 100 percent behind you. hey a hole maldonado you racist piece of sh-t there is no such thing as a petty traffic violation especially in the hood. as a po who did several tours of duty in the ghetto im now in 16 try that crap with me and i will write in a heartbeat.
ps i dont live in your garbich ward.
For those of you with short memories, Meeks traffic stop was the cause of this, as in his role as state legislator, he pushed for cameras after the stop. Oh, and the TSSS is his creation as well.
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That was Obama's sole contribution to Illinois law.
To "whiny ass pussy"
Read Rule #2 in the right hand column. Asshat
The only published accounts are coming from Maldonado. I do not believe one word he says. Slow down readers.
No it's real, not satire from the Onion.com
Lawmaker asking for mercy for former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., because he was the "highlight of our karaoke nights."
How's that for making a mockery out of the justice system!
Should of went with Kirk and use the hadiya pendleton shooting.
He's a chump. Most cop's in 014 avoid the 1700 block of N. Troy because this asswipe lives there and expects us to kiss his ass everytime something happens, no matter how minor! Fuck him..Typical douchbag politician living in the nicest, newest house on the shittiest block! Big two story brick house on a triple city lot. Probably pays the lowest property tax assessment on the whole block!
Kind of like when that other piece-of-shit Luis Gutierrez lived in Bucktown and had his house assessed as vacant lot. Only paid up after the Sun-Times busted his criminal ass!
Didn't Maldonado learn anything from Dr Martin Luther King Jr not to judge people by the color of their skin????????????
I'm just waiting to hear Nobama say - "and the officer acted...stupidly...."
You don't like your ticket, contest it in court.
Otherwise, do what civilized people do and STFU.
--No Cop Here
This Alderman is looking like a cry baby race baiting fool in the paper today. What a joke. He is basically saying Fuck the police. He basically is saying I am a alderman and I am above the law. Why is he so much more important then someone else getting pulled over? If you commit a traffic violation it is what it is. This Maldonado is a straight up prick who feels he is entitled. It is a slap in the face to all officers. In the end he got no ticket so let it go Mr Alderman. No need to get a CR number. What a baby.
Im guessing the alderman had to change lanes to pass the turning vehicle. You can not change lanes within a certain distance of an intersection and did he signal his intended lane change?
I am curious since you seem to know the law so well, just how many feet from an intersection are you forbidden from changing lanes?? or are you just pulling stuff out of thin air... hope your not confusing with distance from intersection for u-turns.
I am sick of off duty coppers, deputies and politicians driving around like jag bags. Sorry to say it but I must...
to the hispanic officer who returned the ticket: pussy ass bitch letting your dick hide in your sack over some bullshit title. you supported him to act out like a bitch next time he gets stopped.
To the white officer: thank you officer for doing your job, sorry but I don't think the idiot will have much better of an attitude next time he gets stopped. You represented most of us officers who have pride and respect for the job.
To that commander: what did you send the sgt there for? Why are you so intimidated by the aldercrook? Officers did their job and from all the facts gethered so far the only claim aldercrook has is that the officer was white. So being white is racist? Tell us if you don't want us to make stops, not a problem, some of us are so smart we stopped many years ago. Hope you are showing support to the white cop, not the scared one with the shakes.
Courtesy is NOT a right.
I've wrote deputies, lock up aids and lawyers. Act out? Get a ticket!
As far as us doing "real police work"...
Macdonaldomez you jag bag we don't have pdt's, cars, computers, paper, locker, training, days off, contract and support of your illegal immigrant infested community. We can't do police work, ass holes like you spent it on programs which do not support those of us who actually paid taxes. Shove that ticket right up your ass.
Been there and seen that with MALDONANDO. He tried the race card with another officer once, and the rest of the conversation took place in Spanish. He became frustrated with that, that he gave the officer the finger and drove away. The officer just laughed at him. He's a buffoon, and forgets that no one cares who he is.
What a joke, all the idiots backing the alderman on this blog.
the city council should publicly reprimand this douche during a city council meeting.
if they punish these officers, we should heed his message and not write any tickets. Fine by me. But wait, guys need it for VRI and will sell there soul for it.
Don't pick on the poor alderman! He, a grown-ass man, was intimidated by the big, bad, white police officer! He was scared! A grown-ass man! Look in the mirror you asshole, you are an adult, not a five year-old!
Why is the alderman worried about a trivial thing like a ticket when he's got so many bigger issues to worry about? Asshat.
Report him to the Legislative Inspector General who investigates aldermen. 312-744-2312. Leave a message and they will call you back. It's like getting a CR on him.
To 016 comparing odpo to aldermen..gfys..come visit me in 011 anytime tough guy.. days im sure ill spot your ass by your pressed uniform and up tight ass..
Maldonado is as bad an alderman as he is a driver. Can it be possible he did not know the Spanish cobras had an illegal social club across the street from his office? If he didn't know are we to believe no one complained to him? Didn't he think of the probability of a gang shooting occurring after the social club lets out? Maybe he is part of the "no snitching" culture, unless it's to complain about the police. Anyway you cut he is a disgrace.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Where was "Tazer, Tazer Tazer" when he started to act up?
5/07/2013 06:46:00 AM
Holstered, holstered, holstered, where it belonged.
Maldonado is as bad an alderman as he is a driver. Can it be possible he did not know the Spanish cobras had an illegal social club across the street from his office? If he didn't know are we to believe no one complained to him? Didn't he think of the probability of a gang shooting occurring after the social club lets out? Maybe he is part of the "no snitching" culture, unless it's to complain about the police. Anyway you cut he is a disgrace.
5/07/2013 09:56:00 PM
He's lying. Residents complained to him and the police on a regular basis. I know as I am one of them.
Just to clear things up. The two cars in front of the alderman did NOT turn left. They continued westbound. The alderman accelerated around BOTH vehicles and nearly struck a parked car.
Some people here are actually believing parts of the alderman's story. That's just sad.
I think it's funny that the alderman was upset for getting pulled over for a "petty offense". This is the same man who called the 014 Commander last year to report a cement truck in the alley. The cement truck was pouring concrete. The DC ordered the Officer to ticket the driver.
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