Juvie Court ASA Resigns

Here's someone who's running for office....or has another job all lined up:

• A prosecutor with the Cook County state’s attorney’s juvenile division resigned last week because she says she was demoted and suspended without pay for dropping charges in a politically sensitive and flawed case. The case, which involved a downtown “wilding,” garnered negative media attention.
  
  The term “wilding” entered Chicago’s lexicon in recent years to generally describe groups of youths who harass, rob and terrorize people in the Loop and on the Magnificent Mile, two of the city’s biggest tourism draws.
  
  Sonia Antolec, 30, told the Chicago Sun-Times that one such case ended up on her desk in early April. She said police paperwork indicated that a woman who had been mugged while riding a CTA Red Line train with her mother near Lake Street had been able to identify the girls who attacked her shortly after the incident. Antolec approved charges against the girls, all minors.
  
  But the case fell apart when Antolec interviewed the victims, who told her something surprising that was not indicated in police reports about how the muggers were identified.
  
  Police had lined the girls up against a wall with their backs facing the victims. “The victims were asked to identify them from behind,” Antolec recalled.
  

Of course, none of this came out during the actual investigation by detectives. Only after she started prepping the victims/witnesses did any shadow of a doubt come into play.

Sorry, but we aren't buying it.

It certainly seems she got dinged for not following proper procedures. And the video has her blaming ::gasp!!:: the police, the detectives and trotting out the tired old meme that "...8 young black children were mistakenly arrested..." as if police cruise the Mag Mile looking for black people to arrest.  Blaming the "racist police" is an old liberal technique used and perfected by Jackson and his ilk to absolve the arrested criminals from actually having to face the consequences of their actions.

She claims she resigned because she got punished for dong the right thing. The question now becomes "which right thing?" Cook County States Attorney Anita Alvarez's "right thing" is keeping the Machine in power and the voting blocs happy.  And Cook County Board President Peckwinkle's "right thing" is keeping minorities out of jail at all costs, regardless of their guilt or actions.

We're betting she lands another County job shortly.