Five Felonies, High Bail (UPDATE)

It seems Special Ed has been getting calls all day from the Cook County Jail, seeing if he could do something about this high bail:

• A Cook County courtroom erupted with shouts of “black lives don’t matter” on Monday after a judge set bail at $350,000 for a well-known activist charged with striking one police officer and trying to disarm another during weekend protests.
  
  Three women were taken into custody for shouting after Ja’mal Green’s bail was set, but Green’s mother and sister were later let go. The third woman was detained after sheriff’s deputies discovered two traffic warrants outstanding.
  
  “I will not tolerate any disrespect in my courtroom,” Judge Peggy Chiampas said as two of the women, still shouting, were led into the lockup.

Unfortunately, Chiampas let them go later without the contempt citation. Guess what they just learned? No consequences - exactly what the arrested asshole learned.

• As they left the Taste of Chicago Saturday evening, an officer saw Green climb a fence and ordered him to get down.
  
  Green threatened the officer, saying he was “going to beat his ass” and stood face to face with him, swinging his arms, prosecutors said. Green was allowed to continue the protest, but later struck a police commander, George Deveraux, in the shoulder, prosecutors said, a moment captured by a Chicago Tribune photographer.
  
  Green also spit in a police officer’s face, prosecutors said.
  
  Green was allowed to continue in the protest until, on Michigan Avenue near Water Tower Place, he grabbed the duty belt of a police captain about an inch away from the officer’s service revolver, prosecutors said.
  
  A police lieutenant pulled Green’s arm away and attempted to take him into custody but Green resisted, saying, "You’re going to get it – I’m going to have your badge," prosecutors told the judge.

So Special Ed, is it true? You're going to take the lieutenant's badge and give it to Ja'mal? After all, you told Ja'mal you were going to strip that other officer and remove him from the street for defending his partner's life before anyone else knew it was going to happen. Maybe you're going to hold the other officer down so Ja'mal can "beat his ass" since it's obvious you don't have officers' backs.

Do you see what you created dumbass? Do you even understand the first rule about raising a child? If you reward bad behavior, you get more of it. By removing this asshole from the justice system last time, you created a monster, a jagoff who thinks he's untouchable. He's spitting in officer's faces for god's sake. Now he's claiming he's going to beat up officers, have their badges and grabbing at guns.

He's trying to get clocked, hoping for a big payout. In fact, he's probably trying to get shot, grabbing at coppers' guns. And in the event it actually happens, we don't have any doubts about what your actions are going to be. Not a single doubt.

UPDATE: Word from some County guys - Green is currently being housed in Cermak Hospital, the medical facility on the grounds of the jail. He's in isolation because, you know, jail is dangerous. No word if he's faking an illness or just a giant wuss who only attacks cops from a crowd while his victims are constrained by rules.