Moron of the Month
- A Texas man facing a felony gun charge after he allegedly threatened to kill off-duty Chicago police officers in a Bridgeport bar was ordered held on $25,000 bail Wednesday.
The Englewood District officers were attending an event at Fat Fish Bar and Grill, at 234 W. 31st St., Tuesday when the confrontation with 29-year-old Johnathan Barnes took place, Cook County prosecutors said.
Barnes, of Houston, Texas, was at the bar intoxicated when he got into an argument with the officers and was told to leave, prosecutors said. When Barnes tried to re-enter the bar, he was confronted by a police sergeant who blocked his way.
Barnes then threatened to “shoot the sergeant and to kill everyone else in the bar” while putting his hand to his pocket, prosecutors said. The sergeant grabbed Barnes’ arm and found a 9 mm handgun in Barnes’ pocket, which was later determined to have been reported stolen in Houston, prosecutors said.
Good thing he got caught in Cook County. He might have faced real prison time in Texas.
Labels: crime
posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
57 Comments:
Thank God nothing happened. This City is totally fucked up.
Keep your eyes open - at ALL times.
Is Fathead Ed gonna strip the officer for pulling the perpetrator's gun and send him to call back?
Oh, if only he was in DuPage County.
I think a gun in a bar in Texas is 10 years mandatory
Transportation across state lines?? Is that still a thing?
...In Texas they would've
justifiably lit his ass on fire.
Don't mess...
"Good thing he got caught in Cook County. He might have faced real prison time in Texas."
If he lived.
He'll he working for Prickwinkle's campaign by next week
Oh, the Texas guy is the moron.
I thought you were referring to whoever set that stupid-low bail.
When your dumb your dumb it doesn't change from day to day or city to city.
Didn’t I see this in a movie some time ago? Or was I holding up the bar at Mike’s one morning?
A good friend of mine, who lives life as I do, moved to Texas with the hopes of finding a real cowboy. Six months later he was back. He said that Texas was full of ten gallon hats and two ounce brains.
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
I’m guessing the good sergeant was not promoted by “merit.”
Alert and took proper action.
Good job.
By the time you read this post - dude has already bailed out of jail. You didn’t really think there were going to be any consequences to this moron’s actions in Cook County, did you? He “only” threatened the police. We’re not like real
The assistant public-defender also said Barnes denied he was convicted of a crime in Louisiana.
If Barnes posts bond, he isn’t allowed to leave Illinois, Judge David Navarro ordered.
Post bond?????
Now he knows who the victims and witnesses are. The city will probably let him FOIA their info. Good God.
I think a gun in a bar in Texas is [...] mandatory.
There, fixed it for ya!
Great job, Sgt
once ate a bad clam there many summers ago when it was patsys winery.
i haven't had one of those slimy little motherfuckers since.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Oh, if only he was in DuPage County.
1/31/2019 12:21:00 AM
Not for long my friend. Remember, Kwame is AG of the entire state of Illinois and has vowed to reform the justice system in the state. (Read Cook County "reform") DuPage might as well start closing their courtrooms.
$25,000 bail?
Is this for real? Not $250,000?
First this and now the Empire thing, they must have heard how easy ShitCago is on crime!
But lets see it was only in his pocket so , he doesn't have to ....ahh never mind . Hopefully there was and ample application of attitude adjustment
Oh, look...another one of Obama's sons. Surprised thry even showed the picture.
@12:12 am.......Nice try trying to sound so Copperish....ya see Dude, we DON'T say Perpetrator around here, and DON'T say perps either.....
I guess he didn't realize his Texas concealed carry permit doesn't have reciprocity in Illinois.
ITEM TO NOTE
Illinois has no reciprocity with any state on its concealed carry permit.
We learned that when the Indiana pulled his pistol in Mount Greenwood during the funeral procession.
/sarcasm off
And you wonder why he came to Chicago with a stolen gun? Seeking sanctuary? ;)
I'm glad police are ok and great quck thinking. Dumb doesn't begin to describe the stupidity of this guy.
Good moves on the part of that sergeant!
cook county will return that stolen weapon to it's rightful owner BY GOLLY. We'll show him!!!!
Kimm Fox Peckerwinkle gonna let him go. Wait and see. Driving while black? How about carrying while black in Kim & Toni's Crook County?
You can't cure stupid!
Restorative Cook Co doesn’t do extradition for no Red State for no stolt firearms.
I-Bonded already, so it’s adios chupadoros.
Commurnity artivists SpecialEd, cousin KrazyKabriniKmmmm and el’COPA are reviewing the incident on behalf of the armed feral assailant for the civil suit.
Stay Fetal
And the sgt will take 10days for being in a bar. More questions than answers. 19p. Patronize not city business.
Nice work Sarge!
Texas law for licensed or unlicensed gun in a bar is 10 years maximum and fine of up to $10,000
10k bond ? No wonder these idiots keep on getting arrested. Catch and release. Judges are just as dumb.
Did he shoot out any streetlights like the other drunk, McCarthy ? Maybe this guy can still run for Mayor too.
Did he get to make his 2 phone calls within one hour 🤔
$25,000 bail for carrying then reaching for a stolen handgun while threatening to kill everyone in a bar. Anywhere else he would have been shot by an off duty officer not crook county. It’s open season on police officers when criminals are given low to no bonds and police are being scrutinized for using deadly force on armed offenders.
Did the off duty give him a receipt?
ok serious question (from a legal cc citizen) here for LE types : if someone standing close to you verbally threatens to kill either you and/or other people nearby , puts his hand in his pocket (but without displaying a weapon) , are you at that point , justified legally to shoot ? Thanx in advance for any responses & feedback.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
I think a gun in a bar in Texas is 10 years mandatory
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I think a gun in a bar in Texas is mandatory and socially accepted and required
"a Bridgeport bar"??? Typical media incompetence.
The bar is two blocks east of the Illinois Central raised track line, which marks the border between Bridgeport (on the west side) and Armour Square (on the east side). Bridgeport used to be all-white - is now white, Latino, and Chinese (spilling over from Chinatown), less than 3% black. Armour Square is mostly Chinese (Chinatown being the north half), but the south half (south of the Stevenson) has been about half black for decades.
Any competent Chicago beat reporter would know that.
Just A Civilian (who knows how much things can change in two blocks)
Anonymous Peter Steele said...
ok serious question (from a legal cc citizen) here for LE types : if someone standing close to you verbally threatens to kill either you and/or other people nearby , puts his hand in his pocket (but without displaying a weapon) , are you at that point , justified legally to shoot ? Thanx in advance for any responses & feedback.
1/31/2019 04:11:00 PM
So many variables come into play that any answer you get based on those facts alone would be useless.
Six months later he was back. He said that Texas was full of ten gallon hats and two ounce brains.
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
1/31/2019 06:57:00 AM
6 months recovery + not a peep about your common interest = someone is holding out on you.
Watch that one.
Watch that one real close.
.. .are you at that point , justified legally to shoot ? Thanx in advance for any responses & feedback.
1/31/2019 04:11:00 PM
A twinkie who is hinkie
Should restrict to just a binky
Given lack of sack
To choose to whack
Or not.
Based upon asking a fucking question like your's and describing it as being a serious one.
Bye bye.
This poor man sports a full beard to protect him from
the Chicago cold, but for some reason his hair is all
in strings like frozen ropes.
Previous claims to fame include drug charges in Texas
and Louisiana, so I would say he is an Interstate traveling
bad man.
Anonymous Peter Steele said...
ok serious question (from a legal cc citizen) here for LE types : if someone standing close to you verbally threatens to kill either you and/or other people nearby , puts his hand in his pocket (but without displaying a weapon) , are you at that point , justified legally to shoot ? Thanx in advance for any responses & feedback.
1/31/2019 04:11:00 PM
Please send your permit back and sell your handgun.
OT. Please SCC please revive this story about Kyle Preckwinkle arrest after beating a homeless man.
The Judge tosses the case of the Man whose Mom signs his pay check.
minorities are behind bars. But then this happens:
The son of Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle is facing a misdemeanor battery charge for allegedly kicking a man and “punching him in the face several times,” court records show.
The board president was in a South Side courtroom Monday morning when her son Kyle Preckwinkle, in his early 30s, appeared before Judge Tommy Brewer in the municipal court’s Branch 34 at 51st and Wentworth, sources said.
Neither mother nor son spoke during the brief hearing.
What kind of child are you raising there Toni?
And of course, the lawyer had this to say:
Victor P. Henderson, a lawyer whose downtown firm, Henderson Adam LLC, is representing Kyle Preckwinkle, scolded a reporter for writing about the case, explaining it had nothing to do with Toni Preckwinkle, and said the paper shouldn’t be taking aim at her son, a private citizen.
“It’s a private family matter, it doesn’t involve the president, it doesn’t involve the president in her official duties — it is a private family matter.”
Right Toni. Mums the word. We won't tell a soul.
An old article on Kyle Preckwinkle arrest that other news outlets refused to cover
https://gizmanews.blogspot.com/2016/04/kyle-preckwinkle-son-of-cook-county.html?m=1
Peter Steele said...
ok serious question (from a legal cc citizen) here for LE types : if someone standing close to you verbally threatens to kill either you and/or other people nearby , puts his hand in his pocket (but without displaying a weapon) , are you at that point , justified legally to shoot ? Thanx in advance for any responses & feedback.
1/31/2019 04:11:00 PM
No Peter . . . you can't shoot someone because they "said" something to make you feel unsafe.
Peter Steele said...
ok serious question (from a legal cc citizen) here for LE types : if someone standing close to you verbally threatens to kill either you and/or other people nearby , puts his hand in his pocket (but without displaying a weapon) , are you at that point , justified legally to shoot ? Thanx in advance for any responses & feedback.
1/31/2019 04:11:00 PM
The law as enacted by the legislators of the state, says that the "victim's" state of mind is what counts. If you, the "victim" actually believe that this person is capable of making good on his threat to kill you or others, then your actions are justified. BUT, today, in Cook County, with Kim Fox as the State's Attorney, someone who selectively decides how to interpret Illinois Criminal Law statutes, I would wait until I actually see a gun coming out before I smoked him. If you have a concealed carry and you display your self-protection weapon, thus intimidating him into leaving, I believe that you could easily justify your actions by telling the police (who inevitably will be called by some SJW) exactly why you felt threatened and felt the need to prepare for a deadly encounter.
Retired Detective!
Anonymous Peter Steele said...
ok serious question (from a legal cc citizen) here for LE types : if someone standing close to you verbally threatens to kill either you and/or other people nearby , puts his hand in his pocket (but without displaying a weapon) , are you at that point , justified legally to shoot ? Thanx in advance for any responses & feedback.
1/31/2019 04:11:00 PM
You better have a witness or witnesses to the threat and be able to demonstrate that you were in fear of your life. Another aspect to what you described, what led up to the Assault, for this person(s) to suddenly make death threats. Their going to ask if you attempted to defuse the altercation, verbally or attempt to take leave of the area. Personally, I would draw my weapon (keeping at my side) and attempt to back away from this individual. I investigated one shooting involving an offender who did not have a gun. He said he had a gun and attempted to rob someone who really had a gun. There were witnesses to the Strong Armed Robbery and the shooting was justified.
Based upon asking a fucking question like your's and describing it as being a serious one.
So I'm curious as to why you call my question "non-serious" ? If you couldn't give me at least a respectable answer then why even respond ? btw whatever that ridiculous poem or limerick was supposed to be , well, idk what to say to that except hey man get back on your meds please asap.
You better have a witness or witnesses to the threat and be able to demonstrate that you were in fear of your life. Another aspect to what you described, what led up to the Assault, for this person(s) to suddenly make death threats. Their going to ask if you attempted to defuse the altercation, verbally or attempt to take leave of the area. Personally, I would draw my weapon (keeping at my side) and attempt to back away from this individual. I investigated one shooting involving an offender who did not have a gun. He said he had a gun and attempted to rob someone who really had a gun. There were witnesses to the Strong Armed Robbery and the shooting was justified
hey sir thanx for the comprehensive response ! yes i admit that in my original post i should've added a few more hypothetical details... to expand my original question, let's say no witnesses or video/audio of the incident, and also let's say there's no room for me to easily retreat or flee...and i'd also add that before simply drawing & firing that i'd probably draw first & at least give the (potential) offender a chance to back off. Trust me, absolutely last thing i want to happen(besides him shooting me) is me having to fire. I am well aware of the potential implications (legal/monetary etc) of lethal self-defense esp in Crook.
Please send your permit back and sell your handgun.
Thanx for the intelligent response dips*^t !!
Good job Sarge.
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