Gee, What Happened?
- Trespassing charges against nine members of the Chicago Teachers Union arrested for holding a sit-in outside the offices of a mega-developer during last month’s teachers strike were dropped Wednesday. The nine CTU members were summarily dismissed and wished a “Happy Thanksgiving” by Cook County Judge Robert D. Kuzas after their complaining party did not appear before the court.
The CTU members were arrested on Oct. 29 after staging a sit-in protest at Fulton West, an office building in the 1300 block of West Fulton Street, which is the headquarters of Lincoln Yards developer Sterling Bay. The CTU targeted Sterling Bay to show what they believe is the city’s misplaced funding priorities, since Lincoln Yards stands to receive as much as $1.3 billion in tax-increment financing to help pay for infrastructure improvements at the planned new development on the North Side.
All nine teachers were charged with a single count of misdemeanor criminal trespass to property.
They did trespass - they admitted to such and it's on video everywhere. They did it purposefully as an act of Civil Disobedience. Whatever, there should be minimal consequences for misbehavior.
But Sterling Bay, after receiving $1.3 billion in TIF money....well, that's a pretty big stick for Groot to hold over their heads if they actually went ahead with a slam-dunk guilty finding on the teachers.
So everyone just wasted the time and efforts of how many officers, arresting, transporting, processing, etc. What a great use of resources.
UPDATE: The teachers were arrested on signed complaints from Sterling Bay - "Court Sergeant to Handle."
But Sterling Bay, after receiving $1.3 billion in TIF money....well, that's a pretty big stick for Groot to hold over their heads if they actually went ahead with a slam-dunk guilty finding on the teachers.
So everyone just wasted the time and efforts of how many officers, arresting, transporting, processing, etc. What a great use of resources.
UPDATE: The teachers were arrested on signed complaints from Sterling Bay - "Court Sergeant to Handle."
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posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
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Talk about a scumbag, Kuzas epitomized the word scheister when he was an attorney, I can only imagine how he works as a judge
Not a waste. VRI arrests.
Since all this time and effort was involved and the complaint did not show up, the State’s Attorney Office should have subpoenaed the complaint into court to explain why they signed a complaint initially and the reason for their non appearance. So will the police be sued for false arrest? Don’t trust the socialist teacher’s union. They should have honored the police request to disperse. They both work for the same City.
Ain't this but about a bitch...
The teachers get to exercise the same
"Permission Slip Criminality"
just like so many of their students?
Ohhhhh... Just tingles all around, eh?
That giddy yet naughty/guilty "Damn! I got away with it!" feeling.
Heh... That first time feeling writing "Fuck You!"
in large block letters with magic marker
on the school washroom wall.
SCC asks:
"Gee, What Happened?"
This city has gone stark raving,
fling handfuls of shit at the moon and howl - mad...
That's what happened.
Officers should have written ANOVs and never invested that much effort. Shame on them for aspiring to pass standards of mediocrity against the wishes of the voting populous.
the department has those stupid forms on the web site seeking reimbursement for wasting our time... someone should fill one out and send to teachers union
LOL, thank G.d on Thanksgiving especially, that I spent money on Catholic schools, St. Denis and St. Lawrence. Seriously don't want to hear from the cpd that is married to cps, especially when you send your own kids to real schools. LOL.
There was one of these CTU assholes on WBBM radio shortly after they left the courthouse bragging on how they were vindicated and planning to go back for additional lawbreaking activities against Sterling Bay.
Emboldened by the non-appearance of a “prosecuting victim”. Further emboldened by an asshole judge who, instead of giving them a warning/lecture, ladled upon them a pleasantry.
Fuck Sterling Bay.
Double fuck the “honorable” judge Kuzas.
Triple fuck the CTU.
Hopefully they are still having nightmares if any of them muscled down some of those high quality baloney paninis in the lock up.
Kuzas?
As in Former Chicago Cop Kuzas?
Yup...the CTU communists showed up to Branch 43 at the 1pm call, half of them in their red r-shirts. The clerk called tor the complainant and the 12th District Tac Team who locked them up (all no shows). After the charges were dropped the defendants made some snide comments about the CPD and walked out of the courtroom smiling like Jussie Smollett to give a statement to the press. What a great example to the kids they teach back in the classroom. This city and county are beyond redeemable.
It’s a shame that they were allowed to walk away. They should have been given two years probation and during the duration forced to do community service.
Judge Bob Kuzas?
The same Bob that was an 011 Diat ranger?
The same Bob that was the CPD Sgts assoc Atty?
The same Bob that became a private defense atty for west side clients?
The same Bob that’s an M/2 but was appointed that judge seat by Madigan and the same seat that belongs to the geographic boundaries in the Austin community?
Bob sure has changed...
Fuck Bob !
Same Kuzas who could not win a Police Board hearing. Until he left to become a judge.
Then all the police board hearings were won or tossed out by other attorneys.
Amazing his wife still lives up on Sheridan road but he has a apartment on west side
To keep his judges appointment.
They did an investigation but that was fixed just like the rest of this County and city crap
It's all a game. And we are just players.
Teachers and the leftist government are on the same team, that is what happened.
You can bet your bottom dollar if these were conservatives breaking the law, they would get the electric chair.
Hate to say it but a civil war is coming.
And we still dont learn.
City hall dont GOTZ your back.
Dont forget they processed those teacher very quickly that day so who is the real soft ones...
The CPS spit in the face of law and order and got away with it. Where was the tact team? Sterling bay has been empowered by ex con Lori ass kisser Walter Burnett for a long time and he needs to be investigated. The CPS knows now they can do whatever they please and they will get away with it. CPS BP staci needs a lesson in law and order as she prepares her run for mayor against Lori.
Is anybody surprised by this,I mean anybody at all.violent felons are walking through the county courts and jail like a revolving door.
Sterling Bay is unjustly enriched by that TIF aware. City Hall didn't follow letter-of-law in warding SB its TIF, didn't abide by TIF legislation, so award is/was unlawful but typical of City Hall's rewarding of connected real estate developers with TIF monies.
If you identify the SB partners, the SB investors, you'll see it's the "biggest band of bros" yet assembled of connected rich white guys. No wonder CTU targeted SB.
OK SCC this is crook county there is never a slam dunk. Nothing to see here.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
LOL, thank G.d on Thanksgiving especially, that I spent money on Catholic schools, St. Denis and St. Lawrence. Seriously don't want to hear from the cpd that is married to cps, especially when you send your own kids to real schools. LOL.
11/29/2019 02:07:00 AM
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St. “Denis” and St. “Lawrence” are “real” schools? I can tell by your incorrect spelling of both! St. Laurence is the bottom of the barrel cheap Catholic school for boys who can’t get in to better schools and are too soft to make it through a public school. Oh wait, tell me again about their “sports scholarships” - because every St. Laurence alumnus I know that was such a big sports “star” is a neighborhood burn-out sitting on a bar stool talking about what they could have been if it wasn’t for that dang injury.
Make no mistake, the CPS fiasco is a total joke. But you’re not really lending credence to your argument buddy.
She really don't like anybody but herself. Just using the
teachers as a chess piece.
Who cares? You got paid either way. Probably made your day go by faster.
Bob hasn’t changed - he was always a self-serving prick.
And why didn’t the A/Os show up?
Judge Bob Kuzas? - YES
The same Bob that was an 011 Diat ranger? - YES
The same Bob that was the CPD Sgts assoc Atty? - YES
The same Bob that became a private defense atty for west side clients? - YES
The same Bob that’s an M/2 but was appointed that judge seat by Madigan and the same seat that belongs to the geographic boundaries in the Austin community? - The boundaries of his seat might be a little East of there.
Bob sure has changed...
11/29/2019 04:13:00 AM
Not really. He was in 011 to get his ticket punched for any future political campaign. He was a bystander when it came to Police work.
Nice guy but like a lot of people passing through 011, they didn’t want to get their hands dirty.
Should have ANOV’d them with City Disorderly (193.1a to us old farts )
Hey, Lionel Hutz, If it was arrested on signed complaint, court Sgt. to handle, And the coppers showed up without a subpoena, they would be in trouble for trying to steal time, etc...
It is way past obvious that the entire oversight apparatus is now focused and concentrated on one target.
The POLICE.
They are to be blamed for everything.
Every action is critically reviewed, analyzed and scrutinized. And every effort will be extended to find mistakes and misconduct. And drop the full weight of the system on the police.
Everyone else gets a pass.
FOP, hire CTU to negotiate our contract.
CPS employes goofs like Lazerrick Franklin. He's some kind of Youth Intervention Specialist for CPS who spews White hate and makes other bizzaro comments about different types of CPS students on his Facebook page. But, yet CPS continues to employ him. smh. Scroll down quite a ways to find his post on how he hates white people at the Christkindl market and other pipe in.
https://www.facebook.com/lazerrick.franklin
It's Laurence not Lawrence... Were you CPS ?
Bob Kuzas has not changed at all.As a Police Officer and Attorney he was always one of those individuals that was as slimy as hell and that you stayed away from.Nothing has changed,low class.
Were the coppers SPARd?
What a great city!
What was the judge supposed to do if the complainant fails to show up for court?
Just what did you expect the judge to do when the victim is a no show and the ASA drops the charges.
Kuzas was a good attorney who defended his clients, like an attorney is supposed to. Both CPD clients
and the persons that CPD arrested. Also was CPD himself. Always acted professionally with honor.
I have been on the opposite side of a prosecution several times with attorney Kuzas as the defense
counsel. Again an honorable man doing his job in a professional manner. I do not know how he conducts
his courtroom but from prior contact I will assume he is above board and honest. We can't ask for
much more. To say that his actions in this case should have been different and a guilty finding should have
been rendered is just not correct. You should think about what you are saying before you publish. You
make us all sound dumb with comments like that.
Right, they should at least have a misdemeanor conviction on their records.
Kuzas did nothing wrong, the charges were dropped by the states attorney. There was no complainant.
If the complaints we're signed by somebody other than CPD, then that's who They have a beef with. CPD can't be found liable For a false arrest based on signed complaints unless it's readily obvious the complaint is false.
Arrests are badges of honor for liberal wack jobs.
Kuzas should have at the very least handed down a hefty fine to cover costs for the down time taken by the police.
Guess Kuzas paid his dues to CC Dem Party and no longer wants to sit in traffic or domestic court. And it’s not like he’s going to score any Remember Me Retain votes from the masses by pandering...he’s a limited addition jurist in these changing, restorative times.
Though this wasn’t the crime of the century, just another unhinged CPS theatrical stunt that should have coms with a cost.
Thinking of the progressive alternatives vying for the bench, I’ll still vote to retain him.
As for GrootLoafer the Reformer; spanked by Rahm Inc when she tried to pull the Sterling TIF money. Greedy and still bitter CTU/CPS feeling so emboldened and solely entitled to that city hall slush fund called TIF.
Don’t forget the CTU managed to squeeze Rahm for their 2015-16 contract to get $300 mil in TIF money.
Angry imp GrootLoafer rolled over like a pill bug too, but only doled $160 mil. to CTU, they still wants the other half even as GrootFoot maintained the giving $170mil in TIF funds for CPS for pension pickups.
Kinda related story. I remember the college kids getting arrested after the start of the 2nd Iraq war. Some arrestees were shipped to area 5. My partner and I were placed in front of area 5 for safety concerns. I remember the kids coming out “crying” saying “ they sent us to prison” “ they didn’t give us food and water! We should sue them!” This was after spending 4 hours in lock up. I’m sure the teachers had a similar experience. Watching snowflakes have a meltdown, is quite entertaining.
And people, including teachers, wonder why the public school students are out of control and WHY there are police officers assigned to the high schools. When there is no responsibility or culpability for the teachers' actions & the actions of those in their "community", it just emboldens the teenagers even more.
The vicious cycle continues...
State's Attorney's office made the call on this. No one; from complainants or arresting officers, was notified. The whole group of "teachers" we're called up to the bench at the same time,as a group. This is an indication that a deal was made. If they were called up one at a time like any other defendant then this would've gone a different way. What sucked was seeing these douche bags hugging each other and posing for the news cameras on the sidewalk in front of the court doors.
Wonder what would happen if a few off-duty POs were arrested for CTTL during an act of civil disobedience. Say during an fop protest. I’m sure they wouldn’t be let off so easy, even if the complainant didn’t appear.
Whoever signed the complaint would be the one liable for damages for false arrest, not the police. A word from the wise owl. Arrest on signed complaints only.
WTF does Sterling Bay (a developer) have to do with educating children?
WTF does social activism have to do with educating children?
No wonder CPS students read well below grade level.
The CTU will be the downfall of Chicago. They get everything they ask for or else! Lightfoot had her chance to end the CTU.
Seems like the perfect place for a large scale FOP protest sooner rather than later! Or LSD, Dan Ryan, Kennedy.....
John Catanzara 008
Lionel Hutz said...
Yup...the CTU communists showed up to Branch 43 at the 1pm call, half of them in their red r-shirts. The clerk called tor the complainant and the 12th District Tac Team who locked them up (all no shows). After the charges were dropped the defendants made some snide comments about the CPD and walked out of the courtroom smiling like Jussie Smollett to give a statement to the press. What a great example to the kids they teach back in the classroom. This city and county are beyond redeemable.
11/29/2019 03:45:00 AM
The tact team got their meaningless stat. That’s all the bosses care about
Hey Last Dumb Ass Dick from Area 6-We all understand that the Judge did his job.Those of us that have attended all the different Courts over the years know exactly what Bob KUZAS is all about and it has nothing to do with being honorable.Ask any of his clients what they thought about him.You should know facts before you publish your ball licking of him.
Make no mistake, the CPS fiasco is a total joke. But you’re not really lending credence to your argument buddy.
11/29/2019 08:41:00 AM
Neither are you, he spelled St.Denis correctly, dummy. You must have went to Dawes.
If the dumb ass teachers don't follow the law, the dumb ass hooligans they supposedly teach don't have to either! Great role models!
FYI sterling bay is a huge CPD supporter and law enforcement friendly company. Not to many of those around anymore
CTU, All dirty commies.
Without a court notification, your don't show up. No notification, no pay!!Even IF you wanted to be there to make a point, Y would U?
Kuzas has bad breath. True story
Hey Last Dumb Ass Dick from Area 6-We all understand that the Judge did his job.Those of us that have attended all the different Courts over the years know exactly what Bob KUZAS is all about and it has nothing to do with being honorable.Ask any of his clients what they thought about him.You should know facts before you publish your ball licking of him.
Ball Licking ?
I published comments concerning incidents that I have first hand knowledge of. If I did not have first hand knowledge that was
also specified quite clearly. Of course you on the other hand did an extensive poll of the attorney's clients to find out what
they thought of him. Part of your job as an arresting officer appearing in all of the different courts around the city ?
Kuzaa as a defense attorney is supposed to represent his clients even when they are dead wrong guilty. That did not make him
dishonorable. As for your polling of his clients I just have to say that I don't believe it.
I'm ashamed that Kuzas is Lithuanian.
ALL incumbent judges seeking retention should receive a NO vote - not just Kuzas.
Retired .38 spl +P
No "victim", No case
Kuzas has bad breath. True story
Stop tongue kissing him.
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