Reality Bites Hard

CWB again, doing the real reporting in Chicago:

• Chris Murphy arrived at his new home in the 1200 block of West Diversey on the evening of May 13 and encountered a woman standing in front of his door.

  “She stopped me and asked me to call her sister,” Murphy said yesterday. He obliged but didn’t get an answer. As it turned out, Murphy says, the number he called was not to the woman’s sister. It was to Kaabar Venson, a freshly-paroled violent offender who prosecutors say was inside Murphy’s home, hog-tying his roommate.”

  Unaware that he had been duped, Murphy went inside.

What followed is any victim's nightmare:

• “The first thing I noticed was my door was wide open and the light was on…. When I turned my head, there was a man in a mask pointing a revolver at me,” said Murphy, 30. “Suddenly, my whole world was flipped upside down and every decision I made was life or death. He told me not to f***ing move, not to say a f***ing word. He slowly walked over to me with gun in hand and pressed the tip of the revolver against my forehead. It was very cold.”

  As bad as things were, they were about to get much worse. Venson forced him into his roommate’s bedroom, according to Murphy. “I saw he was hogtied on the ground, but alive at least,” he said. The gunman ordered Murphy to the floor, took his wallet, and demanded his PINs.

  “Then he told me to put my arms behind my back,” Murphy continued. “With my face buried in the carpet, all I could hear was a tearing sound. Apparently, he was ripping up lengths of sheet to tie my hands, then my ankles, then tie my hands and ankles to each other.”

  “I remember several vivid instances I was sure I was going to die,” Murphy confided.

Then the real terror began:

• Responding officers found 33-year-old Irene Jackson sitting on Murphy’s front porch, according to a CPD report. Murphy identified her as an accomplice in the home invasion. But prosecutors rejected felony charges against her, the police report said. Instead, she’s charged with misdemeanor theft for allegedly possessing pieces of mail and ID cards that did not belong to her, including a man’s Kentucky identification.

Eyewitness identification, and Crimesha goes for the under-charge again:

• Cops, working in conjunction with the police district’s surveillance camera center, located Venson at the Diversey Brown Line station a few minutes later.

  “The whole ordeal was absolutely surreal. We lived in a safe neighborhood,” said Murphy.

Correct! You "lived" in a safe neighborhood (past tense). The cops did their jobs, apprehended both offenders, and the system kicked you in the teeth. But the kicking wasn't done yet:

• Venson was released from the Pontiac Correctional Center ten days earlier after serving half of a 15-year sentence he received for burglarizing a Lakeview residence in 2016, according to Illinois Department of Corrections records. He returned to the Stateville Correctional Center on Tuesday after officials revoked his parole.

  “I was disgusted to learn the man was out of prison on good behavior and terrorizing us in our home,” said Murphy. “I just want to know how the parole board could let a man so clearly not rehabilitated in any way back on the street.”

Out ten days after serving 50% of his fifteen years sentence - we're guessing he didn't learn much in prison after his previous triple felony conviction.

So now the questions are:

• Who did he vote for in 2020? 2022?
  
• Who will he vote for in 2024?

You can see right now that democrat Crimesha (Cook County) and democrat Pritzker (appointer of Parole Board) and democrat Conehead (mayor of chronically understaffed CPD) have failed this guy in particular and Lakeview as a whole. 

But they're brainwashed to continue their voting patterns.