CWB Saturday

A whole slew of articles of interest over on the CWB website this past week:

Learn how to handle your gun in a moving vehicle:

• Detectives are questioning a woman after a man was shot while handling a gun with her in Lakeview on Wednesday morning.

  Cops responded to the 2900 block of North Pine Grove shortly after 3 a.m. when the woman called 911 to report that her boyfriend had been shot in the head. Officers found the 25-year-old man inside a Nissan Altima, critically injured, according to CPD.

  The woman, 23, told police that she and the man were passing a gun when it “went off.” Officers recovered a firearm at the scene.

The lesson here is "Don't." Ironically, the guy who got shot is the CCL holder.

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Another great job by Crimesha's office:

• It is one of the most shocking and consequential shootings Chicago has seen in recent years: A 16-year-old boy was shot dead steps from The Bean in Millennium Park during a large gathering of teens in May 2022. And it was caught on video.

  The death of Seandell Holliday prompted Mayor Lori Lightfoot to largely ban unattended minors from the crown jewel of Chicago’s parks, which she encircled with security fences and metal detector-equipped admission gates. Many of those restrictions continue to this day.

  Marion Richardson was 17 on that fateful spring evening, but prosecutors charged him as an adult with two counts of second-degree murder and aggravated battery by discharging a firearm.

  This month, a judge found him not guilty of those charges, saying prosecutors fell short of proving their case, although she did convict him of felony firearms violations.

Judge Carol Howard used every single avenue that Crimesha's people left open to justify letting this scumbag skate on a murder charge. He's on video with the gun, dropping the gun, picking it up again, and being arrested with it, but that doesn't prove he shot anyone. Wasn't there ballistics evidence? GSR tests? If not, why were charges even filed for the murder? That's gone now.

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Chase authorized?

• Two boys, one only 12 years old, are charged with carjacking a woman at gunpoint in the South Shore neighborhood after Chicago police supervisors permitted cops to engage the hijackers in a vehicle pursuit on Tuesday evening.

  Around 5 p.m., two carjackers wearing ski masks and displaying guns confronted a 50-year-old woman in the 8300 block of South Kingston, officials said. They took control of her 2017 Kia Sportage and drove away. Chicago cops found the vehicle about two hours later near 83rd Street and Mackinaw Avenue. The officers set up surveillance and sprung a trap when the two hijackers returned to the car and drove away.

  With a supervisor’s permission, the cops launched a vehicle pursuit, chasing the Kia, which had a flat tire, for several minutes. Both hijackers bolted from the car near 8600 South Escabana. Officers arrested the 12-year-old and a 15-year-old after foot chases. The cops also recovered two handguns.

Nice to see someone taking the risk to chase actual violent criminals despite the inherent risks....like the ones in the story directly below:

• COPA, the agency charged with investigating shootings and major accidents involving Chicago police officers, has released videos and other records from a car crash that left a man dead and two others injured as cops were following a suspect vehicle last month in McKinley Park.

  Early on October 1, CPD patrol officers focusing on a robbery pattern in the 5500 block of South Pulaski saw two people they believed to be armed get into a black Lexus sedan, according to the police department.

  COPA said the vehicle fled when officers tried to investigate, and the police followed the Lexus. At 35th Street and Ashland, the speeding Lexus ran a red light and struck a vehicle that was making a turn in the intersection.

This is going to be one of those "following, not chasing" ones, with no one arriving on scene with lights or sirens and crooked COPA pulling out all the stops (buffered video, non-Department recordings, GPS data) to hang everyone out to dry. 

Unfortunately, society, the Department and the political administration has decided that letting criminals get away with impunity is better publicity than actually apprehending mini-Capone's and making them face consequences for their demonized behavior.