Who was the Winner?
A man who freely admitted that he shot and killed another man in Rogers Park has been sentenced to four years in prison for illegally possessing the firearm he used in the shooting.
Prosecutors never charged Kamari Robinson, 26, with killing 30-year-old Kenneth Sandy because they believed he acted in self-defense. But they did charge the three-time convicted felon with illegally possessing a firearm.
Around 2 p.m. on November 16, 2023, Sandy and Robinson got into an argument in the 1600 block of West Howard, steps from the Howard CTA station, officials said. The argument turned physical, and Robinson reportedly shot Sandy dead as a nearby surveillance camera recorded the incident.
When Chicago cops arrived, Robinson walked up to an officer and admitted he shot Sandy, but claimed it was in self-defense, according to his arrest report. He allegedly told officers he gave the gun to his sister after the shooting.
Sandy died less than 30 minutes later. Police said he suffered two gunshot wounds to the left side of his chest and another to his arm. An officer noted in the report that prosecutors “rejected” murder charges “due to self-defense.” Robinson is only charged with unlawful use of a weapon by a felon.
So who wins in this situation?
Society wins.
posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
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What kind of bullshit is this?
Queen Latifa has been cancelled. Reruns only. Oh the humanity.
So according to the ASA now, if you are in a physical confrontation you can use lethal force to defend yourself?
How many TRRs do we do annually for mere "physical confrontations"? Can we use lethal force too?
Yeah, right. I do wish CWB would elaborate more on what this physical confrontation was and how it escalated to a justified use of lethal force.
Hot take: you should not get credit for “time served” while on house arrest.
Your sentence should be served on the inside to act as a deterrent.
So who wins in this situation?
Going out on a limb here but the taxpayers?
Nobody wins. We ALL lose because William will be out of jail and back on our streets in 2 years or less. Free to rampage again.
Off topic but kind of related in a way , what do the HSIT teams actually do ? never see or hear them
"It's a twofer Cotton, usually you pay extra for that...."
Kim Foxx, JB Pritzker, Toni Preckwinkle, Tim Evans, Tommy Dart
The Democrats!
So it was a straight up fist fight and the 3 time felon pulls a gun out and shoots the othe man without a gun. That’s straight up pussy shit. Society lost. A 3 time felon was treated as a honest god fearing productive person. He also concealed elements of the crime by giving the gun to his sister.
Life is cheap
“Self-cleaning oven”
The new State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke is soft on crime. There is no difference between her and Kim Foxx.
Most aggravated batteries to a PO are later downgraded to misdemeanors.
Should have given player a solid.
Let the hood rats eliminate themselves.
Howard Street looks Luke 47th St.
How the Obama center going with all of its DEI contractors?
It's a win-win. I'm guessing the dead guy wasn't some sort of scholar who was about to cure cancer.
What??!! That's the magic of cinema! To make you believe a 60 year old, overweight woman can do a somersault over moving cars, kick the shit out of 300 pound muscle heads and shoot it out with 20 guys without getting hit and killing them all with one gun! Don't be a curmudgeon. It's almost as absurd as a major city hiring a 66 year old granny to run its police department. C'mon now...
I believe there’s a special order on it.
Look it up if you’re curious.
The Area Two HIST is very active and helpful in finding homicide offenders, shooting offenders, etc. They do great work!
Still using the Democrat Party Playbook. No bail, no jail just a teeny slap on the hand. One wonders if situation was just a little different, say gunman/dead guy not of the same persuasion? Asking for a friend.
Is top secret. Above your pay grade. They get paid not to be seen, like 189, 191, 193 and assorted black-site units. Shhhh.... don't mention it again.
This was the ASA's way of saying Thank you for eliminating the victim.
Win, lose or draw.
Felons have feelings too.
Society won
They go home after working 3-6 hours.
"...let God sort them out..."
Hopefully karma will come back to bite him in the ass
nope,,,, but the cps did give him a participation diploma after getting honor roll grades ,,,,, just too bad he couldn't read it
who gives a fying f-ck as long as the police are ok
Wana be fugitive apprehension.. just another duplicate of what this dept already has. You know to.take caee of the connected peeps.
They worse than tac... they all go out get 1 offender, then sit in the area the rest of their shift taking up computers to do nonsense .. which 9 out of 10 times its on OT.
Where are the Federal Charges: Felon in Possession of a Firearm ( 18 USC 922, et seq.)? Recommend referral to US Attorney's Office.
Homicide Investigative Support Team, basically the new fugitives unit. HIST teams do what detectives used to do but get PO pay.
To 08:43:11: It’s entertainment. It’s not supposed to seem real or plausible. Unlike that shit show Chicago P.D., which is supposed to be true to life but misses the mark and is hilariously bad.
OT: Rumor has it that Fr. Fleeger was a close second in papel votes...
Area 3 HIST Sgt is at the gym if you need him
Fat@ss just made Zerohedge
Off Topic:
It’s Thursday, May 8, 2025. This is The Front Page, your daily window into the world of The Free Press—and our take on the world at large. Today: How will Pakistan respond to the strikes from India? Why is former president Biden suddenly on a press tour? And is the main side effect of weight-loss drugs. . . happiness? All that and more coming up.
But first: Chicago police officers are killing themselves at an alarming rate. We wanted to know why.
Here’s our Olivia Reingold with the story behind her investigation:
I’m always looking for an excuse to report a story in Chicago, grim as the news there often is. It’s the home of my longtime boyfriend, so I often find myself typing phrases like Chicago lawsuit or Chicago protest into search bars, to see what’s brewing in the Windy City.
That’s how I stumbled across local TV coverage about Malissa Torres, a 34-year-old police officer who killed herself inside her station bathroom on April 10, 2025. The more I read, the more I realized she was far from alone.
When I started picking up the phone, my go-to Chicago sources told me off the record that the police department’s suicide problem was “staggering.”
“It’s got to have been dozens of suicides at this point,” one said.
So I went digging. The best public estimates were mysteriously vague—“two dozen” or “more than 30” since 2018. I submitted four public records requests: two to the Chicago Police Department, one to the police pension board, and one to the Office of Emergency Management & Communications. Two were denied (I’m still fighting those).
But then the pension board called me back. Out of 187 police deaths on their books over the past decade, 39 had been ruled suicides. “That’s about one out of every five deaths,” the caller pointed out.
Their list ended in 2024, so I added four more cases I had tracked through a spreadsheet I built. That brought the toll to 43.
Then it got worse.
A few days later, I opened an unexpected email from Chicago Public Safety. Inside were the names, badge numbers, ranks, and duty statuses of every officer who had died. And in black and white, the toll was even higher than anyone had admitted: Over the past decade, 53 officers had died by suicide.
This is the story of how a mental-health crisis quietly took root inside the Chicago Police Department—and how it exploded in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement. It’s a cautionary tale about what happens to officers when city officials turn against their own police force. More than that, though, it’s a story about how bad ideas embraced by political elites wind up hurting the everyday people they were supposed to help.
—Olivia Reingold
There might be no city in America that monitors its police force more than Chicago. There are at least six oversight agencies scrutinizing the department’s every move. Given all of that, perhaps it is no surprise that Chicago police are struggling with a suicide rate that was more than 60 percent higher than the national average.
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MAY 8, 2025
GOOD QUESTION: How Can You Be a Cop in a City That Hates You?
There might be no city in America that monitors its police force more than Chicago. There are at least six oversight agencies scrutinizing the department’s every move. There are even 22 civilian councils—one for each police district—tasked with moving grievances up the chain. Plus, noncitizens—“regardless of immigration status”—get to contribute their “perspectives and experiences” through a first-of-its-kind Noncitizen Advisory Council. Then there is the fact that since 2019, the department has been under a 236-page federal consent decree. That followed a lawsuit won by Black Lives Matter Chicago and other activist groups.
A lawyer who helped represent BLM Chicago told me the group has a “direct role in shaping oversight” of the police department’s reform process. The NAACP also has “intervention authority,” the lawyer said.
Given all of that, perhaps it is no surprise that Chicago police are struggling with a suicide rate that was more than 60 percent higher than the national average, according to a 2017 report from the Justice Department.
Through public records requests, The Free Press was able to uncover that 53 officers, including 12 retirees, have committed suicide in the past decade. The situation is much worse than previously thought, with past estimates putting the figure at “more than 30 police employees.” The Policemen’s Annuity and Benefit Fund of Chicago, which distributes police pensions, told me that one out of every five deaths they logged since 2015 was a suicide.
Read the whole thing.
Don’t worry in 3 years he will be out in the Jungle again & the guys friends will get justice for him. Let me get a UCR for homicide!
The consent decree made my job easier no car chases, no foot chases, no street stops.. the hardest decision is where to eat lunch & then chill. Thank you BLM for taking 99% of stress from me. Cancelled days off - hit medical..
One in five death benfits paid out by the pension board is for a suicide. This should include retired and many resigned officers.
Are they like the family liason officers?
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