Chickens Come Home to Roost

Jon PP Heiniken is still being kept out of the public eye:

• When Chicago’s top cop spoke to the media after a Border Patrol agent shot a woman last month on the city’s Southwest Side, he addressed a growing political firestorm over the department’s role in the incident.

  Supt. Larry Snelling’s right-hand man, Patrol Chief Jon Hein, was facing a flood of criticism — from ex-cops, internet trolls and members of his own department — after radio transmissions showed his officers were ordered not to respond to the Oct. 4 shooting scene, as an angry crowd gathered to protest and confront federal law enforcement.

  Snelling defended Hein, saying reports that Chicago police were told to stand down were “absolutely not true.” Dozens of complaints were filed against Hein over his response to the incident, but all but one has been closed out.

That "one complaint" is being held open for two reasons:

• so COPA/Conehead/IAD/Larritorious can continue to hide any CPD video of a shooting that was likely 100% justified (shades of LaQuan), and
• because the dispatch audio, OEMC notes and the radio transmissions by CPD supervisors sustain the charge, therefore Hein is guilty....and we can't have that after Larritorious' gallant defense.

Whatever. It's all political at this point. The important thing is that the bars in Edison Park are experiencing a noticeable downturn in their bottom lines and that has an impact on tax revenues.

What we meant by the headline up top is this paragraph in the Slum Times "report":

• The afternoon became emblematic of the federal response to demonstrators and neighborhood residents shouting, blowing whistles and at times throwing objects in protest.

Throwing objects isn't and has never been a legitimate form of protest. Ever. Not in Illinois and not in any country we know of. Yelling, waving signs, making noise, blocking streets (within certain parameters), even property damage (again, within recognized limits) are - for better or worse - recognized as protesting actions.

Battery and Aggravated Battery are not. 

But....years and years of CPD being ordered to stand down, retreat, surrender control of the streets and pretty much become punching bags to those claiming "we're protesting!" have led us to this - where the media "reports" that committing battery is now "protesting." 

We saw it across the board in 2020. We see it regularly on the west coast with pantifa and transtifa. We saw it at the Columbus statue. And we see it at every ICE deployment. 

And Hein's order is the culmination of the dumbass "duty to retreat" bullshit. Hopefully, he pays a professional price for his stupidity.