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Their operation is literally the first place we go every day to see what's brewing. And it was a lot yesterday.

First up, another SAFE-T Act success story:

• The man who shot and killed the father and son operators of a family jewelry store in Little Village late last year was AWOL from two felony cases at the time of the murders, prosecutors said Tuesday. And, they said, Muhammad Thomas was also wanted in one of those cases when he allegedly shot another victim during a carjacking attempt in 2023.

  Thomas, 35, is now detained pending trial by order of Judge Rivanda Doss Beal on a host of felony charges, including two counts of first-degree murder.

Then an update on the Shots Fried at the Police earlier this week - and look! It's another parolee who should have been behind bars!

• A man who got a sweetheart plea deal for a serious gun case in December is accused of trying to kill four Chicago police officers Monday morning in the Gresham neighborhood.

  Sedrick Griffin, 31, is scheduled to appear at a detention hearing Monday afternoon at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse, where prosecutors will detail the allegations against him. Court records show he is on parole after serving less than a year in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm.

And finally, another effort by politicians to hide how badly Illinois is being run by "reclassifying" criminal acts:

• Some Illinois lawmakers want to rebrand fentanyl deaths as “poisoning” instead of “overdose,” but coroners say the change would force them to lie on death certificates.

  Senate Bill 3014 would direct coroners and medical examiners to classify deaths involving fentanyl as “poisoning” instead of “overdose.” Under the bill, each fentanyl-related death would have to be reported separately to the Illinois Department of Public Health, and the department would be required to publish these fatalities distinctly in its monthly overdose reports, rather than grouping them with other drug overdoses.

  The bill’s sponsor Sen. Sue Rezin (R-Morris), says the change is intended to reduce stigma and give families a more accurate way to describe the deaths of loved ones who unknowingly ingested fentanyl-laced substances.

  “Too many angel families feel forced into silence because of the stigma surrounding… ‘overdose death,’” Rezin said. “This bill helps to elevate the conversation…and give families some peace in properly describing what happened to their loved ones, by renaming or reclassifying their death as a poisoning,” 

By a poison that they willingly and voluntarily put into their own bodies, dumbass. Trust us, the family knew the deceased was a drug addict and they're probably relieved he's not around to burglarize the house and steal grandma's social security check. 

This reminds us of that thing a few years ago:

• someone could be flying in an airplane....and the plane could hit an endangered condor....and the condor could break a window and someone was sucked out of the window....and as they fell 20,000 feet toward the ground, they bounced off a mountain causing a small avalanche....then they hit a tree and got impaled by some branches....then they hit the ground and a bunch of rocks from the avalanche crushed the remnants of their body into powder....and the police found the body parts, transported them to the coroner and notified the family, who said "He was coughing a little bit the week before he left"

Cause of Death - COVID.