Geez, Call the Paramedics

If the Desk Sergeant saw this in lockup, he/she would be a moron not to at least get a medical clearance:

• A New Jersey driver was awarded nearly $13 million after she was arrested by a state trooper who mistakenly believed she was intoxicated when she was actually suffering from a stroke, which delayed the medical care she urgently needed by several hours.

  Cheryl Lynn Rhines, now 57, was having a stroke on Oct. 17, 2017, when she pulled her vehicle over on Route 78 as she was traveling from her home in Jersey City to her job in Florham Park, according to her lawsuit against the New Jersey State Police obtained by NJ.com and the New Jersey Monitor.

  [...]

  More than two hours passed before someone at the police station eventually realized she was having a medical emergency and called an ambulance, which transported her to a hospital.

At the very least, paramedics would make an actual medical determination and spare the New Jersey tax payers a $13 million payout.

Protect yourself.

PPP Indictments - Suburban

Is the dam finally breaking?

• Two south suburban women and a man are charged in federal court with working as illegal brokers for people who stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Paycheck Protection Program.

  Amanda Heller of Frankfort, Sarah Stokes of Crestwood and James Townsend of Midlothian were indicted on wire fraud charges. They’re free in lieu of bail. Heller declined to comment except to say, “It’s a charge at this time, not a conviction.” Stokes and Townsend couldn’t be reached.

  Heller, Stokes and Townsend had filed applications for dozens of loans on behalf of sole proprietors of businesses that didn’t actually exist, according to an indictment unsealed last month and applications for search warrants unsealed Monday.

  The trio got kickbacks of $5,000 to $10,000 for each successful application to the program, which began in early April 2020 and ended in late May 2021, according to the indictment.

Maybe they had to get the suburban cases in the system before they go to town on the urban dwellers who had assembly lines of fraud rivaling anything suburbanites could come up with.

Small Victory

A bunch of comments and almost zero media coverage of a court case that purportedly declares the FOID unconstitutional. As far as we can tell, this finding - the second or third such finding by this particular court - isn't quite as straightforward as it seems. The Court said that you don't need an FOID card in order to possess a firearm within your home.

The Court did however, find the attached fee completely unconstitutional:

• A White County Illinois judge has found the state’s Firearms Owner’s ID card unconstitutional when enforced against someone possessing their firearms in their home.

  The case Illinois vs. Vivian Brown stems from a 2017 case where Brown separated from her husband. She possessed a single-shot .22 rifle in her home. Her husband filed a complaint against her alleging she fired the rifle inside the home. Police found the rifle had not been fired, but the state’s attorney charged her with possessing a firearm without a FOID card.

  “After analyzing all the evidence in this matter, this Court finds that the Defendant’s activity of possessing a firearm within the confines of her home is an act protected by the Second Amendment,” wrote White County Resident Circuit Judge T. Scott Webb. “Additionally, there are no historical analogues to the FOID Act as required in Bruen.”

  The judge further said in his ruling Monday, “the Court finds that any fee associated with exercising the core fundamental Constitutional right of armed self-defense within the confines of one’s home violates the Second Amendment.”

As the court cases slowly erode the foundation of the FOID Act, the entire thing should eventually be found unconstitutional and Illinois could rejoin America as founded.

What's This?

Wait a minute....you mean the head of the Executive Branch of government gets to hire and fire those people who answer to the Executive? Blasphemy!

• Mayor Brandon Johnson says he should have “cleaned house faster” when he took office, and now plans to correct that mistake by sending people packing.

  “If you ain’t with us, you just gotta go,” the mayor said.

  Johnson’s ominous warning that heads are about to roll before the midpoint of his term came during an appearance Monday night at New Covenant Missionary Baptist Church, 754 E. 77th St. It was the first in a series of appearances Johnson is calling his “Faith in Government” initiative.

  [...] The mayor’s office would not elaborate Tuesday on what Johnson meant. But speculation about whose days might be numbered centers around three holdovers from former Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s administration, and its deputies and top aides: Chicago Park District Superintendent Rosa Escareno, Aviation Commissioner Jamie Rhee and Transportation Commissioner Tom Carney, recently elevated by Johnson.

  Other Lightfoot and Rahm Emanuel appointees who might be vulnerable include City Colleges Chancellor Juan Salgado and Fire Commissioner Annette Holt.

If Conehead isn't careful, this could become a national trend. Next thing you know, someone might start pointing out government corruption and waste and pissing off tax payers:

• Riding roller coasters. Chowing down on fried food. Catching waves in the pool at Hurricane Harbor. Hundreds of Housing Authority of Cook County employees and their families could enjoy these activities and more for three years at Six Flags on the agency’s dime.

  The state’s second-largest housing authority, which was flagged by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development as “troubled” in part because of an absentee board, low-grade property inspections, incorrect reporting on leases, high outstanding balances for tenants behind on rent and failure to submit financial reports on time, spent more than $60,000 on such trips.

Fun times.

Oh, No! Snow!

In case anyone forgot, it's winter:

• Over 90 million people are under winter weather alerts from the Midwest to the Northeast, as a significant winter storm brings snow and ice this weekend.

  Winter alerts are in effect for portions of 19 states from the Midwest to the Northeast.

  Snow has been moving across the Great Lakes Region on Saturday, with cities like Green Bay and Detroit seeing light snow.

  Snow will begin across much of the Northeast by Saturday evening, with heavy snowfall expected overnight. There is also a potential for icing across much of southern Pennsylvania and into the Mid-Atlantic.

In other words....normal.

Drive careful, watch out for frozen illegals.

Settlement Stalls

Probably a temporary setback:

• Amid heavy opposition, a City Council committee on Monday did not vote on a controversial $1.25 million settlement that would have compensated the family of Dexter Reed, who was shot to death by police officers after Reed shot and wounded one of them during a traffic stop.

  “It was held. I think the majority present are ‘no’'votes,” Ald. Ray Lopez (15th) wrote in a text message to the Sun-Times.

  Ald. Anthony Napolitano (41st) said he, too, is “hearing” the settlement was pulled for lack of votes.

  Ald. Matt O’Shea (19th) has condemned the settlement for the “dangerous” message it sends to Chicago Police Department officers, His Far South Side ward is home to scores of Chicago Police officers, and O’Shea, too, is “guessing” that the settlement was held because the Johnson administration was uncertain it had the votes to pass it.

  Ald. Chris Taliaferro (29th), the former CPD sergeant now chairing the Council’s Police Committee said he is “not sure” why the Reed settlement was held, but “I assume there are still a lot of questions and concerns that my colleagues have.”

  But Ald. Carlos Ramirez-Rosa (35th), Mayor Brandon Johnson’s former Council floor leader, supports the settlement and calls Monday’s development a temporary setback.

After all, the commie/progressive/anti law and order assholes are still going to push this. We can only hope that a few of them become victims of the criminals they're supporting.

And to all the shitheads like Ramirez-Rosa saying the stop never should have occurred in the first place, the proper venue to address anything "unjustified" - real or imaginary - is the Courts, not via gunfire.

Blago Pardoned

The Illinois/Sparkelfart deep state hooked him up for daring to do what Illinois pols have been doing for years - selling access:

• President Donald Trump issued a full and unconditional pardon to Rod Blagojevich Monday, after commuting the Democratic former Illinois governor’s 14-year sentence for political corruption charges during his first term.

  “It’s my honor to do it,” Trump said. “I’ve watched him. He was set up by a lot of bad people.”

  The Republican president called the Democratic former governor, who once appeared on Trump’s reality TV show “Celebrity Apprentice,” “a very fine person” and said the conviction and prison sentence “shouldn’t have happened.”

Blago was not that fine a person, but he was better than almost anyone else on those wiretaps and mostly got in trouble when he wouldn't bend to Sparklefart pressure. We still think he should have named names and written a tell-all book to really gut the Machine.

Interesting Proposal

An odd idea:

• Cook County’s new state’s attorney is proposing a new law that would help people charged with illegally possessing firearms get a license so they can own the weapons legally. Eileen Burke’s office revealed the idea on Friday.

  First-time gun offenders charged with a low-level firearms violation could “get into compliance with the law” if they complete a diversion program under the proposal, according to the announcement. Anyone accused of possessing machine guns, an increasingly common situation in Chicago, would not be eligible.

So instead of forever forfeiting the Right to legally own a gun upon conviction, the CCSA would have an education class and walk people through the process to obtain an FOID card? Will they be returning the seized firearm that resulted in charges or are they making people (and folks) buy another one through lawful channels to collect tax revenue and another off-the-books registry? 

And does this have anything to do with the second or third recent loss regarding the FOID card

No Where is Safe

016 used to be the safest part of Chicago.

Used to be (door bell camera shot, courtesy of a reader):

That's a catalytic converter thief on Beat 1611. There were three and all had rifles. 1611 is almost as far north and west as you can go in the city, surrounded by Niles and Park Ridge, full of million dollar single family homes and thousands of city workers.

And the District is about two-hundred Officers short of authorized strength.

Suggestions Needed

Back in the days of GMac, when he was trying to institute a strict version of CompStat with which to beat and bully the exempt staff, a certain supervisor decided to "borrow" an idea from New York and started a CompStat Bingo game (click for larger version):

We think this is the CPD CompStat version....you get the idea.

You might also be aware of a drinking game where people watch a TV show or speech or debate and take a shot every time a certain word of phrase is spoken, and that gave us an idea.

Conehead is going to appear before Congress on 05 March. What we need is a bingo card, hopefully 5x5, with certain words of phrases Conehead uses and can be checked off during his testimony. We've got a basic idea for a few:

• racism
• teachers/CTU
• black wife and 3 black children
• DEI (or individually diversity, equity, inclusion)
• community (fill in the blank) 
• west side
• Sparklefarts / Obama
• progressive
• immigrants
  

Ideally, there would be a couple versions of this Bingo card. 

Unfortunately, people would have to watch CSPAN for a few hours to play properly and win.

Maybe it's a bad idea, but we'll take suggestions in the comments for Conehead Words and Phrases. 

UPDATE: How did we forget "raggedy"???

An Actual Good Idea

And from California of all places:

• Sacramento County Sheriff Jim Cooper announced Tuesday that deputies will no longer respond to non-criminal mental health calls, citing a recent federal court ruling that removes qualified immunity for officers in such cases, CBS News reported.

  The policy change follows the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision in Scott v. Smith, which stemmed from a 2019 Las Vegas incident where Roy Scott, experiencing hallucinations, called 911 for help, according to the report. Responding officers used force, leading to Scott’s unconsciousness and later death. The court ruled that the force used was unreasonable and questioned whether officers should have been involved at all, as no crime had been committed.

  “We deal with crime, not mental health crises,” Cooper stated.

After all, progressives have been demanding "mental health responders" for years now. Might as well save taxpayers money and start sending them instead of cops.

Just make sure their life insurance policies are all up-to-date.

Finally

Criminal held to account!

• It took the system three years to convict Emonte Morgan of killing Chicago Police Officer Ella French during a 2021 traffic stop. And it took the system even longer to convict his mother of resisting police and trespassing at a hospital in the days after the shooting. But, finally, at long last, her case is resolved, too.

Multiple battery, trespassing, resisting charges, a bench warrant and over a year on the run , what crushing penalty was assessed against this waste of oxygen?

• [Judge] Lopez granted her a 12-month conditional discharge and ordered her to pay a $514 fine, perform 50 hours of community service, and undergo an anger management evaluation. If Flores completes all of the requirements, the case will be dismissed.

Wow. Must be nice to be a ghetto piece of shit raising another ghetto piece of shit and never be held to account.

Homeless Encampment Fires

Isn't it great that taxpayers and their children can't use the parks that their taxes pay for?

• Ongoing safety concerns about the homeless encampment at Gompers Park, 4222 W. Foster Ave., could lead to the relocation of youth baseball and softball games planned for the renovated field at the park’s south end, where three tent fires have been reported since Jan. 30.

  The Gompers Park Athletic Association has informed member families that its 2025 games and practices scheduled for “Little Gompers” (the park’s south end) could be relocated due to the encampment. “To be clear, Gompers Park Athletic Association will not be using the field at Little Gompers if the tents are not moved prior to the start of the season and the city does not keep them from returning to our park,” the association wrote in a letter to families. The association explained that if needed games would be relocated, not canceled, due to the proximity of the encampment to the field.

  The baseball field was the recipient of a $150,000 improvement grant, courtesy of the 39th Ward Alderman Samantha Nugent’s participatory budget vote. Many, if not all, of those improvements have been made.

So an extra $150K - in addition to regular property tax levy - and kids can't play ball there. Not to mention the THREE fires in nine days, sucking up untold CFD resources, and then the additional money given away to replace the stuff that burned up, because you can't have homeless people suffer consequences  of their bad decisions. Plus all the homeless fleas, lice and bedbugs.....the mind boggles.

Hey, shouldn't there be a whole bunch of farm jobs opening up? The democrats are asking who's going to harvest crops without illegal aliens here. Now's the chance for these homeless leeches to get jobs. But they better hurry before those 5,000 former fbi employees beat them to the punch.

Felon Died, Family Sued and Lost

Her parents named her what now?

• The CTA was found not liable in the death of a woman who was struck and killed by a Red Line train in 2019 after she went onto the tracks to retrieve a cellphone she dropped, an appellate court ruled.

  Felon Smith, 37, dropped her phone on the tracks at the 69th Street Red Line station in Englewood on June 27, 2019, and climbed off the platform to get it. She was struck by a northbound Red Line train and was pronounced dead at the scene.

Felon? Interesting choice.

Here's a question though:

• the Appellate Court bought the CTA argument that they shouldn't be held liable for the actions of a criminal trespasser. The lower court had already decided that the security guard on the platform couldn't be held liable and that the engineer was free of blame seeing as how the Laws of Physics, Velocity and Momentum were still in existence.
• So why can't Officers enjoy that standard? Whereby persons who willfully violate the Criminal Code are held responsible for their actions that injure or kill bystanders or damage property, especially when the Officers are ordered and empowered by State Law to enforce said laws?

We get sued taking police action. We get sued for not taking police action. We get sued when it goes sideways....and even when it doesn't. Intent doesn't even come into play and the oversight agencies willfully disregard Supreme Court rulings constantly.

But the CTA can go around running over people all the time and no one is held responsible.

(that last line is sarcasm for the short bus people)

Giddyup!

Florida of all places:

• A man was arrested after his alleged involvement in a drug deal led to him being chased on horseback through the streets of Jacksonville.

  According to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, Jordan Wilson, 25, tried to make a run for it after an officer witnessed him handing off illegal drugs.

  Video shows Officer Cassie Haire atop Police Service Horse Nash, galloping into action as they chase Wilson through a traffic light on a busy street.

  Officer Haire stayed on his tail for a quarter-mile before Wilson surrendered.

  According to deputies, he was booked and charged with resisting an officer without violence.

A couple of questions:

• Damage to Horse report? Just in case;
• lasso or saber? Ghengis Khan smiles;
• is there any footage of a PIT maneuver with a horse?

That would be AWESOME!

As an added bonus, what jury is going to find against a horse chasing down a criminal?

Thirteen Arrests in One Year

Another example of what Conehead and Fata$$ are protecting:

• Santiago Josue Baragas Rodriguez, a Venezuelan migrant arrested 13 times in a year, received the old “good news, bad news” treatment at the 26th and California courthouse on Thursday.

  The good news? A judge gave him probation for trying to rob a woman in Streeterville in November. The bad news (for him): Since he pleaded guilty, he’s now eligible for deportation.

And if he isn't in Federal custody, on a plane by Monday morning, Border Czar Homan ought to be frog-marching a number of city, county and state officials into custody.

Machine Guns Coming Back

Liberal heads will be exploding....figuratively of course:

• A U.S. District Court in Mississippi dismissed a machine gun possession charge, citing it didn't jibe with American history and tradition regarding the right to keep and bear arms. 

  The ruling came this week in the case of the U.S. vs Justin Bryce Brown, with Brown challenging his machine gun possession charge. As he had never been previously convicted of a felony, he argued that the Second Amendment protected him from criminal prosecution under the federal government's statutes. U.S. District Judge Carlton W. Reeves, a 2010 appointment to the federal bench by President Obama, agreed. 

  Citing the 2022 Bruen standard of a gun law being "consistent with the Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation," Reeves dismissed the charge against Brown. 

  A similar unregistered machine gun possession case, that of Tamori Morgan – which was similarly tossed by a federal court in Kansas last August – though an outlier that is under further appeal by the Justice Department, was also referenced by Reeves in his decision on Brown, saying, "But outliers can nevertheless be instructive and correct, so long as they are faithful applications of the law."

That's two cases in short order restoring Rights long suppressed by democrats, commies and fascists, this time by a Sparklefart-appointed judge who actually seems to understand what the Supreme Court ruled in Bruen. Who would have expected that?

As Many Have Said....

....a lot of questions:

• The cause of death remains unknown for a Chicago police officer found fatally shot Wednesday in Garfield Ridge, officials said Thursday.

  The 27-year-old officer was found dead inside her home with a gunshot wound to her head, according to Chicago police. A death investigation is underway.

  A Thursday autopsy was inconclusive and pending a police investigation, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

And this info....seriously?

• Over police radio, dispatchers told responding officers “girlfriend hit her head.” A dispatcher then said, “they’re doing CPR on her,” asking that an officer go to the scene to “make sure everything is OK.”

Resolve that paragraph with the second paragraph.

And added to the stress in 006, no one knows if the commander might actually show up at services this time around.

Another Payout

Another "deep pocket" lawsuit that's going to be used to beat the CPD over the head with for the next thirty years:

• Yet another high-speed Chicago police chase gone bad will prove costly — this one with a proposed $27 million settlement.

  The money would go to the family of Angela Parks, a single working mother of five who was rendered a quadriplegic, then died 18 months later — at age 45 — after being struck by the passenger door of a Jeep that Chicago Police Department officers were pursuing because they believed it had been stolen.

  Parks was a counselor for the Chicago Housing Authority. At the time of the Aug. 21, 2020, accident, she was on her second job, moonlighting as census-taker.

There's a lot of questionable accusations made by the liar lawyer that will never be answered regarding chase policy, officer actions, etc. 

But:

• if the criminals didn't commit crimes, there'd be no pursuit;
• if the criminals didn't flee, there'd be no injuries;
• if the criminals didn't drive up toward the curb, open the door to leap out of a moving vehicle - in effect creating a 4,000 pound unguided missile - there'd be no lawsuit;
• if there were no lawyers, the world would be a much happier place, too. 

In any even, we repeat, stop chasing....forever.

Fata$$ Gets His Wish

This was the large story yesterday:

• The Trump administration has filed suit against the state of Illinois, Cook County and the city of Chicago, arguing their sanctuary laws “interfere” with Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s ability to arrest and deport illegal migrants — the first of many such lawsuits to come, Justice Department officials told The Post.

  The suit singles out several state and local laws that the Justice Department identifies as inhibiting the federal government’s ability to enforce US immigration law.

  “We’ve identified Illinois, the city of Chicago and Cook County as all having laws and ordinances on the books that impede federal immigration enforcement, in particular the Chicago Welcoming ordinance, the Illinois Trust Act,” a DOJ official said.

So instead of trying to competently run the city, county and state, our homegrown assholes will be posing for cameras, holding pressers and insisting that illegal aliens should be treated better than citizens or anyone who went through the correct channels to be here.

The government has been readying Guantanamo for up to 30,000 illegals. Certainly they could spare a few cells for Fatass - he could work on his tan and sweat off a few pounds