Justice, public safety, and basic sanity have been sacrificed to the DEI/CRT/BLM mentality in Chicago. Via CWBChicago:
The Cook County judge who released a repeat violent felon with four pending felony cases on electronic monitoring last December, the same felon prosecutors now say escaped that monitoring and shot two Chicago police officers, killing one over the weekend, acknowledged during the hearing that the defendant likely would have faced “a minimum $1 million bail” under the state’s old cash bail system.
The avoidably murdered officer is John Bartholomew. The judge is John Lyke.
[A]fter explaining that he believed Alphonso Talley’s life of armed robberies and carjackings might have been the result of an underdeveloped brain that had since matured — even though Talley had allegedly committed an armed carjacking and an armed robbery with the same brain just eight months earlier — Lyke decided to let him go home on an ankle monitor.
Consequently, John Bartholomew is dead. Lyke will not be charged in the murder, despite his culpability.
Talley had already run up quite a tally of crimes:
His five prior convictions include four aggravated robberies and a conviction for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
On top of that,
Talley’s four pending cases were accrued one atop the other, starting with the stolen car and aggravated fleeing case, followed by battering a Cook County jail officer. And then, while on electronic monitoring for those, allegedly carjacking a woman and robbing a man at gunpoint.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson says, “We cannot incarcerate our way out of violence” because, “It is racist.” So why not let Talley go?
Lyke weighed it all — Talley’s five felony convictions, his four pending cases, and the ankle monitor he was wearing when he allegedly committed two of those pending cases while armed with a gun — and decided that he could not keep Talley in jail under the SAFE-T Act.
As noted earlier, the SAFE-T Act…
…is also known as the Purge Law, in reference to the movies/TV series about crime being made legal for 12 hours once a year to keep the population down. In Illinois, the Purge will take place all year around, until the population disappears completely. This is the fate of every state that succumbs to the Democrat Death Spiral, whereby Democrats drive out sane people, resulting in ever more radical Democrats getting elected.
Speaking of ankle monitors, Lawrence Reed, who had 71 prior arrests, was wearing one when he set Bethany MaGee on fire on a Chicago train in a case that recalled the killing of Iryna Zarutska. Reed was set loose by race-oriented Judge Theresa Molina-Gonzalez.
What liberals have done to Chicago, they are doing to Illinois. What they are doing to Illinois, they plan to do to the whole country. They call it “social justice.”
On a tip from WL.
