Decriminalizing gang bangers, Soros prosecutor
Kim Foxx declines to charge five arrested
in fatal gang shootout, citing ‘mutual combatants’
American Thinker,
by
Thomas Lifson
Original Article
Posted By: Magnante,
10/5/2021 8:56:15 AM
Chicago now is like Dodge City before Marshal Dillon arrived: a fatal shootout on its streets is no crime because both sides were shooting. (snip) An escalating number of shootouts is the inescapable implication of the decision of the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office to release all five suspects arrested in a fatal shootout between rival gangs in the city’s Southside Austin neighborhood (snip) “Mutual combatants was cited as the reason for the rejection.” Mutual combat is a legal term used to define a fight or struggle that two parties willingly engage in.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
edgar 10/5/2021 9:13:15 AM (No. 935793)
Hey Chicago. Good luck with that.
21 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
reefdiver 10/5/2021 9:17:56 AM (No. 935798)
Well, watch for incidents of shootings to increase big time now.
20 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
JrSample 10/5/2021 9:31:08 AM (No. 935814)
This can't possibly be true. Chicago has very strict gun control laws.
28 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
pros7767 10/5/2021 9:31:20 AM (No. 935815)
Here's an idea...CHARGE THEM ALL!
22 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
bamapreacher 10/5/2021 9:32:12 AM (No. 935816)
Let the gangs shoot each other. Someday attrition will have solved the problem.
14 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
Jebediah 10/5/2021 9:34:40 AM (No. 935817)
It is really hard (as with the Newsom recall in Ca.) to feel sorry for the citizens of Chicago.........I have a good friend who lives on Lake Shore Drive and votes for "those" people consistently. Obviously it isn't HER problem (yet) but what about all those people who ARE affected, live on the South Side etc, those people she professes to care about.. Those actually affected either don't vote or don't think.........why are these criminals let out to ravage and kill again, why are their kids educations lousy, why can't they get ahead? Do they just turn their minds OFF? (I also think Republicans should show and and make their very solid case as to why the Kim Fox's of this world, supported by the truly evil George Soros, are in office.)
23 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
davew 10/5/2021 10:02:36 AM (No. 935833)
This ignores the risk to innocent bystanders including children who are huddled in fear at night as these gang wars go on. It is a classic example of soft racism. Black children are simply not worth protecting in their poisoned minds.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
seamusm 10/5/2021 10:02:43 AM (No. 935834)
There is some small truth to her position - shooting at someone who IS shooting at you IS mutual 'self-defense'. But these fools can't aim for doodoo and kill/maim bystanders including children by the scores. That alone should merit vigorous enforcement/prosecution and islamic punishments.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Toby Ten Bears 10/5/2021 10:08:29 AM (No. 935840)
There's no down side to this! Love me some of that Kim Foxx!!
2 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 10/5/2021 10:12:35 AM (No. 935845)
It is amusing to watch the communists complain about communists doing communistic things. The “outrage” is so patently false that the word absurd is hardly appropriate. The people of Chicago (Bang! Bang!) are to blame. They show up and vote for these people time and time again. They continue to support the machine that turns out death and misery for all but the most elite. Chicago is the 21st century Detroit.
6 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
mathman 10/5/2021 10:13:49 AM (No. 935849)
There should be a new movement. NLM. Nobody's Life Matters. Just let them go after each other.
Guess what? Folk submit to government for protection from this sort of behavior. Otherwise why bother? Chicago is a free fire zone. Anarchy prevails. No one is safe, except for the politicians who hire individual ARMED guards. I'll bet Mayor Lightfoot is protected by Armed Guards, all the time.
Kim Fox probably has ARMED protection around the clock.
Safety for me, and not for thee, that's the ticket.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 10/5/2021 10:16:44 AM (No. 935855)
High noon duels with six shooters on Main Street would be ignored by the law under this "mutual combatants" principle.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 10/5/2021 10:18:04 AM (No. 935858)
Guess the prosecutor will wait until innocent bystanders get killed. Oh! That's already happening! Nevermind.
All those gang bangers are constituents. They vote! Gotta keep them out of jail. Too bad they are killing each other off. Oh! The dead vote in Chicago! Nevermind.
Chicago is a wasteland.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Birddog 10/5/2021 10:31:37 AM (No. 935872)
They roll up when cops/SWAT are ALREADY on the scene, a helo or Drone camera is filming, have a shootout with nearly 100 shots fired. NO ONE gets charged? "We could not definitively discern who had a gun in their hand and fired the shots"...Uhmmm, a simple swab test for Gun shot residue, finger prints on weapons, magazines, shells, are definitive.
These dudes are known/admitted Gang members..odds are that they have multiple prior arrests, are on probation/parole, the guns used were not "Legal" and that those using them were not "Legal" to posses them. Even filing a "Noise/Public disturbance" charge would have been enough to hold them until forensic examination revealed who did what, and to whom..
In Chicago 43% of both shooters and victims have prior gun arrests, 23% have THREE OR MORE. Nearly all gun charges are dropped in exchange for a guilty plea on a misdemeanor charge of drugs or assault, anything that keeps the "Poor, misguided child" from having a felony record that would "Ruin his future"
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
bad-hair 10/5/2021 10:42:23 AM (No. 935880)
Regrettably 5 in the process they also take down a lot of children who happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time ... every weekend. If they could shoot better I might agree with you.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
montwoodcliff 10/5/2021 11:13:16 AM (No. 935902)
You get what you pay (vote?) for!
2 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
Krause 10/5/2021 11:46:14 AM (No. 935944)
They live to get to shoot another day. Good progressive thinking.
2 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
AltaD 10/5/2021 11:55:25 AM (No. 935956)
'Let them shoot' it out sounds good in theory but in reality, they hit innocent bystanders more often than not. Just last week there was a daytime, rolling gun battle in the West Loop (a fairly safe neighborhood). Four of the five people shot were innocent victims - two pedestrians, a bicyclist and a man in the backseat of a ride share car.
3 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
EQKimball 10/5/2021 12:02:33 PM (No. 935961)
Mutual combat does sanction a shootout at the OK Corral. The Illinois Supreme Court has stated, "Illinois courts recognize that evidence of mutual combat is sufficient to require an instruction to the jury on voluntary manslaughter due to serious provocation." People of the State of Illinois v. Austin (133 Ill. 2d 118 (1989)).
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
skacmar 10/5/2021 12:12:53 PM (No. 935980)
We all know that Kin Fox is an idiot as demonstrated by her actions in the Jesse Smollett case. So it is easy to see how Kim Fox was just confused by Lori Lightfoot's call for all Chicago Police officers to "get he shot". Apparently Fox thought Lightfoot meant cops should get shot and that the gang bangers were just doing a public service by shooting people so they could "get the shot". Easy mistake to make, especially in Chicago. Now, the gang bangers will go out and give some citizens "shots" this weekend.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Geoman 10/5/2021 12:24:02 PM (No. 935997)
Why can't there be "mutual combat" between Normal Americans and the communists? Chicago is as good a place as any to stage a real-life showdown. Winner take all.
4 people like this.
Reply 22 - Posted by:
bighambone 10/5/2021 12:54:30 PM (No. 936030)
Just be glad that you do not live in that violent street gang invested “community”!
It’s a sub-cultural thing in those “communities” to be in a street gang and having an illegal firearm. Thus only the law abiding people living in those communities can reverse that by cooperating with the police.
1 person likes this.
Reply 23 - Posted by:
DVC 10/5/2021 2:48:47 PM (No. 936143)
Cool. Can we now arm up and go take out the antifa thugs with a free hand?
3 people like this.
Reply 24 - Posted by:
Omen55 10/5/2021 3:24:12 PM (No. 936192)
She just told CPD why bother?
They should pull her police squad.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
bighambone 10/5/2021 9:01:07 PM (No. 936452)
Must be a joke, how about when the violent street gangs are engaged in “mutual combat” and shoot and kill innocent adults and children.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
mifla 10/6/2021 4:59:54 AM (No. 936610)
So glad I no longer live in Chicago. I will never understand how the liberal brain works.
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