Posted on 09/08/2020 7:22:34 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Remember this last August? A 75-year-old licensed concealed-carry gun owner shot and killed a 14-year-old Chicago boy when a group of teens appeared at his Lake County home early Tuesday morning, with the group then taking off in a high-speed chase that ended in Chicago when the stolen car they were driving ran out of gas, Lake County authorities said Tuesday.
By Tuesday night, the group of Chicago teens had been charged with first-degree murder by the Lake County state’s attorney’s office.
After the Lake County prosecutor was intimidated into dropping the felony murder charge (because he's a giant candy-ass), you think that these kids would turn their lives around, realizing they had gotten a second chance?
You'd be wrong: The man suspected in the July murder of a University of Illinois student on the Far South Side was one of five Chicago teens charged with murder after a burglary attempt turned fatal in the northern suburbs last year.
Cook County prosecutors allege 18-year-old Steven Davis fatally shot Be’Rasheet Mitchell, 21, in the 200 block of East 107th Street on July 16. Authorities say Mitchell was trying to defend his sister — Davis’ girlfriend — during a domestic incident when the shooting happened.
Mitchell, who was pursuing a master’s degree in architecture from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, was shot once in the abdomen and died the next day at Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn. On his LinkedIn profile, he said his “passion in life” was “to invest my skills back into the community in order to improve quality of life for people struggling in my community as well as others like it.”
So the blame for this one can be laid directly at the feet of the Lake County state's attorney.
And we were just wondering, does anyone know if Mitchell's life mattered?
Asking for a "movement," because otherwise, it would never get asked.
Sadly like Gresham's law of the jungle. “Bad drives out good"
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