Posted on 07/07/2018 11:51:28 AM PDT by grundle
In January of this year in Chicago, two black men and two black women kidnapped a learning disabled white man, imprisoned him, tortured him, cut off part of his scalp, forced him to drink from the toilet, demanded ransom from his parents, and posted part of the torture as a video on Facebook. They also called him racial slurs, which puts this into the hate crime category.
Well, one of these scumbags has just been sentenced to probation instead of prison, after spending less than one year in jail. Her name is Brittany Covington. (The other three scumbags – Tesfaye Cooper, Jordan Hill, Tanishia Covington – are still awaiting sentencing.)
Given the horrific kidnapping, imprisonment, violence, and torture that they committed, I think all four of these scumbags should be forced to spend at least several decades in prison.
The fact that Brittany Covington was sentenced to probation instead of prison is inexcusable.
The judge responsible for giving probation instead of a prison sentence to this violent scumbag is Cook County Circuit Judge William Hooks.
Judge Hooks said he could have given her a prison sentence, but chose not to because “I’m not sure if I did that you’d be coming out any better.”
Although prison is referred to as a “correctional facility,” that is not the only reason that we put people who are convicted of violent crimes in prison. We also do it to protect the innocent, as well as to send a message to the guilty that their violent behavior is not to be tolerated.
Judge Hooks is a bigger scumbag than the four scumbags who kidnapped and tortured the learning disabled man.
By not sentencing Brittany Covington to prison, Judge Hooks is giving his approval to what Brittany Covington did. He is saying that what she did is OK. He is saying that what she did is acceptable.
But in the real world, what Brittany Covington did is not OK.
It is not acceptable.
Shame on Judge Hooks.
We also imprison people to punish them for heinous crimes, such as kidnapping for ransom and torture. Lock ‘em up, and send this judge after....
I have a question for this idiot judge Hooks:
How do you think she could come out any worse after what she was a part of?
He’s black, but it’s completely unrelated.
Search and see that the local Muslim Bar Association adores him too.
Another completely unrelated fact, of course.
After experiencing their “justice system” first hand, they are incredibly corrupt and almost always side with the criminals.
Double face palm. Uh, your “honor
,” if ahe is so hardened that jail time won’t do any good, WTF sense does it make to put her back into society??? If he can’t be impeached for poor judgment, at least assign him to traffic court or something.
What is better for her should be immaterial!
Screw her and her cohorts in crime: they all should have the book thrown at them.
The more it hurts them the better.
Their expression, my interpretation, left to right, top then bottom:
“Well, shit.,”
“Got caught.”
“****.”
“I’ll cut up the guy taking my picture, given the chance.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/alleged-facebook-use-sends-hate-crime-defendant-back-to-jail/
Hooks held off on deciding if Covington had violated her probation, since the boyfriend’s mother was unable to attend the court hearing. Covington will likely remain in jail until that hearing on Aug. 7.
Prison won’t change their behavior. These people should be executed.
There’s much to be said for that, as a deterrent I believe it would work wonders.
It’s Cook County, IL - Chicago politics. The County Prosecuting Attorneys has blood on their hands in most of these cases. Kim Fox, the Chief Prosecutor is letting the worst violent criminals walk with little or no punishment.
Very sad. The lives of other disabled are threatened by this miscarriage of justice.
Can you imagine the sentence ,and the uproar,had this been done by four wealthy white kids from the suburbs??????????
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Why not just abolish the courts? What do they do anyway?
We could also eliminate the prosecutors office, the police and the prisons at the same time. Save money.
Another example of the soft bigotry of lowered expectations. Interesting trhat it came from a black judge. I guess that he expects little in the way of civil behavior from these yutes.
It’s actions like this judge’s that are making me a racist. He isn’t Black, he is a N. There is a big difference.
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