How a City Dies: Woman Burned Alive on CTA by a Violent Career Criminal Who Was Enabled by Democrat Judges

John Kass News ^ | November 23, 2025 | John Kass

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In Chicago, the great city shaped by Mayor Richard J. Daley and his son, Mayor Richard M. Daley there is a new policy, a progressive policy. It is not the law-and-order city. Instead, the liberal politically correct Democrats who have followed the Daleys now refuse to punish repeat violent lawbreakers. The Democrats have become George Soros Social Justice Warriors and the newspapers reflect the progressive view.

“Burn alive B****!”

That is what a career violent predator with more than 50 arrests–at least 10 of them for violent felonies–is alleged to have shouted the other night in Chicago after dousing a female Chicago Transit Authority with gasoline on the Blue Line CTA train and setting her on fire. She is reportedly in critical condition.

Democrats don’t want to talk about the fact that Democrat politics and the left wing newspapers give social credit for judges who won’t enforce the law. They don’t want to jail repeat violent offenders if they are black or brown. It’s ugly and racial, but it’s true. The people of Cook County feel the truth of this. And it is at the center of so many tragedies of repeat violent offenders destroying the lives of others, most of them poor, most of them also minorities.

And it is at the center of the politics of Preckwinkle’s protector, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker and his infamous Safety Act which has done away with cash bail. The newspapers are progressive now, and congratulate their progressive politicians. And the people who are burned or those broken by thugs for money? They don’t provide utility to the political or journalistic class. They are summarily ignored.

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Lawrence Reed, 50, was out on pre-trial release for allegedly knocking a psychiatric ward social worker unconscious in August, is federally charged with a terrorist attack or other violence against a mass transportation system. Before he was released, he had been before Cook County Judge Theresa Molina Gonzales. The Cook County State’s Attorney’s office warned Judge Theresa Molina-Gonzales to keep him locked up or he would likely hurt others.

Judge Theresa Molina Gonzales refused. She had him released from jail and put on electronic monitoring. And she said something that comes out of the progressive hall of fame:

“I can’t keep everybody in jail because the State’s Attorney wants me to.”

[TheDon]

There needs to be a website listing these egregious cases by judges.

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Democrat Judges = Fake Judges