Posted on 11/24/2025 5:57:19 AM PST by Red Badger
s Metro Long Island Politics World News Search Type to Search Search US News Bethany MaGee, 26, is identified as Chicago victim set on fire on CTA train by serial thug with 72 arrests By Chris Nesi Published Nov. 23, 2025, 3:53 p.m. ET
1.8K Comments Man faces terrorism charge after allegedly lighting woman on fire on Chicago train
01:41 / 01:57 The 26-year-old woman who cops said was set on fire by a lunatic with a lengthy rap sheet on a Chicago L train earlier this month has been identified as Bethany MaGee.
“It is devastating that a career criminal with 72 PRIOR ARRESTS is now accused of attacking 26-year-old Bethany MaGee on Chicago’s L train, and setting her on fire,” US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said on social media Sunday.
“This would never have happened if this thug had been behind bars. Yet Chicago lets repeat offenders roam the streets,” Duffy said of suspect Lawrence Reed, 50, who is facing federal terrorism charges in connection with the senseless fire attack.
Bethany MaGee has been identified as the victim in the violent attack. Facebook/Bethany MaGee
He then removed the cap from a bottle of liquid, pouring it all over her head and body. MaGee fled, but Reed caught up with her and set the bottle, which fell to the floor, on fire, but he allegedly retrieved it and used it to set her ablaze.
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Since there are no flashing signs on repeat offenders, statistics is your next best method of avoiding potential perpetrators.
I, for one, cross the street when the group of young men up ahead are statistically more likely to murder me.
You southerners should have picked your own cotton...
He wasn’t a lunatic. He was an evil rascist thug.
What many don’t realize is that we did!
Blacks and whites both picked cotton.
When ‘Cotton-pickin’ Time’ comes in October, you have a very short time to gather it all in and get it out of the rains before they start.
When I was a kid in Mississippi, before cotton picking machines were widely in use, county schools would let out for a week for ‘Cotton Picking’...........
He can be both..............
Of course she didn’t deserve it. She looks so young, sweet, innocent. Comes from a Christian family. Her father a Dr of Theology.
I was only responding to poster that said no mention of BLM in the article.
Soak each of those wicks on his head in kerosene and light them up.
Went down the wrong road.
Please...spare me. I just ate breakfast.
“Of course she didn’t deserve it. She looks so young, sweet, innocent. Comes from a Christian family. Her father a Dr of Theology.”
What was she doing in Chicago of all places?
I’m sure they will investigate this one as a hate crime.
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Governor Creosote is strangely quiet about this incident.
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Probably up in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin for the weekend. King Fatboy is not to be bothered with the problems of his subjects.
The guy with two prior felonies, who knows he faces a life sentence on the next one… and yet cannot restrain himself, is exactly who “three-strikes” is designed for.
“These judges are wide awake - their agenda is to overthrow civilization”.
And when these “judges” start disappearing in the night they will know they have succeeded.
The three-strikes law was working. At least in my town you could feel the difference as the danger faded away over the next couple of years. But almost immediately judges and prosecutors (and legislators) started undermining the law until it disappeared. So now you get people with a dozen felonies walking the streets preying on people.
I met one dude… kidnap, murder tour times. I thought three times that was your ass. Right? No.
I said. “What happened?”
“I can’t get the s___ right. But I’m gettin’ paroled in two years. Brother Rich. I’m gonna fire it up. I got some contacts outside. You know what I mean?”
I said, “Yeah, I know what you mean.”
See. I wanna know when this m_________r gettin’ out… who he gonna be with. And it I see him in my neighborhood. I’m just gonna shoot the m_________r.
-Richard Pryor
My God, that lovely photo of her with her kitty, thinking about her and her family and the judges that let monsters out. I am really distraught and eyes full of tears right now.
“Her young life is probably ruined if she survives. The devastation of being lit on fire is life altering.”
Exactly right. And not just her, but all of her loved ones will suffer much, too.
If you say that white lives matter, or all lives for that matter, it's raciss or something. Prayer for her recovery.
Moral of the story: Just stay the hell away from them.
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