Posted on 02/12/2013 11:40:52 AM PST by TurboZamboni
The reputed gang member accused of gunning down 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton last month was on the street even though he had been arrested three times in connection with break-ins and trespassing while on probation for a weapons conviction in recent months, the Tribune has learned.
In two of those arrests, including one just 2 1/2 months ago, Cook County probation officials failed to notify prosecutors or the judge that Michael Ward had been arrested on the new misdemeanor charges and allegedly violated his probation.
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http://washingtonexaminer.com/gun-prosecutions-under-obama-down-more-than-45-percent/article/2516175#.UNCXuHfZ-pc
I know of a similar story just last year. A guy (who did more than a dozen home invasions) was pulled over. He was already facing felony gun charges.
The cop found a loaded SKS and some handguns hidden. He lied about one handgun but was let go anyway.
Two days later he murdered a girl based on mistaken identity a block from her home.
There ought to be a law against that...
useful idiots.
they’ll be surrounded by evil guns,too.
criminals.... broke the law? Say it ain’t so! There oughtta be a law!
Hows those strict gun control laws in Chi-town workin out for ya?
Wanna explain how more of them will be better?
Michael Ward, 18, and Kenneth Williams, 20, were arrested on Saturday on their way to a strip club, hours after the funeral for Pendleton that was attended by Michelle Obama and other dignitaries, including Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
Police said the two suspects are gang members who confessed to mistakenly killing the girl when one of them fired into what they thought was a group of rival gang members.
“Ward confessed and indicated Hadiya was not the intended target,” Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy told reporters at a news conference on Monday night.
“The offenders had it all wrong. They thought the group they shot into included members of a rival gang. Instead it was a group of upstanding, determined kids who, like Hadiya, were repulsed by the gang lifestyle,” he said.
At the time of Hadiya’s slaying, McCarthy said, Ward was on probation for a weapons conviction.
And even though Ward had been arrested three times in connection with break-ins and trespassing while on probation for a weapons conviction in recent months, he was still free, according to the Chicago Tribune. In two of those arrests, including one just 2-1/2 months ago, Cook County probation officials failed to notify prosecutors or the judge that Ward had been arrested on new misdemeanor charges and allegedly violated his probation.
The head of the county’s Probation Department acknowledged that his office fell short in its responsibilities and vowed to find out what went wrong. But it was unclear whether the probation violation would have led officials to put Ward in jail, according to Jesus Reyes, director of the Cook County Adult Probation Department. Misdemeanor charges do not usually led to incarceration of offenders, he said.
Guns were not the problem. The problem is the criminal justice system and the notion that too many minorities are represented in jail. If you do the crime, then you should do the time. Go after the nitwits that let him roam the streets.
The reputed gang member accused of gunning down 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton last month was on the street even though he had been arrested three times in connection with break-ins and trespassing while on probation for a weapons conviction in recent months, the Tribune has learned.See boys and girls, this is why we have to override the Constitution and disarm every law-abiding gunowner in the country.In two of those arrests, including one just 2 1/2 months ago, Cook County probation officials failed to notify prosecutors or the judge that Michael Ward had been arrested on the new misdemeanor charges and allegedly violated his probation.
In my opinion, wholesale extermination of these ferals is long past due.
The corrupt political system in Chicago is what is at fault. It doesn’t matter how many laws they pass if they will not enforce them.
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