Posted on 01/12/2018 5:09:33 AM PST by PBRCat
A candidate running for Illinois Attorney General was robbed at gunpoint while he was taking promotional photos for his campaign Thursday afternoon in the Northwest Side ward where hes also the Democratic committeeman, according to his campaign manager and authorities.
Aaron Goldstein, 42, and several members of his campaign team were in the middle of taking publicity shots when the robbery happened, according to Goldsteins campaign manager. The robbery took place about 3:25 p.m. in the 4600 block of North Albany Avenue in Albany Park, when three men in their early 20s approached them, according to a law-enforcement source. One of the men flashed a handgun and demanded the camera equipment and other personal belongings from the team, according to police.
The gunman and two other men robbed Goldstein and four others of camera equipment and their cell phones before they ran away, the law enforcement source said. As of Thursday evening, no one was in custody, police said.
Police described the three suspects as between 20 and 24 years old. They did not release a detailed description of the suspects.
Campaign manager Robert Murphy, who was not with the team during the incident, said Goldstein, Democratic ward committeeman for the 33rd Ward and a resident of Albany Park, was taking promotional images for the campaign with an in-the-neighborhood kind of message.
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The location is mere blocks from the residence of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich and his family. He is now a guest of the Federal Government at the Federal Correctional Institution in Englewood, Colorado. He may be allowed to check out in 2024.
Oh, Karma! How I love you!
This falls under the general description category "teens".
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel does not give a damn about arresting criminals. He wants the criminals at large to vote for him. Felons cannot vote, so enforcing the law is a form of “voter suppression” that disenfranchises likely Democratic voters.
High end photography and video equipment can be fenced with buyers in the porn industry.
This sort of reminds me of an old issue of “Mad” magazine which satirized the PBS program “Sesame Street” during the Seventies with a parody called “Reality Street.”
The litter was not limited to Oscar the Grouch’s garbage can and teen aged punks were shoplifting from the elderly Jewish delicatessen owner (Mr. Hooper).
Boooiiinnnngggg!
“Chicago Democrat robbed by other Chicago Democrats.”
Win win.
snicker, snicker.
“Naturally, this guy is a Democrat.
I wonder if that old saying that a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged will apply in this case?
Or will he have to be beaten to within an inch of his life for that conversion to take place?”
Probably staged so the jewish feller can get his name known....nobody ever heard of the prick.
He upset former Alderman Richard F. Mell (33rd) in the Democratic Ward Committeeman’s race. He also worked as a criminal defense lawyer for former Governor Rod Blagojevich (Mell’s son-in-law).
Irony is so ironic.
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Chicongo is exactly what the Kenyaneisan Usurper organized it to be.
Guns used in a crime in Chicago.
Stop the presses
Don’t need one. “Three men” is sufficient. We know what they are.
This is f’ing PRICELESS!!!! LMFAO!!!
“They did not release a detailed description of the suspects.”
Well that certainly helps narrow it down.
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