Posted on 06/27/2023 4:11:23 AM PDT by Salman
Citing “emerging evidence,” prosecutors have dropped murder charges against a woman and her 14-year-old son less than a week after the woman was accused of ordering her son to kill a man who had punched her at a South Side hot dog stand.
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After seeing the video, I can’t blame the kid… big guy punching your mom in the face = kid not guilt.
Let’s see; Kim Foxx is the prosecuting DA, Momma Hood got punched in de ha-ead by Mr. Brown, so Momma Hood told sonny to take dis gun and shoot Mr. Brown in da back ... it all makes sense .... /s
That’s just astounding.
I guess the DA decided that some people just need killing. (shrug)
“Brown ran from the store as Hood’s son allegedly continued to fire. The teen and his mother followed Brown to the parking lot, where she told her son to keep shooting Brown and to kill him, prosecutors said.”
BS! That is NOT self-defense any longer.
“”Hood texted her son and had him come to the restaurant as the argument turned physical, according to prosecutors, who said the boy took out a gun and shot Brown in the back.
Brown ran from the store as Hood’s son allegedly continued to fire. The teen and his mother followed Brown to the parking lot, where she told her son to keep shooting Brown and to kill him, prosecutors said.
Hood also was accused of telling her son to then shoot Brown’s girlfriend and of trying to take the gun from her son afterward. The two left the scene and went home.””
Huh, had anyone done that around my neck of the woods they wouldn’t have gotten that sweet a deal I can assure you.
I guess Chicago has a stand your ground law by proxy. I have no problem with that, but it’s not the case, is it? So it gets me thinking that either there is selective prosecution or there is an inalienable right to self defense and defense of one’s family. Or something else. I’m no lawyer. So which is it?
“”But Ari Williams, the family’s attorney, said in a statement that the charges have caused “great harm” to Hood, her family and their reputation.
“Ms. Hood is and has always been a victim,” Williams said, adding that Hood will file a lawsuit in the case Tuesday morning.””
Oh good grief...
This is about as close to a legal justified shooting in Chicago you’re gonna get.
Illinois law was upheld. Not only stand your ground, but defending someone who is being attacked. This is a good ending.
The family is filing a lawsuit against the city for 5 days of incarceration. But it was based on evidence at the time. Cell phone vids showed up and exonerated. I don’t see a big payday. But... who knows?
CHICAGO is a Democrat Shit Hole City.
Let Jungle Justice prevail. This woman and her son will be dead soon in retaliation.
None will be missed for a NANOSECOND.
https://policetribune.com/chicago-prosecutor-drops-charges-in-massive-gang-gunfight-claims-mutual-combat/
“This woman and her son will be dead soon in retaliation.”
I think that is likely.
If this description from the article is accurate.
“Hood texted her son and had him come to the restaurant as the argument turned physical, according to prosecutors, who said the boy took out a gun and shot Brown in the back.
Brown ran from the store as Hood’s son allegedly continued to fire. The teen and his mother followed Brown to the parking lot, where she told her son to keep shooting Brown and to kill him, prosecutors said.
Hood also was accused of telling her son to then shoot Brown’s girlfriend and of trying to take the gun from her son afterward. The two left the scene and went home.”
She also ordered him to shoot at a witness.
Those were head trauma punches. I’m surprised she was able to walk after that.
Years ago in West Michigan, there was a case where a man and his adult son were eating at a Denny’s type restaurant and a guy came in who began harassing and threatening the patrons in the dining room. The man told his son to quietly go to their nearby home and bring the man’s legal pistol back to him at the restaurant. The son did so. The situation at the restaurant escalated between the misbehaving and threatening male and all the restaurant patrons in the dining room. I don’t believe the police were ever called until after the man shot and killed the man who was threatening the diners and disruptiung their meals out. I believe the man who shot was charged with some type of offense for not calling and leaving it to police but it was ultimately not charged as open murder or equivalent. FWIW IMHO
Part of me agrees, but probably because regardless of what happened after that encounter in which the guy punched her, society is better off without a jackass like that walking the streets.
But I also suspect there is a racial element involved, because if they had been disparate races, the result may have been different.
If a white woman and her armed son had chased a black man into that parking lot and shot him in the back, I don’t think charges would have been dropped.
Also, as Freeper skywise says, it isn’t self-defense any longer. That young man may have had a legal license to carry and a legal firearm, but the way most laws are written, that action would have invited a jail term.
That said, I am satisfied with the result. The deceased won’t be punching any women standing in line for food anymore.
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