Written by R. Cort Kirkwood
As Chicago braces for another weekend of wanton gunfire, mayhem, and murder, the city has announced that headshrinkers will answer 911 calls for “mental health emergencies.”
In other words, the Sun-Times reported, if someone calls 911 because his neighbor crows “I’m cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs” in the wee, small hours every morning, a burly cop with a stun gun and a Glock 9mm might not be the right medicine.… Continue Reading
Tags: 911 Center, Chicago, Chicago Police, Crisis Assistance Response and Engagement, George Floyd, Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, Laquan McDonald, Lori Lightfoot, mental health emergencies, Quintonio LeGrier, Rahm Emanuel
Crime Culture, Illinois Politics | David E. Smith | 
July 17, 2021 4:00 AM | 
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Written by Robert Knight
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has again apologized – sort of – for lying about being an American Indian back when it helped advance her academic legal career.
At a Native American presidential forum in Sioux City, Iowa last week, the Massachusetts Democrat framed her prevarications as a mistake:
“I want to say this, like anyone who’s been honest with themselves, I know that I have made mistakes. I am sorry for harm that I have caused.
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Tags: 2020 Election, Black Lives Matter, Darren Wilson, Elizabeth Warren, Ferguson, Glenn Kessler, Heather MacDonald, Kamala Harris, Laquan McDonald, Michael Brown, Robert McCulloch, The War on Cops, Washington Post
Federal Elections, Political | David E. Smith | August 31, 2019 4:00 AM | Comments Off on Pocahontas’ Worst Lie
Written by Robert Knight
Mayor Rahm Emanuel, a longtime Clinton ally, is facing an insurrection over his handling of a white police officer’s shooting of a 17-year-old black youth on October 20, 2014.
Coalition for a New Chicago, a liberal pressure group, is calling for his resignation. The U.S. Justice Department announced a civil rights investigation on Dec. 8, and Democratic State Rep. La Shawn Ford has filed a bill in the Illinois legislature that would allow a mayoral recall election.… Continue Reading
Written by Russ Stewart
The “Laquan McDonald Monster” has surfaced, and unlike the Loch Ness Monster, it is tangible, palpable and deadly. Those 16 bullets will be remembered by black voters in 2016, and a torrent of rage — and votes — will be directed in the March 15, 2016, Democratic primary against both Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez and any non-black candidates closely associated with Mayor Rahm Emanuel and police superintendent Garry McCarthy.
Over the past 50 years, there have been periodic “galvanizing” moments among local black voters, precipitating an electoral eruption and the defeat of candidates deemed hostile.… Continue Reading
Tags: Andrea Zopp, Anita Alvarez, Barack Obama, Barb McGowan, Bernie Carey, Black Panthers, Christian Mitchell, Cook County, Donna More, Dorothy Brown, Ed Burke Jr., Ed Hanrahan, Election 2016, Garry McCarthy, Harold Washington, Hillary Clinton, Jane Byrne, Jason Van Dyke, Joe Berrios, Josina Morita, Karen Yarbrough, Ken Dunkin, Kim Foxx, Laquan McDonald, Mariyana Spyropoulos, Michelle Harris, Mike Madigan, Richard M. Daley, Roderick Sawyer, Todd Stroger, Tom Dart, Tom Greenhaw, Toni Preckwinkle
Illinois Politics | David E. Smith | December 10, 2015 7:21 AM | Comments Off on LaQuan Backlash Will Devour Alvarez in 2016
