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Chicago Officer Acquitted via directed verdict for killing unarmed woman

jphelan
jphelan
Apr 21, 2015
12:19pm
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Where are the calls for removing District Attorney Alvarez?

A young, unarmed, black woman is killed by an off-duty white officer and the case is dismissed via a directed verdict because District Attorney Alvarez (D) filed the wrong charge. By Illinois Law this could not have been "involuntary manslaughter" and the officer would have likely been found guilty of murder if the District Attorney knew the law.

Where are the calls for removing District Attorney Alvarez from Office? Could it be because she is a member of the "correct" party? Or is it because she is Hispanic? Or is it because she is a woman?

No matter the reason, I expect there would be much more press coverage and cries for dismissal if the district attorney were male, white, or Republican:

Judge Dennis Porter ruled that prosecutors failed to prove that Dante Servin acted recklessly, saying that Illinois courts have consistently held that anytime an individual points a gun at an intended victim and shoots, it is an intentional act, not a reckless one. He all but said prosecutors should have charged Servin with murder, not involuntary manslaughter.

malibber2
malibber2
Apr 21, 2015
2:24pm
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Sometimes crime does pay. The attorney in question should resign.
jatki
jatki
Apr 21, 2015
5:38pm
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What is it with all these killings by cops? Do they just make the news more often because of some of the recent events?, or are there more reckless(or whatever you want to call 'em), unintentional people dying from interactions with the cops. Did anyonme see the latest where a guy died from a severed spine while being chased and detained? I've usually been in the cops corner but I guess I'm a little biased because my sisters a cop and I realize it's a tough job and they go up against some pretty nasty people who are totally unpredictable.
dfwgambler
dfwgambler
Apr 24, 2015
11:09am
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The way the story is reported is often not the whole story. The news media has limited time devoted to each story and thus leaves out much of each story. From what I've seen as a jury member this is true too. You have to be in the courtroom for the whole trial to get the whole story.

Facts are left out too. Michael Brown was a big guy. Intimidating size. You don't see that in the news media pictures. Also the media failed to show the cell phone videos that are on the internet of Brown beating his neighbors and stealing from them. He was a bully.



Boilerman
Boilerman
Apr 24, 2015
10:32pm
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There were 400 killings by cops across the United States in 2014. In Chicago alone last year, there were 400 murders............the great majority being committed on the South Side by blacks.

Why are we hearing about all of the cop killings and nothing about the Chicago black killings? I suspect the reason for this is that the Liberal media has an agenda, and that they are moving this agenda forward with reporting on all cop killings and ignoring all black killings. Regardless of intent, that's what' happening.


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Originally posted by: jatki99
What is it with all these killings by cops? Do they just make the news more often because of some of the recent events?, or are there more reckless(or whatever you want to call 'em), unintentional people dying from interactions with the cops. Did anyonme see the latest where a guy died from a severed spine while being chased and detained? I've usually been in the cops corner but I guess I'm a little biased because my sisters a cop and I realize it's a tough job and they go up against some pretty nasty people who are totally unpredictable.


jphelan
jphelan
Apr 25, 2015
2:19am
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Spike Lee will be filming a new movie in Chicago this summer entitled "Chi-raq" which is a combination of Chicago and Iraq. Cudos to Spike for sheading light on a murder problem in Chicago that is approaching (and sometimes surpassing) issues in Iraq.
chefantwon
chefantwon
Apr 29, 2015
9:18am
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Originally posted by: Boilerman
There were 400 killings by cops across the United States in 2014. In Chicago alone last year, there were 400 murders............the great majority being committed on the South Side by blacks.

Why are we hearing about all of the cop killings and nothing about the Chicago black killings? I suspect the reason for this is that the Liberal media has an agenda, and that they are moving this agenda forward with reporting on all cop killings and ignoring all black killings. Regardless of intent, that's what' happening.


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Originally posted by: jatki99
What is it with all these killings by cops? Do they just make the news more often because of some of the recent events?, or are there more reckless(or whatever you want to call 'em), unintentional people dying from interactions with the cops. Did anyonme see the latest where a guy died from a severed spine while being chased and detained? I've usually been in the cops corner but I guess I'm a little biased because my sisters a cop and I realize it's a tough job and they go up against some pretty nasty people who are totally unpredictable.


Black on black killings don't count as it doesn't fit the mold of racism. Now if a white person shot a black...then riots everywhere.

Roulette Man
Roulette Man
Apr 29, 2015
9:41am
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Think about how many cops have holstered their weapon when they could have gone after truly violent criminals, just because they don't want to take a chance of losing their pension and everything else.
O2bnVegas
O2bnVegas
Apr 29, 2015
10:00am
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Originally posted by: dfwgambler
The way the story is reported is often not the whole story. The news media has limited time devoted to each story and thus leaves out much of each story. From what I've seen as a jury member this is true too. You have to be in the courtroom for the whole trial to get the whole story.

Facts are left out too. Michael Brown was a big guy. Intimidating size. You don't see that in the news media pictures. Also the media failed to show the cell phone videos that are on the internet of Brown beating his neighbors and stealing from them. He was a bully.


Ditto. I've done jury duty too. What you read in the paper...not necessarily so.

One of the restaurants we used to go to, during one election season they had a Friday night catfish dinner deal each week, with a candidate for office (local/state, both parties) there to speak, answer questions, etc. One night it was a candidate for governor, and it was well attended, didn't get even close to ugly in terms of questions and answers. Well, a news reporter also came to that one. Clearly she was of the other party, because she wrote it up in the newspaper saying the evening "turned into a raucous fight in a beer hall". For one, yes, the restaurant served beer, but it wasn't a "beer hall" and nobody was even close to drunk. And two, the discussion was civil though issues were not avoided, nothing even close to a fight.

That taught me that you must take EVERYTHING that is in any way sensitive (political, racial, the school system, religion) that is written up in the news with big grains of salt. That reporter totally skewed the nature of that very enjoyable, informative, and civil event in that restaurant that night. Reporters, they have to add drama to their write-ups.
Boilerman
Boilerman
Apr 29, 2015
9:37pm
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I suspect that the candidate that the writer covered that night was a Republican. Am I correct?


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Originally posted by: O2bnVegas
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Originally posted by: dfwgambler
The way the story is reported is often not the whole story. The news media has limited time devoted to each story and thus leaves out much of each story. From what I've seen as a jury member this is true too. You have to be in the courtroom for the whole trial to get the whole story.

Facts are left out too. Michael Brown was a big guy. Intimidating size. You don't see that in the news media pictures. Also the media failed to show the cell phone videos that are on the internet of Brown beating his neighbors and stealing from them. He was a bully.


Ditto. I've done jury duty too. What you read in the paper...not necessarily so.

One of the restaurants we used to go to, during one election season they had a Friday night catfish dinner deal each week, with a candidate for office (local/state, both parties) there to speak, answer questions, etc. One night it was a candidate for governor, and it was well attended, didn't get even close to ugly in terms of questions and answers. Well, a news reporter also came to that one. Clearly she was of the other party, because she wrote it up in the newspaper saying the evening "turned into a raucous fight in a beer hall". For one, yes, the restaurant served beer, but it wasn't a "beer hall" and nobody was even close to drunk. And two, the discussion was civil though issues were not avoided, nothing even close to a fight.

That taught me that you must take EVERYTHING that is in any way sensitive (political, racial, the school system, religion) that is written up in the news with big grains of salt. That reporter totally skewed the nature of that very enjoyable, informative, and civil event in that restaurant that night. Reporters, they have to add drama to their write-ups.


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