Not so good for the latest victim. #50: Uber driver was murdered by a man who was on felony bail, federal prosecutors say. But that's only part of the story. - CWB Chicago
When Chicago police arrested Edmond Harris after he allegedly crashed a hijacked SUV in Lawndale on February 12, they appeared to have a slam-dunk felony case against him.
But Kim Foxx and her band of SJWs see themselves more as non-prosecuting attorneys than as prosecutors.
But Harris was not charged with any crime related to the carjacking or driving the hijacked SUV. Instead, prosecutors only charged him with failure to register as a sex offender in an unrelated matter.
He posted 1000 bucks and walked away.
And five weeks after he posted that $1,000 bail bond, he killed an Uber driver in yet another carjacking, according to federal prosecutors.
Harris is the 50th person accused of killing, trying to kill, or shooting someone in Chicago this year while awaiting trial for a felony.
Click thru for all the depressing details. The one ray of hope? Federal prosecutors are beginning to step in because the State's Attorney's office for Cook County is a joke. They charged this guy in the February carjacking and in the murder.
While I am generally opposed to the big G getting involved in local matters such as this, for the poor people in Cook County something needs to be done by someone.
ReplyDeleteThey could charge people with federal crimes, though that won't include the stuff like carjacking that is out of control
DeleteFelon in possession of a gun seems to be common, and Crimesha and her band of non-prosecutors almost never charge on gun possession. They rarely charge on anything, but that's another story.
And you're right; someone needs to do something, because our cities are falling apart.
DeleteWhich they are probably going to do anyway in the long run. (A 19th Century response to a 19th Century problem) But Lightfoot, and Foxx, and de Blasio in NYC, and others in other places are making bad situations worse.