Innocent woman, Bethany MaGee, 26, set alight on Chicago subway 'by serial criminal, 50' freed on ankle monitor by soft touch judge
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I never said it was limited to what the OP posted. They are only examples amongst many others.
Frankie and Co ...
Why do you bombard threads with off-topic posts?
Your links are sometimes informative, illuminating & thought provoking, but are often misplaced..
Please stay on topic and put your posts on threads related to them or start another one.
Why do you bombard threads with off-topic posts?
Your links are sometimes informative, illuminating & thought provoking, but are often misplaced..
Please stay on topic and put your posts on threads related to them or start another one.
Please clarify the terms of this thread.
Is it only about people of colour committing crimes on white people?
The thread topic appears in large bold font at the top of each page. Scroll up to see it. Sorry for the confusion. Copied below for easy reference.
Innocent woman, Bethany MaGee, 26, set alight on Chicago subway 'by serial criminal, 50' freed on ankle monitor by soft touch judge
So here's more info about the perp. Like Mav's previous murder post, the perp had a history of mental illness and was randomly aggressive. But he appears to have had no previous serious assaults.
Most bail court judges are going to allow low level threat serial offenders out on bail. If we locked up every street corner wacko for life, it would cost society a fortune in jail and guard fees and most of those locked up are 'scary nuisances" and not significantly dangerous. This guy was - and it's easy to be wise after the event.
Mav loves this stuff because it features a Black perp and a horrendous assault on a white woman. Mav never posts about whites attacking blacks.
www.bbc.com
A Chicago man who allegedly doused a woman in gasoline and lit her on fire on 17 November was a "career criminal", the White House has said.
Lawrence Reed who was arrested for the crime had 72 prior arrests that include eight felony convictions and seven misdemeanours, according to the White House.
The victim, 26-year-old Bethany MaGee, survived the attack but is "now fighting for her life with horrific burns", the White house said in a statement.
In court on Monday, Mr Reed yelled three times in succession "I'm guilty", after the judge warned he could receive a life sentence for charges that include committing a terrorist attack, according to reports from inside the courtroom.
The White House has sought to blame the incident on Democrats' policies on crime, casting them as "soft".
Both the state of Illinois and the city of Chicago are led by Democrats, and President Donald Trump is currently seeking to withhold federal funds from Illinois over its elimination of "cash bail", where an arrested person posts a sum of money to be released from jail before trial.
The suspect "was walking free because of the radical, dangerous 'no cash bail' law proudly signed by Governor JB Pritzker and celebrated by Chicago's defund-the-police Mayor Brandon Johnson", the White House said in a statement it released on Tuesday.
Mayor Johnson said in a statement that the attack "was a tragic incident, and the Mayor's prayers are with the victim and her family."
Mr Reed, 50, has a history of mental illness and has been arrested 72 times since he turned 18, according to a Chicago affiliate of the BBC's partner CBS News.
In August, he was charged with aggravated battery for allegedly hitting a social worker and after his arrest was released with electronic monitoring against prosecutors' objections.
The attack against Ms MaGee happened while she was "minding her own business and reading her phone", prosecutors said.
According to the criminal complaint, she was approached by Mr Reed arriving from the back of the train car who then doused her with gasoline before she ran.
As he chased her, the complaint said, Mr Reed ignited the rest of the liquid in the bottle and set Ms MaGee on fire.
Footage of the incident appeared to show Mr Reed watching Ms MaGee as she rolled on the floor engulfed in flames attempting to extinguish the fire.
Last week, Mayor Johnson said the attack "should have never happened", characterising it as "an absolute failure of our criminal justice as well as our mental health institutions".
He said the suspect clearly faced mental health challenges and presented a danger to himself and the community.
As a county commissioner, Johnson in 2020 introduced a nonbinding resolution to redirect funds from police and jails to other public services, but while running for mayor in 2023 he promised not to cut police spending.
Most bail court judges are going to allow low level threat serial offenders out on bail. If we locked up every street corner wacko for life, it would cost society a fortune in jail and guard fees and most of those locked up are 'scary nuisances" and not significantly dangerous. This guy was - and it's easy to be wise after the event.
Mav loves this stuff because it features a Black perp and a horrendous assault on a white woman. Mav never posts about whites attacking blacks.
Chicago man accused of setting train passenger on fire had 72 prior arrests
The victim was reading her phone while riding on a train when the man allegedly doused her with gasoline.
www.bbc.com
A Chicago man who allegedly doused a woman in gasoline and lit her on fire on 17 November was a "career criminal", the White House has said.
Lawrence Reed who was arrested for the crime had 72 prior arrests that include eight felony convictions and seven misdemeanours, according to the White House.
The victim, 26-year-old Bethany MaGee, survived the attack but is "now fighting for her life with horrific burns", the White house said in a statement.
In court on Monday, Mr Reed yelled three times in succession "I'm guilty", after the judge warned he could receive a life sentence for charges that include committing a terrorist attack, according to reports from inside the courtroom.
The White House has sought to blame the incident on Democrats' policies on crime, casting them as "soft".
Both the state of Illinois and the city of Chicago are led by Democrats, and President Donald Trump is currently seeking to withhold federal funds from Illinois over its elimination of "cash bail", where an arrested person posts a sum of money to be released from jail before trial.
The suspect "was walking free because of the radical, dangerous 'no cash bail' law proudly signed by Governor JB Pritzker and celebrated by Chicago's defund-the-police Mayor Brandon Johnson", the White House said in a statement it released on Tuesday.
Mayor Johnson said in a statement that the attack "was a tragic incident, and the Mayor's prayers are with the victim and her family."
Mr Reed, 50, has a history of mental illness and has been arrested 72 times since he turned 18, according to a Chicago affiliate of the BBC's partner CBS News.
In August, he was charged with aggravated battery for allegedly hitting a social worker and after his arrest was released with electronic monitoring against prosecutors' objections.
The attack against Ms MaGee happened while she was "minding her own business and reading her phone", prosecutors said.
According to the criminal complaint, she was approached by Mr Reed arriving from the back of the train car who then doused her with gasoline before she ran.
As he chased her, the complaint said, Mr Reed ignited the rest of the liquid in the bottle and set Ms MaGee on fire.
Footage of the incident appeared to show Mr Reed watching Ms MaGee as she rolled on the floor engulfed in flames attempting to extinguish the fire.
Last week, Mayor Johnson said the attack "should have never happened", characterising it as "an absolute failure of our criminal justice as well as our mental health institutions".
He said the suspect clearly faced mental health challenges and presented a danger to himself and the community.
As a county commissioner, Johnson in 2020 introduced a nonbinding resolution to redirect funds from police and jails to other public services, but while running for mayor in 2023 he promised not to cut police spending.
So this is a thread about the mentally ill?
Or is it only about this one crime by this one mentally ill person?
Or is it just another thread where you try to argue that all people of colour are dangerous, again.
