Category: Crime
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Wheelchair-Bound Woman Dies After Being Tasered 10 Times
Trifecta: “One, she’s in a wheelchair. Two, she’s schizophrenic. Three, they’re using a Taser on a person that’s in a wheelchair, and then four is that they tasered her 10 times for a period of like two minutes,” Alexander said. According to a police report, one of the officers used her Taser gun nine times […]
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Woman Hog-Tied, Blindfolded and Tasered
And she was already in prison: Norman “was handcuffed, leg shackled, hog-tied, blindfolded and tasered numerous times,” according to a news release issued by her her attorneys, John Lewright and Robert Foulke. Lewright said Monday the Taser incident was recorded by a video camera in the booking area, although he had yet to receive a […]
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17 Year-Old Dies After Being Tasered
He wanted Jesus: Police officers responded around 8:56 p.m. Saturday to the 600 block of South State Street to find a man holding a Bible and a cordless phone yelling, “I want Jesus!” The subject was later identified as Holyfield. Officers attempted to speak to Holyfield, but he became combative toward officers and would not […]
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Of Course They Killed Her
I mean really. Come on.
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Chicago Lawyers: Gay Not Protected by 14th Amednment
Whittle, whittle, whittle away: Ruppert was expelled from a bar and then arrested by Chicago police officers who then, according to Ruppert, pulled their cruiser over, forcibly removed Ruppert from their vehicle, and proceeded to assault him while uttering homophobic slurs, The Advocate reported. Ruppert was then taken to the hospital, where he received 16 […]
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10 Baseballers Gang-Rape 17-Year-Old Woman Leaving DNA Evidence and Eye Witnesses = Insufficient Evidence
From Mother Jones: The rape occurred March 3 at a wild, off-campus party hosted by a member of the DeAnza College men’s baseball team in San Jose, California. Three partygoers, members of the school’s women’s soccer team, said they saw a young girl on a mattress on the floor, clothes around her ankles and vomit […]
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27 Children Killed Each Year in Chicago Schools = 1 VTech Massacre Every Year
Trib: So far this school year, at least 27 Chicago Public Schools students have been killed. That’s one young life every 10 days. District officials do not keep an official tally, but they know 20 students have been shot to death, matching the highest total since they began tracking it nine years ago. The Tribune […]
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Chicago Archidocese to Abuse Vicims: Stop Suing Us
The Chicago archdiocese is trying to stop a measure designed to help victims of childhood sexual abuse. The bill allows abuse victims to sue those who harmed them — even decades after the fact. Protests from church leaders prompted state lawmakers to gut the measure, and now legislators are now working on a compromise bill.
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3rd Videotape of Chicago Police Bar Beating Surfaces
Sweet jesus: For the third time this year, surveillance videotape has surfaced of an off-duty Chicago police officer involved in a bar fight, authorities said. The latest incident became public one day after Police Superintendent Philip J. Cline announced he would retire early. The department has been struggling with the fallout from the previous tapes […]
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Ron's Laptop Was Stolen After All
And it is Monday. Kitty here on the bed sleeping already – he is worn out from a night of sleeping. Ron isn’t crazy. He ran into a neighbor who said his laptop had been stolen out of his locked apartment. So Ron did have his laptop with him on his flight home and did […]