Legacy media outlets have drawn criticism over their framing of an incident in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/chicago" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chicago</a> where a 26-year-old man was killed by police after he fired at officers who had pulled him over for a traffic stop last month, according to an initial investigation and body camera footage.
Dexter Reed was killed after police pulled him over for a traffic stop in Chicago on March 21 after officers said he was not wearing a seatbelt. When officers attempted to speak with him, Reed locked himself in his vehicle and gunfire broke out leading officers to run away from the vehicle. According to the preliminary investigation from the civilian-operated Chicago Office of Police Accountability, Reed fired at the officers first, injuring one of them and shooting at least 11 times at them.
The police accountability report said that a &#8220;review of video footage and initial reports appears to confirm that Mr. Reed fired first, striking the officer and four officers returned fire.&#8221;
Footage released from the incident shows police officers walking up to Reed in his vehicle and asking him to roll down his windows. Reed does not immediately respond, but eventually, he does and an officer asks him what he is doing. He then locks the door and rolls up the window, ignoring the commands of the officer to unlock and open the door. Then gunfire breaks out and two officers can be seen running from the car for cover as they are shot at. Reed was killed after officers responded to the gunfire.
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Just in: part of more than 30 videos released this morning by @COPA_Chicago related to the &quot;exchange of gunfire&quot; resulting in the death of Dexter Reed last month. (Graphic)
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While much of the media coverage has focused on how many shots responding officers fired at Reed and complaints of excessive police force, little attention has been paid to indications that Reed fired at police first.
The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/04/10/dexter-reed-shooting-video-chicago-police/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">headline</a> read, “Police fire 96 shots in 41 seconds, killing Black man during traffic stop,” the Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/police-shooting-chicago-officers-investigation-ca147a5ea386e70190f23bd6912445f0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ran</a> with “Deadly Chicago traffic stop where police fired 96 shots raises serious questions about use of force,” and USA Today <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/04/09/seatbelt-check-cops-fired-96-shots-at-black-motorist-killing-him/73265324007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">had</a>, &#8220;Seat belt violation ends with Black man dead on Chicago street after cops fired nearly 100 bullets.”
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The Post did not mention that investigators believe Reed fired first until the eighth paragraph while the AP leaves out that detail until the seventh paragraph. Both outlets also did not mention that Reed was <a href="https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/dexter-reed-shooting-questions-over-traffic-stop-cpd-use-of-force-remains-after-body-camera-video-released/3406215/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">facing</a> three counts of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon and one count of possession of a firearm with a revoked FOID card, according to NBC Chicago.
Conservative commentators were quick to criticize media coverage of the incident, arguing legacy outlets were trying to foment unrest.
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The crucial fact that Reed fired on police officers first, injuring one, is not even mentioned until 8 paragraphs into the <a href="https://twitter.com/washingtonpost?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@washingtonpost</a> article by <a href="https://twitter.com/GuinnessKebab?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GuinnessKebab</a> (Jennifer Hassan). This is how the article begins, with a dishonest &amp; inflammatory narrative that police were just… <a href="https://t.co/04xt4EgfC8">pic.twitter.com/04xt4EgfC8</a>
&mdash; Christina Pushaw 🐊 🇺🇸 (@ChristinaPushaw) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChristinaPushaw/status/1778164881251844447?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 10, 2024</a></blockquote>
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It takes six paragraphs for the <a href="https://twitter.com/AP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AP</a> to mention that Dexter Reed fired at the officers first. Eight for the <a href="https://twitter.com/washingtonpost?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@washingtonpost</a> in their article.
The articles base their reporting on the findings of Chicago&#39;s COPA, a citizen oversight board that has authority to review &quot;All… <a href="https://t.co/tCGfBDoL2t">https://t.co/tCGfBDoL2t</a>
&mdash; Bryan Griffin (@BryanDGriffin) <a href="https://twitter.com/BryanDGriffin/status/1778513039345504556?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 11, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Chicago Police are still reviewing the shooting, as is the civilian police review board, to determine whether the shooting was justified or not.

Marquette v DePaul

Media Bury Key Detail About Police Shooting Of Man Facing Gun Charges

Chicago

Chicago Police

Crime

Police

Shooting

U.S.

Last year, a man in his mid-20&#8217;s named Dexter Reed was <a href="https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/dexter-reed-shooting-questions-over-traffic-stop-cpd-use-of-force-remains-after-body-camera-video-released/3406215/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">charged</a> with three counts of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon and one count of possession of a firearm with a revoked &#8220;Firearms Owners Identification Card,&#8221; which is required in the state of Illinois before you can possess a weapon or ammunition. Because no one really spends time in jail in Illinois anymore, Reed was <a href="https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/dexter-reed-shooting-questions-over-traffic-stop-cpd-use-of-force-remains-after-body-camera-video-released/3406215/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">free</a> on pretrial release for these felony charges as recently as this past March.
It goes without saying that at that point, any functioning member of society who somehow found himself charged with these crimes would try to lay low for a bit. Maybe they&#8217;d keep their illegal guns at home, for example. But Dexter Reed did not choose that approach because he&#8217;s not a functioning member of society. Instead, in March, Reed went for a drive in an SUV wearing a ski mask and carrying a firearm. 
That&#8217;s when police say they noticed that Reed was breaking yet another law: he wasn&#8217;t wearing a seatbelt. Instead of cooperating with the traffic stop, this is what happened. I&#8217;m going to show two angles of this incident from police body cams. The second body cam is from an officer who was shot as this unfolded. Watch:
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It&#8217;s clear from this footage that Dexter Reed is wearing a ski mask and he&#8217;s not cooperating with the officers. They tell him to unlock the door and stop rolling up the windows, and he refuses for quite some time. Then the officers see something that clearly puts them in fear of their life. They back up, and shots begin ringing out. One officer is hit in the wrist, and he survives.
According to the <a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2024/04/08/video-fatal-chicago-police-shooting-humboldt-park-dexter-reed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chicago Sun Times</a>: &#8220;Alderman Brian Hopkins, chairman of the City Council’s Public Safety Committee, said he&#8217;s been told 26-year-old Reed fired 11 shots through his car window in what Hopkins called &#8216;an attempt to kill police officers.&#8217; An empty gun was recovered at the scene, Hopkins said. &#8220;He fired 11 rounds at these police officers before he was eventually killed.&#8221;
As of now, police are still investigating this shooting. But Chicago&#8217;s Civilian Office of Police Accountability has determined that the evidence &#8220;appears to confirm&#8221; that Reed fired the first shot. And the video by itself shows that pretty clearly.
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One social media user on Twitter, the account &#8220;<a href="https://x.com/ExposeDarkDeeds/status/1778286067931623896" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Expose Them</a>,&#8221; synced up footage from two of the body cams that Chicago police have released. The top bodycam is the one I just showed of the officer who got hit. The other bodycam is from a third officer on the scene. You can see that the first officer gets hit before the other officers fire:
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The footage is pretty clear evidence that the officers defended themselves. They should end the discussion entirely. But that hasn&#8217;t happened, because even before these body cams were released, professional agitators engaged in a concerted effort to turn Dexter Reed into a martyr.
A former Chicago mayoral candidate and BLM activist named Ja’Mal Green began <a href="https://cwbchicago.com/2024/04/videos-of-fatal-chicago-police-shootout-to-be-released-today-its-not-the-things-that-youve-been-told-top-cop-says.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posting</a> on social media this weekend that the footage would show an &#8220;execution.&#8221; He also &#8220;warned&#8221; about possible riots, which of course is exactly what Ja&#8217;Mal Green wants to happen.
And Green&#8217;s strategy appears to be working, at least so far.
This week crowds turned up outside a police station to heckle officers and make some of the most strained arguments imaginable. Watch:
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So they&#8217;re saying the cops couldn&#8217;t possibly have known whether he was breaking the seat belt law, because he was driving with heavily tinted windows, which is also against the law.
Apparently in BLM circles this is seen as a sort of checkmate, even though they&#8217;ve just provided an additional reason why police would have wanted to pull this guy over.
And then they argue that there&#8217;s no need for &#8220;armed officers&#8221; to enforce seat belt laws. Well, apparently there is, especially in a city like Chicago — because you never know when someone who&#8217;s not wearing a seatbelt might be out of jail on a felony gun charge, still packing heat and wearing a ski mask and ready to shoot at you for no reason.
All of that is irrelevant anyway. Even if they had no reason to pull him over — which they did — it still obviously doesn’t justify him shooting at the cops. You don’t get to shoot at the cops if you disagree with their reason for stopping you. I’ve been pulled over for seatbelt violations before. I found it annoying. I never considered murder as a response.
But the push to portray Dexter Reed as a victim continues anyway, because none of this is really about the facts. Alleged academics are getting involved, too. An English professor at Amherst named &#8220;Frank Leon Roberts&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/DrFrankRoberts/status/1778093938550706269" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote on</a> social media:
<blockquote>His name was Dexter Reed. Murdered in broad daylight by the Chicago Police Department. 96 shots in 41 seconds. 26 years old. His crime: not having his seatbelt on. This is America. Defund and abolish the police.</blockquote>
A few hours after the professor wrote that tweet, he deleted it and erased his entire Twitter account, maybe because it was a little too ridiculous — even by the standards of Amherst. But it wasn&#8217;t too absurd for the corporate press. They&#8217;ve also done everything they can to portray the police as the aggressors here.
Here&#8217;s how the Washington Post covered Dexter Reed&#8217;s traffic stop, for example. The <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/04/10/dexter-reed-shooting-video-chicago-police/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">headline</a> reads: &#8220;Police fire 96 shots in 41 seconds, killing Black man during traffic stop.&#8221;
So there&#8217;s nothing in there about what Dexter Reed did during the traffic stop. There&#8217;s no mention of the fact he opened fire on police officers. In fact, if you read the story, you won&#8217;t find any mention of Dexter Reed shooting his handgun until the eighth paragraph of the story. That&#8217;s not an exaggeration. They just ignore it until eight paragraphs in.
Instead, here&#8217;s what the Washington Post talks about first. This is from the beginning of their article. It&#8217;s as emotional and over-the-top as they possibly could have done it: 
<blockquote>Dexter Reed’s mother remembers the last time she saw her son alive. &#8230;. &#8216;He was just riding around in his car,&#8217; Dexter’s mother, Nicole Banks, [said] on Tuesday, as she broke down in tears. &#8216;They killed him.&#8217;</blockquote>
This is the footage they&#8217;re referencing:
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So Reed&#8217;s mother is out at press conferences crying and fainting on camera. I&#8217;m sure she is legitimately distraught given that her child was killed. But as always, there is no self-analysis, no moment of honest reflection where she wonders how she raised a child who would throw his life away for no reason during a traffic stop. Instead she blames the cops — and the lawsuit, I&#8217;m sure, will be close behind. And the Washington Post decides to lead with this, instead of an accurate description of what happened during the traffic stop.
It&#8217;s hard to think of a more deliberately dishonest way to frame the actions of an attempted cop-killer. And just for good measure, the Post puts a giant photo of Dexter Reed at some graduation ceremony from 5five years ago at the top of the article. They leave off his mug shot from his felony firearms arrest. This is the way it always goes with BLM martyrs. You never see graduation photos of anyone who makes the news for any reason — unless it’s a black guy killed by the cops.
On Twitter, a writer named Daniel Friedman <a href="https://twitter.com/DanFriedman81/status/1778253473441558700" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pointed out</a> the history of this tactic. It began after Michael Brown was shot ten years ago after fighting with a cop and trying to take his gun. Media outlets went on Brown&#8217;s Facebook, and then they used unflattering photos of Brown flashing gang signs in their coverage.
As Friedman writes, &#8220;Black Twitter reacted angrily. They said that the media was using images of Brown that stereotyped him. There was a trending hashtag &#8220;#if they gunned me down&#8221; of college students or professionals posting pictures of themselves looking like thugs in solidarity with Brown.&#8221;
So the media relented and swapped out the thug photos for graduation photos. And they&#8217;ve been doing that ever since.
In this case, the Washington Post wasn&#8217;t alone in whitewashing Reed&#8217;s actions. <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/09/us/dexter-reed-chicago-police-shooting-video/index.html">CNN</a> ran a similar headline that made no mention of Dexter Reed shooting at officers: &#8220;96 shots fired in a fatal traffic stop. Here’s what the bodycam footage shows.&#8221; The <a href="https://x.com/AP/status/1778251706389688495">AP</a> reported, &#8220;Deadly Chicago traffic stop where police fired 96 shots raises serious questions about use of force.&#8221;
It&#8217;s almost comical when you picture the editors carefully trying to construct these headlines so that they don&#8217;t mention the elephant in the room. It&#8217;s like imagining someone trying to describe the maiden voyage of the Titanic without saying anything about the whole iceberg thing.
But I&#8217;d be remiss if I mocked the media&#8217;s ridiculous coverage of this episode without mentioning the <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13293555/black-lives-matter-protestors-chicago-police-dexter-reed-shooting.html">Daily Mail</a>. They chose to portray Dexter Reed as an &#8220;aspiring broadcaster.&#8221; So he&#8217;s not an attempted cop killer — he&#8217;s the next Tom Brokaw apparently: 
<blockquote>On Tuesday, Chicago Police released footage of the March 21 encounter which showed them firing 96 shots at Reed, even as he lay motionless on the ground outside his vehicle. The aspiring broadcaster&#8217;s death has reignited conversations around excessive police force against black people, though officers maintain Reed opened fire first.</blockquote>
At least they get around to suggesting that the officers were defending themselves. So there&#8217;s that. It&#8217;s easy to laugh at how absurd this is, but there&#8217;s a point to it. BLM and their allies in the media are desperate to find a new George Floyd before the election. They know Democrats stand a very real chance of losing power in November. So they&#8217;re using the same tactics they did four years ago.
George Floyd, we were told, wasn&#8217;t a home invader, thief and drug addict. They <a href="https://www.mprnews.org/story/2021/03/08/remembering-george-floyd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told us</a> he was a &#8220;Gentle giant&#8221; trying to &#8220;Get his life back on track.&#8221; Now we&#8217;re expected to believe that Dexter Reed is also some misunderstood pillar of the local community, instead of the degenerate he is. The plan is to cause riots, terrify everyone into voting the way they want, and force a &#8220;national reckoning on race&#8221; to promote more of their mediocre allies into positions of power. And they plan to accomplish all of that by lying about a dead thug.
This is a strategy we&#8217;re seeing more and more often as the election approaches. Last October, for example, the media tried to incite riots over the shooting death of Leonard Cure — a man who tried to kill a police officer on camera during a traffic stop. There&#8217;s no dispute about this. It&#8217;s on tape. Watch:
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After seeing that footage, here was the Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/10/18/leonard-cure-exoneration-shooting-death/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">headline</a>: &#8220;Deputy fatally shoots man who served 16 years for wrongful conviction.&#8221; The article begins: &#8220;Leonard Cure, who was exonerated in 2020, was killed by a Georgia sheriff’s deputy during a traffic stop Monday &#8230; The deputy used a Taser and a baton before shooting Cure.&#8221;
The Post didn&#8217;t get around to mentioning that Cure tried to murder the deputy until 14 paragraphs into the story. And even then, they describe it as carefully as they can. They say Cure was &#8220;forcefully grappling with the deputy and pushing the deputy’s head back with his hand.&#8221; That&#8217;s the Post&#8217;s way of saying that he was trying to choke the officer to death. And of course, Ben Crump came out and <a href="https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1716237599235326460">declared</a> that Cure had been shot simply for being black.
That effort didn&#8217;t catch on in quite the way the media and BLM activists had hoped. So now they&#8217;re trying again. And they will continue to try until one of two things happen. Either they get the riots they want and terrorize millions of people into voting for Democrats out of fear — or, for once, normal, sane people stand up and say what&#8217;s obvious. And that&#8217;s the fact that Dexter Reed and Leonard Cure and all of these BLM &#8220;heroes&#8221; are the dregs of society. They are not role models and they are not victims. They are, in fact, the cause of many serious problems that cities like Chicago are experiencing right now. That&#8217;s the only message that can put an end to these riots before they start, and avert a repeat of the pillaging we saw in 2020. It happens to be a message that most Americans believe, even if they&#8217;re afraid to say it. But as unpleasant as it may be, it&#8217;s time we started saying it.

2020 Chicago Auto Show Media Preview – Day 1

The Media Nominates Their New George Floyd

Matt Walsh

Opinion

Readers Pass

Former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who after her defeat in her reelection bid last year said she had been treated unfairly because she was “a black woman in America,” has been hired at a rate of $400 an hour to investigate Dolton, Illinois, Mayor Tiffany Henyard’s alleged corruption.
“Lightfoot&#8217;s to-do list is long, including finding millions in Dolton&#8217;s unpaid bills and a lavish village-funded trip to Las Vegas for Henyard, a few trustees and village employees last year,” ABC7 Chicago <a href="https://abc7chicago.com/tiffany-henyard-mayor-of-dolton-il-lori-lightfoot-chicago/14635532/" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://abc7chicago.com/tiffany-henyard-mayor-of-dolton-il-lori-lightfoot-chicago/14635532/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1712750815649000&amp;usg=AOvVaw14y3YCoxRo09_ePswSPYuf">reported</a>.
Lightfoot should investigate “all allegations of misconduct, and all internal investigations, if any, along with any village state and federal law violations,” Dolton Trustee Jason House stated.
“I bring expertise in leading investigations of this kind and understand the complex challenges of governing. I will follow the facts where they lead, without bias, and reserve comments until the work is complete,” Lightfoot, a former federal prosecutor, told the Dolton board, which had voted <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/03/06/us-news/super-mayor-tiffany-henyard-vetoes-probe-into-her-spending/">earlier this year</a> to ask the FBI and other entities to investigate Henyard but were stymied by Henyard’s veto.
Lightfoot issued a statement after the board’s decision:
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I am honored that the Village of Dolton Board of Trustees has placed their confidence in me to conduct a thorough and timely independent investigation into the matters outlined in the resolution regarding Mayor Tiffany Henyard and her administration. As someone who has made good governance the cornerstone of my career in public service, I recognize that maintaining the trust of those you serve and making decisions in their best interests is essential. The residents of Dolton deserve nothing less than a government that is fully accountable, responsive, transparent, and effective stewards of taxpayer dollars.
As a lawyer, former federal prosecutor, and mayor, I bring expertise in leading investigations of this kind and understand the complex challenges of governing. I will follow the facts where they lead, without bias, and reserve comments until the work is complete. At the conclusion of this investigation, I will provide an assessment of the findings and recommendations. I welcome and urge the full cooperation of Mayor Henyard, her staff, Village Trustees, vendors, and others who have information relevant to this inquiry.
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At the Monday board meeting at which the board voted to hire Lightfoot, one speaker questioned the move, saying, “We just want to know that once we get what we&#8217;re looking for, what happens next?”
“At the end of the day, haven&#8217;t gotten results from simple FOIA, so how are you going to be different?&#8221; another speaker echoed.
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“It is my sincere hope that Mayor Henyard will voluntarily cooperate, but should they not, we are prepared to do what is necessary to get to the facts,” Lightfoot responded.
Henyard, who <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13065769/mayor-illinois-salary-biden-white-house-tiffany-henyard.html">earns</a> $300,000 a year for her mayoral duties and has admitted the city has a $2 million deficit, can veto the board’s current vote for an investigation.
<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13286723/Lori-Lightfoot-investigation-America-worst-mayor-Tiffany-Henyard.html">According</a> to The Daily Mail, the Illinois Attorney General shut down Henyard&#8217;s charity last month following accusations that it used taxpayer money and the services of public workers.

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Lori Lightfoot Hired At $400 An Hour To Investigate Democrat Mayor’s Alleged Corruption

General

Illinois

Lori Lightfoot

Politics

The Illinois Supreme Court will hear Jussie Smollett’s appeal after an appeals court in December upheld his conviction for disorderly conduct.
The conviction stems from Smollett’s 2019 claim that he was the victim of a hate crime – an allegation that proved to be false. The Illinois Supreme Court on Wednesday released <a href="https://ilcourtsaudio.blob.core.windows.net/antilles-resources/resources/1ddf8abe-5325-4153-8797-7f4d5b9958d2/March%2027,%202024.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a list</a> of cases that it would allow to appeal, and Smollett’s case is included.
In December, a state appeals court upheld Smollett’s conviction in a 2-1 vote, WLS <a href="https://abc7chicago.com/where-is-jussie-smollett-today-empire-supreme-court-now/14578113/?ex_cid=TA_WLS_TW&amp;taid=660457abf4ed320001808e38&amp;utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&amp;utm_medium=trueAnthem&amp;utm_source=twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Smollett then took his appeal to the state Supreme Court. A hearing date for the appeal has not been set.
In January 2019, Smollett claimed he was walking alone at night in Chicago during a polar vortex when two supporters of former President Donald Trump — allegedly carrying rope and bleach — recognized him from his role on “Empire” and brutally attacked him while yelling racial and homophobic slurs.
Smollett returned to a friend’s home and called the police, still wearing the noose that he said was placed around his neck by his attackers.
It was later reported that Smollett hired two Nigerian brothers he had previously worked with to stage the attack to raise his profile and hopefully get him a raise on “Empire” and further his acting career. The brothers alleged that Smollett paid them to buy plain red hats that he later claimed were “Make American Great Again” (MAGA) hats, signaling the attackers’ support of Trump.
In September 2020, Smollett insisted he was “set up” and continued to claim that he was attacked by two white men wearing MAGA hats. The brothers who said they were paid to stage the attack are black. The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jussie-smollett-insists-he-was-set-up-says-he-has-two-new-witnesses-to-refuse-hoax-claims" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> at the time that Smollett suddenly started claiming he had two witnesses who could prove he did not fake the attack.
After Chicago police investigated Smollett’s original claims for two weeks, they suspected he had staged the attack. Smollett was charged with 16 counts of lying to police, but those charges were dropped as part of a sweetheart plea deal made with the Cook County State’s Attorney’s office.
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A special prosecutor was assigned to review the deal, and ultimately revived six of the original charges against Smollett, who was convicted of the charges in 2021. He spent just six days in jail after he appealed his 150-day sentence.
In March of last year, the brothers who helped Smollett stage the attack <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/brothers-who-helped-carry-out-staged-attack-on-jussie-smollett-apologize-in-interview" target="_blank" rel="noopener">apologized</a> during an appearance on Fox News.
“I just first want to apologize to everyone in the audience, the country, and anyone who might have been affected by this directly. When we were asked to partake in this, we really didn’t foresee the ramifications of what something like this could do to the country,” one of the brothers said. “We allowed our ambition to cloud our judgment.”

Jussie Smollett

Jussie Smollett Granted Chance To Appeal Conviction To Illinois Supreme Court

Hate Crime

Hoax

The remains of a man found burned and decapitated 45 years ago have finally been identified thanks to advancements in DNA technology.
The remains have been identified as Joseph A. Caliva, who was 27 years old when he went missing. It is still unclear who killed him.
In 1979, a boy was riding his horse in the Chicago suburb Barrington Hills when he came across a horrific scene: the burned remains of a decapitated man, CBS News <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/decapited-body-found-1979-joseph-caliva-barrington-hills-illinois-dna-forensic-genealogy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Police responded that found the partially burned torso of an adult white male, the Barrington Hills Police Department (BHPD) said in a <a href="https://www.bhpd.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/BHPD-Press-Release-1979-2050-Unsolved-Homicide.pdf">press release</a>.
Former Barrington Hill Police Chief Al Schuld <a href="https://wgntv.com/news/cover-story/you-found-my-brother-mans-torso-found-44-years-ago-in-barrington-hills-now-identified/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> WGN that he still remembered the day the remains were found.
“It was hard to recognize for one thing because it was burnt,” Schuld said. “I can still remember the smell. The upper torso, then the bottom part of the torso and then the legs were there but there were no hands or head or nothing like that. The whole area was checked but we never did find that.”
“It was like, oh my god, why would, how could somebody do that to a human being?” Schuld added.
Investigators determined that the man was killed somewhere else and brought to this location, and without any identifying characteristics, they could only label him as “John Doe.”
Last year, the BHPD sent the man’s DNA to Othram, a Texas-based lab that specializes in forensic DNA evidence and forensic genetic genealogy. Othram has been responsible for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/her-remains-were-found-in-a-garment-bag-in-1978-she-was-just-identified" target="_blank" rel="noopener">identifying</a> <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/skeletal-remains-identified-as-boy-who-went-missing-in-2003-police-expect-charges-soon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">victims</a> in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-4-year-old-girl-was-found-dead-in-1960-authorities-just-identified-her" target="_blank" rel="noopener">numerous</a> cold <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/her-remains-were-found-in-1985-now-shes-finally-been-identified" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cases</a> over the past few years, including the identification of the Golden State Killer.
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Othram developed a comprehensive DNA profile and genetic genealogists were able to use that profile to create a family tree using public DNA databases, like 23andMe. A relative of the deceased man, Linda Gressick, was identified as Caliva’s half-sister.
Gressick told investigators that she grew up in Chicago and that Caliva was a former Marine who was working for Chicago’s Streets and Sanitation department when he disappeared, CBS reported. She told WGN that she knew immediately why the BHPD was calling her.
“I said right away to the detective, ‘You found my brother, didn’t you?&#8217;” Gressick told the outlet.
“He was gone for about four days when we started to realize something was wrong, my dad started to realize something was wrong because he didn’t show up at work,” Gressick added. “It was four days past his paycheck, which would have been on the first.”
She said the family searched for Caliva but weren’t initially fearful that he was dead.
“I would say at least two or three weeks after he disappeared, they probably were holding out hope that he was staying with a friend or something like that because that was his nature,” she told WGN. “He might have stayed at a cousin’s house, or something. They probably held off and then finally filed a missing person’s report.”
Gressick provided investigators a DNA sample, which matched Caliva’s.
“It’s very unsettling,” Gressick said. “I thought I was ok with him being gone and I know everybody’s goal was closure. It seems like less closure now than when there was before I found out. I’m hoping to find out more about what happened and everything.”
Police are asking that anyone with information on this case contact the BHPD Investigations, and reference the case number 1979-2050.

Cold Case Solved

Man Found Burned And Decapitated In 1979 Finally Identified

Murder

One of the most important ideas in the Bill of Rights is that your private property belongs to you.
It wasn&#8217;t exactly a novel concept, but just in case there was any doubt, the Bill of Rights spelled it out: No one can seize your property without due process. And if you take a look at the major court cases in this area over the years, you&#8217;ll find that you have the strongest privacy interests in your home, which makes sense. There are all kinds of exceptions that police can use to search your car, or your locker at work, for example. But for your home, there aren&#8217;t many exceptions. Your home is your castle, as the saying goes. That&#8217;s been true since the common law was created. 
But it&#8217;s not true anymore. It&#8217;s not even remotely true, in fact. 
It turns out that, when you flood the United States with a limitless supply of illegal migrants, while at the same time shipping millions of jobs overseas, then housing becomes a very scarce commodity. Squatters, mostly out of desperation, pop up in every home they can find — even homes that haven&#8217;t been abandoned. And then, when homeowners try to enforce their rights, and kick these criminals out of the property they paid for, they&#8217;re finding out that the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution has effectively been suspended. 
As we discussed briefly yesterday, squatters — home invaders — now have more rights than homeowners. The government will assist them in seizing your property. The police, universally, will take the side of the criminal home invader, and kick the homeowner to the curb. Then, nonprofits and law firms rush in to represent the squatter in legal proceedings, should they become necessary. And then, somehow, courts will often still rule in favor of the squatter. 
<h4><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1329-squatters-can-now-come-in-and-steal-your-home-with-no-consequences-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show</a></h4>
We don&#8217;t have to speculate about any of this. It&#8217;s all well-documented at this point. No reasonable person can dispute it. I&#8217;ll start with an example that&#8217;s gotten a lot of attention recently. 
Watch as a 47-year-old woman in Queens, New York, is dragged away from her own home — in handcuffs — because someone claims to have a lease for her property. This guy can&#8217;t show the lease to anyone, including the police and the media. But because he claims he&#8217;s been living there for around a month, they arrest the woman:
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&#8220;Unlawful eviction&#8221; is what they call it when you call the police because there&#8217;s a home invader in your home. That&#8217;s what you get if you&#8217;re not willing to wait two years (or more) for New York&#8217;s completely overloaded housing court to review your case. And by the way, even once New York&#8217;s housing court does review the case, there&#8217;s no guarantee they&#8217;ll side with the homeowner. This is a city that has outlawed the right of self-defense, after all. Once that&#8217;s gone, good luck getting them to enforce any of your other rights.
This is the norm in Left-wing jurisdictions now. It&#8217;s not just that the police don&#8217;t care about squatters with zero documentation whatsoever. It&#8217;s also the fact that the courts don&#8217;t enforce the law, even when you bring flagrant crimes like this to their attention. In Washington state, a judge just <a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/squatter-granted-restraining-order-against-landlord-by-washington-state-judge" target="_blank" rel="noopener">granted</a> a restraining order against a landlord whose tenant hasn&#8217;t been paying rent for years. The landlord organized a protest to bring attention to the situation, and the judge shut it down. This is a tenant who&#8217;s apparently purchased two cars while refusing to pay rent. And in Washington state, the courts side with him.
But this is not just a problem in New York City and Washington State. It&#8217;s happening all over the United States. 
Consider this recent episode in Atlanta, for example. This is from just four months ago. A woman listed her home for sale — not for rent. Then complete strangers moved in and changed the locks. In response, the police did absolutely nothing. Watch:
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It&#8217;s beyond parody. So the police do eventually show up. But it&#8217;s not to evict the home invaders who are stealing this home. It&#8217;s because they have their own &#8220;parallel investigation&#8221; for some other crimes that one of the squatters — a sex offender — committed in the past. So the cops take one man away in custody. But they allow the other squatter to stay on the property. The cops say the homeowner can ask for her to leave, but &#8220;it might not pan out.&#8221; That&#8217;s what law enforcement means now. You can ask people to stop breaking the law, but it might not pan out.
It needs to be said that these are not close cases. It&#8217;s true that, if it&#8217;s a confusing situation — say, a tenant appears to have legitimate lease documentation — then it&#8217;s probably best that the cops don&#8217;t arrest the tenant. But these are not difficult situations like that. When sex offenders start living in your house, without any valid documentation, the police should remove them. There shouldn&#8217;t be any question about it.
But apparently that isn&#8217;t happening anywhere. A similar scene played out seven months ago in Chicago. This time, a homeowner tries to rent out the property, and squatters show up. But once again, the police don&#8217;t do anything:
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I could spend all day, going from city to city, showing you footage like this. There&#8217;s footage from rural jurisdictions as well that I could show you. It&#8217;s happening all over. These kinds of home invasions are so common that one handyman has opened up a business advising homeowners how to regain access to their own homes, when squatters show up. Basically the idea is that you need to generate your own lease, so that you can show it to the police officers, who are now trained to respect your squatter&#8217;s rights over your rights in your own home. Watch:
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It&#8217;s hard to think of a more humiliating exercise than this. You own a property, and to access it, and to get the police to enforce the law, you need to draw up some fake lease for them. And this idea actually works, by the way. We know that because several years ago, the journalist Charlie LeDuff tried it in Michigan. He out-squatted the squatters. Watch:
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&#8220;Are you stealing power?&#8221; Charlie asks. &#8220;I&#8217;m blessed,&#8221; responds the squatter. At least the woman has a sense of humor.
What&#8217;s funny is that, in this situation, unlike all the other ones, the police actually do take the original squatter to jail. This is the only time they&#8217;ll take action to protect your property. You have to hire a new squatter to kick out the old one. I guess the idea is that the most recent squatter gets dibbs. 
This is a mockery of the idea of private property rights, obviously, and there&#8217;s a reason it&#8217;s happening. It&#8217;s the same reason you see so much mockery of religion. It&#8217;s the same reason BLM goes after the family unit. It&#8217;s why the corporate media pushes transgenderism. Private property rights — like religion and the family unit — is a bulwark against total state control of our lives. As long as we have private property, the state can&#8217;t control us — at least not as easily. 
Without private property, we&#8217;re just renters. And renters can be evicted at will. You&#8217;ll own nothing and be happy.
The Biden administration has done everything it can to normalize the destruction of private property rights. The administration fought to extend the COVID-era eviction moratorium as long as they could — long past the time that there was any plausible argument that ending evictions would somehow &#8220;stop the spread.&#8221; That led, effectively, to the nationalization of private property in this country. Landlords lost the right to evict squatters paying no rent, even when they owned the property outright. Watch:
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The anchor says it&#8217;s a &#8220;loophole.&#8221; But it&#8217;s the opposite of a loophole, the policy was working as intended. The eviction moratorium had nothing to do with a virus. It was intended to do something that&#8217;s never happened in this country since the Civil War, which is the wide-scale suspension of private property rights.
Once you pull off something as unconstitutional as seizing people&#8217;s homes in a time of &#8220;emergency&#8221; (as the Biden administration defined it), then it becomes much easier to seize people&#8217;s homes at any point in the future. And that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re seeing now.
That means more homes for the millions of illegal aliens who are entering this country.
It means more humiliation and destruction for American citizens.
And it means we&#8217;re getting closer to some homeowner somewhere snapping and deciding to take back his property, by force. At this point, you have to imagine that&#8217;s exactly what the people running this country want to happen.

House For Sale

Squatters Can Now Come In And Steal Your Home With No Consequences

Atlanta

Home invasion

Housing

Landlord

New York City

Property Rights

The city of Chicago is moving ahead with plans to evict illegal immigrants from city shelters beginning on Sunday — and they plan to evict more than 2,000 illegal immigrants by the end of April.
According to a <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/chicago-begin-evicting-migrants-shelters-sunday-rcna143415?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma&amp;taid=65f59b5cbb9a8e0001c74f7e&amp;utm_campaign=trueanthem&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from NBC News published on Friday, the first 35 will face eviction on Sunday and nearly 250 will be evicted from city- and state-run shelters before the end of March. A total of 2026 are expected to be evicted before the end of April, city officials said.
Chicago currently has more than 11,000 illegal immigrants spread across 23 shelters in and around the city, but a new policy limiting their stays in such shelters was supposed to take effect last November. After a number of delays due to extreme weather conditions, the policy is set to be implemented beginning on Sunday.
Once illegal immigrants have been evicted from the shelters, they may find alternative housing arrangements or they can go back to Chicago&#8217;s &#8220;landing zone&#8221; — where they go upon first arrival in the city — and request to be reassigned to a shelter.
Chicago Democratic Mayor Brandon Johnson noted that some 4,500 who would be evicted under the new policy will qualify for extensions and be allowed to remain where they are — some until June.
Critics mocked Chicago&#8217;s status as a &#8220;sanctuary city,&#8221; noting that eventually reality had to set in.
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&#8220;So, whatever happened to being a &#8216;sanctuary?&#8217; Oh, right. Reality,&#8221; one posted on X.
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So, whatever happened to being a &quot;sanctuary?&quot;
Oh, right. Reality. <a href="https://t.co/OsQVCbLUZ4">https://t.co/OsQVCbLUZ4</a>
&mdash; Phineas Fahrquar (@irishspy) <a href="https://twitter.com/irishspy/status/1769040668868198464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 16, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Sounds racist,&#8221; another added.
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Sounds racist. <a href="https://t.co/d4oftb5i9N">https://t.co/d4oftb5i9N</a>
&mdash; john jackson (@pvtjokerus) <a href="https://twitter.com/pvtjokerus/status/1769027508173988073?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 16, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Is this 2024 America or 1933 Germany? Hard to tell these days. Chilling,&#8221; Stephen Miller joked.
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Is this 2024 America or 1933 Germany? Hard to tell these days. Chilling. <a href="https://t.co/4FxpZ1Xql5">https://t.co/4FxpZ1Xql5</a>
&mdash; Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) <a href="https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1769023346014884008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 16, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The news comes just a few days after ten <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-measles-vaccinations-outbreak-migrant-shelter/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">measles cases</a> were reported at one such shelter in Chicago — at least two of whom were children who attend Chicago Public Schools — prompting local authorities to step up efforts to vaccinate illegal immigrants as they arrive at the city&#8217;s shelters.
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Fun fact: the biggest measles outbreak in the United States this year is happening in a migrant shelter in Chicago. Just another win from our border collapse! <a href="https://t.co/g0EAxrDTEC">pic.twitter.com/g0EAxrDTEC</a>
&mdash; Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) <a href="https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1767930423588389043?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 13, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Chicago Moving Ahead With Plans To Evict Illegal Immigrants From Shelters

illegal immigrant

Illegal Immigration

A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/chicago" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chicago</a> police officer is suing the city to change his race from &#8220;white&#8221; on official records after the police department started allowing cops to change their gender identity.
Mohammad Yusuf, 43, filed a federal civil rights lawsuit last week saying that he wants to change his race on police records from &#8220;Caucasian&#8221; because he &#8220;currently identifies as Egyptian and African American.&#8221;
&#8220;Yusuf wishes to correct the racial designation listed on his police personnel file, which currently indicates that he is Caucasian, to accurately reflect his race, as North African,&#8221; the lawsuit <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24440682-yusuf-v-chicago-pd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reads</a>.
The Chicago Police Department has refused Yusuf&#8217;s request, he claims.
The veteran cop claims that back in 20o4 when he joined the force, police records provided limited selections for race — only Caucasian, Hispanic, and African American. At the time, he chose Caucasian, but now there are more options.
Yusuf even provided his 23andMe results to prove his ethnicity, but the police department continued to refuse his request, he says.
The lawsuit accuses the police department of having a &#8220;double standard,&#8221; noting that officers are allowed to change their gender identity on official records.
&#8220;While other CPD officers are afforded the opportunity to have their gender identity corrected to match their lived experience, Officer Yusuf and others in similar positions are barred from obtaining accurate racial designations that align with their racial identity,&#8221; the suit says.
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One of the main issues is that Yusuf claims his career has suffered because he identified as white.
The lawsuit says that despite the Chicago police department claiming to have a race-neutral and merit-based promotion system, Yusuf has been &#8220;repeatedly bypassed&#8221; for promotions in favor of less qualified black officers who had &#8220;disciplinary issues.&#8221;
So far, Yusuf has not obtained the promotion to sergeant that he wanted, the suit says, despite scoring in the &#8220;first promotional tier&#8221; on the sergeant’s exam in 2019.
&#8220;We do not comment on pending litigation,&#8221; the Chicago Police Department <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-cop-sues-city-right-change-race-department-allows-officers-change-genders" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
Yusuf&#8217;s attorney Gianna Scatchell Basile, who is married to a Chicago police detective, said the city&#8217;s approach has been &#8220;arbitrary.&#8221;
“I think the City of Chicago was on the right track when they allowed people to change their gender identity, and allowed them to identify as the proper gender, but then when it comes to race, it’s just very arbitrary,” Basile <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-chicago-cop-muhammed-yusuf-sues-police-department-to-change-his-race" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The Daily Beast.
The lawsuit calls race a &#8220;social construct.&#8221;
“The idea of even having to prove race is wrong,” Basile said. “Race is not scientific.”

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Chicago Cop Sues City To Change Race On Records After Officers Allowed To Change Genders

Gender

Social Issues

Transgender

The Chicago Board of Education on Thursday voted unanimously to remove police officers from the city&#8217;s public schools.
The board voted 7-0 to end the school resource officer program as well as remove police officers from the 39 public schools that had cops on campus. Dozens of schools also had school resource officers on campus.
&#8220;Today&#8217;s resolution is fulfilling the board&#8217;s commitment to focus on alternative systems of safety,&#8221; <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-board-of-education-to-vote-resource-officers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Chicago Board of Education member Michelle Morales.
This means Chicago Public Schools will not renew its $10.3 million contract <a href="https://www.wbez.org/stories/chicago-board-of-education-is-considering-removing-cops-from-schools/809ab8f6-14b6-4a62-8594-d533ebe41f08" target="_blank" rel="noopener">with</a> the city to have police officers at schools.
&#8220;We will continue to collaborate with CPD on its support for arrival and dismissal times, and responses to emergencies,&#8221; said another Board of Education member, Rudy Lozano Jr.
Despite the unanimous vote, the education board meeting was heated with Chicago residents showing up to advocate both for and against officers in schools.
Members of the Chicago City Council were also divided.
&#8220;I&#8217;m just telling you all right now — the blood is going to be on your hands if something happens to some kids, or some teacher, or some crazy parent in the parking lot,&#8221; Alderman Nicholas Sposato said.
Last month, the push to remove cops from the city&#8217;s public schools drew backlash from school principals.
A December 15 meeting between principals and the city’s school board <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chicagos-push-to-remove-cops-from-schools-draws-backlash">did not go</a> the way the principals expected, according to Troy LaRaviere, president of the Chicago Principals &amp; Administrators Association.
Principals were told they would be able to give their input on the decision to remove school resource officers, but they did not get that chance, LaRaviere <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-public-schools-principals-plan-remove-police-officers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> CBS News Chicago.
“They were told that the board had made a unilateral decision, without the input of the people who actually run the schools,” LaRaviere said.
Before the current school year, 40 high schools voted on whether to keep police officers in their schools. All but one voted to keep officers on campus.
Some of the high schools chose to get rid of one of their two officers, however. The schools that chose to remove one or both officers received about $3.7 million for “alternative safety interventions.”
LaRaviere explained that school resource officers build relationships with the students, which is helpful when an incident occurs.
“If you don’t have an SRO, what are you supposed to do? You don’t have the SRO with the relationships. You have to call 911. And then you have to get the luck of the draw,” LaRaviere told the outlet. “Cops with no relationships with the children show up.”
Mark Grishaber, the principal of William Howard Taft High School in north Chicago, said his school’s resource officers “know half the kids by their first name” and are often able to deescalate situations.
“The SRO has been trained and knows how to deal with teens in a school community,” Grishaber <a href="https://nadignewspapers.com/school-board-reportedly-looking-into-eliminating-on-campus-police-at-all-chicago-high-schools-taking-decision-away-from-lscs/#google_vignette" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Nadig Newspapers. “You can see the difference.”
The move to remove police from schools echoes remarks Chicago’s mayor made when he was running for office.
Mayor Brandon Johnson <a href="https://www.wbez.org/stories/chicago-board-of-education-is-considering-removing-cops-from-schools/809ab8f6-14b6-4a62-8594-d533ebe41f08" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> at the time that “armed officers have no place in schools in communities already struggling with over-incarceration, criminalization, profiling and mistrust.”

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Chicago Democrat Mayor Brandon Johnson told reporters he agrees with the city’s Board of Education that police officers should be removed from the city’s high schools.
The Chicago Police Department has a $10.3 million contract with the city’s board of education, but the Board wants to terminate it. Johnson told the Chicago Sun-Times and WBEZ this week that he will give the go-ahead for the police to be removed. “Nearly all the board of education members who approved last year’s $10.3 million school resource office contract have been replaced by Johnson appointees,” <a href="https://www.wbez.org/stories/chicago-board-of-education-is-considering-removing-cops-from-schools/809ab8f6-14b6-4a62-8594-d533ebe41f08" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WBEZ</a> noted.
“The Board of Education is moving in the direction that I do support,” Johnson <a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2024/1/30/24056400/cps-johnson-ok-pulling-officers-out-schools-he-tells-chicago-sun-times" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a>. “There is an intergovernmental agreement between Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Police Department. To end that agreement, there’s no qualms from me there.” The Sun-Times said Chicago Public School officials informed high school principals last month that police officers would not be present next fall.
As a mayoral candidate, Johnson opposed officers being on school grounds, but after he was inaugurated as mayor, he <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/chicago-mayor-supports-removing-police-from-schools?intcmp=tw_fnc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reversed his position</a>, asserting that the decision to remove officers should be made by local school councils. But now he has reversed himself again.
In 2020, as the George Floyd protests surged, the Chicago Teachers’ Union urged the schools to rid themselves of the police, <a href="https://www.ctulocal1.org/posts/noon-tues-6-23-cps-students-teachers-parents-to-cps-we-demand-a-safe-and-equitable-reopening-of-schools/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stating</a>, “These students along with the parents, teachers and staff that support them have looked at the data, experienced the brutality and are calling for police-free schools. Members of the CPS community are calling on the $33 million contract between CPS and CPD to be better used for restorative justice coordinators, social workers, nurses, trauma supports and other critical programs in schools.&#8221;
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Reports surfaced that last month, the Chicago Board of Education was attempting to remove Local School Councils — comprised of parents, teachers, and students — of the authority to decide to have school resource officers (SROs) present on their campuses. Reports indicate that this summer, the Chicago Board of Education will vote on whether the contract with the CPD will be renewed.

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Illegal migrants are now sheltering at international airports in two major cities, first Chicago and now Boston.
One terminal at Boston Logan International Airport has turned into a temporary shelter for nearly 100 migrants now that the city&#8217;s other shelters have reached capacity. Some families <a href="https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/migrants-sleep-at-logan-airport-amid-calls-for-more-aid/3258115/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">have been</a> sleeping for weeks in Terminal E, where most international flights arrive.
Photos <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12998541/chicago-boston-migrants-logan-airport-sanctuary-city.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">show</a> families sleeping on the floor and on pallets, crowded by other people, blankets, and their belongings.
One woman collected hygiene items for the migrants, <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/migrants-sleeping-floor-logan-airport/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">telling</a> WBZ that the migrants, many of whom have young children, do not have access to a shower, so they are given wipes to clean themselves.
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NEW?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NEW</a> Dozens of migrants are sleeping on the floor of the International terminal of Logan Airport.
 WBZ says that Massachusetts State Police are being paid overtime to assist at Logan overnight.
Volunteers helping the migrants are concerned of hygiene as no showers are… <a href="https://t.co/ZHnlkx3N66">pic.twitter.com/ZHnlkx3N66</a>
&mdash; Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY) <a href="https://twitter.com/ScooterCasterNY/status/1749947156352405917?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 24, 2024</a></blockquote>
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First, it was Chicago&#39;s airport housing illegal aliens. 
Now, it’s Boston’s. 
How long until this happens where you live?<a href="https://t.co/ZvqkBACuMw">https://t.co/ZvqkBACuMw</a>
&mdash; Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jim_Jordan/status/1749878357133562228?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 23, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Some migrants are <a href="https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/state-transportation-building-in-boston-will-house-migrant-families-as-emergency-shelter/3196822/#:~:text=The%20building%2C%20located%20at%2010,maxed%20out%20at%207%2C500%20families." target="_blank" rel="noopener">also</a> camping out in conference rooms at a transportation building in Boston. However, that space is only available at night.
Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey, a Democrat, capped the shelter system at 7,500 families in the fall despite Massachusetts&#8217; right-to-shelter law. Now, 600 families are on a waitlist for shelter, her administration <a href="https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/migrants-sleep-at-logan-airport-amid-calls-for-more-aid/3258115/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
Earlier this week, Healey and eight other Democratic governors wrote to the Biden administration and congressional leaders <a href="https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/01/23/maura-healey-governor-letters-immigration-reform" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asking</a> for more funds to handle the migrant crisis.
&#8220;We need D.C. to act. We need Congress to act,&#8221; Healey said Monday at a press conference.
Healey&#8217;s office <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/migrants-sleeping-floor-logan-airport/#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">estimates</a> migrants will cost the state $915 million next year. She has asked the state legislature for another $250 million to address the crisis this year, but that funding has not yet been approved.
Massachusetts State Police officers are being paid overtime to patrol the area of the airport where migrants are staying, Healey said.
&#8220;The airport has been a wonderful partner and I really want to thank the folks at the airport who are doing a wonderful job including members of the state police who are working their regular shifts but who are managing the inflow and outflow of folks from the airport,&#8221; she <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/migrants-sleeping-floor-logan-airport/#:~:text=%22The%20airport%20has%20been%20a,told%20reporters%20at%20a%20news" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Monday.
Meanwhile, however, the CEO of the airport called the migrant situation &#8220;not sustainable&#8221; back in November.
&#8220;When they come to Logan we meet them and we try to assist them, but we have to emphasize that Logan is not an appropriate place to house people,&#8221; Massport interim CEO Ed Freni <a href="https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/logan-airport-not-an-appropriate-place-for-migrants-arriving-daily-massport-ceo-says/3194521/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> reporters.
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Chicago <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chicago-migrants-shelter-struggles-bus-arrivals/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has had</a> hundreds of migrants sleep in O&#8217;Hare International as the city scrambles for more shelter space and builds more shelters.
The hundreds of recent arrivals, including babies and the elderly, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chicago-airport-now-sheltering-hundreds-of-illegal-migrants-as-city-waits-on-tents" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lived</a> in a shuttle bus center at the Chicago airport’s Terminal 1, where they slept on cardboard and used airport bathrooms.
Other major cities are grappling with an influx of thousands of migrants that has also overwhelmed their shelter systems, including <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/eric-adams-latest-response-to-flood-of-illegals-change-ruling-that-gave-them-right-to-shelter">New York City</a>, which has seen more than 160,000 migrants arrive since spring 2022.

Hundreds of asylum seekers stay at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago

Migrants Now Sleeping At Airports In Two Major U.S. Cities

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Political commentators and social media users ripped Chicago Democratic Mayor Brandon Johnson after he called for a ceasefire in the ongoing Israel-Hamas war on Wednesday. 
Earlier this week, Hamas rejected a two-month ceasefire deal proposed by the Israeli government, refusing Israel’s condition that top Hamas commanders be exiled from the Gaza Strip, The Times of Israel <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/hamas-rejects-israels-offer-for-two-month-pause-for-release-of-hostages/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Hamas is also reportedly demanding any ceasefire deal to include the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza. On Wednesday, Johnson added his name to the list of Democrats in the U.S. calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.
“We need a cease-fire,” the mayor said while referencing death tolls, according to <a href="https://www.wbez.org/stories/chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-calls-for-a-cease-fire-in-gaza/d0705fca-14c5-4c2a-ac04-884580a4a0d9" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WBEZ Chicago</a>. 
The mayor, who took office last year after defeating incumbent Lori Lightfoot, was slammed for his comment by numerous people who pointed out that the city he leads is coming out of a violent crime wave that saw Chicago top the nation in <a href="https://www.illinoispolicy.org/chicago-homicides-in-2022-up-43-above-pre-pandemic-levels/#:~:text=Chicago%20saw%20810%20homicides%20in,any%20city%20in%20the%20nation." target="_blank" rel="noopener">homicides</a> with 810 in 2021. 
“Can we first have a ceasefire in Chicago?” <a href="https://twitter.com/LevineJonathan/status/1750512070993268975" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked</a> New York Post reporter Jon Levine.
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His question was echoed by conservative radio host Erick Erickson. 
“How about a ceasefire on the South Side first?” Erickson <a href="https://twitter.com/EWErickson/status/1750515988896923936" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a>.
“Netanyahu should call for a ceasefire in Chicago,” David Harsanyi, senior editor at The Federalist, <a href="https://twitter.com/davidharsanyi/status/1750516379596234838" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a>. 
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Johnson admitted that he doesn’t know if his statement on a ceasefire will influence the U.S. stance but said his duty as mayor requires him to “recognize people’s humanity” and “understand the value of what liberation … means for people.” 
“I wish I could give you maybe an answer to what impact it will have on other people who make decisions, but I can say from a very personal note: I know that for Black liberation we had to make statements that maybe not in the immediate it had an impact,” Johnson said.
“But I’m not mayor of the city of Chicago if people weren’t pushing the government to recognize people’s humanity and understand the value of what liberation — what it means for people, groups and nations,&#8221; he added. “And in this instance, people should be liberated.”
During the last temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, the terrorist group <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hamas-terrorists-violate-ceasefire-with-rocket-attack-israel-responds-with-precision-strikes">violated</a> the agreement, firing rockets at Israel. Hamas terrorists also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hamas-terrorists-murder-3-people-wound-others-at-bus-stop-in-jerusalem">murdered</a> four people, including a young pregnant woman, at a bus stop in Jerusalem during the ceasefire. The terrorist group has <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/24/world/middleeast/israel-hamas-hostages-ceasefire-talks.html">said</a> it will only release the remaining hostages, believed to be more than 100 people, if Israel agrees to a comprehensive ceasefire.

Mayor Brandon Johnson Slammed After Calling For Ceasefire In Israel-Hamas War: ‘Netanyahu Should Call For A Ceasefire In Chicago’

Mayor Brandon Johnson Slammed After Calling For Ceasefire In Israel-Hamas War: 'Netanyahu Should Call For A Ceasefire In Chicago'

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