And broadcast on Facebook live? All the "Anti-Trump" stuff while the tortured him? No hate crime charges were filed because the offenders were BLACK?

Link to the Sig Forum thread:

https://sigforum.com/eve/forums...935/m/7640049614/p/9

News link to original story:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/04/...e-beating/index.html



Well... guess what got 4 years probation...

http://www.chicagotribune.com/...-20171208-story.html



A Chicago woman who live-streamed video of the racially charged beating of a teen with mental disabilities pleaded guilty Friday to a hate crime and was sentenced to four years of probation.

Brittany Covington, 19, has been in custody since her arrest in January.

Calling the incident “horrific,” Cook County Circuit Judge William Hooks banned Covington from social media over the four years, prohibited her from contact with two of her co-defendants and ordered her to do 200 hours of community service.

Hooks told Covington he could have imposed a prison sentence but added, “I’m not sure if I did that you’d be coming out any better.”


Hooks said he hoped the strict terms of probation would put Covington on a more productive life path, but he warned she would face prison time if she violated any of the restrictions.

“Do not mess this up,” Hooks told Covington, who stood quietly in a blue jail uniform with her hands clasped behind her back.

The 19-year-old also pleaded guilty to aggravated battery and intimidation charges. As part of a plea deal, prosecutors dropped additional charges, including kidnapping.

The video, which sparked national outrage, focuses often on Covington’s face. She smokes what appears to be a blunt — a cigar stuffed with marijuana — while narrating some of the action.


Three others were charged in the incident: alleged ringleader Jordan Hill, 19, as well as Tesfaye Cooper, 19, and Covington’s sister, Tanishia, 25. Their cases are still pending.

The video, posted in January, shows the four — who are all African-American — cutting the 18-year-old white victim's scalp with a knife, punching and kicking him and laughing as he was bound and gagged in an apartment on Chicago's West Side.

The gruesome video drew condemnation from many, including then-President Barack Obama. Right-wing pundits used it as a rallying cry, tying it without evidence to the Black Lives Matter movement and blaming permissive policing.

Among the abuse seen on the Facebook video, prosecutors have said, is one of the women laughing as she punches the teen; a male foot on the victim's head; the teen groaning in pain as a male pulls a cord around his neck; and the victim screaming in fear when a male approaches with a knife, saying, "Should I shank his a--?"

At one point, prosecutors said, Hill and Cooper ordered the victim into a bathroom and forced him to drink water from the toilet.

The teen was bound and gagged, a sock placed in his mouth and his lips taped shut. With the knife, Hill then cut a chunk of the victim's hair, cutting his head, and stabbed him in the left forearm, prosecutors have said.

The victim, who prosecutors said has schizophrenia and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, was able to flee the building when the four co-defendants left the apartment to confront neighbors who had complained about the noise, prosecutors have said.

He was treated at a hospital for cuts to his head, face and body as well as a stab wound to his left arm, authorities said.

mcrepeau@chicagotribune.com



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Just incase anyone here wonders why crime is out of fucking control in this town, well... Here's the reason. Thank you very much Judge Hooks, you piece of shit.


Those 4 need to be hanging from a tree in front of the courthouse, not "probation".

"That's the Chicago way!"

http://www.floridatoday.com/st...vandalism/924987001/
Michael Wolfe, 37, will serve 15 years in state prison, followed by 15 years probation for the January 2016 crime at the Islamic Society of Central Florida Masjid Al-Munin Mosque in Titusville. Prosecutors said the agreement was reached after discussions with the Islamic Society of Central Florida and Titusville police. 


Hmmmmm, seems fair, eh? I mean, the perp left BACON IN A MOSQUE.

Well, White Privilege and all, don't you know.

Equal justice under the law for all. Yeah, right. This filth needed to be made an example of for the rest, but alas, the judicial system is every bit the cesspool that society has devolved into.

Lesson from this and other stories like it...carry a gun daily and learn how to use it proficiently.

quote:

Originally posted by RichardC:
http://www.floridatoday.com/st...vandalism/924987001/
Michael Wolfe, 37, will serve 15 years in state prison, followed by 15 years probation for the January 2016 crime at the Islamic Society of Central Florida Masjid Al-Munin Mosque in Titusville. Prosecutors said the agreement was reached after discussions with the Islamic Society of Central Florida and Titusville police. 


Hmmmmm, seems fair, eh? I mean, the perp left BACON IN A MOSQUE.

While I don't agree with the sentencing of the dirt bags in the original post, did you read the rap sheet of the dirt bag that you posted about?

While a travesty of the "judicial" system - she is now accessible.

There WILL be Justice,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

God will be the Final Judge!

quote:

Originally posted by CPD SIG:

"Three others were charged in the incident: alleged ringleader Jordan Hill, 19, as well as Tesfaye Cooper, 19, and Covington’s sister, Tanishia, 25. Their cases are still pending."

Maybe these 3 will draw a different judge. Hooks is same judge who gave a drunk driver 10 days in jail for killing a bicyclist.

Did anyone familiar with this case expect anything different? I didn't and predicted this verdict from the beginning. I was actually more surprised they were even charged

I am no longer surprised by sentences like this.

Dismayed? Angered? Yes... Hopefully justice gets a helping hand from Karma...

"strict terms of probation would put Covington on a more productive life path"

Place your bets.

quote:

Originally posted by TKO:
I am no longer surprised by sentences like this.

Dismayed? Angered? Yes... Hopefully justice gets a helping hand from Karma...

You guys need to check yourselves. Otherwise, before long if you don't just go with the flow, the pin striped mafia will be along to lecture you that if you don't agree with this, you support anarchy. You are nothing more than a brown shirt if you dare speak out against stuff like this.

This is the system working as it should with due process.

And it only makes sense if each time you are being lectured about "due process" you substitute "billable hours" when you hear due process. The ones that profit obscenely from this system are the only ones that thinks it is working as it should.

This is another obvious travesty, and isn't "justice".

quote:

Calling the incident “horrific,” Cook County Circuit Judge William Hooks banned Covington from social media over the four years, prohibited her from contact with two of her co-defendants and ordered her to do 200 hours of community service.

Hooks told Covington he could have imposed a prison sentence but added, “I’m not sure if I did that you’d be coming out any better.”

If 'horrific' gets you community service and <shudder> a ban from social media <shudder>, what does that fine gentleman think one would have to do to warrant hard time?

And I wonder if the robed genius could point out where in the criminal code it says that jail time has to improve the perp?

Every time you see a sentencing like this, it's a political jab at President Trump and people like us at the expense of the victims of these trash receptacles.

Wouldn't hurt my feelings if North Korea's first nuke target was Chicago. Maybe let that one 'slip through' before we level the Norks.

"Calling the incident “horrific,” Cook County Circuit Judge William Hooks banned Covington from social media over the four years, prohibited her from contact with two of her co-defendants and ordered her to do 200 hours of community service.

Hooks told Covington he could have imposed a prison sentence but added, “I’m not sure if I did that you’d be coming out any better.”


After decades of defendant outcome justice, results illuminate this thought process is hurting more than helping society. Please return to holding the evil doer up as an example of what is unacceptable in our society too, thanks.

This person and the local community now understand kidnapping/beating/degrading/terrorism, is "No Big Deal".
Lawyer, court, police, government jobs program?

They are so lucky that is not my child. I would kidnap them and use their video as a step by step instructional video and make them watch it as I followed it to a tee.

quote:

Originally posted by ulsterman:
"strict terms of probation would put Covington on a more productive life path"

Place your bets.

She's probably smoking another blunt right now.

Wouldn’t want her to be in the general population now would we? Of course, she’s got 4 years to live under probation. With luck she’ll screw that up and get to do some time anyway.