Decriminalizing gang bangers, Soros prosecutor Kim Foxx declines to charge five arrested in fatal ga

[mystery-ak]

October 5, 2021
Decriminalizing gang bangers, Soros prosecutor Kim Foxx declines to charge five arrested in fatal gang shootout, citing ‘mutual combatants’
By Thomas Lifson

Chicago now is like Dodge City before Marshal Dillon arrived: a fatal shootout on its streets is no crime because both sides were shooting.  The Windy City already is world famous for shootouts on its streets, with an astounding 3,625 shootings so far this year, 623 of them fatal. (That death toll would be higher save for the city’s superb medical care for gunshot victims, made possible by all the practice its trauma surgeons receive.) But how many more shooting matches will start now that the word is going out that you can escape charges in a gang shootout -- even if someone is killed -- if both sides are shooting? 

An escalating number of shootouts is the inescapable implication of the decision of the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office to release all five suspects arrested in a fatal shootout between rival gangs in the city’s Southside Austin neighborhood, not too far from the Obama Monument.  The head of that office, Kim Foxx, was elected with considerable financial support from George Soros, who has help elect many soft-on-crime prosecutors across the US. Tom Schuba writes in the Chicago Sun-Times:

    Five men linked to a deadly gang-related shootout Friday in Austin were released from custody after prosecutors declined to charge each of them with a pair of felonies, including first-degree murder, the Chicago Sun-Times has learned.

    The brazen mid-morning gunfight, which left one shooter dead and two of the suspects wounded, stemmed from an internal dispute between two factions of the Four Corner Hustlers street gang, according to an internal police report and a law enforcement source with knowledge of the investigation.

    The source said police sought to charge all five suspects with murder and aggravated battery. By Sunday morning, a Chicago police spokeswoman acknowledged the suspects had “been released without charges.”

    In a statement later Sunday, Cristina Villareal, a spokeswoman for the Cook County state’s attorney’s office, explained that prosecutors had “determined that the evidence was insufficient to meet our burden of proof to approve felony charges.” Police officials agreed with the decision, Villareal added.

    While she wouldn’t specify what other evidence prosecutors needed to file charges, the police report acknowledged that victims of the shootout weren’t cooperating with investigators.

    But the report also framed the state’s attorney’s office’s decision to decline charges in a different light: “Mutual combatants was cited as the reason for the rejection.” Mutual combat is a legal term used to define a fight or struggle that two parties willingly engage in.

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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/10/decriminalizing_gang_bangers_soros_prosecutor_kim_foxx_declines_to_charge_five_arrested_in_fatal_gang_shootout_citing_mutual_combatants.html

[sneakypete]

I am betting if this had been a gunfight between whites and blacks the decision to prosecute would be different,with the whites being the only ones charged.

[Wingnut]

Lot of mutual combat going on in Lightfoot's city.

[DefiantMassRINO]

As long as both sides shoot at each other, it's okay?

Any charges for illegal weapons possesison, jaywalking, or loitering?

I bet if they held a backyard BBQ they'd be charged with Crimes Against the Climate.

[sneakypete]

Lot of mutual combat going on in Lightfoot's city.

@Wingnut

Well,what do you expect when the mayor is an alien from another solar system.

Have you looked at that things head and eyes? No way is that human.

[EdinVA]

But there is a video of the shooting... Just use the same vigorous investigation that the DOJ used to imprison the Jan 6 victims....

[skeeter]

But there is a video of the shooting... Just use the same vigorous investigation that the DOJ used to imprison the Jan 6 victims....

Lol. In Biden's America you can get 6 months solitary confinement for trespassing in a public building, yet walk after engaging in a gun battle.

[catfish1957]

Lol. In Biden's America you can get 6 months solitary confinement for trespassing in a public building, yet walk after engaging in a gun battle.

And exactly why half the country in polls believes this country needs permanent division into two countries.

[GtHawk]

Sure why not, I mean geez it's not like these yutes will ever do this again probably resulting in the death of innocents because much like police they almost never hit what they are aiming at.

[skeeter]

And exactly why half the country in polls believes this country needs permanent division into two countries.

i know, but from where I sit that sounds too much like surrender.

[goatprairie]

This is why people shouldn't believe crime stats coming out of cities with leftists in control. But even Mayor Beetlejuice didn't like what Fox did.
 Because the shooters were engaged in "mutual combat" they hadn't committed serious crimes? Only a lunatic would come to that conclusion after what happened.

[Fishrrman]

"Decriminalizing gang bangers, Soros prosecutor Kim Foxx declines to charge five arrested in fatal gang shootout, citing ‘mutual combatants’"

"Chicago now is like Dodge City before Marshal Dillon arrived: a fatal shootout on its streets is no crime because both sides were shooting."

In all seriousness, what is the downside here?

Let them "clean up the streets" by eradicating each other.
The fewer armed and dangerous "yutes" there are, the better.

Sorry if you don't like that.

[mystery-ak]

Lightfoot warns city could be sent ‘into chaos’ after Foxx’s latest decision to reject charges

The top prosecutor accused the mayor of getting her facts wrong regarding the deadly Austin shootout last week and said there was not enough evidence.
By Tom Schuba and Fran Spielman Updated Oct 4, 2021, 8:06pm CDT

Mayor Lori Lightfoot and a group of City Council members urged Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx Monday to reconsider prosecuting five suspects in a deadly gang-related shootout last week in Austin after they were released when prosecutors rejected charges against them.

Chicago police sought to charge all five suspects with murder and aggravated battery after they allegedly engaged in a Friday morning gunfight between two factions of the Four Corner Hustlers street gang, the Chicago Sun-Times first reported.

The state’s attorney’s office, however, declined to charge any of them, calling the evidence insufficient. A police report further noted that prosecutors told investigators charges were rejected because the shootout involved “mutual combatants.”

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https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2021/10/4/22709632/mutual-combatant-lori-lightfoot-kim-foxx-austin-jack-boys-shootout-four-corner-hustlers