So cops in Champaign County, IL spot a suspicious gentleman minutes after a report of an armed robbery not far away. The guy fires multiple shots at the sheriff’s deputies, who return fire. Sadly, the deputies’ gunfire wasn’t quite as true as it could have been.
URBANA (Illinois Homepage / WCIA Channel 3) — About 1:15 am, Tuesday, deputies were in the area of Michelle and Toni lanes, immediately behind the Casey’s General Store. In the area of 64 Michelle Lane, deputies observed a male subject walking around a parked car with its trunk open.
While approaching the subject and directing him to speak with them, the subject produced a firearm and fired at least five shots at the deputies before fleeing northerly towards the entry ramps of I-74.
Deputies returned fire and pursued briefly before losing the fleeing subject. The suspect is described as a male, early 20’s, flat-top style haircut.
Thank you, WCIA, for the politically correct suspect description.
They caught the guy, according to police. He is 21-years-old, out about six weeks from prison on parole, with convictions for possession of multiple stolen firearms, possession of recreational pharmaceuticals.
But wait, there’s more. According to the News-Gazette, this turd has more convictions for residential burglary, robbery and unlawful use of weapons. Given those charges in Florida, he’d still be imprisoned for a close to twenty years, enjoying all of the fraternal intimate relations he could handle.
But this is Illinois. Instead of putting bad guys in prison, we have soft on crime Democrat States Attorneys like the VERY soft on crime Julia Reitz in Champaign County.
URBANA (News-Gazette) — An Urbana man charged with shooting at Champaign County sheriff’s deputies early Tuesday morning remains jailed in lieu of $5 million bond.
A tip to Crime Stoppers played a role in the arrest of Kelvin Hartfield, according to Chief Deputy Allen Jones of the Champaign County Sheriff’s Office.
…Court records show that Brown has prior convictions for residential burglary, robbery and unlawful use of weapons by a felon.
Mrs. Reitz, pictured above, is up for election in November in Champaign County, Illinois.
We’d urge voters in Champaign County to ask themselves if they like violent criminal predators like Kelvin Hartfield prowling the streets, trying to kill our police officers thanks to soft-on-crime prosecutor Julia Reitz… or if they would like to give her opponent George Vargas a shot at running the State’s Attorney’s office.
We can’t endorse candidates, but we can inform voters.
Julia Reitz: A proven record of soft-on-crime prosecution (or complete lack of prosecution).
George Vargas: A guy who understands what keeps our streets safe.
The city of Urbana is financing a study to explain why more blacks are arrested than whites. Maybe because of repeat offenders and a soft on crime prosecutor.
Maybe young black males are committing a disproportionate number of crimes.
There. It didn’t cost those stupid assed liberals a dime.
Mr. MENSA… throwing his life away to steal $50? Maybe he thought his PhD. was gonna help him get away.
Hope he likes anal sex.
I’m glad the deputies rounds didn’t hit this “good boy”.
Many of the guns used in a crime in Champaign County were legally purchased by a FOID-card holder and then illegally transferred to the criminal. Basically, the bad guy goes to his girlfriend, mother or friend to purchase the gun for him.
For some reason, Ms. Reitz doesn’t seem to be prosecuting these straw purchasers.
This is an inexcusable dereliction of duty that puts every one of us at risk.
Julia Reitz needs to go.
Yeah, if those white cops had killed this thug, Champaign-Urbana might be ground zero for the next Thus Lives Matter circus.
There is a gang problem from Chicago to the southern tip of Illinois all along the I-57 -Amtrak corridor…..given many of the housing projects in Chicago like Cabrini green and the Taylor homes projects have been shut down displacing many entitlement residents out of their homes…..many have been given federal housing vouchers to relocate along this corridor form Chicago to Carbondale and all points in between and yes that includes the Champaign-Urbana area too….The gangs have taken advantage of this unfolding scenario they now recruit members who are exceptional students who have a great chance to succeed and go on to college…..these “new recruits” are shielded from criminal activity essentially becoming “law-abiding citizens”….they are put through college without the burden of huge student loan debt…..as members of these gangs with NO CRIMINAL RECORD they apply for and receive FOID cards and use them to legally purchase firearms for their gangs as a form of repayment for their college expenses….who knows how many weapons and ammo are purchased through these “straw purchases” and now with this pipe line going through the entire state it becomes almost impossible to stop….I have never seen any firearms background checks ask for gang affiliation as if it would do any good anyway….they need to do away with these federal housing vouchers to relocate these entitlement folks and keep them in Chicago so our local police have a better chance of containing gang activity in the downstate cities and towns.
In California, the Cali Supreme Court has ruled that developers can be required to sell a percentage of the sub-division units they build at below-market rates as a condition of a building permit. Developers also could be given the option of paying into a fund for low-cost housing. Inner city residents would be given vouchers to help afford the higher cost low-income housing. Some feel this is just payback for “white-flight” from the cities. The law now requires that blight comes with you, and you pay for it.
This probably won’t stay in California