Services for Chicago Police Officer John Bartholomew will be held May 7th. This following his death at Swedish Hospital last weekend.
He was murdered by a career criminal scumbag who hid a handgun in one of his fat rolls like some kind of walking, wheezing smuggling operation, then pulled it out at the perfect moment to gun down Officer Bartholomew and critically wound his partner. An absolute garbage human being.
Amazingly, a Cook County Judge released this (alleged) walking felony factory with an ankle monitor, citing the SAFE-T Act. Way to go, judge—truly elite decision-making. It’s the kind of rulings inspired by the political leadership that voters elect in Chicago. And they’re getting the results of those elections “gooder and harder.”
As anyone with two working brain cells could realize releasing a cop-killer is wrong. And yes, they are feeling the heat over at the Criminal Courts and doing their best to deflect from their soft-on-crime rulings. From CWB Chicago:
The Cook County judge who released a repeat violent felon with four pending felony cases on electronic monitoring last December, the same felon prosecutors now say escaped that monitoring and shot two Chicago police officers, killing one over the weekend, acknowledged during the hearing that the defendant likely would have faced “a minimum $1 million bail” under the state’s old cash bail system.
But Judge John Lyke said that era was over.
“Our esteem[ed] Legislature says, no, we’re not going to do that anymore,” Lyke said in reference to Pretrial Fairness Act provisions of the SAFE-T Act. “We’re going to make judges take a critical look at it.”
And moments later, after explaining that he believed Alphonso Talley’s life of armed robberies and carjackings might have been the result of an underdeveloped brain that had since matured — even though Talley had allegedly committed an armed carjacking and an armed robbery with the same brain just eight months earlier — Lyke decided to let him go home on an ankle monitor.
Lyke noted, however, it was “over the state’s rigorous objection.”
You can bet your last dollar that if you were a white resident who shot a black neighbor or two in self-defense and prosecutors sought charges, Judge Lyke would find plenty of reason to hold you until trial. That’s just how they roll in Chicago.
It’s stories like this which contribute to Illinois residents labelling their own state as the worst state in the nation by a wide margin.
America’s most hated states revealed… is yours on the list? https://t.co/fdJZFj8ZNW via @DailyMail
— Andrea Jackson TV (@AJacksonTV) April 30, 2026
Second City Cop blog gave their opinion of this whole mess:
His name is Alphonso Talley, and he might be yet another criminal relative of alleged PPP fraudster Yoyo Talley. Google his name and the CWB articles with him listed as the offender are front and center. Yoyo is infamous for having her niece use her car to drop off heroin on the west side, and if we recall had another nephew shoot and wound someone in 015?
But isn’t this criminal data available to….oh, we don’t know….F****** JUDGES who continually release him on an “electronic monitoring” system that fails, time-and-TIME AGAIN, and in this instance, costing an Officer his life and his partner any semblance of a normal existence IF he recovers?
Start voting people. And start encouraging others to start voting. And make sure they don’t vote for incumbents, don’t vote to retain judges and certainly don’t vote for criminal loving democrats….like Conehead and Fata$$.
Here’s a post from Second City Cop about the funeral if you’re in the area and want to show your respects.
Services for Officer John Bartholomew:
- Funeral services for Chicago police officer John Bartholomew, who was fatally shot at Swedish Hospital last Saturday, will be held next week in Chicago’s Edgewater neighborhood.Visitation will be 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. May 7 at St. Andrew’s Greek Orthodox Church, 5649 N. Sheridan Rd., according to an obituary posted Thursday. Funeral services will be held there at 10 a.m. on May 8.
We have only attended one event at that location and parking was a challenge, so allow yourself plenty of time. Check the AdMin Fax messages for St Jude’s information.