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CHICAGO’S BETTER OFF WITHOUT THUGS LIKE HIM: “He didn’t have no weapon or nothing”

[caption id="attachment_11864" align="alignnone" width="624"] Raisin Shaw, booking photo from 2011.[/caption]   [caption id="attachment_11865" align="alignnone" width="624"] Raisin Shaw, booking 2014.[/caption]   We wrote about Chicago cops shooting 20-year-old Raason Shaw.  We called him "Raisin" because that's how we think he probably pronounced it. Just as a guy we knew as "DEATHRAY"…

A CIVIL RIGHTS ICON HAS DIED: Otis McDonald has passed away

[caption id="attachment_11852" align="alignnone" width="594"] Otis McDonald in front of the U.S. Supreme Court building.[/caption] We have lost one of our generation's great civil right icons. It is with great sadness that we must report Otis McDonald has passed away. He died yesterday, succumbing to a battle with cancer.  He was…