Holy Shit! This actually happened?!?!?!?When Labar "Bro Man" Spann rolled into Garfield Park Conservatory in his wheelchair, he thought he was headed to a routine parole meeting.
Then, he saw Chicago Police Supt. Jody Weis, other top law enforcement officials and the reputed leaders of several West Side street gangs.
The meeting, it turned out, was anything but routine.
The lawmen were there to deliver a message.
"They said they would get us if we don't stop the killing," Spann said.
Seriously???A police spokesman declined to comment on the under-the-public's-radar gathering, which was part of something called the Chicago Gang Violence Reduction Initiative.
"Every law enforcement agency was there to show we're on the same team," one law enforcement source said. "It's a new approach. We're telling these guys: 'You got to cut the violence -- or else. The first gang that kills somebody, we will go full barrel after your whole gang.' "
When one of those gangs is involved in a killing, sources said, authorities plan to make their leaders' lives miserable, doing everything from towing their cars for parking violations, to ramping up parole visits, to pulling them over repeatedly for traffic stops.
Gee, let's just get it on the public record that we are suspending Constitutional protections and engaging in an organized campaign of harassment against certain individuals based on their past or suspected criminal records. We certainly hope every officer involved in this public record disaster has their house in trust.
ATTENTION IDIOTS - There is a reason the United States of America has a public policy that it doesn't meet or negotiate with terrorists. It gives terrorists legitimacy. It gives them recognition. It gives them a seat at the table. What this meeting has done is grant the gangs exactly that. It is also a tacit admission (and don't think any of them missed it) that the Chicago Police Department isn't in control of the streets.
Someone get a mop - every bottom feeding lawyer in Cook County just started drooling so hard they passed out. But wait...
it just got better!The subjects of Police Supt. Jody Weis' "Gang Meeting" are holding their own press conference with their lawyers to decry the fact they were forced to attend a meeting under the threat of a parole violation.
A group who claims to be made up of Chicago gang leaders says it is so angry about a threatened police crackdown it is going public. The so-called gang leaders have scheduled a news conference and even notified the media with a press release from a public relations firm.
It comes after police superintendent Jody Weis issued a warning to reputed gang leaders at a meeting last month.
As some elected officials criticize Weis for the meeting, some of the purported gang leaders are saying they were tricked into the meeting and have no plans to respond to what they call the superintendent's threats.
Wonderful. If true, this is going to be yet another nail in Weis' career coffin. Does anyone want to put a potential dollar amount on what a Cook County jury might award these poor former honor roll students for their troubles?
So basically, what we have here is the highest ranking law enforcement officer in Chicago trying to pull a Capt. Frank Furillo and calling a summit meeting with the shitstains that have basically declared war on the police and anyone else unfortunate enough to be in the way, during which Pizza Man (or J-Fled, as he is affectionately referred to by the rank-and-file) threatens said shitstains with all manner of drama, constitutional and otherwise.
BUT, this being the era of Hopeychange, the Age of the Unicorn, the Reign of the Mocha Messiah, these gangbanging urban terrorists take their cues from Eric (Von A-hole) Holder's Justice Department and go and hire themselves a fooking PR firm and hold a press conference to express their "dismay" at being
taregeted for harassment!!!! The unapologetic cretins
even set up a website, for Christ's sake.
Hello Gator Bradley. And hello there officer associating with known felons, degenerates and possible murderer many times over.
Ya know what? Yeah, Los Angeles really does suck major ass sometimes, but considering that my birthplace now seems to be running red with the blood of slain police officers while the assholes responsible have the unmitigated temerity to stand up in front of a microphone bank and scream "RAA-CISTS!!!!," and the overpaid douchebag with a badge and gun who's supposed to be locking said assholes up for life only seems capable of enabling all of this, I'd say maybe LA isn't such a bad place to live, after all.
The only problem, of course, is that my mom still lives there in Humboldt Park. Good thing she owns a .357 and knows damn well how to use it.
