From long-time reporter and columnist Ray Hanania:
Reinstate Death Penalty in the killing of Police
Stop coddling the criminals. Stand up for our police. It’s time that the silent majority of law abiding citizens speak out against the trend of undermining our police while increasing the rights of criminals. The killing in Chicago of Police Officer Ella French, 29, demands a tough response. The fight is around us. One of those battles is taking place in Mount Prospect where Police need our support today.
By Ray Hanania
Two Chicago Police officers were attacked by armed thugs who were pulled over during a routine traffic stop near 63rd Street and South Bell Avenue in Chicago Saturday around 9 p.m.
One of the officers, Ella French, 29, died from her wounds. Her partner is listed in serious condition. One of the three suspects who opened fire on the officers was injured and is in a hospital. The other two criminals are in custody.
Had this been two minority civilians shot by police, riots would be raging in West Englewood and activists would be screaming about “defunding” the police.
But it was the police who were attacked by armed thugs and all three of those suspects should be prosecuted. If convicted, they should be given the death penalty. They don’t deserve to live.
The killing of officer French reminds us of the dangers that police face each and every time they confront criminals who violate the law. Any law, from the most minor to the most significant.
We know what is going to happen, right? The killers are going to get the best legal representation ever. Cook County States Attorney Kim Foxx will insist that they be given every courtesy as suspects, innocent until proven guilty. Politicians like Mayor Lori Lightfoot will pretend to care about street gang violence but do nothing, preferring instead to support weakening our police and strengthening the rights of the accused.
But the presumption of guilt can’t be ignored. Suspects who murder a Police Officer need to face the maximum penalty. All three are murderers, not just the one who pulled the trigger on the gun that killed officer French.
Our society has been turned upside-down by a twisted debate that makes the police the bad guys and the criminals the heroes. Hypocritical activists twist and distort facts in police and civilian clashes asserting that the police are guilty, despite the fact that the victims are often on drugs, carrying weapons and refuse to follow police commands.
The suspects end up dying, because of their own criminal behavior not because the police tried to stop them. But the families of the victims see dollar signs. The activists see headlines. Suddenly, a drugged-up criminal is a “good student” represented by a high school graduation picture.
The public should have no illusions about what’s at stake here. What is at stake is the safety of the law abiding public. They respect everyone’s rights. They pay their taxes. They raise their kids by moral standards. They take responsibility for their own actions.
All they want is to live in safe neighborhoods.
And yet their interests are being challenged by activists who are using the police-criminal confrontations as excuses to ease the burden on the criminals and impose heightened punishment on the police.
These activists are stereotyping police. Yes, there are some bad cops and those police should be prosecuted not by mobs but my the Rule of Law. But the vast majority of police put their lives on the line every minute of every day to ensure the safety of average law abiding civilians.
They are our heroes.
The fight to defend our police is a battle at every corner of society.
This week in the Village of Mount Prospect, activists led by the League of Women Voters and other “defund” police movements, are seeking to force the police there to remove a badge that is designed to express community pride and support for police.
The badge reads “Police, Mount Prospect,” displays a part of the American flag, the State of Illinois, the date Mount Prospect’s incorporation, 1917, and black and white stripes, with one Blue line.
The League of Women Voters, a group that claims to be “non-partisan” but is in fact at the forefront of the far left movement to undermine police and censor anyone who disagrees with their extremist views, is rallying supporters to protest the emblem because of that Blue line.
The Blue line is embraced across America as a symbol of support for the police, our men and women in “blue.” According to the League and its radical activist supporters, the Blue line is a symbol of White Supremacists and racists. But that’s just a political lie, an effort to demonize supporters to silence them by bullying. They want to undermine public support for the Police.
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I’m guessing Ray has never been pulled over, for illegally driving a car without a steering wheel (actual Illinois Traffic Law).
Great idea. Penalty should also apply to murder by knife, ice pick, bat, 2×4, fist, pipe, hammer, axe, foot/shoe, etc. Perhaps extend penalty to those who injure a person with a gunshot anywhere on the body – foot, leg, torso, arm, shoulder, neck, head, etc.
Reinstate the death penalty ?
Surly you jest Mr. Hanania.
Not a politician in Illinois would have the balls to suggest such a thing,
nor would any of the cowards in the media even entertain the idea of asking
a politician of reinstating such a punishment.
Good one, Ray!
Now give us one that has more than zero % chance of actually happening.
But you see, executing cop killers is white supremacy.
Law and order is white supremacy.
Safe societies are white supremacy.
Why do we live in a multicultural society again?
There is a reckoning coming it won’t be pretty but it’s coming on the less.
If your argument is that a human being doesn’t have the right to end another human being’s life then NO, this is not the answer.
Start with Lightfoot and Foxx.
Anyone ever check out the time, effort and money spent with regard to death penalty cases ?
And does anyone think that the death penalty would really act as a deterrent in the vast majority of homicides ?
There is a reckoning coming ?
A great reckoning ?
Ok Primate, summary execution for arsonists and Antifa looters like you.
You are Mike Tauler!
Get a new fake Identity.
MsTrumpion,
I still have a rent free space in your head I see, that is good.
So empty and spacious in there, good acoustic resonance for all my chanting…
I just wish the neighborhood was a better one, so many klan members around.
MsTrumpion
Summary execution ? Ever read the Constitution ?
Yeah, did read the Constitution loon Innocent Primate, alias Mike ‘Antifa’ Tauler.
You want to shred it by getting rid of the electoral college.
Also shred it by supporting reparations.
Shooting arsonists on sight is hardly against the constitution.