Maybe we were wrong about Anita. Maybe not charging murderers, even when there is enough circumstantial evidence to run something by a Grand Jury, because it will sort itself out in the end, putting a de facto death penalty back into play:
- When Chicago police went to the South Side home of 17-year-old Mokece Brown over the weekend to tell his mother and her fiance that he was found fatally shot, they were startled to hear the shooting could be payback for a murder the youth may have committed last summer.
[...] Brown was a suspect in a shooting in August in which Troy Brown, 15, was killed and a 13-year-old girl was wounded in the 4900 block of West Iowa Street, law enforcement sources said Monday. A few weeks later, an eyewitness identified Mokece Brown — no relation to the 15-year-old — in a police photo array as the gunman, one of the sources said.
[...] However, one of the sources said prosecutors then interviewed the eyewitness and eventually decided not to charge Brown because they felt the witness account wasn't strong enough. He was released without charges.
A Cook County state's attorney's office spokesman confirmed that it rejected charges against Brown "due to insufficient evidence," but he declined to elaborate.
"insufficient evidence." Where have we heard that before...? Oh yeah, the Vanecko case.
Could it be that the State's Attorney is covertly winking at vengeance killings as a way to exact justice for the bereaved? By arresting this person, putting him through the paces, then releasing him back onto the streets, Anita and her people pretty much painted a target on him as much as if they had covered him in gravy and sent him into the wolf exhibit at Lincoln Park Zoo.
We can't say we're unhappy about it - it's kind of poetic in its own way. So who will Anita condemn to death next? We could make a list if it would help.
Could it be that the State's Attorney is covertly winking at vengeance killings as a way to exact justice for the bereaved? By arresting this person, putting him through the paces, then releasing him back onto the streets, Anita and her people pretty much painted a target on him as much as if they had covered him in gravy and sent him into the wolf exhibit at Lincoln Park Zoo.
We can't say we're unhappy about it - it's kind of poetic in its own way. So who will Anita condemn to death next? We could make a list if it would help.