Dan Hensley

(from the inbox) Less than an hour later this morning, just before 10:30 at Roscoe and Harding, feds again released gas as they were driving away, unobstructed, from a relatively small number of neighbors.

Border patrol agents deployed tear gas on the 3700 block of North Kildare where residents say a landscape worker, a resident, and a woman on a bike were detained. Video from a resident.

Chicagoans telling Trump’s agents to get the hell out of their city.

Chicago has the worst air quality in the world "The air quality is officially dangerous in Chicago," says Brian Urbaszewski, director of environmental health programs at the Respiratory Health Association. "It's going to send people to the emergency room. Some people may die because of what they're breathing."

Chicago officially has the worst air quality in the world. No other major city in the world had air pollution worse than Chicago as of midday Thursday.

before this Court, and there is no reason for him to be wearing one now. To counsel's knowledge, there have been no threats to Mr. Mangione's safety, and the only one wishing to execute him is the federal government. Wearing a bulletproof vest therefore serves no other purpose than to prejudice Mr. Mangione in the media and before future potential jurors. Each time Mr. Mangione has appeared in federal court (both in December 2024 and more recently in April 2025), he was wearing neither a bulletproof vest nor arm restraints of any sort, only leg shackles-which is what we are requesting here. Notably, counsel did not even have to request that Mr. Mangione appear with his hands unrestrained, as the U.S. Marshals Service removed his restraints on their own as is standard. There is no justification to treat Mr. Mangione's security protocol differently in state court than in the more serious federal court case where he faces potential execution. That Mr. Mangione's state court appearances have cameras in the courtroom (as opposed to federal court) does not suddenly turn Mr. Mangione into more of security threat that requires shackles and a bulletproof vest in the courtroom, especially given that the state and federal cases involve identical allegations.

Luigi Mangione's lawyers request to remove bulletproof vest and hand shackles ahead of his appearance on June 26 at state court. "To counsel's knowledge, there have been no threats to Mr. Mangione's safety, and the only one wishing to execute him is the federal government."

That was soooo not where I was with my logic, and that was clear. But go off, I guess.

Yes, that I can see.

I see where your thinking is now. You're looking beyond Chicago, and beyond local neighborhood incidents.

Thank you for clarifying that, because my brain is used to seeing patterns in the context of local/citywide crime patterns.

I have this issue

Anytime someone is killed in any accident....be it an auto collision, bike/motorcycle accident, home accident, work accident, it's tragic and sad.

But to say a pattern exists where there's no evidence is literally to push a lie.

If evidence showed intentional targeting, then ok.

I'm sorry, but this doesn't make sense. The reason it doesn't make sense is that the everyday things we do in going about living life in the world are both intentional, AND attached to risks. Living daily life comes with the risk of injury and death.

What are you trying to prove?

I never said driving wasn't intentional, nor did I argue against it. I just don't see the point being made.

Walking is intentional, breathing is intentional, 99% of survival is intentional.

What point are you trying to make?

Yes, driving is intentional. We all know that. You aren't making a coherent or reasonable point.

But you literally ARE saying that because you're arguing people shouldn't drive because driving is intentional.

That holds no logic and no serious thought.

I'm sorry if you or someone you care about got hurt or killed. My compassion is with you and anyone hurt or killed.

Nobody can or should take this Bluesky user seriously. He wants people to stop driving their cars.

His logic is "Driving is intentional, so don't drive" and that isn't a serious point. We live in a world with vehicles. All we can do is work to make the roads safer, and do driver safety education

What intentional actions though?

If you're talking about driving recklessly, such as speeding and/or blowing red lights, yes, those are crimes, and they become inexcusable when they severely injure or kill.

If your whole point is cars shouldn't exist, nobody can take that seriously

@lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social

At no time did I explicitly say, nor did I ever imply that I'm ok with deaths from preventable vehicle collisions.

I merely challenged the idea that there is an identifiable pattern of 1st Degree murders or manslsughters related to such.

@chap.bsky.social

Yes, CPD's Bureau of Detectives exists

www.chicagopolice.org/bureau-of-de...

This is not what I said. I challenged him to identify cases in a PATTERN of homicides he said had happened by way of vehicle as a weapon.

He was unable to pull a pattern from publicly available records accessible online.

Also, CPD Bureau of Detectives exists

www.chicagopolice.org/bureau-of-de...

Inexcusable behavior. Criminally Reckless and malicious. Hopefully the investigation finds the intent was to kill.

That's usually 1st Degree Murder. Sometimes it can be a lesser charge. Each case is different

It's a personal choice and a calculated risk.

Drive safely and stay within the law, and most times everyone will be fine

The difference is that the intent to Murder turns on a dime here. The investigatory findings have to support the criminal intent to knowingly take a life.

If it shows only negligence, the state can try a manslaughter or 2nd Degree Murder case. To prove 2nd degree, you gotta prove 1st degree.

Fact: All vehicles have speedometers.

Speculation: Speeding is always intentional.

Let's say a driver is intentionally speeding, then hits and kills a biker. Is it Murder 1 or Murder 2? Is it Manslaughter?

Murder requires intent to kill. Manslaughter needs only negligence/recklessness

I'll agree because I've also witnessed this. Selective enforcement.

There are too many acronyms and there's too much internet slang out here. What is QED?

Are there incidents between bikers and cars? Yes. Are there road hazards for bikers and cars? Yes.

Is there a pattern of intentional murders? No.

I'm not anti-science at all. Him being a doctor doesn't make him right. He brought no evidence with his claim of a pattern of homicides.

The Bureau of Detectives has not identified a pattern of such. They have procedures and protocols in place for dealing with crime patterns which includes Alerts

No. You lose. Had there been an actual pattern, you'd be able to identify the cases, AND the Bureau of Detectives would have issued a community alert

Reply with each and every issued RD number and Cook County M.E. case number that has created a pattern of intentional manslaughter or 1st/2nd Degree Murder.

Each incident has to connect to other incidents as a pattern, whether in a specific geography or citywide.