Showing posts with label Illinois. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Illinois. Show all posts

2019/08/30

U.S. Appeals Court In Chicago Again Upholds Laws Banning Assault Weapons

https://www.npr.org/2019/08/29/755551838/u-s-appeals-court-in-chicago-again-upholds-laws-banning-assault-weapons

The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that two gun owners, who sued over the gun control measures in the county where Chicago is located, "have not come forward with a compelling reason to revisit" since the last time the same court examined a similar challenge — out of the Chicago suburb of Highland Park, which was also sued after passing an assault weapons ban.

2019/08/09

kid shot in the knee

https://www.thedailybeast.com/illinois-cop-shot-unarmed-black-12-year-old-in-bed-during-botched-raid-lawsuit

I should get a court order for this body cam footage

2016/06/09

10 months late

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-illinois-comptroller-lawmaker-paychecks-met-0418-20160417-story.html

2016/01/09

What did he know

http://inthesetimes.com/article/18729/laquan-mcdonald-rahm-emanuel-emails-foia

This does bring up some questions about the mayor and his staff, but it also makes it sound like the family was blackmailing the mayor into the $5 million payment.