Judge Releases First of Four Suspects in Racial Kidnapping and Torture of White Teen

In the case against the four Black teens from Chicago who kidnapped, terrorized and tortured a mentally disabled White man for hours and then posted the video on the internet, a judge has ruled in the first of the four teens’ cases that the suspect would not be any better off with jail time and, therefore, he’s letting the suspect off without punishment because it was a stupid mistake by a child!

This video, which went viral soon after its posting, was deplored by nearly everyone who viewed it as one of the most inhumane treatments of another human being as they kicked and beat this mentally disabled man for hours, terrorizing him with racially-charged curses and promises of killing him at the end of the ordeal.

The first of four Chicago suspects accused of beating and torturing a disabled teenager and broadcasting the attack on Facebook has pleaded guilty, but a judge let her off without prison time, a report says.

Brittany Covington, 19, pleaded guilty to a hate crime in court on Friday, according to the Chicago Tribune.

The suspect also “pleaded guilty to aggravated battery and intimidation charges. As part of a plea deal, prosecutors dropped additional charges, including kidnapping,” the Tribune said.

Despite the guilty plea, Cook County Circuit Judge William Hooks released Covington without jail time. Telling Covington, “Do not mess this up,” Judge Hooks imposed 200 hours of community service and banned Covington from using social media and having contact with her co-defendants for four years.

The judge did not assign jail time because, he said, “I’m not sure if I did that you’d be coming out any better.”

Hooks insisted that his sentence would give Covington the chance to put her life on a productive path.

Covington is the first of the four defendants who were arrested early this year for the attack posted to Facebook.

In January, four Chicago teens were arrested after police were alerted to a Facebook live video showing the assailants beating and at one point slashing a victim tied up in a Chicago apartment. During the video of the attack, the suspects are heard saying, “F*** white people,” and “f*** Trump.”

The victim turned out to be a disabled white teen from nearby Rockford, Illinois. A GoFundMe campaign was set up for his benefit days after the reports broke.

Four black residents of Chicago – Jordan Hill, Tesfaye Cooper, and Brittany Covington, all 18 years old; and 24-year-old Tanishia Covington – were charged with battery, kidnapping, and hate crimes in connection with the attack.
Chicago police called the incident “sickening.”

“It’s sickening. It makes you wonder what would make individuals treat somebody like that. I’ve been a cop for 28 years, and I’ve seen things you shouldn’t see in a lifetime,” police Superintendent Eddie Johnson said. “It still amazes me how you still see things you just shouldn’t. So I’m not going to say it shocked me, but it was sickening.”

Cases for the other three defendants are pending.

This should have been an open-and-shut case of guilty by this judge, based alone on the video and its contents.  It is also a textbook example of a so-called “hate crime” that the Left created back in the Clinton era in order to punish Whites even more harshly who committed crimes against Blacks on the basis that they were racially-charged.

I don’t happen to subscribe to hate crimes in the first place.  I think it’s an asinine way to combat racism and racially-charged activity.  If a man commits a murder based solely on the fact that the victim is a certain race, rather than commits a murder for fun, what is the difference?  A victim is dead because a person made a decision to take that man’s life.  Should it matter why the murderer committed the crime if it was premeditated?

I understand when the death occurs under other circumstances, as when a bullied individual strikes out at his attackers and kills one of them.  We’re not talking about something like that.

Regardless, the enforcement of “hate crimes” is a ridiculous venture in the first place.  How about just convicting someone based on the horrendous nature of the crime?

In this case, the Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson is quoted as being “sickened” by this incident.  But in my opinion, it is this very superintendent who didn’t help the disabled teen’s case when the crime was initially committed.  Not mentioned in this article is the fact that Johnson stupidly commented on the case to the press before it was ever litigated.  Here’s an example of his comments from January of this year:

“I think part of it is just stupidity. People ranting about something they think might make a headline. At this point we don’t have anything concrete to point (toward a hate crime)but we’ll keep investigating and let the facts guide us on how this concludes. If you looked at the video, it was just stupidity.”

So, right here, the superintendent has already set the table for an acquittal or a dismissal of the charges by acting as if there is no basis for a “hate crime.”  In the minds of the reader, the mere fact that the police or the prosecutors cannot prove that this was a hate crime already diminishes the fact that it was a crime at all.

Yet it was!  This was a horrific example of inhumane terrorizing of a mentally disabled young man who did nothing wrong except happened to have been alive, apparently.  Think about how scared this kid was as he was tied up and repeatedly told he was going to get knifed and left to die!  Is this not a crime?  Think about how frightened this kid was when the police repeatedly asked him if he wanted to press charges, or his parents, when all they could think to themselves was, “If we press charges, will these teens and maybe their friends and family come after us?  Will the police protect us from retaliation?”

Can you see the sheer banality of this exercise of dismissing this as a “hate crime?”  In addition to the superintendent’s shortsighted statement, you had the Chicago Commander Kevin Duffin add:

“Kids make stupid mistakes, I shouldn’t call them kids, they are legally adults, but they are young adults and they make stupid decisions. That certainly will be part of whether or not we seek a hate crime, determine whether or not this is sincere or stupid ranting and raving.”

Let’s remember that this occurred directly before the inauguration of Donald Trump.  The article which quoted these police authorities, TruNews, also explained that the superintendent “…doesn’t believe the incident was politically motivated.”  Yet, in the same article, they talk about how “traumatized” this teen is and how the suspects shouted “F**k Trump, f**k White people!”

Definitely no political or racial agenda there at all, right?

Ultimately, the message that this judge in the case sends to young Blacks in the inner cities that are run into the ground by Leftists is that they need not worry about jail time, or even a splotch on their criminal records, because a crime in which you hold someone against their will (called kidnapping in any other case), tie them up, kick them, beat them, slash them with a knife, terrorize them with hate speech and racial epithets, assure them that you will be killing them, and then post the video of this inhuman behavior for laughs, is really no big deal and is just “kids being kids.”

It’s too bad this police superintendent was “sickened” enough to keep his mouth shut before the prosecution of the case.

Source:  Breitbart / TruNews