CHICAGOLAND: Gang Members Hold News Conference To Put Police

[FlipSide]

CHICAGO - Gang members themselves are the latest to come out against police Supt. Jody Weis' strategy to put pressure on them and curb gang violence.

At 10 a.m., gang members are expected to hold a news conference at the Columbus Park Refectory, at 5701 W. Jackson Blvd. on the city's West Side.

Gang members are also expected to attend another news conference that is being held by local clergy at 11 a.m., at the New Life Christian Ministries of Greater Chicago, 8201 S. Jeffery Blvd.



They are taking issue with Weis' strategy of meeting with gang leaders and warning them of serious consequences if violence continues.

Weis held a meeting with the reputed leaders of several West Side gangs at the Garfield Park Conservatory over the weekend. At the meeting, prosecutors warned that the gang members could be charged under the federal racketeering laws if killings were traced back to gangs with members attending the meeting.

The Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, RICO for short, provides stiffer penalties for acts performed as part of a criminal organization such as the Mafia.

But gang members say they were tricked into coming to the meeting, and that it amounted to harassment.



The Columbus Park news conference is being convened by Jim Allen, a self-identified Vice Lords Nation member. Allen is also identified as the "almighty minister" of an organization called Tha Movement, features a logo with several gang signs in the center surrounded by a circle bearing the message: "Stop the violence. One love."


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An announcement on the blog for Tha Movement says members of the "Lords, Disciples, Kings, Stones, Hustlers, Souls, Cobras, etc." are expected to be at the news conference.

The group is protesting what they call the "unconstitutional, guilty before innocent, premeditated arrest and indictment by Chicago Police hearsay and propaganda tactics," in regard to the threat to use the RICO statute at the "'secret trick meeting' the Chicago Police and others held with whom they deemed to be top gang leaders.



"Tha Movement believes this to be nothing more than the continuation of former Chicago Police Commander Jon Burge style tactics of harassment," the announcement says. Burge was convicted this past June of lying about torturing criminal suspects into confessions into the 1970s and 80s.

Some Chicago aldermen, as well as police officers posting on the Second City Cop blog, have blasted Weis' meeting with gang leaders as negotiating with "urban terrorists."
But Allen told Chicago Sun-Times columnist Mary Mitchell that there was no "negotiation." He told Mitchell that when President Barack Obama was in the U.S. Senate, he said he was "willing to sit down with terrorists without preconditions," but the gang leaders were "tricked" into attending the meeting.

The gangs were told they were attending a routine parole hearing when they came to Weis' summit over the weekend.

[Haz]

thats crazy

[TheNobleOne]

wait gang members asking police for help with gang activity? lol thats the dumbest fucking thing i have heard all year, foreal.

[FlipSide]

wait gang members asking police for help with gang activity? lol thats the dumbest fucking thing i have heard all year, foreal.

This Guy obviously Did not Read The Article

Lulz?

[TheNobleOne]

i didnt have to read the article dude. if the article would have read "EX-gang members" then i would have read into it.

but a gang member going to the cops to ask for help with gang violence is just absurd.

[FlipSide]

Seriously Read the Article... i Really Feel Like Slappin Ur Dum Ass

[TheNobleOne]

lol dude already resorting to violence and shit

dont get your thong all in a knot homie


go read some real shit

[FlipSide]

Ive Come To The Conclusion That u Are An Idiot And Everytime i See U On And ur Name I Will Remember That ur An Idiot...And i will Never Give U respect Because Ur Level of ignorance Is Unmatched By A Short Bus Full of Retards With The Collective IQ of 3.... Read the Article And See the Last Line Says...These Gang Leaders Were Tricked Into Thinkin They Were Attending A Routine Parole Hearing....ASSHOLE... And They Threatened them With The Rico Law..... Dumb Ass... And Some One Tell This Jack Ass To Pull His Pants Up And Stop Showing His Ass...

[Borat]

Pull your pants up and stop showing your ass@TheNobleOne

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[Ambiguous Realm]

lmao, damn

that's some crazy shit though, how recent is this shit?

[TheNobleOne]

Ive Come To The Conclusion That u Are An Idiot And Everytime i See U On And ur Name I Will Remember That ur An Idiot...And i will Never Give U respect Because Ur Level of ignorance Is Unmatched By A Short Bus Full of Retards With The Collective IQ of 3.... Read the Article And See the Last Line Says...These Gang Leaders Were Tricked Into Thinkin They Were Attending A Routine Parole Hearing....ASSHOLE... And They Threatened them With The Rico Law..... Dumb Ass... And Some One Tell This Jack Ass To Pull His Pants Up And Stop Showing His Ass...

at the end of the day these dudes are gang members and they cause havoc all across the globe. they murder people and sell drugs and kidnap women for human trafficking. if those dudes were dumb as fuck to get tricked into some shit so they could serve jail time then fuck it. they off the streets. i dont have sympathy for dudes who kill each other over colors and all that wack shit. your level of ignorance proceeds mine considering your taking the side of the "gangsters".

[Ambiguous Realm]

that's a good point^

if i was a gang member being near police would be the last thing on my list

[FlipSide]

Hey Man I Merely Provided the News... I Dont Judge What These Cats Do. I Also Dont Judge What The Police Do. I Just Wanted To Point Out The Struggle For The Control Of The Streets of Chicago. Its So Fucked Up. 3 cops Killed In The Past 4-6 months. Innocents Getting Shot by Gangs And By The Police. Shows the Desperation Card By T The Police. Given They Cant Charge Them Now With Any Rico Or Terrorism Charge Because They Have been Profiled before A Crime Is Commited.


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[LogiK]

Fuck the police..

[DoggyStylez]

Shit is full hectic gettin dooped by tha P.D lol....