Top Prosecutor Burke to Cops: Go to Hell
Burke’s latest moves reveal she will let accused cop killers go unprosecuted…
It’s not enough that President Trump may be bringing the National Guard to Chicago to combat the city’s incessant crime, claiming Mayor Brandon Johnson is incompetent.
No, in order to restore real order in Chicago, Trump’s Department of Justice must also take a powerful step into the city’s justice system by doing what Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen Burke essentially announced last week she would not do: Prosecute gang members for killing a police officer.
The announcement from Burke came cryptically, translated only to those paying close attention to the drama of Burke’s office to grasp. Burke’s top attorney, Anna Demacopoulos, resigned. Demacopoulos’s resignation was news enough, given that she had only been on the job for eight months before suddenly leaving. But it was her replacement that sent a signal throughout Chicago, especially to the Chicago police.
Burke announced she was replacing Demacopoulos with Craig Engebretson.
Engebretson was the prosecutor who dropped charges against three Spanish Cobra gang members charged with murdering police officer Clifton Lewis in 2011.
By appointing Engebretson, Burke is all but announcing she will not recharge the Spanish Cobra gang members, two of whom are now in the federal courts hoping to use their media-driven narrative that they were the victims of renegade prosecutors and detectives to make themselves rich à la the Chicago taxpayers.
It’s a cold slap in the face for Chicago police, but also a sign that Burke will not address the rampant corruption of the Kimberly Foxx administration, the one that shockingly vacated the convictions against the Cobras, then dumped the prosecutors who labored so hard to put them in prison. The careers and reputations of those prosecutors and the cops who worked the case are now fair game for the most corrupt media in the country, whose sole function amounts to little more than declaring war on legitimate prosecutors and cops.
Burke’s failure to recharge the gang members and let Foxx escape from any accountability for her actions in the Lewis saga should not surprise anyone familiar with the real laws governing Chicago and Illinois politics, for Burke and Foxx are, in the end, members of the same political party, perhaps the most corrupt political party in the nation.
In the end, no public servant rising through this party ever truly addresses the “root causes” of its corruption, an important lesson for all the Cook County voters who placed their hopes in Burke and worked hard to see Burke narrowly elected over Foxx’s chosen acolyte in a tight race with many signs of chicanery.
Learned your lesson yet, fellow citizens?
Burke’s refusal to recharge the gang members follows the decision by both the city and county granting a multimillion-dollar settlement to Jackie Wilson, once convicted for his role in the 1982 murder of two police officers.
That case also resulted in two prosecutors being fired under Foxx, then charged with crimes for allegations of wrongdoing. Both men were cleared in a trial, but they endured the “process is the punishment” tactic of the radical left, unleashed now not only as standard operating procedure in Chicago but also on a federal level against President Trump and his supporters.
All the gang members in Chicago now know that though the glory days of Foxx are over, they’re all still in business. What smack talk must be reverberating among the Spanish Cobras on the street, the story repeated time and again about how the three men went from prison sentences to possible wealth by killing a cop all because the Cook County State’s Attorney is little more a punchline for the most violent criminals in the city.
With Burke’s refusal to reprosecute the street thugs, hope for justice among police officers for the murder of one of their own now lies solely with the Department of Justice under Trump. That entity alone can prosecute the men for their savagery against Officer Lewis.
Bringing in the National Guard won’t be enough to fix Chicago. Trump’s DOJ needs to take over as well in cases like the murder of Officer Clifton Lewis.
Will the DOJ do it and show the public that Eileen O’Neill Burke looks to be just another Democrat in the most Crooked City?
When will this end ? Will corrupted politicians ever be held accountable.
After defeating Clayton Harris in the State’s Attorney primary, Burke immediately met with Toni Preckwinkle. As we know, Preckwinkle is the Queen Bee of Terror. Yet Burke bent the knee to her.
Burke supported SAF T Act before the primary. I discovered this after contributing $250 to Burke’s campaign. BIG MISTAKE. We are stuck with her and all the other progressive/communists or whatever else they call themselves.