Man Faces 14 Counts in Connection to Downtown Chicago Looting

By artappraiser on Mon, 10/05/2020 - 11:54pm |

A convicted felon was described by a Cook County judge as a "busy little bee" during the alleged looting spree that he's been charged with: "He put in a lot of work that night allegedly. Wow.” https://t.co/Liw7Y7I6fY
— Chicago Sun-Times (@Suntimes) October 6, 2020

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https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2020/10/5/21502241/lee-mitchell-downtown-looting-charges

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Excerpt. At 28 years old,

[...] Mitchell has five prior felony convictions mostly for drugs, but one was for a 2014 robbery, prosecutors said.

He was recently placed on probation for a retail theft that took place at the Abercrombie & Fitch at Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg. During that incident, Mitchell, a father of two, assaulted an employee, prosecutors said.

Lyke called Mitchell’s background “troubling” and ordered him held on $150,000 bail for the burglary and looting charges. Mitchell was also ordered held without bail for violating probation.

“[He was] just recently released from parole and now he’s looking at going back to the penitentiary,” Lyke said. “If he’s convicted, he’s looking at six to 30 years.”[....]

by artappraiser on Tue, 10/06/2020 - 12:00am

Not looting, reparations. He totally deserved all that stuff for slavery and jim crow.

by ocean-kat on Tue, 10/06/2020 - 12:06am

OIC. At first I thought he was crying out because he was unheard.

by artappraiser on Tue, 10/06/2020 - 12:09am

Man Faces 14 Counts in Connection to Downtown Chicago Looting

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