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The Chicago Way w/John Kass: An icon, the eclipse, and Dexter Reed

Chicago Way w/John Kass (04/15/24): John Kass is back for a discussion on the moment in time when O.J. Simpson was acquitted in the deaths of Nicole Brown & Ron Goldman, what happens next in the Dexter Reed Case, and what it was like standing before the eclipse in totality. Plus, Kass remembers a classic moment in TV history and what it means about today.

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  1. I watched the news coverage of the Dexter Reed incident on WGN and it was thoroughly one sided and disgusting. They showed mayor pointy hair talking about another black man being killed by police, never mind that he shot first. Then he went on to say that thankfully the police officer who was shot survived or we would have lost another black man. It’s obviously all about race and the media is more than happy to fan the flames. They went on for about 5 or 6 minutes about why Reed was stopped in the first place then showed only about 10 seconds of head of FOP John Catanzara defending the police, then cutting his statement off.
    On another subject, Lori Lightfoot may be the one investigating the mayor of Dolton, Tiffany Henyard. A black democrat woman investigating another black democrat woman, what can go wrong there? It’s going to be a long hot summer.

    1. Dems have historically used the race card to get votes. If a man comes out of a car with a gun and starts shooting a police officer and hits one, If I were a police officer on the scene, I would shoot back and probably empty my gun on him, to make certain he was dead. The police officers were only trying to protect themselves from a crazy person. You have to ask yourselves, what kind of person jumps out of a car and starts shooting at police for pulling him over for a seat belt violation? He is either hiding something, or has mental issues.

  2. ” Dont demonize our demons..” It’s another election year and it’s time to round ’em up to get ’em to the polling place! It is hilarious how the Chicago media spin is being ridiculed on social media. Has anyone noticed they keep trumpeting the amount of shots the police fired without ever telling you how many bullets Dex actually caught? It’s pretty easy to count bullet holes. The medical examiner can do this on about ten minutes with a dead body. But that’s not an important fact. Never let the truth get in the way of a good spin. My sneaking suspicion is this shooting might actually prove more training for police is necessary in order to improve accuracy. The media needs a policemans head on a spike to motivate its Democrat voters to the polls. Now is a good time for police to listen to Rahm Emanuel and get fetal. Over forty five people, including a nine year old girl shot and killed last weekend in Chicago. What our ever dependable local media didn’t report was the one year old clinging to life along another child in the same shooting. Never let the truth get in the way of a good spin. One dead kid is bad enough. We wouldn’t want to alarm anyone, would we? Spring is almost over and summer is just around the corner….

    1. Good point, Mr. Diaz. That is exactly what I was thinking in regard to the number of shots: the cops need more training. In fact your observation has been confirmed on numerous occasions in police shoot outs … particularly in NYC where a Rand study showed a “hit rate” (hit target divided by total shots fired) of 18% in a gun fight. The Illinois CCL civilian range test standard is hitting a stationary target (B27 Silhouette) at 5, 7, and 10 yards with a 70% success rate. As far the CPD as near as I can tell it is also a static test requiring a “hit rate” of 70% from 5, 7, and 15 yards. Now picture a moving target, shooting back … at various distances … and all the stress that might involved. That is a totally different scenario; requiring an exponential increase in shooting skills. In my opinion it’s a tall order to ask a cop to be able to have a “high hit rate” under such dynamic stressful circumstances. But if the city wants that of their officers, then clearly the training program is going to have to be much more involved, much more intense and much more time intensive, with all the associated extra expense. No free lunch, right?

    1. In terms of an involved informed citizenship: One of the the things Jeff Carlin says in regard to OJ – if I heard correctly – is that “they” (I assume the defense) had to prove OJ did NOT do it. Clearly that is incorrect. When OJ walked through those court house doors he was by definition innocent – he automatically was assumed to have NOT done it. You don’t have to be a lawyer to know that. That is basic American values 101. What the defense had to show was NOT innocence but merely that the prosecutions charge fell short of “reasonable doubt.”

      And the fatal error by the prosecution ensured that: “if it don’t fit, you must acquit.”

  4. ” There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do no attempt to adjust the picture.We are controlling transmission. If we wish to make it louder we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer we will tune it to a whisper. We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical. We can roll the image. Make it flutter. We can change the focus to a soft blur. Or sharpen it to crystal clarity. For the next hour sit quietly and we will control all you see and hear…” Outer Limits, 1963…

    1. Well these days no one – except us oldsters – have any idea what the “horizontal” or “vertical” are, let alone alone “roll” or “flutter.” Then, in 1963, they controlled “all you see and hear” but presumably fell short of controlling all that we think. But just as our TVs have advanced digitally so have our controllers: now “we will control all that you think.” Facebook, 2024

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