FBI agents wounded in bid to nab reputed gang member; suspect dead in Park Forest
Source: Chicago Tribune
Two FBI agents serving an arrest warrant suffered non-life-threatening gunshot wounds Tuesday morning at a Park Forest home, and a suspect in the residence was found dead, according to the FBI.
The deceased suspect was a reputed high-ranking member of the Black P Stone Nation street gang, according to a federal law enforcement source. FBI agents had gone to the home in the south suburb of Chicago to arrest him on charges of narcotics trafficking, part of a gang sweep involving several other ranking members of the gang.
The charges alleged the man had made a heroin sale to an FBI informant, the source said.
Court records show that the suspect had a long criminal record in Cook County, including a conviction for murder in 1986. He also served time for separate weapons offenses and was charged in 2007 with the aggravated assault of a police officer. He also had a 1999 conviction in Wisconsin for possessing heroin with the intent to distribute, according to records.
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mikeysnot
(4,758 posts)WTF?
Don Siegleman is in jail and this guy is not?
maxsolomon
(33,473 posts)But I feel you
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)Last edited Tue May 24, 2016, 03:17 PM - Edit history (2)
The thieves and murderers at the banks engineered a theft from the American people that cost 8 million families their homes, moved 50 million people into or nearer poverty for the rest of their, and their children's lives, cause hundreds of deaths and millions of ruined broken lives from the fallout. So this administration rewarded them.
Oh, wait. These "gang" folks are black, so it must be a crime.
Do I think they should be free just because they are black? I don't know, but that's not the point. Do I think we are hypocrites for not jailing the bastards that have caused the country irreparable harm? Well, yeah. But it goes beyond that. If the real estate swindler wins, thank these people who helped destroy the country for setting thieves and swindlers like him a place at the table.
Schema Thing
(10,283 posts)"Do I think the black folks should be free? "
dafuq?
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maxsolomon
(33,473 posts)the banksters and the violent heroin-dealing gang members?
TipTok
(2,474 posts)The push should be to remove the influence of skin color on the legal system and not exacerbate the problem by doubling down.
jalan48
(13,916 posts)This isn't about race.
Will they explain this or even attempt to address it? Not likely.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)LOL
The Black P. Stone Nation aka BPSN is a Chicago-based street gang estimated to have more than 30,000 members. The gang was originally formed in the late 1950s as the Blackstone Rangers. In later years, an Islamic faction of the gang emerged, naming themselves the "El Rukn tribe of the Moorish Science Temple of America" (or simply El Rukn, Arabic for the foundation[2]).[3] The group's founder is Jeff Fort.[4]
Considered by law enforcement authorities to be Chicago's most powerful and sophisticated street gang,[5] the BPSN finances itself through a wide array of criminal activities and is part of the large Chicago gang alliance known as the People Nation.[6] Under Fort's command, the BPSN assumed an increasingly revolutionary outlook as it became associated with the black nationalism movement, eventually attracting the attention of the Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who introduced them to Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi and Nicaragua's Sandinistas. In 1986 four of its members were indicted for conspiring to commit terrorist acts in the United States for the Libyan Government.[2][5][7] The verdict marked the first time American citizens had been found guilty of planning terrorist acts for a foreign government in return for money.[8]