Outrage: Liberal Judge Freed Chicago Criminal Who Murdered a Cop — Turns Out She Oversaw His Cases for 3 Straight Years… The Final Twist Is Infuriating
This is the kind of insanity that makes your blood boil.
Chicago Police Officer John Bartholomew is dead — gunned down inside a hospital — because a liberal judge decided a dangerous criminal deserved another chance on the streets.
The killer? Alfonso Talley, a repeat offender who was already out on pretrial release for armed robbery. For three straight years, the same judge oversaw Talley’s cases. She kept letting him walk. Then she made the final call: instead of locking him up where he belonged, she released him on nothing but an ankle monitor.
Days later, Talley allegedly walked into that hospital and murdered Officer Bartholomew in cold blood. He critically wounded another officer too.
And here’s the final, infuriating twist: that same activist judge is now presiding over Talley’s murder case.
Let that sink in. The judge who had three years to see exactly who this guy was — the judge who chose “reform” over real consequences — is now in charge of deciding his fate for killing a cop.
This isn’t justice. This is a broken system that protects criminals and leaves good cops in the ground.
Chicago’s so-called “criminal justice reform” — the same soft-on-crime garbage pushed by Democrats for years — just got another officer killed. Bail reform, ankle monitors for armed robbers, activist judges who think every thug is a victim of “the system.” Meanwhile, police families bury their loved ones.
President Trump has been right about this from the beginning. He’s the only leader who’s ever had the guts to say we need to back the blue, lock up the bad guys, and stop the revolving-door madness that turns cities into war zones. Under Trump, crime dropped because he demanded real law and order. Now, in blue cities like Chicago, the results speak for themselves: dead cops and judges who keep setting killers free.
The left loves to scream “defund the police” and “reimagine public safety” until their own policies get someone killed. Then they act shocked. Enough. Fire this judge. Reform the system that lets her keep doing this. And start electing leaders who put cops and citizens first instead of criminals.
Officer John Bartholomew deserved better. His family deserved better. Every law-abiding Chicago resident who just wants to feel safe deserves better.
This is what happens when you let liberal judges run the show. It’s time to end the madness.
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Natalie Dagenhardt is an American conservative writer who writes for Right Journalism! Natalie has described herself as a polemicist who likes to “stir up the pot,” and does not “pretend to be impartial or balanced, as broadcasters do,” drawing criticism from the left, and sometimes from the right. As a passionate journalist, she works relentlessly to uncover the corruption happening in Washington. She is a “constitutional conservative”.

An honest judge would recuse herself, but, it is Chicago, so there’s that.
Is an honest judge something like a Saber Tooth Tiger? Or maybe a Woolly Mammoth?
In chicago, a Unicorn.
Let me guess, a negro judge.
There is no fixing the leftist areas so long as leftists are alive in them.
And coexistence is a fools errand because they show us regularly they want us all destitute and subservient or dead.
Secession or war, choose one because no other choice can save what remains that can be saved.
Well…one thing is sure in this case. The Judge doesn’t have to worry about getting shot by this guy now does she?
WELL THIS IS WHAT YOU ALL VOTED FOR. ALL YOU WHO LIVE IN CHICAGO AND IN ILLINOIS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT HAPPENS IN YOUR CITIES AND STATE. I SAY AGAIN,”ALL OF YOU IN CHICAGO AND ILLINOIS ARE RESPONSIBLE” FOR WHAT HAPPENS IN YOUR CITIES AND STATE. NO ONE ELSE JUST “YOU”!!! NOT TRUMP, NOT PUTIN, NOT NATO, NOT CAPITALIST, NOT JD VANCE. YOU! AND IF YOU DON’T LIKE THE TRUTH THEN TOUGH CRAP.
If they did vote for this. Who counted the votes? Remember back when jfk’s daddy bought chicago to ensure his presidential election?
GOD Damn this author for not Naming the POS Judge!