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CHICAGO -- Police are seeking two suspects in the brutal beating of a woman who was riding the CTA Blue Line yesterday morning.

The beating happened around 10 a.m Thursday on a CTA Blue Line train headed west, approaching the Kedzie-Homan stop.

19-year-old DePaul student Jessica Hughes was on her way home to Berwyn from a morning class and says after a large group of people got off the train at the UIC Halstead stop, a man moved to the seat in front of her, turned around and attacked.

“He grabs me, pushes me to the floor and starts beating on my head repeatedly,” Jessica said.

The man wanted Jessica’s phone. It was in her pocket. A woman who was with the attacker jumped in and punched Jessica in the nose, breaking it.

All the while, two male passengers stood by and watched.

http://wgntv.com/2016/04/29/woman-attacked-while-riding-blue-line-suspects-sought/

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These sorts of irrational crimes are so disturbing. If a person just swipes a phone off a table to sell it for rent money, that at least makes sense, even though it's obviously still a crime. But using disproportional force suggests that the attacker is essentially a loose cannon. An attack on crowded public transport means the person doesn't care about the consequences of getting caught, or isn't well enough in the head to care.
 
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CHICAGO (CBS) — A DePaul University student was brutally attacked for her iPhone on a CTA Blue Line train on Thursday, and she said witnesses stood by and did nothing to help her.
Her attacker was a woman.. Who's to say that woman wasn't an undercover cop or have a gun? So you go to help the innocent victim and the attacker ends up being a cop and arrests you too.. or worse, a criminal with a gun and you get shot..
Guns are banned in Chicago so the only people who have them are criminals.. Its no wonder no one wants to get involved.

Chicago Police said they are checking CTA security cameras for video of the attack.

“I just pray that they find these animals,” Amador said.

And what do they think will happen to these (two?) attacker(s) when they do find them? First, our tax payer dollars will finance a lawyer for them, then we'll pay more tax dollars for the court proceedings, and in the end they'll be given probation or a 30 day slap on the wrist and be right back out doing more criminal stuff.

Here's how the story should have gone:
A 19 year old woman was attacked on a Chicago Train, the woman pulled a handgun and shot the attacker dead.. No charges are pending as several eye witnesses confirmed the victims statements about the attack. The transit authority has taken the bus out of service to patch the hole in the ceiling where the attacker's brain matter and bullet passed through.
 
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I only like smooth jazz and chillout.
We call it rock and roll, and Dave had a hard rock trio before, but me on piano and Bruce on sax open the door for smooth and jazzy. As a matter of fact, the song I was directing you to has that kind of feel.
I started a rock and roll band back in 8th grade, and stayed in that for gigs, the band practicing in my basement. But meanwhile, two blocks up the street, I would jam on the blues for a couple years with neighborhood guys until we started getting into fusion jazz.
 
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These things only happen in Chicago?
They happen in Baltimore, Newark, Atlanta, Detroit, Gary.........

But this story takes place in Chicago.
Of course, random violence only takes place in urban areas, not small towns or rural areas. :rolleyes: Can you say "dog whistle"?
 
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CHICAGO (CBS) — A DePaul University student was brutally attacked for her iPhone on a CTA Blue Line train on Thursday, and she said witnesses stood by and did nothing to help her.
Her attacker was a woman.. Who's to say that woman wasn't an undercover cop or have a gun? So you go to help the innocent victim and the attacker ends up being a cop and arrests you too.. or worse, a criminal with a gun and you get shot..
Guns are banned in Chicago so the only people who have them are criminals.. Its no wonder no one wants to get involved.

Chicago Police said they are checking CTA security cameras for video of the attack.

“I just pray that they find these animals,” Amador said.

And what do they think will happen to these (two?) attacker(s) when they do find them? First, our tax payer dollars will finance a lawyer for them, then we'll pay more tax dollars for the court proceedings, and in the end they'll be given probation or a 30 day slap on the wrist and be right back out doing more criminal stuff.

Here's how the story should have gone:
A 19 year old woman was attacked on a Chicago Train, the woman pulled a handgun and shot the attacker dead.. No charges are pending as several eye witnesses confirmed the victims statements about the attack. The transit authority has taken the bus out of service to patch the hole in the ceiling where the attacker's brain matter and bullet passed through.
wait what? In a different thread, you spoke of direct, real threat to your life is the only reason to pull out a gun. Clearly that's not the case here. So....wha?
 
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wait what? In a different thread, you spoke of direct, real threat to your life is the only reason to pull out a gun. Clearly that's not the case here. So....wha?
You don't consider people assaulting you a "real threat to your life"?
 
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You don't consider people assaulting you a "real threat to your life"?
Believe it or not, no. Just because someone punches me I the face doesn't mean they want me dead. There is, to me, a HUGE chasm between the two. They wanted her phone, not want her dead
 
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Believe it or not, no. Just because someone punches me I the face doesn't mean they want me dead. There is, to me, a HUGE chasm between the two. They wanted her phone, not want her dead

So basically if someone were you assault you, you'd just be a punching bag?

Now explain how you tell that the person beating you wont stop after they get your phone.
 
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