Report: Chicago Man on First-Time Gun Probation Accused of Robbing Delivery Driver
A Chicago man on first-time gun offender probation allegedly robbed a pizza delivery driver with a gun.
Lorenzo Clark was previously charged with a felony for allegedly having a gun in a car in the city and was later granted the probation, CWB Chicago reported Wednesday.
“If he did well, the charge against him would be dismissed,” the outlet said, noting the man has no additional criminal history and manages a fast-food restaurant.
The article detailed the events that happened Sunday when Clark allegedly targeted the pizza delivery driver:
A little after 11 p.m., a bicyclist was robbed of their phone and a white Mongoose bike with distinctive accessories in Chicago Lawn. Minutes later, someone riding a similar bike rode up to a pizza delivery driver who had just returned to his car after dropping off an order in the 7100 block of South Washtenaw.
The cyclist, who was wearing a ski mask and glasses, tried several times to sell the driver pot, according to prosecutor Rhianna Biernat.
However, the driver said no and placed the vehicle into gear but the suspect then pointed a gun at him and demanded he hand over his property. When the driver hit the accelerator, the suspect allegedly fired twice and one bullet reportedly struck the dashboard while another missed the driver.
Authorities tracked the bicyclist’s stolen phone to a nearby residence and a white Mongoose bike was reportedly spotted inside.
A man at the scene was identified as Clark, who was wearing a white hoodie and jeans, an outfit reportedly similar to the suspect’s.
Officials brought the deliveryman to the scene and he identified Clark as the suspect involved. Now, the results of a gunshot residue test taken from the suspect’s hands are outstanding.
“Prosecutors charged Clark with attempted first-degree murder but not with trying to rob the pizza driver. No one has been charged with robbing the bicyclist,” the article said.
A judge eventually granted the state’s no-bail request in the case.
Meanwhile, 35 individuals were shot and five of them died over the weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago, Breitbart News reported Monday.
In addition, fourteen people were shot during a Halloween night vigil in Chicago, and the victims included three children.
A mid-year survey found violent crime across cities in President Joe Biden’s (D) America grew by over four percent during the first six months of this year, Breitbart News reported in September.
Mark Kelly Says He’s a Criminal Justice Moderate. His Campaign Took $350K From a Soros-Backed Defund Group.
A dark money group that wants to defund police and abolish federal immigration agencies has poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into the Arizona Senate race, providing a last-minute boost for Democratic senator Mark Kelly, whose once-sizable lead has evaporated ahead of Election Day.
Living United for Change in Arizona has spent nearly $350,000 since Oct. 21 to help the Kelly campaign, according to Federal Election Commission records. The expenditures have gone to pay wages for canvassers to knock on doors in the Grand Canyon State to turn out the vote for Kelly.
The donations create an uneasy alliance for Kelly, who fashions himself a moderate criminal justice reformer. Living United, which has received funding from left-wing billionaire George Soros, has called for defunding the Phoenix Police Department, saying, "The police do not protect or serve us." The group, which has held protests outside Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities, made national headlines in October 2021 after its members filmed Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D., Ariz.) in a bathroom on the campus of Arizona State University and grilled her over her opposition to ending the filibuster to pass a voting bill.
The group's support comes at a pivotal moment for Kelly, whose double-digit lead over Republican Blake Masters has disappeared amid growing concerns about crime and the economy. A recent poll from the progressive Data for Progress found Kelly tied with Masters. The poll also found that Latino voters favored Kelly by a 58-37 margin, down considerably from Kelly's support among the group in the 2020 special election.
While the Kelly campaign does not directly work with Living United on the canvassing effort, Living United has paid $210,000 to FieldCorps, a consulting firm with links to Kelly. Francisco Heredia, a Mesa city councilman who owns FieldCorps, has campaigned this year for Kelly. The Kelly campaign lists Heredia as a member of its "Latinos for Kelly Coalition." Living United paid another $138,546 to ADP Payroll to cover wages for canvassers, according to campaign finance disclosures.
Living United's political action committee received around $1 million in funding in the 2020 cycle from the left-wing voter mobilization groups Civic Participation Action Fund and the Movement Voter Project. The group's activist arm, which organizes anti-police and anti-ICE rallies, has been funded by numerous dark money progressive groups. The Sixteen Thirty Fund and the New Venture Fund, neither of which is required to disclose its donors, in 2019 gave $165,000 and $40,000, respectively, according to the Capital Research Center. Soros's Open Society Foundations in 2019 gave $1.5 million to Living United "to support policy advocacy led by communities of color in Arizona."
Living United campaigned last month for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Katie Hobbs, Fox News reported.
The Kelly campaign and Living United did not respond to requests for comment.
How Gov. Hochul Killed a Black Woman
“The kids had blood all over their clothes.”
“She should be charged for the crime. She’s also responsible for the crime,” Keaira Bennefield’s mother said of Gov. Kathy Hochul.
Hochul, widely blamed by the families of crime victims for the wave of terror sweeping over the state, had numerous opportunities to slam the brakes on the move by her former boss, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and the Democrat legislature to eliminate bail and free criminals.
Instead, despite pleas from mayors, law enforcement officers and crime victims, she cruelly doubled down on it leading to countless beatings, robberies, rapes and murders.
Including the murder of Keaira Bennefield.
Gov. Hochul claimed that her refusal to lock up criminals and hold them accountable was done to help black people. Keaira Bennefield, like many of the state’s crime victims, was black.
Earlier this year, Mayor Eric Adams of New York City, who is black, along with State Dem Chairman Jay Jacobs, had pleaded with Gov. Hochul to bring back bail. All Adams and Jacobs had been asking for was giving judges some authority to keep dangerous criminals behind bars.
And Gov. Hochul had refused, “I don’t cave to pressure.”
She wasn’t alone. The Democrat legislative leadership refused to consider locking up criminals.
Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie sneered, “Can we stop blaming bail reform when the sun comes out?”
Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins claimed that bringing back bail would hurt, “black and brown and poor defendants.”
One of those was Keaira Bennefield’s estranged husband.
Adam Bennefield, who had abducted another ex at gunpoint, had been arrested for punching and kicking her on camera. He was let go in less than 24 hours because Cuomo, Hochul and Dem leaders had eliminated bail.
Keaira was wearing a bulletproof vest to drop off her kids at school. It didn’t help her. Her husband rammed her car and then killed her with a shotgun in front of their children.
“The kids had blood all over their clothes,” her mother said.
“Three kids are going to grow up without a mother, because she was just murdered on a Wednesday by someone released from custody the day before due to cashless bail,” Lee Zeldin, who is running to replace Hochul, charged. “Hochul’s pandering to her pro-criminal allies just cost three kids a mother.”
“She failed me. She let me down and my daughter down, and she needs to make a change with the bail reform,” the deceased woman’s mother demanded.
Gov. Hochul has continued to insist that she’s protecting black people by pandering to criminals.
But in one poll, 60% of white people, 44% of Latinos, and 46% of black people came out against eliminating bail. Only 30% of white people, 41% of Latinos, and 39% of black people thought Hochul’s plan of letting criminals out as soon as they were arrested was a good idea.
When it came to the question of whether the bail law increased crime, 46% of black people said that it did increase crime, only 34% disagreed.
Women, 56%, were more likely than men, 52%, to say it was bad. Female crime victims, like Keaira Bennefield, are much more vulnerable to the violence unleashed by the Democrats.
NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell, the first black woman to hold that office, once again urged “changes to the bail reform law” especially allowing “judges to be able to consider whether the person is a public safety threat.”
It was a bold move for a career official in the final stretch before Election Day.
Keaira Bennefield’s murder was the culmination of a horrifying pro-crime experiment enacted by Democrats after being vocally funded by think-tanks and pressure groups most notoriously, the Brennan Center funded by George Soros, Tides and the Joyce Foundation under Obama.
Democrats who implemented the pro-crime agenda destroyed cities, states and the country.
Gov. Hochul’s obliviousness to the horrors that she had unleashed on innocent victims like Keaira’s children came to the fore during the gubernatorial debate when she snapped at Zeldin that she didn’t understand why locking up criminals was so important to him.
Keaira’s mother understands. So do the family members of so many other Hochul victims.
Bui Van Phu, a convicted sex offender on parole, put a man in a coma and then was let out with no bail again.
Frank Abrokwa smeared his feces on a woman in the subway, was arrested, released, and then committed an anti-semitic hate crime, and then was released again. He had punched a man on the subway in January and another man at a bus station in February.
Donny Ubiera was busted by police while waving a large knife. He had threatened and assaulted multiple employees. He was let go and stabbed two people.
Afterward, “There was so much blood in the train car that it had to be taken out of service.”
“We keep arresting him,” NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell said of his 14 previous arrests. “His record demonstrates that each time he is involved in unprovoked violence against innocent victims, the criminal justice system has him back to the streets.”
Instead of ending his wave of terror, Gov. Hochul doubled down on her pro-crime policies, renaming criminals, “incarcerated individuals”.
The state is handing out drug dealer licenses to convicted dealers while criminalizing whipped cream.
“Our criminal justice system is insane. It is dangerous. It’s harmful. And it’s destroying the fabric of our city,” Mayor Eric Adams charged.
And he’s right.
“We never said that the cause of crime in the state is because of bail reform,” Gov. Hochul whined. “That is too simplistic. That is a political slogan.”
But Hochul is the one mouthing political slogans while New Yorkers are beaten, stabbed and killed. 10 career criminals alone accounted for 500 arrests: 6 of them were still on the street.
Some accuse Gov. Hochul of being soft on crime. That’s not true. She’s not soft on crime, she’s pro-crime. While claiming to help black people, she got a black woman killed. And the skyrocketing murder rates show that Keaira Bennefield is not alone.
There’s blood on Hochul’s hands and whatever the election results are, it will not wash away.
Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
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