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East Chicago Re-Elects Councilman Facing Murder & Drug Charges
While "innocent until proven guilty" is all well and good, when it comes to electing officials, one would hope the voting public is at minimum curious when the official is facing murder and drug charges.
Meet Robert "Coop" Battle, East Chicago, Indiana's newly-elected 3rd District Councilman, who spent election day in the Lake County jail...
He's accused of shooting to death on Oct. 12 Reimundo Camarillo Jr., in the 4200 block of Euclid Avenue in East Chicago, according to court records.
He also faces a federal drug charge stemming from a traffic stop in Porter County where police found 73.22 grams of marijuana and $100,700 in cash.
Despite his pending legal battles that could take months if not years to sort out in the courts, Battle ran unopposed in Tuesday's election.
Battle initially said through his then attorney, Walter Alvarez, that he shot Camarillo after Camarillo pulled a knife on him, according to the affidavit. As the conversations continued, Battle said there was no struggle before the shooting, according to court records.
On Tuesday, Lake County Criminal Judge Clarence Murray granted the state's motion for a DNA mouth swab from Battle. According to their motion, prosecutors want to compare his DNA to evidence collected at the scene.
Battle is expected to appear in court again Nov. 17 seeking to get bail set in the case.
His attorney, John Cantrell, said he is offended by people who are calling for his client to resign.
"He is presumed innocent until he is proven guilty," Cantrell said. "If he is acquitted, he'll keep his job."
East Chicago City Council members made $42,356 a year in 2014, more than five times the average salary of council members of 75 community governments, according to the Indiana Association of Cities and Towns.
East Chicago Mayor Anthony Copeland said Battle's fate was in the hands of the courts and declined to comment further.
Cantrell said he will keep Battle informed about council business while he is in jail.
Buncich, who is also the county's Democratic chairman, said he is embarrassed about Battle's situation.
"The right thing to do at this time would be to resign, step aside so the East Chicago citizens in the third district can be represented properly," Buncich said.
Standing outside the Martin Luther King Jr. Center, one woman, who did not want to identified, said she voted for Battle and thought he was being ambushed. "I believe what he said, that the man was attacking him and he was defending himself," she said. The woman recalled Battle brought her food and water when her brother died.
A voter at the polling place in the 4900 block of Gladiola Avenue who also did not want to be identified described her councilman as a "good guy" who created a summer program for the children in her neighborhood. The woman does worry about how her neighborhood will now be represented. "How can he represent us when he's facing his own issues," she said.
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Drug dealing, Murder? Hillary has a long way to go yet...
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"Chicago Chicago it's My kind of town" "On state street that great street " OBAMA WENT DOWN.
Shitcago for a reason, I'l never spend another dime or second there.
Oh yo spending much mo' than a dime there, it's just coming strate outta yo paycheck. Fa' sho'!
If Obama had a son...
rolmao
Gruber needs a statue.
Chicongo strong!
What a buffoon...
Drugs and murder are only overlooked if you are running for President.
Marion Barry approved this message.
Hahahaha... if those ghetto dumb asses voted for this guy, then they deserve him! Lol!!!
In that part of Chicago, even the cars aren't white. A brother is always gonna win the election. Because white people suck.
Yes we can!!!!
Want some dope?
Got anyone you want killed?
only killed one? piker
BLACK LIVES MATTER what a bunch of bullobama
Washington D.C.'s Mayor Marian Barry redux.
Zero Hedge has managed to inadvertently become a comedy site.
The current events and shit I see on here is becoming so laughably corrupt, outlandish, and outright morally bankrupt that I sometimes have a hard time believing I am living in reality anymore.
Im don't want to live another 60-80 years to put up with this fucking shit.
BLACK comedy would be more like it.....................
Please take the time to read comments after your bedtime.
It seems that people took this in the wrong way.
I do not mean that Zero Hedge is at fault for being comedy. I meant that the world events in themselves are getting so outrageous that they have become comedy. Thus, since Zero Hedge reports on these events, it has unnintentionally become comedy reporting.
Thats it.
Nothing against Zero Hedge.
Projecting wealth in any way, isn't a good thing.
That is all.
Marian Barry is dead
"Marian Barry is dead"
Wait. What?
I just voted for the dude.
He brought me water and crack after he killed my mother.
Damn!
Exactly. When you talked to the folks of D.C. back in the day they said "He understands us!".
First-world pretense... If he had pictures of himself and his "brothas" up on the streets with their honorable titles as "publik servants," it would be a true third-world shithole.
We will know it's officially and objectively third-world-status when the Choomboy gets his own statue, likely in his home city.
Hillary just announced, in no uncertain terms, that "presidents" should not have to check the black box and admit to their previous felonies. So kick back comrade, pass the hopium pipe and bask in the radiance of the progressive utopia. It is almost here!
In Jakarta?
Fuck that, Thoses stupid girls are adopted from Kenya, Mooch has a dick.
Hellz yeah my nigga. Strate gangsta!
Hey Chalky gotsta eat too mo fucker.
Capone funded soup kitchens. Its a Chicagoland tradition. Robin Hood, kindly philanthropist by day, Murder, Inc. sociopath by night.
FORWARD LOVING GANGSTERS! (always a place in gubmint fo a killer drug dealer)
Chiraq!
true representative gubbermint
Chitown politicians have to show their bona fides early in the election cycle.
Vote Battle, or I cap yo' ass.
Beat me to it. Instead I will say:
So Democracy DOES require an educated thoughtful public to work! Close the books on that mystery!
Windy City is breaking more wind than there'd be at a Texas Chili contest
East Chicago is in Indiana and not a part of the "windy city."
Thats like saying Forest Park isn't part of the Metroplex. The Bishop Ford Freeway connects it right to, even if it is Hoosierville.
FORWARD GEOGRAHIC SOVIETS!
So the wind stops at the state line?
The bitch set me up
The Detroit Tigers and Cleveland Indians sucked this year.
I missed my calling in Public Service/
East Chicago is actually in Indiana. I respect Indiana. Low taxes and a balanced budget, sensible laws (CC), minimal violence (aside from Gary), but the slime doesn't respect borders.
He'll get elected with 89% of the vote and legislate from the pokey.
We're fucked.
People get the government they deserve.
They get the government the "political scientists" convince them they must accept!
Just get no-machine strategic simple score voting. No more party rule.
Eliminate that slavery and let us simply give 1 to 10 votes, or none at all, to each of a reasonably large number of candidates! That is the only reasonably simple way to abolish two-party slavery. Why not? Do we want to keep voting between two unacceptable creeps for each office?
Forever?
Imagine sortition.
I see what you did there...
And I like it..
However its not the melanin in the man its the assholery..
Sortition has nothing
to do with it. This
is about actual politics. Not philosophy Jerk!
H-H was pLaying, " mental Judo" with you.
Nigga be repin. Respec. Get a tear drop tat and rep yo constituents.
These darkies are bankrupt in so many ways.
I saw this on The Wire.
He clipped one guy which is horrible. How many MILLIONS of lives perished because of the Federal Reserve?
donald trump used to say Your Fired.............its time he steps it up to Your Fucked
Yeah okay but this is Chicago right? So...in a convoluted sort of way...if you squint really tight...this makes perfect sense that he should be elected in...Chicago.
At least there's a criminal who's open about it. Most of the others maintain they are law-abiding citizens.
He's a perfect fit./sarc Remember Marion Barry?
He's a perfect fit./sarc Remember Marion Barry?
Wow! White power brigade at ZeroHedge: Represent!
Immersed in self-indulgence, they cry "Hooray for genocide, slavery, and opium!"
Oh you are so right this is clearly a race issue. White oppression! The man was just keeping down...the man I guess in his case.
I didn't say anything about the case, Aryan nation.
Don't you have some smallpox laced blankets to distribute?
Don't you have to go orally service some BLM thug dick?
Tyler, why are all of your articles time stamped, on NY close?
Is GMT the official post. London Open, or is GMT-5 the official open? New York<
Yeah, in Chicago they overlook the criminal activites and elect them as well as long as their not in prison.
Of course they can't hold an office while in prison.
Melvin "Mel" Reynolds, former United States House of Representatives from Illinois, resigned from Congress in 1995 after a conviction for statutory rape.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Reynolds
Ex-Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr entered the halfway house in Baltimore on March 26 after about 17 months serving federal prison stints in North Carolina and Alabama. The former lawmaker had at least three months knocked off his sentence for completing a substance abuse program in prison.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/22/jesse-jackson-jr-released_n_763...
Americans reelect elite criminals. So I see no parallel. Garbage in,Garbage Out. George Carlin. RIP
CabalA$$LickerLiarObamma : "De criminalz are ok, drugs are legalized too, no problame"
Get back in your hole Crack head.
How many illigal immigrants are you willing to provide comfort for? Assuming you own home.
Can I put you down for 8?
You forgot the (4) legged friends, and the basement koi fish pond. :-P
this man did nothing wrong....white people and racism are to blame. why wouldnt black people elect him...HE DIDNT DO ANYTHING HE WASNT FORCED TO DO BY THE SYSTEM....hahahaha
"It's not my fault. I wuz born blac. If I wuz YT, ize be outta jail an' on the council bench!"
Stay out of inner city shit holes,period. What more needs to be said or regained.
He's actually the perfect representative for his district.
He's locked up tight, now his district needs razorwire boundaries.
Black Chicago Re-Elects Negroman
FTFY
I got one almost as good. He was just elected but he didnt kill anyoneBRIDGEPORT, Conn.—Former Bridgeport Mayor Joseph Ganim, who spent seven years in prison after he was convicted on corruption charges, was returned to office Tuesday, completing a stunning political comeback in the state’s most populous city
Ok, maybe this guy is slightly worse than Houston's own Shiela JACKSON Lee.
But, she hasn't been busted yet....
What made me think of SheeJack is the fact that, like this Chicargo pickaniny, the constituency re-elects them time and again....with no improvements in property or cultural values.
In a word: Nigs
All of America will rejoice when this giant shithole goes under.
Then it becomes a John Carpenter movie.
He now fits the mold for the White house.
The more criminal they are the better chance they have of being elected.
American voters: marching to the polls to "do the right thing".
Fruits of "Affirmative Action" asswipe...Our Swedish friends call it multiculturalism. Elin Krantz embraced it.
Google her. Enjoy the read....
Your country is gonna love the darker voters soon.
i think the poster was being sarcastic ...
chosen by his peers.
which when you think about it, what can he do worse than what the 535 members of Congress have done for the last several decades.
Does he have any priors?
He IS innocent until proven guilty.
LC's 10% soul blood sez he should serve until adjudicated.
He may have whacked a wetback. Up close. Bath House whacks hundreds by Drone, from far away. Who you gonna respect?
"he is offended by people who are calling for his client to resign"
translation "i'm gonna pop yo craka ass wi' minze 9MM if uze keep talkin' that trash"
If Obama had a city councilman, he would look like Battle. Or worse.
The scary part is that he is a role model in his district.
The best they have.
The right to vote is wasted on large sections of the population.
The law should be rewritten with education, owning property, and miliitary service as basic requirements.
The right to vote is wasted on large sections of the population.
The law should be rewritten with education, owning property, and miliitary service as basic requirements.
All government workers, free shitters and government contractors .... should be recused from voting .... because of conflict of interest ?
I thought "East" Chicago was Lake Michigan. Drop him off their and let him swim.
lets face it....
DEMOCRATS ARE FUCKING PIECES OF SHIT
Isn't Hitlery a murderess .... at least in conspiracy .... to several murders .... and she's running for Preztitute ?
The trail of blood in the Clintons' wake is eye-popping if you dare look into it at all. She personifies evil.
Why is anyone surprised? This is the same town that has elected Jesse Jackson Jr and Bobby Rush {Old guard Black Panther member} to CONgress and a Mossad agent for their mayor.
This is Chiraq baby! O dickheads pride and joy. The new and improved MERICA! The Home of opportunity. 7 years of back breaking work to get this city back on its feet. Low on cash, NP We have the state lottery slush fund we can dip into any time, our problem "smoothing" ability is world renown!
Let us come turn your city into a shithole today! You'll love the changes we make. It dosent get any better than this! TRUST US! Not miserable enough yet? Just give it time the course has been set. We just come ship all the jobs to lower wage areas of the world, then pocket your salaries and wa la! Thats it, Thats alls it takes!
THIS IS THE JOB OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS DO, THEY SUCK! WANT IMPROVEMENT IN AMERICA? REPLACE YOUR WORTHLESS GOVERNMENT
THis is where our leaderships best thinking got us! Not very bright. Greedy Pigs is more appropriate.
The establishment hates the phrase "CHIRAQ" Scream it from the rooftops they hate it! Thanks for giving us Chiraq O, and ROM. Great job stupid fucking idiots! The avg kindergardener could have done better
O just made an announcement, "I have great news to report, everyone in chiraq has been shot, so the healing can now begin, we've done great work here!"
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FedGOV criminalization of marijuana is itself a crime. This guy should be able to smoke reefer if he wants. The FEDGOV does not have the authority to tell people what drugs they can take or not. The FEDGOV is guilty of crime here.
And on the shooting it sounds to me like the guy was defending himself against lethal force with lethal force, not a crime either.
What a bullshit article.
Grimaldus
No one has the right to tell me or you what I can and what I cannot do with a plant that grows freely on this earth between us, especially if its non-lethal. The insanity of government. Who or what gives them that right? Nothing. Period. It grows freely on this earth and I like it, so anyone who thinks they are righteous enough to tell me I cant use it, is unjust. They can go fuck themselves?
It sure as hell isnt "Freedom" 0, zero deaths reported on death certificates from marijuana, one person dies every 19 min from prescription drugs and Alcohol kills over 100,000 a year. Prescription OD deaths are way down in areas where weed is legal, wonder why the drug companies dont like weed?
Black votes matter! Forward!
They & women will elect the 'Cunning Runt', hey, they elected Bronko Bomber not once but TWICE. You got to realize that the FSA (Free Shit Army) controls the process.
I'm sorry.....I'm having trouble understanding how he's any different from any other politician, except that he got caught.
stab the nigger
He's the East Chicago drug kingpin. Moved his operations into the taxpayers hotel.
I'm guessing he'll fit right in.
This is some tribal shit.
There are far too many people of color in prison and for no other reason than they murdered people. I for one am glad the POOTUS has taken charge and will soon end the White Satan's reign of terror. <sent from my Obamaphone>
What Hillary, Obama, Boehner, Reid, Pelosi, and McConnell have done is far worse than murder and drugs!
http://arkancide.com/
He fits the demoncrat profile. Embrace the suck you support.Terminally Naive and Unjustifiably Arrogant Americans.
“I'm still discovering, right up to this moment, that it is only by living completely in this world that one learns to have faith. I mean living unreservedly in life's duties, problems, successes and failures, experiences and perplexities. In so doing, we throw ourselves completely into the arms of God.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Chimpago is on its way to become the next Detroit (it already is in many ways, thou)