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The news: https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-man-suspected-burglar-home/?intcid=CNM-00-10abd1h
CHICAGO (CBS) -- Only on 2: A father detained a suspected burglar in his own garage.
His wife and two-year-old daughter are inside the house as this all happened. He is speaking exclusively with CBS 2's Sabrina Franza, reporting from Wrigleyville.
"Went into the garage and I just followed him into the garage."
Niko Kara was the only person standing between, he said, a suspected burglar and his family. His two-year-old daughter was sound asleep upstairs when Kara said a man broke into the garage.
"It happened quick. I just followed the guy. I didn't want him to cause anymore harm."
Kara first learned the man was there when he tried getting into the front entrance. His Ring camera caught someone moving.
"It was a surprise for all of us."
He and his wife realized the man got into the garage behind the house. Kara followed and found him going through boxes as his wife called 911.
Kara, a concealed carry permit holder, and that suspect, stood still behind this garage door. He raised his weapon but did not fire. He waited for police to show.
"He was quick to show me his hands and drop whatever he was holding in his hands."
Which was a phone and a water bottle.
"They were here in about 45 seconds and he couldn't get out of the garage. I was standing in the door," Kara said.
A Ring camera from across the alley caught the garage door opening as police stood outside. The suspect ran but didn't make it far. Chicago police took him into custody shortly after.
"You know what, I'm really happy that I spent last night at my home, in bed, and everybody was safe. The bad guy got arrested."
Both Kara and his wife are very shaken up by this, but are both doing ok. His two-year-old daughter slept through the entire thing.
Charges against the man they say broke in are still pending.
What the newsies didn't tell us:
The Declining Value of Higher Education: Burglar With Gender Studies Degree Held At Gunpoint by Chicago Resident
While they may be highly prized in ivory tower universities, out here in the real world, gender and women’s studies degrees don’t take you far or open many doors to high-paying jobs. Bringing nothing but a gender studies degree to a gunfight also seems like a good way of proving its worthlessness. A Monday evening break-in in Chicago’s Wrigleyville neighborhood was the perfect case for proving that hypothesis.
A homeowner with a surveillance camera system noticed a prowler lurking outside his home. Mr. Homeowner, the proud holder of a carry license, then checked his attached garage. That’s where police say he found 31-year-old Tyler Hamlin.
The armed homeowner held Hamlin — on probation and wanted under two active felony warrants — at gunpoint until police arrived. Given Mr. Hamlin’s history of serial criminal activity and violence, the gun proved a wise decision.
The homeowner, identified as Niko Kara by CBS2 in Chicago said he was the only thing standing between the intruder and Kara’s wife and 2-year-old daughter.
Here’s the story from CWB Chicago . . .
The concealed carry holder received a security alert showing someone was on his porch with a flashlight in the 3500 block of North Fremont in Wrigleyville around 8:30 p.m. Monday…“[The police] were here in about 45 seconds, and he couldn’t get out of the garage. I was standing in the door,” the homeowner told CBS2 before charges were filed.
A Ring camera from across the alley caught the garage door opening as police stood outside. The suspect ran but didn't make it far. Chicago police took him into custody shortly after.
"You know what, I'm really happy that I spent last night at my home, in bed, and everybody was safe. The bad guy got arrested."
Both Kara and his wife are very shaken up by this, but are both doing ok. His two-year-old daughter slept through the entire thing.
Charges against the man they say broke in are still pending.
The concealed carry holder received a security alert showing someone was on his porch with a flashlight in the 3500 block of North Fremont in Wrigleyville around 8:30 p.m. Monday…
“[The police] were here in about 45 seconds, and he couldn’t get out of the garage. I was standing in the door,” the homeowner told CBS2 before charges were filed.
Hamlin’s lawyer apparently thought this fact would attest to what a fine, upstanding person his client is . . .
Hamlin’s defense attorney said he has a bachelor’s degree in psychology and gender and women’s studies from UIC. He’s unhoused and unemployed.
The “unhoused” Mr. Hamlin — that’s newspeak for homeless — has quite the criminal history. In 2020, he allegedly tried to skip out on a cab fare, eventually battering the cabbie and an Illinois State Trooper before being arrested. Unfortunately for him, that infraction took place in Will County, south of Chicago where they actually prosecute criminals.
Hamlin blew off his court date on that case and forfeited his bond, resulting in a warrant on the case per the Will County Circuit Court Clerk.
Meanwhile, Cook County prosecutors gave him probation when he pled down an aggravated arson charge — a Class X felony (6 to 30 years in prison) — to a criminal damage to property charge (potentially just a misdemeanor).
And there’s another battery charge in Chicago from April, 2022.
Hamlin is currently being held without bail on the outstanding warrants. How long that will last is anyone’s guess in Chicago’s revolving door criminal justice system. In the mean time, he can regale his cellmates with the finer points he picked up while earning the gender and women’s studies degrees that helped make him the man he is today.
Almost makes you regret that you never took gender studies, don't it?
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 11, @04:36AM (1 child)
That's why you post this garbage. You're not looking for intelligent discussion. Your goal is to piss off the libs.
Idiocy like this is why you get Ron DeSantis standing between stacks of baby diapers, denying Donald Trump's allegation that he engaged in child grooming. Here's a link for that: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/02/trump-desantis-groomer-diapers-2024.html [slate.com]. We never actually get around to addressing the real problems in this country because of idiotic bullshit like what you posted. There was a time when the level of discourse among conservatives was at least high enough to present flawed economic ideas like Reaganomics. Now they just accuse everyone who disagrees with them of child grooming.
How about demonstrating some of that intelligence you insist you possess. Raising the quality of your comments beyond nonsense about "child grooming" would be a good start. Actually post cogent arguments instead of the non-sequitur in this journal. You've presented zero evidence that the burglar lacked the education to get a job. You haven't discussed why he turned to burglary or provided any link to gender studies.
Once again, you're arguing that his gender studies didn't prepare the burglar to find a real job and render a life of crime unnecessary. Of course, he still had a high school education.
Your comment implies that you don't have a college education. I'll assume you completed high school or got a GED. That would mean you have an equivalent level of education to what you assert the burglar in your story has. Have you also turned to a life of crime? Have you committed burglaries? Did you commit battery against a cab driver? Have you committed aggravated arson? The burglar did all of those things. I'm assuming you haven't done any of those things, however. If your argument about gender studies not preparing the burglar to get a decent job had any merit, then surely anyone who doesn't have a college degree -- including you -- would also turn to a life of crime.
Either 1) you also have a serious criminal background like the burglar, or 2) you are an exhibit demonstrating that your own argument is bullshit. Which is it?
Then provide the evidence in the form of things like the earning potential of the degree. You've provided nothing but a fallacious argument based on the anecdotal evidence of one person with a gender studies degree who turned to a life of crime.
Once again, he has a high school diploma or a GED. Those are prerequisites for admission to college. Are people who only have high school educations capable of paying their bills and having a reasonable quality of life? If so, your argument is meaningless.
You've also provided no evidence that the burglar in your story is in any way representative of people with gender studies degrees. If you believe that people with criminal tendencies are more prone to choose that as a major, as you've implied, present your evidence.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Saturday February 11, @12:34PM
You err, seriously. He isn't like me, a guy with a high school diploma and some college education, but no degree. He is the product of today's lower education system. Privileged white millennial with all the politically correct answers, but no job. I'm not researching earnings potentials. You do that if you think it's important. Just tell us this: what job does his degree qualify him for, aside from politics or a corporate HR department?
He should have studied math. I know for a fact that people his age who studied math have huge earnings potentials. STEM degrees still pay off. I define STEM as we defined it way back in the last century. Web page designers aren't "engineers".
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