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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: 4, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 12, @04:27AM (17 children)
Why are you obsessed with child grooming?
(Score: 1) by Runaway1956 on Sunday February 12, @02:55PM (16 children)
I'm a parent, and a grandparent. A part of parenting is ensuring that the predators don't turn your children into sex toys long before the children are sexually mature. AFTER a child is sexually mature, THEN you begin loosening the leash, but you still want to protect them from predators. The fact that you have to ask indicates where your moral compass points . . .
Are you going to pretend that you've never read any of the horror news stories? Like the little orphaned (I think 6 or 7 years old) boy who was "adopted" by two homosexuals, only to be continuously molested by both "parents"?
Shit happens, and the children I love could become orphans at any time. They should become the toys of perverted sons of bitches, when we are no longer here to protect them? WTF is wrong with you?
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by janrinok on Sunday February 12, @06:28PM (15 children)
I'll bet some people from your town have stolen cars, committed rape or even murder. Does that mean that you are a car thief, rapist and murderer? Or is it just homosexuals that your are frightened of and you feel you must blame them all for the crimes of 2 people. I'll bet there are mixed sex couples who have also abused children or have committed despicable crimes - does that mean that you and your wife/partner are also guilty of the same crimes?
You have nothing to fear but fear itself.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Runaway1956 on Sunday February 12, @09:37PM (14 children)
Frightened of? Lemme think a moment . . . Are heterosexuals clamoring to bring their kids to the local strip joints? To the bars? To any adult entertainment establishments? Or, is it just the gay community making a statement by bringing children to drag queen events?
Think about it for awhile.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by janrinok on Monday February 13, @07:25AM (13 children)
I don't remember this outcry about Cpl Klinger in MASH. Even heterosexuals found it amusing.
I don't know who visits the places you mention. Unlike you, I let people live their own lives and don't keep records of who goes into which establishment. You apparently do keep such records, or are you just reporting anecdotal claims?
(Score: 1) by Runaway1956 on Monday February 13, @05:04PM (12 children)
Perhaps you missed some key facts. Cpl Klinger didn't portray a child. No one enticed, encouraged, cajoled, or coerced Klinger to dress up as a woman. Further, Klinger wasn't gay or transvestite, he put on an act in an attempt to get out of the army. I can't see how Klinger relates to child grooming, in any fashion.
You've also missed a very important fact, regarding my position. I've stated repeatedly that when a child reaches the age of majority, he is on his own, and he can make any decisions he cares to make regarding transitioning, or whatever. That in no way contradicts my position on child grooming in schools, or anywhere else.
If you can point to a bunch of heterosexual protestors using children in some way at a strip club to show that children should make their own decisions, you might have an argument. Why are children being taken into gay/trans/drag queen events? That is child grooming. Pre-puberty children are being taught, "This is how you should behave when you are old enough" or maybe even, "This is how you should behave now"
Grooming. Deal with it.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by janrinok on Monday February 13, @06:38PM (11 children)
Drag artists don't portray a child either - so your point is?
In the UK we have a tradition of pantomimes each Christmas and New Year. The Ugly Sisters, The Wicked Witch, the evil StepMother - they are all usually played by men in drag. It is family entertainment and there is absolutely no correlation between that and the children who have watched such performances choosing homosexuality in their life. Go back centuries, millennia even, and you will find that many female roles have often been played by men in theatre.
It is a tradition that continues today: Miss Fritton (St Trinians), Edna Turnblad (Hairspray), Queen Elizabeth I (Orlando), Agatha D'Ascoyne (Kind Hearts and Coronets), Olivia (Twelfth Night), Backing Trio (the Patsy), Brian's Mother (Life of Brian), Robin Williams (Mrs Doubtfire), Dusting Hoffman (Tootsie), John Travolta (Hairspray), Ru Paul (the Brady Bunch), Eddie Murphy (The Nutty Professor), Matt Lucas (Little Britain), etc.
Nor is it limited to Western Europe: Onnagata (女形/女方, lit. "female role") (also oyama (女形)) are male actors who play female roles in kabuki theatre.
No, no it isn't. It is simply your homophobia. You can do what you want with your own kids. Don't tell the rest of us how to raise ours. Nor should you try to create a world that prevents us from enjoying traditional family entertainment at certain times of the year, or watching films that apparently you - or your children - cannot cope with. If you want to live if fear of homosexuals you are free to do so. But don't try to paint them as undesirables to everyone else though, by accusing them of things for which you can provide no evidence. We are all perfectly capable of making up our own minds.
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Runaway1956 on Monday February 13, @09:49PM (10 children)
I can't help but feel that you are being intentionally obtuse. I see nothing more, and nothing less, than indoctrination in this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIR7Xk52jLY [youtube.com]
"You don't have to be like Mommy or Daddy, Little One. Let me show you how I swing!" This is not "children's entertainment", no matter how you try to accuse me of "homophobia". This is indoctrination.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by janrinok on Monday February 13, @10:56PM (9 children)
And that video is your evidence? Where was the indoctrination or "grooming"? In pantomime, children get invited onto the stage sometimes - but they are not being indoctrinated. You have a very perverted view of the world if you see indoctrination of children in things like that. Which adults in that video were swingers? They all looked the same to me - just normal adults. Do they have a secret sign that you recognise and that nobody else (apart from the 'swingers' themselves I assume) knows anything about?
I see that you simply ignored all the examples that I gave you - there must be millions of children who are now going through the lives permanently scarred by what they saw in those films if you are to be believed.
But even if you are convinced that children were being harmed the police didn't think so. They turned up at the event for 'crowd control' and ensured that everybody 'dispersed after the event'. Tell me which laws are being broken? Who was arrested, and for what crime? How many children had to be taken into care? Which parents are awaiting their day in court?
You are not forced to go to such events. But you feel that you have the right to insist that they be shut down so that other people cannot do as they choose. You want the 'Land of the Free' to be according to your rules. No laws are being broken. Nothing you have produced as 'evidence' supports any of your claims. You are beginning to sound just like somebody else on this site. You want things doing your way - nobody else is entitled to have an alternative viewpoint.
In my opinion, you should live your life and let other people live theirs.
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday February 14, @03:13AM (8 children)
I'm embarrassed for you janrinok.
You don't take children into an erotic environment, unless you're a sick sumbitch. I've drawn the parallel repeatedly, and you can't see it. Would you, or would you not, take a child to a strip joint? Would you take a child to a whorehouse? How 'bout a drug den? There are lots of places I wouldn't take a child - not mine, not yours, not any child. Adult entertainment is off limits for pre-pubescent children, without question. Off limits for young teens, and I might only begin to consider it a proper venue for older teens.
Seriously, I have to explain this to a man your age?
Would you take your kids to dinner with a pack of wolves? I hear Yellowstone is the place to get back to nature!
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Tuesday February 14, @08:02AM (4 children)
There was nobody stripping. There was nothing sexual taking place at the time that the event was being held. Who was taking drugs? Did the police arrest anybody or even claim that they suspected drug abuse was taking place? That is not to deny that such things exist but a child raised by loving parents will usually turn out just fine. The video specifically states that this was an event organised for children. What you are suggesting might have occurred previously or subsequently is only in your imagination and was not happening at the time of the event.
You do not become an homosexual simply because you know they exist. Nor do you change your sexuality if one of them touches you. It isn't like a vampire bite!
Yes, you do. Because I can see no reason for your display of homophobia. No child was molested or 'indoctrinated' at the event you have mentioned. They might have wondered why men were dressed that way - I wonder what they think of circus clowns, or their favourite superheroes, or any of the film stars and actors I mentioned a few posts back? Or, for that matter, why priests and other religious figures dress the way they do - but that example is probably not helping to make a convincing counter-argument to your claims.
You are making illogical deductions about something that did not happen. Did you ever enter your parents bedroom when you were a child? Do you know what they sometimes did in there? No, they probably didn't have sex while you were there but you seem to be suggesting that you might have been scarred for life because they had had sex in there previously without you even realising it at the time.
Or is it because your parents were in a loving relationship that makes it all OK. Do you know anything about the loving relationships of the drag artists you are accusing of all sorts of nefarious activities without any evidence?
I once had a lesbian working for me who was raising a daughter. She was doing a damn fine job about it too. They are people - just like me and, even though you may hate the idea, just like you too - except they have a different sexuality. In the relationships between that woman and the other people in our team, her sexuality was as insignificant as having an accent or wearing spectacles.
You are entitled to have your views and I will defend your right to express them in discussions such as this. But suggesting placing controls or limits on other people because of something you do not like but which is perfectly legal is not giving them freedom to live their lives as they choose. You want people to comply with your view of the world - and you are suggesting that compliance with that view should be enforced if necessary. And in this instance, as in several others, I find your view significantly skewed and you are unable to provide any logical or coherent discussion to support it.
I would have thought that a 'man of your age' would have learned to get along with other people by now.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday February 14, @02:01PM (3 children)
except a bunch of men dressing up as women. Nothing sexual in that, at all. No sexual connotations at all.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Tuesday February 14, @03:46PM (2 children)
I can't decide now whether it is transphobia or homophobia that you are suffering from. Why don't you protest against all those films that I quoted which are seen by far more children than the story you are reporting? And many drag artists in the UK club circuit perform as comedians, singers or both - but they are not homosexuals or transvestites. Go figure...
Were your children forced to go? No. Did you go? No. It didn't affect you or your family at all.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday February 14, @04:01PM (1 child)
Pay attention. I am protesting the whole cultural revolution thing. I gave you one example - there are tens of thousands. For instance, we no longer watch anything Disney around here, because they are part of it.
It is child grooming, whether a corporation is pushing the agenda, or an individual is personally grooming one individual child for illicit purposes.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Tuesday February 14, @05:56PM
So you say.....
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 15, @03:57AM (2 children)
Really, man! It's much better for them to hang out with a bunch of drunk, wife beating neo-nazis, right? This must be one of your joke journals, no way you can be taken seriously, you're nuts
(Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 15, @01:08PM (1 child)
Because your warped stereotype applies to all heterosexual couples, right? Get a life.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 16, @05:16PM
Quick! Somebody! Please! Mod that post "Ironic"!
You're even crazier when you do "AC"