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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: 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"