The DeVory Darkins Show - Pritzker DANGEROUS ORDER backfires as FATAL SHOOTING stuns Chicago

Episode Date: May 5, 2026

Pritzker DANGEROUS ORDER backfires as FATAL SHOOTING stuns Chicago. This comes after a criminal was released pre trial that led to him killing a Cop. Also, Democrats are now screaming RACISM after Supreme Court ruling on Voting Rights Act.EPISODE SPONSOR: Go to http://joinADF.com/DARKINS or text DARKINS to 83848 to have your gift for life MATCHED. FOLLOW ME:⁠https://www.x.com/devorydarkins⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/devorydarkins⁠⁠https://www.rumble.com/c/devorydarkins⁠⁠https://devory.wtf.tv⁠BUY ME A COFFEE:⁠https://buymeacoffee.com/devorydarkins⁠SHOP OUR MERCH STORE:⁠https://store.devorydarkins.com⁠BUSINESS INQUIRIES:⁠[e-mail]⁠

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free of charge. BetMGM operates pursuant to an operating agreement with Eye Gaming, Ontario. In today's video, J.B. Pritzker just got some bad news as his policy has led to another fatal outcome in the city of Chicago. Also, Democrats are screaming racism after the Supreme Court ruling yesterday. And students in the Chicago public school system will be protesting on Friday against the Trump administration. Let's start with what happened with this policy from J.B. Pritzker and how it became so fatal. Take a look. A detention hearing is happening today for the man accused of killing a shot.

Chicago police officer at a hospital and critically wounding another officer. He is charged with murder and attempted murder. News Nation's Nick Smith explains why this case is renewing that national debate over cashless bail. 26-year-old Alfonso Talley was out on pretrial release for another crime when he was arrested. And some say if the judge had not granted him cashless bail, these officers would not have been shot. Police say Alfonso Talley has a long rap sheet going back to 20, During today's hearing, prosecutors are expected to share details about this weekend's deadly hospital shooting. Talley's attorney is expected to offer what he says are mitigating circumstances.

This is the officer Talley is accused of killing, 38-year-old Chicago police officer John Bartholomew. And a second officer, 57 years old and a 21-year veteran of the force, remains in critical condition after prosecutors say Talley shot him in the face. Talley was at the hospital after being arrested for robbery because police say he told them he had swallowed drugs. Police say he shot the officers when they removed his handcuffs for a CT scan. The case is fueling debate over Illinois's cashless bail system called the Safety Act. Critics saying it lets criminals out. Supporters saying it gives judges the flexibility that they need.

So where do we start as it pertains to this particular story? We start with the facts that Democrats who are in charge of public safety continue to sign off on policies that do the opposite. The governor back in 2021 sign this safety act, which is a very unique name, given that it's actually done the opposite because he has created a system where judges now get to decide, are we going to keep this person in jail, or are we going to let them go? And to let them go is the easy thing to do. The hard thing to do, according to the system that the governor set up, would be to keep someone who's a repeat offender for violent offenses, by the way, locked up in the jail. And as they had failed to do so,

because this judge had led to the killing of this police officer. Now, I want to go to the governor because, of course, he acts like everything is going according to plan. Take a look. It's one of the great things about the Safety Act is we give the judges the ability to say, no, you're not going to get bail. You are going to stay in jail. And that is something, And also to make the decision that someone who's committed a nonviolent offense doesn't have to come up with the $500 or $1,000 or $5,000 that they might have otherwise had to get bail. Now, the easy thing to say here is that the Safety Act killed a cop. But the smart thing to say is when you build a system that treats detention as a last resort instead of a tool, you will get exactly the outcomes that the system is designed to produce. in this matter definitely gets to blame, but the person behind all this is the governor because

he's giving these judges too many options. There should never be an option on the table that says if someone committed a violent offense, not once, but a few times, and they're awaiting a trial for a new offense, there's no way they would get out of the jail. I don't care how much they're worth. I don't care if they're not worth anything. That has nothing to do with it. They are a flight risk. There's no reason they're on the street to give them. that option to the judge is beyond me. But again, this is the way that they like to govern. They want to make things about outcomes. And when they do that, they make fatal decisions. Let's go to the Cook County State's attorney. Here's what she had to say. Once again, we are reminded of what

it means to take the oath to protect and serve. Officer Bartholomew took that oath and he gave his life for the city. Electronic monitoring is not an alternative. to detention. It does not keep people safe. When the state's attorney's office asked for detention, we ask for detention because we believe that person presents a danger to the public. If we're not asking for detention, I don't care if they are monitored or not. They can go about their lives and get ready for trial. But if we ask for detention, we make sure that we put every bit of information in front of a judge to establish why we believe this person presents a danger, as we did in this case. We established that he had four pending violent felonies,

and in spite of that, he was placed on electronic monitoring. Electronic monitoring system is broken. It does not work. It is not keeping people's safe. So the state's attorney's office is going to continue to ask for detention each and every time we believe someone presents a danger. Yeah, you see, these are the type of policies that are impacting everyday Americans. There's so much that people are complaining about on social media and not focusing on the damage that's being done within their own community like a policy that we're talking about right now. You see, in the governor's point of view, it's about wealth-based detention policies. If a person has no dollar to their name, we should give them a chance to get back on the

streets because they're not going to afford to make bail. Really? So is that more important than the idea that they're a violent threat to public safety? Which one's more important? In fact, maybe that's not even the best question. Here's the better question. What is the number one responsibility of elected representatives to keep the public safe? At the time of the shooting, Talley, a seven-time convicted felon was wearing an electronic monitor while awaiting trial for a 2025 carjacking. And according to court records, by March, Talley stopped coming to court and his ankle monitor has stopped transmitting. Law enforcement in some city and state officials are questioning the judge's release decision and calling for changes to the safety system.

A second person is also facing criminal charges in this case. According to prosecutors, Talley's girlfriend purchased the gun Talley allegedly used in that shooting. Okay, let's take a moment because I want to tell you about my friends at Alliance, defending freedom. ADF is a Christian legal ministry dedicated to advancing free speech, religious freedom, the sanctity of life, parental rights, and God's design for marriage and family. What does this really mean? Well, they've scored huge legal victories like helping to topple Roy versus Wade and securing a landmark free speech win at the Supreme Court on behalf of graphic designer Lori Smith. And you know what else they're fighting? Some of our culture's most pressing

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then you have the governor essentially blaming the judge, and then you have the mayor who wants to blame everything except the actual policy, there's a true disconnect here. And there's no doubt that the legislator in Illinois has already produced bills to change this stuff, but you know it's going nowhere because this is a Democrat-run state. Now, let's go to the mayor because his excuse, I don't think it will leave you shocked, but take a listen. A system that we are still working to repair. It's been broken for a very long time.

You know, incidents like this challenge us to look closer into how, we can have a system that works justly. And so it has to work both ways. I'll just be very frank with you all. Look, we've had an addiction on jails and incarceration. More people get locked up in our country than anywhere else in the world. And yet, we have illegal weapons that flow through our streets. And we have a lack of mental health support.

So there are really two statues here. that are definitely, or they definitely deserve some criticism or at least some amendments. Now, the Safety Act in and of itself has a record of 94% of people who are released before trial do not reoffend. So Democrats will celebrate that, but the 6% do. And as you can see this story, some of these situations turn into fatal outcomes. But that's not only the issue here. It's also the electric monitoring system, which you heard, the Cook County. state attorney pushed back on and called it broken because the numbers are in.

It proves that statue in particular just does not work whatsoever. Take a look at this. Originally a way to reduce the prison population with nonviolent offenders, it is since taken on hundreds of violent offenders. 192 are charged with gun possession. That's up more than 200 percent since 2016. 115 charged with murder or attempted murder. That's up more than 600 percent.

Also more people out charged with sex crimes and vehicular. hijacking. Critics say it also allows defendants to skip their court dates without consequences. Former Cook County Circuit Court Clerk, Iris Martinez wrote a letter to Cook County Board President Tony Preckwinkel last fall, claiming that two-thirds of all defendants on home monitoring did not show up for court. How many times that I've been telling you guys, the Democrats have a habit of applying policies that do the opposite of what they say the policy is supposed to do? Remember, at the national level, President Biden called it the what? The inflation reduction act.

What happened? Record inflation. The Safety Act. What happened? I don't know. A cop being killed. A woman being set on fire on the subway there. I mean, so many other countless murders like a guy who buried his ex-girlfriend in the woods.

I mean, there are more than just this story, folks. These are not one-offs. So, again, it just goes to show. that Democrats and their policies regarding public safety have a terrible track record. Let's go to our next update here, and we're going to stick on or stay on Democrats because the meltdowns are continuing after the Supreme Court had ruled against the Voting Rights Act, which essentially is these congressional maps that were drawn based on race because the idea is we need to protect minority voters.

But at the same time, what happens if we discriminate against non-minority voters? the Supreme Court had no choice but to throw that out because the U.S. Constitution is supposed to be colorblind, right? Okay. Well, according to Democrats, they don't see it that way. Take a look. Today's decision by this illegitimate Supreme Court majority strikes a blow against the Voting Rights Act and is designed to undermine the ability of communities of color all across this country

to elect their candidate of choice. But we're not here to step back. We're here to fight back. Now, when this decision came out earlier today, it's an unacceptable decision, but not an unexpected decision. Because this isn't even really the Roberts Court. It's the Trump Court. Yes. And what we would expect from the Trump Court is an effort to continue their scheme to suppress the vote and rigged the midterm election.

and beyond. Because these extremists have failed America in every possible way. And now we're at a point where affirmative action is gone, diversity is gone, equity gone, inclusion gone, racial tolerance gone, the Voting Rights Act largely gone. But guess what, extremists, we're still here and we're not going anywhere. Guys, we're literally hearing politicians complain that they can't weaponize race anymore to win elections, to leverage policies, to affect change in our country that's unconstitutional. This is exactly what we're getting from the Democrat Party. I think this is a true mask off moment, especially for registered independence. If they need a reminder of how radical Democrats are, they're literally defending the very definition of discrimination, actual.

actually racial discrimination. Just imagine that. They believe that if we go to a neutral merit-based system that minorities will not be represented. What I find to be interesting is there is a record number of black people serving in Congress more than any time in history. What more representation do you need? Okay.

Well, it's an interesting proposition you raise that they're not represented. my friend Patrick Rafini sent out an interesting statistic tonight. There are 58 members of the House who are black. It's a record, actually. A majority are actually elected from plurality white districts. We're so racist in America. You've got white people electing African Americans to Congress in record numbers. Are those people in the South?

They are not in the South. Well, Tim's got it. That's one. That's one example. That's one example. That's not 58. And so the issue is racism. It is inherently racist to draw lines and divide people up by race.

I mean, the definition of it would be we're going to divide ourselves up by race and say only a black congressman can represent black people. Only a Hispanic congressman can represent Hispanic people. That is patently illegal under U.S. law. And it also makes no sense when you consider that we're all Americans and we can vote for whoever we want. The fact that they're trying to defend this is already a losing position. When you looked into the Louisiana case here, it was actually exposed in regards to what Jennings just said, that these white districts would actually vote for a black candidate and the black district would not vote for the black candidate. So which one is it exactly?

And remember, Virginia had an opportunity to vote for a black governor who was also a woman and they passed on her. Oh, yeah, that's right, because she was a Republican. See, they're morally bankrupt. They live in this world of hypocrisy and contradictions. They're not really consistent. And they're definitely not in alignment with the U.S. Constitution from the perspective of being colorblind. That's why this case did deserve to go to the Supreme Court. It made total sense.

And what you see Southern States openly talking about doing now is eliminating black representation, disenfranchising African-American voters by drawing creative districts that, completely take away any kind of representation. And so when you ask about the history, we all stand. I am here as a United States senator because of Americans of all backgrounds who joined together in a movement to end this kind of discrimination and the Supreme Court with the aid and in the abetting of Donald Trump are now eviscerating those rights. And we're going to see, I think, us plunging back into a world where African Americans from many states again disappear from Congress.

Okay. I would love to debate these people who really believe in this nonsense because the fact of the matter is you think black people are going to have a problem being represented. Have you seen the numbers regarding illegal immigration and what it's done to our population? White people will be minorities over the next 30 years. Book it. Okay. We've already seen what happened in Michigan.

We're seeing what happened in New York City. And we're seeing what's happening across this country. You think black people are going to have a problem being represented? No, no, no. White people, black people, Asian people, people from India. They will definitely not be represented according to the way that they want things. It's just fascinating that he's going to lean on this idea of going back to Jim Crow. Because that's what they do.

They hope that they can relive that experience and make the American people feel that experience. But news flash, we've moved on from that. This country is nowhere near the way it used to be for good reason. My thing is that states ought to decide this. A, B, regarding John's argument, I just fundamentally think that the government shouldn't be in the business of dividing us up by race. It's fundamentally racist to divide us up by race. We have African-American members of the House winning in districts across the country with plurality white populations. We are well beyond the issues that were at play.

The issue there is. We've obviously got some serious steps. We haven't had an African-American Republican governor since Reconstruction. I mean, you know, there's a, unfortunately, I'm bound to the two parts. Republicans tried to elect one in Virginia. Okay. And then you got a white Democrat who gerrymandered the state. All right.

I think, well, I think that sums it all up, right? Let's go to our next update. This is Chicago again. And this is just more damage to that society overall community. Mayday is what they call it, where the Chicago public schools will be canceling school for one day and transporting students to protest against ICE and the Trump administration. Yes, you heard me correctly. Your public tax dollars, if you live in Chicago or Illinois, is going to this school system that is encouraging students to skip a day in order to engage in

political activism, if that's what we want to call it, against the current administration. Who knew that is the new priority for students and their development? But only in America, I suppose. Let's hear more information on this. Take a look. The Chicago Teachers Union also has its plan for the May 1st day of civic action all laid out. Workers, educators, and students plan to demonstrate Friday. CTO says they're demanding the rights of workers over billionaires, the abolition of ice, funding for communities, not war, and free and fair elections. This all starts at 8 a.m. Friday with school meetups.

There are various demonstrations across the city leading up to the main rally at Union Park, which takes place at one in the afternoon, and then they will march to Daily Plaza at 2 p.m. So here's my problem about this particular story, especially since they want to make everything about race. A public school district with 26% math proficiency and 40% chronic absenteeism is busing kids to a partisan rally while a $700 million deficit looms at an inspector general just exposed 7.5.7.5.5.5.000 $7 million in 2024 travel spending that was actually marked as fraud, $4,700 to a Hawaii resort trip for one teacher. And then you're asking three-year-olds to make protest signs. What is going on here, folks?

This is the problem within the community. They say they want more funding. They say they want better education. But they're doing the opposite of that. What they should be protesting is the people in charge. Potentially hundreds of kids will be allowed to take a field. trip to a May Day rally in Union Park during that school day. Last year's May Day rally in Union Park brought together thousands of people speaking out in opposition

to the policies of the Trump administration. According to the agreement between Chicago public schools and the Chicago Teachers Union, CPS will provide buses for field trips of students and educators to attend the 1 p.m. Mayday rally in Union Park this year. Now, this story is a clear example of how teachers in America, in some locations like Chicago, they've turned into activists, political activists. That's more important than the development regarding the intellect of that child. Let me give you some facts that we can prove. Third through eighth grade, math proficiency sits at 26.2%. chronic students who are absent, 40%.

High schoolers are at 50%. Meaning 50% of students are not showing up. Travel spending, 3.6 million in 2019, the highest 7.7 million in 2024. It's just absolute fraud. Let me show an example of how these teachers have transformed from educators to political activists. Take a look.

What we're talking about in terms of May 1st is how do we collectively get our shit together and become more unified and solidaristic because the world's looking at us. Just like the world was looking at King and Jesse on that bridge in 65. It was like one of the only things that was preventing Jim Crow from its reign of terror

from continuing. Just like we are probably one of the only institutions in the country preventing an authoritarian regime from consolidating its power at the expense of our students, their families, unions, and workers across the country and across the world. Now, think about the contradiction here. These are people who say they have a problem with our institutions in America, that our institutions are racist and they are not working in the best interests of American citizens and students. Then why is the Teachers' Union using the institution

it controls a public school district to enforce political change with the mayor, by the way, and the district contract as the enforcement mechanism. It makes no sense. That's why I continue to tell you guys, progressivism in America is a problem because they want you to believe institutions are a problem, but they'll use these institutions to expand their power and also apply solutions that don't work. Again, there are no solutions here. There are only tradeoffs when you're talking about governance. The tradeoff here is we will rage against this administration and in return we won't focus on the root cause of our problems. One more example for you. My name is Maria Heapner. I'm a first grade teacher at Funtimate Elementary School.

Belenke-Les-Nay is planning a march and rally at the Logan Square Centennial Monument next Friday, May 1st at 10 a.m. We are organizing our school so that the K-3-6 students are also going to be able to march. We're going to be doing sign making, art projects, maybe a banner build with the students. I think I've said this a million times. This is not the same America as 50 years ago, even though Democrats want it to be. And also, when it comes to our public school system, if you're sending kids to public schools today, I mean, you're putting that child at great risk, especially regarding their intellect and well-being. It's really a disaster. It's really a disaster. But that's my opinion on this matter. Share yours in the comments section. What do you make of obviously a judge making a decision that led to a fatal outcome of a cop being killed because of the policies of J.B. Pritzker. What do you make of Democrats screaming racism? Because the Supreme Court did the right thing. And then what do you make of Chicago encouraging students to engage in political activism instead of getting into the classroom and developing themselves? Give me your thoughts, everything you got in the comments section below. If you got value from the

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