CHICAGO (AP) - An off-duty Chicago police officer convicted of pummeling a female bartender half his size was sentenced Tuesday to two years probation and anger management classes for the videotaped attack that appeared worldwide on the Internet and cable news channels.
Cook County Circuit Judge John Fleming also gave Anthony Abbate a home curfew of 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. and ordered him to perform 130 hours of community service.
And the WTF money quote from the judge:
Prosecutors had asked for prison for Abbate - he could have been sentenced to up to five years behind bars - but the judge said he didn't see aggravating factors to justify a prison term.
"If I believed sentencing Anthony Abbate to prison would stop people from getting drunk and hitting people, I'd give him the maximum sentence," Fleming said.
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Cops get a worst punishment than eveyone else? That hardly seems fair.
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It said he could have gotten 5 years. Letting him off will give the wrong impression to a lot of people.
And given that these people are supposed to be unpstanding pillars of the community whose job it is to protect the public, I see nothing wrong with slapping one of them a little harder if he does something like this. They of all people should know better.
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First offence. You want to throw him into a already over loaded prison system, where being a cop will most likely get him killed?
He got probabtion, community servive and anger management classes.
What does defeat mean to you?
Nothing it will never come. Death before defeat. I don’t bend or break. I end, if I meet a foe capable of it. Victory is in forcing the opponent to back down. I do not. There is no defeat.
If that happened to a girl I know, he'd be wishing he went to jail.
There is only one way of avoiding the war – that is the overthrow of this society. However, as we are too weak for this task, the war is inevitable. -L. Trotsky, 1939
He got community service, which I think is more valuable than a fine. Especially since he's a cop and ont exactly rolling in it...
What does defeat mean to you?
Nothing it will never come. Death before defeat. I don’t bend or break. I end, if I meet a foe capable of it. Victory is in forcing the opponent to back down. I do not. There is no defeat.
