SH**HOLE NEWS: Violent Firebug Who Set Woman Ablaze On Chicago Train Has a Long Rap Sheet, Had ‘no business being on the streets’; Judge was Warned Not to Free Violent Firebug Before He Allegedly Set Woman Ablaze On Train: ‘Real and present threat’

Violent firebug who set woman ablaze on Chicago train has a long rap sheet, had ‘no business being on the streets’:

The violent firebug busted for setting an innocent young woman on fire on a Chicago train had more than 70 prior arrests to his name — as the feds rage that he “had no business being on the streets.”

Lawrence Reed, 50, was hit with a federal terrorism charge after he was caught on camera dousing the 26-year-old woman in gasoline, chasing her through the train car and then setting her alight on Monday night, according to authorities.

Reed, who allegedly shouted “burn alive b–h” when he was arrested, was ordered to stay behind bars during a court hearing Friday.

It has since emerged that Reed had a disturbing lengthy rap sheet — and was out on pretrial release at the time for an aggravated battery charge.

“Lawrence Reed had no business being on the streets given that his violent criminal history and his pending criminal cases,” outraged ATF Special Agent-in-Charge Christopher Amon said.

“Reed had plenty of second chances by the criminal justice system and as a result you have an innocent victim in the hospital fighting for her life.”

Records show that Reed had previously been arrested 72 times in Cook County alone and convicted in 15 of those cases, the feds said in court papers.

One of those busts included an aggravated arson charge, in which he was accused of dousing the city’s Thompson Center government building with liquid and setting it on fire just as Gov. J.B. Pritzker was due to speak at a press conference, cops said.

But the maniac never served any time and was only given probation despite being convicted of the arson incident in April 2020, court documents show.

At the time of this week’s fiery horror, Reed was out on electronic home monitoring stemming from an alleged incident where he knocked a hospital social worker unconscious in August.

Prosecutors had asked for Reed to remain locked up but a judge overruled them — leaving him free to roam the streets. --->READ MORE HERE

Judge was warned not to free violent firebug before he allegedly set woman ablaze on train: ‘Real and present threat’:

The violent firebug who allegedly set a woman ablaze on a Chicago train earlier this week was released by a judge in a separate assault case in August — despite prosecutors petitioning for the serial criminal to be jailed.

Lawrence Reed, 50 — who left a woman fighting for her life in Monday’s horrific caught-on-camera train incident — had been sprung in the earlier case Aug. 22 with electronic monitoring even though prosecutors warned a judge it wasn’t enough to protect the community from him, according to a report by CWB Chicago.

But Cook County Judge Teresa Molina-Gonzalez freed Reed on a felony aggravated battery charge for allegedly slapping a social worker so hard that she was knocked out during an Aug. 19 assault inside the psychiatric ward of the MacNeal Hospital, court records show.

Under Illinois’ Pretrial Fairness Act, judges can’t hold a defendant in jail unless they are charged with a felony and meet a slew of other criteria, including having a criminal history, posing a risk of endangering the community or being a flight risk.

Prosecutor Jerrilyn Gumila had warned the judge at the time that electronic monitoring would be “wholly insufficient.” And she was allegedly proven right.

Prosecutor Jerrilyn Gumila had still warned the judge at the time that electronic monitoring would be “wholly insufficient.” And she was allegedly proven right.

“It could not protect the victim or the community from another vicious, random, and spontaneous attacks,” Gumila told the judge of freeing Reed, according to a transcript of the Aug. 22 hearing in a Maywood court, the outlet said.

Gumila described how Reed could be seen on surveillance video flying off the handle as the social worker was speaking with him inside the locked ward.

He “became irate and slapped the victim in the face with an open palm,” Gumila said. “Her vision went black, and she lost consciousness for several seconds. One of the victim’s co-workers rushed over and helped the victim walk down to her office, and the victim was then taken to the emergency room.”

The social worker’s injuries included a cut on the cornea of her eye, possible optic nerve bruising, a concussion that caused her nausea and memory loss and a chipped tooth, Gumila said.

At the time, the prosecutor also ran through Reed’s extensive criminal history — which included a 2020 arson conviction for setting a fire outside a Chicago building.

“The defendant poses a real and present threat to the safety of, especially this victim, whoever else was working in the hospital that day, and the community as a whole,” Gumila told the judge of the August incident. --->READ MORE HERE

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