A video ad depicting an elderly man being beaten and bloodied by two men over a bottle of wine is making the rounds.
The ad – released by radio host Dan Proft’s People Who Play By The Rules PAC – opens by noting the video was taken on the CTA Red Line in Chicago on Sept. 24. The ad shows two men struggling with a seated man. In the fight, one of the attackers wielding a bottle of wine strikes the man as a passenger taking the video exclaims “Oh my God!” repeatedly.
“A non-detainable offense under Pritzker’s purge law,” the ad reads. “Violent criminals get released.”
The ad shows the victim slumped over with blood pouring from his forehead.
“Pritzker. Lightfoot. How much worse does it have to get?” the ad reads.
The ad’s reference to the “Purge Law” is a homage to the 2013 film. Critics of the law have been applying the term to the law given its ineffectiveness in keeping those accused of the most dangerous crimes off the streets, according to Distractify. Per the ad, such a public, brutal beating would go relatively unpunished.
A large number of incarcerated persons who are currently being held in state prisons while they await trial for major crimes will be released when the Safe-T Act takes effect on Jan. 1. If the Safe-T Act is carried out as intended, those accused of the most horrific crimes, such as robbery, kidnapping, arson, second-degree murder, intimidation, aggravated battery, aggravated DUI, aggravated flight, drug-related homicide and threatening a public official, will be freed, Will County Gazette reported.
It is likely that Pritzker, as he has with other campaign TV radio and print campaigns, will attempt to threaten any outlet choosing to run the ad through intimidation. In a Real Clear Politics piece titled “Pritzker Suffocates Free Speech” Steve Cortes addressed how Pritzker used his power to silence newspapers produced by LGIS, of which this journal is one, featuring articles critical of his and other Democrat public policies.
“Concurrent with the suppression of the newspapers, the Pritzker campaign used infamous Democrat lawyer Marc Elias to pressure two Chicago TV stations, WGN and local NBC, to cancel anti-Pritzker PAC ads from airing,” Cortes wrote. “Welcome to America in the 2020s! A land where the White House can cancel your social media and a sitting governor can have your paper tossed and your TV ads refused.”
Cortes added that “Such are the tactics of a person like Pritzker who deems himself lord of some realm rather than an elected servant leader. After all, this is the same disgraced politician who ordered some of the most draconian and unscientific lockdown edicts in America during the Spring of 2020, while sending his own family via private jet to luxuriate at their ultra-high end equestrian estate in Ron DeSantis’ open state of Florida.”
If Illinoisans, according to Cortes, "receive the full spectrum of information about Pritzker and choose to re-elect him, so be it. But this speech repression cannot stand.”
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