Chicago City Wire

Chicago Mayoral hopeful Paul Vallas wants the suspects in the Danny Golden case to stay in jail.

Vallas had urged the public to attend the Nov. 3 bond review filed by the suspects for possible pre-trial release. 

"The 3 offenders who shot Chicago Police Officer Danny Golden are appealing their bond," Vallas tweeted Oct. 30. "We need to let the Judge know that these offenders should not be back on the street. If you can please come to the hearing Nov. 3, at 26 and California, Room 203 at 9 a.m."

The former Chicago Public Schools CEO has recently announced he will run for mayor, declaring there is a "crisis of leadership" under Mayor Lori Lightfoot. He also said that schools in the city are in "free fall."

“The situation in Chicago is much more dire than it was four years ago,” Vallas told Chicago Tonight. “There has just been a breakdown in law and order.”

In the 2019 mayoral race, Vallas finished ninth out of 14 with 5% of the vote. He has since become a frequent critic of the incumbent mayor on the city budget, schools, and crime. 

"Video footage from this weekend showed masses engaging in fights with CPD Officers and each other, dancing on top of CPD squad cars and damaging businesses..." Vallas said after a gathering of unaccompanied minors in Millennium Park this past May left one teen dead, and heavily criticized Lightfoot for her inability to reign in crime in Chicago. "What we are witnessing is the systematic destruction of Chicago's economic heart as the Mayor and her CPD leadership team have no strategy for addressing escalating crime and lawlessness in the downtown area, let alone addressing neighborhood violence anywhere else in the city." 

A 16-year-old boy was shot and killed standing near 'The Bean' at 7:30 that night, Chicago City Wire reported. That night, 26 minors and 5 adults were arrested, and eight weapons were recovered. A 17-year-old suspect was charged with second-degree murder for the 16-year-old's murder. Over the course of that weekend, 33 were shot and 5 were killed across the city. This comes as crime rates in Chicago is nearing all-time highs. 

Vallas was appointed to the Board of Chicago State University by former Gov. Rauner in 2017, and in 2018 he became the chief administrative officer until he was fired by the board in 2019 as he was running for mayor. Vallas is the fourth candidate to declare he is running in the 2023 race. Lightfoot, who is widely expected to run again, shared a statement from Ald. Scott Waguespack regarding Vallas's candidacy: "Paul Vallas running and losing has become a stunt," Waguespack said. "Chicago doesn’t want his failed experiments..." 

This past August, Brendan O’Brien, the owner of the bar and grill Reilly’s Daughter, hosted a fundraiser for Chicago Police Officer Danny Golden who was paralyzed in a shooting while breaking up a fight outside a Beverly bar. O'Brien said that the whole neighborhood is a close-knit one of cops and firefighters. O'Brien has also hosted fundraisers for other CPD officers killed in the line of duty including Carlos Yanez, Ella French, and Paul Bauer. O'Brien said, "Anything we can do for Danny and his situation, we're more than happy to do it. They're all from the neighborhood here. He's got a big, big family and he's got a long road ahead of them," South Cook News reported. O'Brien noted that crime has skyrocketed in the neighborhood, and people are reacting by going home earlier, which he has seen firsthand as a bar owner.

Bryant Hayes, one of three men charged in the shooting of Golden, was set to appear before Cook County Judge Diana Kenworthy, at 9:30 a.m. in room 203, Nov. 3, in the Leighton Criminal Courts Building at 26th and California to seek a bond review for possible pre-trial release, Patch reported.