Meet The DEI Judge Who Set The Chicago Subway Arsonist Free

Posted • November 24, 2025: Last week, Bethany MaGee, 26, did what countless other women in Chicago do: she got on the CTA's Blue Line to travel across the city. Unfortunately, so did Lawrence Reed, a 50-year-old career criminal with at least 72 prior arrests. Initial reports said Reed was arrested 22 times, then 49 times. Regardless, he should not have been free to roam the streets of Chicago, and now an innocent woman is in the hospital fighting for her life. In August, Reed was arrested after he assaulted a social worker at a psychiatric hospital. Prosecutors said he caused the woman "great bodily harm" and that she suffered from "extreme nausea, severe pain in the eye and head, and difficulty with balance" — symptoms that landed her in the ER twice. That woman now was later diagnosed with "optic nerve bruising and a concussion," both of which cause her "experience memory issues, headaches, and daily nausea."

Prosecutors urged Judge Teresa Molina-Gonzalez to keep Reed behind bars. Instead, she set him loose with ankle monitoring. In September, another judge loosened Reed's restrictions. Now we have learned that shortly before turning Reed loose on innocent Chicagoans, Judge Gonzalez told prosecutors she simply can't keep all these criminals behind bars. —— “I can’t keep everybody in jail because the State’s Attorney wants me to.” Those are the words uttered by the judge moments before she released the man now accused of setting a woman on fire aboard a Blue Line train. —— But there's even more to this story. It turns out Judge Gonzalez not only bragged about being a DEI hire herself, but that she often bases her rulings on the color of peoples' skin. —— Judge Teresa Molina-Gonzalez (D) who let Lawrence Reed out before he lit a woman on fire despite prosecutors begging to keep him detained and 72 prior arrests, basically admits she’s a DEI hire and rules based on how people look. (…)

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https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2025/11/24/chicago-judge-rules-based-on-skin-color-n2666911
CWB Chicago: Prosecutor warned judge before release of man now accused in CTA fire attack: transcripts
https://cwbchicago.com/2025/11/prosecutor-warned-judge-before-release-of-man-now-accused-in-cta-fire-attack-transcripts.html