Pearl - December 21, 2025
ALERT! THERE IS A SERIAL WOMAN-PUNCHER ON THE LOOSE!
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Summary
William Livingston, 32, has been charged with two felony counts of aggravated battery in a public place. Police say Livingston was identified as the man who struck two women ages 40 and 29 on June 12th. He previously spent time in jail for punching several other women. For the second time in a week, another woman finds herself in pain and disbelief.
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then you're like, well, you could go to the suburbs. And they're like, no, but I need to
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see all the cool stuff. Well, then you might get punched in the face. It just is what it is.
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What up, guys? Today, we're reacting to women getting punched in the face in Chicago.
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Chicago, there is a serial puncher who has been arrested again. William Livingston, 32,
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was charged with two felony counts of aggravated battery in a public place.
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Police say Livingston was identified as the man who struck two women ages 40 and 29 on June 12th.
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he previously spent time in jail for punching several other women kathleen mills a mother of
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11 from lake villa who was punched in august on august 19th livingston was named a subject
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livingston was named a suspect and taken into custody cpd records show he had seven arrests in
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the past 10 years for similar attacks including two in 2017 and aggravated assault charges in 2015
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and 16 he faced he faced four felony counts of aggregate he faced four felony counts of
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aggravated battery in early 2022 all right so let's oh man
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oh my god this is what women are voting for i don't feel bad for these women in the slightest
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I mean, I guess unless they're conservative, but women just keep voting for these people that literally let out criminals.
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I'm from Chicago. And there are not many conservative women there.
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Maybe they start conservative, but by 21, they're voting liberal.
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You've probably heard of the loop puncher, but this guy is not the only one.
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This is 37-year-old Derek Rucker, who was arrested by police after punching a young woman in the back of the head
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who was waiting at the Loyola red line stop. In late August, we interviewed Kathleen. Oh,
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look at how bad that is. Miles, who was punched in the side of her face while walking. These are
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the same women that say men don't protect us. Well, if you keep voting to let out criminals,
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what do you expect? Home from work in the loop. That man was arrested and it turns out he had
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committed the same crime years prior. And in late September, we know of at least two women who
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reported to police that they wonder, is he retarded? Like, I just don't know what the motive
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is is it just like i hate white people is it low like impulse control i would love to get these
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guys talking on camera i just want to see what kind of people they are i mean obviously like
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not the best people but i you know it would just be nice they were punched as well one near rate
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field the other near union station their attacker you know where a lot of these areas are and
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they're actually not even in the worst areas has not been found women have been the target in all
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of these cases, many sharing their videos on social media in hopes of warning others
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to be very aware of your surroundings. Yeah. And apparently they just, he's still not put
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in jail. Isn't that, isn't that crazy? An update tonight on a story you'll see only
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on CBS News Chicago, what appears to be the same man now caught on camera after two random
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attacks on women in Chicago. So far, police have not confirmed that's the same person.
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Remember, these are the same women that say, oh, it's societal racism. That's making black
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people behave this way. And then all the institutions are like, okay, white
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women, if that's what you think, go ahead, be with them. And then we get
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punched in the face. But another woman reached out to us after seeing our
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story last week about a woman being sucker punched downtown. Our German
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Terry spoke to the latest victim, who says this time the man was armed. Oh
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no. For the second time in the week, another woman finds herself in pain and
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disbelief women in chicago are scared this 26 year old is the latest victim yeah but then you
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tell the women okay move out of the city and they're like no but i need to go to my events
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no then you're like well you could go to the suburbs suburbs and they're like no but i need
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i need to see all the cool stuff well then you might get punched in the face it just is what it
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is of a random sucker and you're like okay well what if we legalize guns then you can protect
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yourself they're like no but you can't if he punches you in the face you can't use a gun we
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need to make guns illegal but lady and then the conservatives are like but ladies you know if you
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don't want to get married we're allowing you guys to not be under the protection of a man you can go
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do your own thing why don't you learn to carry and the women are like no no i can't do that it's
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you know i'm just on the losing team being a woman is like being a cubs fan um or bears fan
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it's just not a lot of hope over here not a lot of um hope for the future now i know i actually
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don't know if the cubs are good now but my whole like childhood they sucked um except for when
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one year they won the world series i'm just glad that i he didn't break my jaw or stab me it was
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friday night around eight o'clock here at the metro 35th street stop the woman says she was
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about to get off the train when the guy told her to get out of her way the next thing she knew
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he threw a nasty punch to the jaw now she managed to snap a picture of the guy before he ran down
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this platform passengers tried to grab him at first there was a couple guys that were around
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um that you know and even even as we vote for all of this terrorism the men will still help you
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men are such nice they're such nice they're good people we're like what the heck you just
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I wouldn't step in. You don't want to get stabbed over it. Like imagine you get stabbed for some
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girl who voted Democrat. I would just get out of the way. And then they said he had a knife in his
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hand. So everybody just backed off. In the image, you can see the weapon in the man's hands. But
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what's more concerning? Take a look. This man fits the description of another attacker CBS
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Chicago told you about a week ago. Take a listen to what Lindsey Howard told us about the man who
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randomly punch. Oh, that looks just like a woman who would vote for communism while walking
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downtown. That's very thin, like wiry circle glasses. That looks just like a Democrat. And
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Chicago's a nice city. That's the sad thing. I don't live in Chicago, but I would like to,
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you know, but when, you know, friends of mine had gotten robbed in downtown Chicago,
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it doesn't make me like ecstatic to go there. He had a black kind of like woolen cap with
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They always protect her wearing identical clothing.
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Chicago police will not say if this is the same person,
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but the similarities are too much for the victims who insist.
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which is why the latest victim is hiding her identity.
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i'm scared to run into him again she filed a complaint with both chicago and metro police
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the train conductors were saying that they believe he got on and he's gonna kill someone
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you know he's gonna punch someone too hard and someone's gonna die and again and then
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the next election it'll be another black lesbian we just don't learn we don't i mean
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i honestly think that special needs people would vote better than women
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Like, if I had to get a group of special needs people together, and we had to decide who, like, what's, who's better, I would, yeah.
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Yet she refuses to hop on the train anytime soon after.
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In Bronzeville, Germant Terry, CBS News Chicago.
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No, but it's it's the police. Do you remember when we had to post black square? I mean, I didn't. But I think we all remember when we had to post black squares for George Floyd. I think, you know, and so now it's like, well, now you're getting punched in the face, women. Anyways, let me know what you think of the comments. Would you step in or would you let her go? Let me know in the comments like the video and I'll see you next time.