The Anthony Cumia Show - November 26, 2025


The 70-Time Get Out of Jail Free Card | 11-23-25


Episode Stats


Length

7 minutes

Words per minute

130.93

Word count

1,036

Sentence count

35

Harmful content

Misogyny

5

sentences flagged

Toxicity

2

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Hate speech

2

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Summary

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A judge let a man out of a mental hospital who was serving time for an assault on a social worker, only to have him go on to burn a woman on a train to make her night even worse. Plus, FanDuel is changing the game, and if your player leaves the match, your bet continues on with the substitute so you're still in it until the final whistle.

Transcript

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00:01:10.700 There was the
00:01:11.640 fire in the train.
00:01:13.800 Oh, that wasn't a fire. It was a woman. 0.99
00:01:16.340 A young woman.
00:01:17.800 This is just a terrible story. 1.00
00:01:20.560 Was
00:01:20.920 riding the wonderful public transportation
00:01:23.820 they have there in chicago and um a a man who had been arrested already 70 times they said 49
00:01:34.500 when i heard 49 i'm like how the hell did this guy uh how was he able to still be out and about
00:01:41.080 with 49 arrests it's 70 and this guy's violent the uh judge in this case where the hell is she
00:01:52.840 Oh, this one got me so mad when I read this, because the judge just let him out.
00:02:03.940 Just let this guy out.
00:02:06.840 Let's see what, there it is.
00:02:09.780 Oh, God.
00:02:13.400 Yeah, the guy, his name is Lawrence Reed.
00:02:18.800 Lawrence Reed and the judge
00:02:21.180 Cook County Judge Teresa Molina
00:02:23.180 Gonzalez 0.75
00:02:23.760 she freed Reed on a felony aggravated 1.00
00:02:27.020 battery charge for allegedly slapping 0.96
00:02:29.100 a social worker
00:02:30.640 so hard that she was
00:02:32.760 knocked out during an August
00:02:34.960 19th assault inside
00:02:36.940 the psychiatric ward
00:02:38.940 of the McNeil Hospital
00:02:40.880 court records show
00:02:42.240 so the judge decided
00:02:44.100 that this guy was too dangerous
00:02:46.760 to the staff
00:02:48.020 at the mental hospital too dangerous to the staff at the mental hospital
00:02:55.880 and said she couldn't just put him in jail you can't just put crazy people in jail
00:03:03.460 so what did she decide put an ankle monitor on him allow him eight hours out of the place he
00:03:13.500 was supposed to stay with the ankle monitor and um he just didn't adhere to the rules go figure
00:03:21.440 that one out a man who would uh go on to light a young woman on fire wouldn't pay attention to
00:03:28.280 the ankle monitor rules um yeah he lit a woman a blaze on a train to chicago wednesday was
00:03:36.800 released by a judge in august he hit someone so hard it knocked them out a worker and uh or a uh
00:03:47.580 yeah a social worker and they let him out august let's see september october november three months
00:03:56.500 he did this in august and and he's out walking the streets and he winds up burning a woman
00:04:09.300 60 she might not even survive burns are terrible uh things to have to live through
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00:05:09.220 um yeah reed could be seen on surveillance video flying off the handle as the social worker was
00:05:21.720 speaking with him inside the locked ward this is uh the social worker being hit
00:05:27.560 when he was in the mental hospital he became irate and slapped the victim in the face with
00:05:33.380 an open palm her vision went black and she lost consciousness one of the victim's co-workers
00:05:39.480 rushed over and helped the victim walk down to her office the victim taken to the er a cut on
00:05:45.700 the cornea of her eye optic nerve bruising and a concussion and cook county judge teresa molina
00:05:53.680 gonzalez was forced to release reed who was charged with misdemeanor battery at the time
00:05:59.000 because it wasn't then a felony how is i get so aggravated this is because this is how they bring
00:06:11.740 the the violent crime numbers down you see what they do they take a nut a violent felon
00:06:21.480 like lawrence reed and he smacks a woman in the face in a hospital and they go yeah that's not a
00:06:31.520 felony make that a misdemeanor and that way we can go hey felonies are down look at what we did
00:06:38.460 we're so awesome that we lowered the felonies under our leadership yeah because you reclassified
00:06:46.880 felonies to be misdemeanors oh my god yeah at the time the prosecutor also ran through reed's
00:06:56.580 extensive criminal history which included a 2020 arson conviction for setting fire um to a chicago
00:07:04.120 building the defendant poses a real present a real and present threat to the safety of especially
00:07:11.340 this victim whoever else was working at the hospital that day in the community as a whole
00:07:16.040 and what did they do they let him out they let him out too dangerous for the hospital too
00:07:24.620 dangerous for social workers he didn't commit a bad enough crime to lock up so what do we do
00:07:31.740 with him let's let him out into the general public let's just put an ankle monitor on him
00:07:40.140 and let him just be amongst the people of society until what? 0.99
00:07:51.280 Until he lights a woman on fire. 0.99