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This is a good one -- and (my bad!) I had to go to Lawyers, Guns and Money to find it.

I don't know if anyone remembers this incident, of an off-duty Chicago cop beating a tiny little female bartender because she wouldn't serve him another drink. He was obviously inebriated, and by law she's required to cut him off. Here's the video:



It came to court, and the judge -- that Judge John J. Fleming, remember that name -- well, here's Paul Campos' summary:

Judge John J. Fleming thought this didn't merit any jail time, because a two-minute vicious beating of an 115-pound woman by a 250-pound drunk psychopath only resulted in "some bumps and bruises."

On the upside, the CPD is trying to fire the guy -- she was the third person he'd beaten up that day (yes -- that day!).

And Judge John J. Fleming is up for retention in the next election. Guess how I'm voting on that one.