{"id":1575396,"date":"2025-09-19T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1575396"},"modified":"2025-09-19T00:30:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T04:30:00","slug":"illinois-governor-pritzker-posed-with-murder-suspect-working-as-peacekeeper-days-before-deadly-robbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/illinois-governor-pritzker-posed-with-murder-suspect-working-as-peacekeeper-days-before-deadly-robbery\/1575396\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Governor Pritzker Posed With Murder Suspect Working As “Peacekeeper” Days Before Deadly Robbery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Illinois Governor Pritzker Posed With Murder Suspect Working As “Peacekeeper” Days Before Deadly Robbery<\/span><\/p>\n

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They say a picture of destructive progressive policies is worth 1,000 pounds words. And today the world saw that picture.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Outspoken Trump administration critic and generally useless liberal bureaucrat Illinois Governor JB Pritzker is facing backlash after proudly posing with a so-called \u201cPeacekeeper\u201d who days later was arrested for murder during a Louis Vuitton robbery.<\/strong> Because,\u00a0of course.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The man, 35-year-old Keller McMillan, was one of seven charged with murder, burglary, and retail theft after a brazen smash-and-grab at the luxury retailer,\u00a0according to the Daily Mail.<\/a>\u00a0Or, “mostly peaceful”, as Democrats would likely label it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Prosecutors say the crew used stolen vehicles to ram the store before fleeing at high speed. McMillan and his accomplices allegedly caused the crash that killed 40-year-old father Mark Arceta, who was on his way to his last day of work before paternity leave. His partner gave birth to their son the following day.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Shockingly, McMillan was working as a state-funded \u201cPeacekeeper\u201d \u2014 a program Pritzker promotes as a solution to violent crime.<\/strong><\/p>\n

McMillan even sat at a roundtable with the governor earlier this month, where Pritzker praised him and others as examples of \u201ccommunity violence prevention.\u201d<\/strong> A smiling photo of the two was circulated in a press release but quickly scrubbed from Pritzker\u2019s website after McMillan\u2019s arrest.<\/p>\n

The Daily Mail writes<\/a> that\u00a0McMillan\u2019s criminal past was no secret. His rap sheet stretches back a decade with charges including domestic battery, gang activity, and multiple fugitive warrants \u2014 the most recent issued just last October. Critics are now asking how such a figure was ever placed in a taxpayer-backed program supposedly aimed at reducing violence.<\/p>\n

Former Riverside police chief Tom Weitzel blasted the governor\u2019s office as \u201cincompetent,\u201d arguing that allowing McMillan into the program and posing with him revealed a \u201ctotal lack of due diligence.\u201d He called the Peacekeepers little more than a \u201cfeel-good\u201d scheme that enlists violent felons instead of keeping neighborhoods safe.<\/p>\n

Pritzker, meanwhile, has defended the initiative, claiming these programs make communities safer. But the reality is clear: under his watch, a so-called \u201cpeacekeeper\u201d turned out to be a violent criminal, and an innocent father is dead.<\/p>\n

Or as Pritzker calls it,\u00a0your tax dollars at work…<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nThu, 09\/18\/2025 – 20:30<\/span><\/p>\n

\u200bhttps:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/governor-pritzker-posed-murder-suspect-labeled-peacekeeper-days-deadly-robbery<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Illinois Governor Pritzker Posed With Murder Suspect Working As “Peacekeeper” Days Before Deadly Robbery They say a picture of destructive progressive policies is worth 1,000…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1575397,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1575396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbimBl-6BPC","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/Screenshot202025-09-1820at2014.23.24-MC1Jwn.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1575396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1575397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1575396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1575396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1575396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}