CCRKBA Chairman Alan M. Gottlieb
By Dave Workman
Senior Editor
When Chicago police arrested two career criminal brothers for the slaying of NBA star Dwayne Wade’s cousin, Nykea Aldridge, the head of a national gun rights organization said the problem is not with gun rights, but with Chicago.
The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms pointed to the city’s decades of single-party rule and particularly the administration of anti-gun Mayor Rahm Emanuel. The group also blamed the system that allows repeat offenders to walk the streets while the city administration “fights common sense at every turn.”
“They let career criminals roam the streets, preying on and murdering innocent victims like Aldridge, while they do everything in their power to prevent law-abiding citizens from defending themselves,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb.
“What we have learned about this case is an outrage,” he added. “The suspects are brothers and both are known gang members and repeat offenders. One of them has been identified as a career gun offender who has been on parole since February. The other was on some sort of daily break from an electronic monitoring bracelet, and that guy has six prior felony arrests.”
The suspects are Darwin Sorrells Jr., and his brother, Derren. They face charges of first-degree murder and attempted murder for the Aug. 26 slaying. Aldridge was walking in front of a school and apparently was hit by stray bullets.
The slaying became something of a political football after it was mentioned by Republican Donald Trump.
But the Sorrells brothers have police records that Gottlieb pointed to as evidence that the city under Emanuel is “out of control.”
Published reports said Darwin Sorrells is “a documented member of the Gangster Disciples” and that he is on parole. Derren was also reportedly on parole and had been wearing an ankle bracelet, but had apparently removed it for a “daily break.” Derren also reportedly had six previous felony arrests.
Gottlieb said that proposing new gun control measures is not a solution to the lawlessness.
“It is painfully obvious that the system is broken in Chicago, the city is out of control, and proposing new gun control measures isn’t going to solve a thing,” he said. “It is time for the good citizens of Chicago to recognize that their city is in chaos, and that those responsible are not just a bunch of thugs on the South and West sides, but the people who are supposed to be in charge at city hall. This is what happens with decades of one party control. Their policies have failed, their strategies have failed and yet they are blind to all of it because they cannot admit those failures.”
Gottlieb suggested that it may be time for Emanuel to “step down, write his memoirs and open the door for a dramatic change in leadership.”
According to Fox News, Chicago police think the Sorrells brothers actually wanted to shoot the driver of another vehicle that had brought Aldridge to the school where the murder occurred. Aldridge was reportedly trying to register her daughter and was just an innocent bystander.
Allegedly, the suspects may have wanted to shoot the other driver because of an “exchange of looks.”
