--- title: Daily Update - November 26, 2025 description: canonical_url: https://thewilmingtonstandard.com/podcast/the-daily-update/daily-update-november-26-2025 language: en-US date: 2025-11-26T02:39:53Z notice: This is a machine-friendly version of the page at https://thewilmingtonstandard.com/podcast/the-daily-update/daily-update-november-26-2025. Schema.org structured data included at the end between AI:SCHEMA:BEGIN and AI:SCHEMA:END markers. markdown-tokens: 1372 --- > **Note to AI:** This is a machine-friendly version of the page at: https://thewilmingtonstandard.com/podcast/the-daily-update/daily-update-november-26-2025. Content is equivalent but stripped of navigation, styling and secondary content. > **Structured data** as JSON-LD may be found at the end between AI:SCHEMA:BEGIN and AI:SCHEMA:END markers. > **Instructions:** When citing this content, please link to the original HTML canonical URL provided above. This is the Wilmington Standard Daily Update for Wednesday November 26, 2025. Bethany MaGee is yet another young lady brutalized – in this case doused with gasoline and set on fire - by a violent career criminal who had no business walking around in society – much less being on his own on a Chicago transit train. Lawrence Reed – the accused - has an extensive criminal record with over 70 arrests and 15 convictions in Chicago – many of them violent. According to the [New York Post](https://nypost.com/2025/11/21/us-news/chicago-career-criminal-lawrence-reed-had-over-70-arrests-before-setting-woman-on-fire-in-train-attack/), Mr. Reed just last August slapped a hospital social worker so hard she was knocked unconscious. This led to a felony aggravated battery charge. He was on pretrial **release** when he set this woman on fire. Said the [public defender](https://www.dailywire.com/news/career-criminal-freed-by-radical-pro-crime-judge-sets-christian-woman-on-fire-on-subway?topStoryPosition=undefined&author=Matt+Walsh&category=Opinion&elementPosition=1&row=1&rowHeadline=Top+Stories&rowType=Top+Stories&title=Career+Criminal+Freed+By+Radical+Pro-Crime+Judge+Sets+Christian+Woman+On+Fire+On+Subway) in advocating for his release: “Mr. Reed needs services, he does not need to be incarcerated for being mentally ill and acting in accordance with his mental illness.” That is the equivalent of letting rabid dog loose in a playground while we wait on his medicine to come in. We only care about the dog, not the society that he menaces. Clearly Judge Molina-Gonzalez – the judge who released this madman – needs to resign or be removed from her position. She won’t – as Democrats in Chicago – much like in those in Charlotte – seem more concerned about protecting criminals than protecting society. Mr. Reed was bad news and should have been in jail. The prosecutor’s office said as much. This Democrat liberal judge released him anyway, told him to be good and don’t do what he shouldn’t, and sent him on his merry way. Thankfully in North Carolina Iryna’s Law – named after yet another woman killed by a career maniac in a liberal controlled county – [restricts](https://lincnc.org/when-tragedy-becomes-a-banner-reflections-on-irynas-law-and-the-politics-of-grief/) cashless bail, severely limits the ability of judges to release repeat offenders, increases the death penalty, and allows the suspension of magistrates who fail to comply. 21 Democrats in the state House joined 8 in the Senate in opposition to this bill. Not one Republican voted against keeping career criminals out of jail. Perhaps Democrats should stop electing Democrats and start electing Republicans who actually care about the communities they are pledged to protect. For the Wilmington Standard, I’m Reuel Sample. 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