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Lightfoot, Newsmax reporter clash over Chicago crime: 'you've lost control of the city'
FOX 32 ^ | 6/26/2021 | Staff

Posted on 06/27/2021 4:14:26 PM PDT by simpson96

CHICAGO - Tensions became heated Friday evening when Newsmax reporter William Kelly asked Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot about violent crime in the city.

According to data, more than 300 people have been shot and killed in Chicago this year. More than 1,500 have been shot and wounded.

When Kelly pressed Lightfoot on the apparent surge in violent crime, the mayor said he had his facts wrong.

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On Monday, Mayor Lightfoot – who promised to reduce Chicago’s bloody street violence – said this month has been less violent than last year in June.

"We are seeing a downward trajectory, where other cities are continuing to see a climb," Lightfoot said.

2021 is so far Chicago’s deadliest year in more than a decade.

(Excerpt) Read more at fox32chicago.com ...


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Oh noes! A white reporter!

I think Lori was triggered.

1 posted on 06/27/2021 4:14:26 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: simpson96

“...a downward trajectory,... “.

I am rather impressed Lightfoot knew that word ‘trajectory’.


2 posted on 06/27/2021 4:17:43 PM PDT by hoe_cake (A Descendant of the Signers of the Constitution. )
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Lori has responded by asking the City Council to approve a searchlight for the skyline that projects a “bat” symbol on it.


3 posted on 06/27/2021 4:17:47 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Humor is a dish best served dry.)
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To: simpson96; Impy; BillyBoy; GOPsterinMA; NFHale; LS; campaignPete R-CT; AuH2ORepublican; Clemenza; ..

Just imagine if Beetlejuice were Mayor of Wakanda.


4 posted on 06/27/2021 4:20:24 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (DEFEAT THE COUP D'ETAT BY THE STALINAZI DERP STATE !)
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To: simpson96

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vST6hVRj2A


5 posted on 06/27/2021 4:20:54 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: simpson96

“He disrespected me.”


6 posted on 06/27/2021 4:24:36 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: simpson96

We are witnessing a significant increase in Chicago street violence, yes. But in the greater scheme of things, Chicago is not a war zone. 2.5 million plus is it’s population. The chances of being shot if you choose to enter its boundaries? I’ll let a statistician crunch the numbers. In the end it does not warrant the breathless hyperbole that has reporters crawling all over themselves for a “gotcha” moment on the clueless Beetlejuice.


7 posted on 06/27/2021 4:28:01 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (No audit. No peace.)
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To: simpson96

“promised to reduce Chicago’s bloody street violence”

That would be hilarious if it weren’t so sad.


8 posted on 06/27/2021 4:31:14 PM PDT by cdcdawg (It's all so tiresome.)
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To: simpson96

Lightfoot shouldn’t be in charge of a Tijuana gas station bathroom.


9 posted on 06/27/2021 4:32:44 PM PDT by Bullish (CNN is what happens when 8th graders run a cable network.)
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To: simpson96

I disagree with the headline. She hasn’t lost control. She has ceded control.


10 posted on 06/27/2021 4:34:18 PM PDT by The Free Engineer
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To: simpson96

38 shot, only 2 dead in ChiCongo this weekend

Trauma surgeons need to take a few weekends off and thin the herd a bit


11 posted on 06/27/2021 4:43:20 PM PDT by digger48
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To: simpson96

In full public view is the only safe way to question this Mayor this directly about something serious.
If he had cornered her in a coridor, I could see the Mayor lying, saying “That White Boy reporter tried to touch me!”

....Na...Nobody would believe that one. Try again, Mayor.


12 posted on 06/27/2021 4:44:53 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: The Free Engineer

She’s in control, demcommierino
Standard Operating Procedure
and Method Of Operation

Create as big a fustercluck
as humanly or demonicly possible
and proclaim themselves
as the only solution.

We so need to ditch the 17th amendment
and machine no I.D.voting.

.


13 posted on 06/27/2021 4:46:07 PM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: digger48

According to heyjackass.com, the count is 42 shot, 4 fatally, as of roughly 4:00 AM today.


14 posted on 06/27/2021 4:48:28 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: The Free Engineer

I disagree with the headline. She hasn’t lost control. She has ceded control.

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And I disagree with that. She never had control in the first place. Chicago was a shite hole city before she took over, and it still is.


15 posted on 06/27/2021 4:59:32 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (I love my country. It’s my government that I hate.)
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To: DuncanWaring

Oops

Guess I didn’t see the updated tally from last night


16 posted on 06/27/2021 5:05:14 PM PDT by digger48
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To: simpson96
Lightfoot, Newsmax reporter clash over Chicago crime: 'you've lost control of the city'

Partner, everybody needs to see that video of the man and his wife where a road rage incident in Chicago happened.

Seven (7) Blacks surrounded the vehicle and all the blacks had guns and driving ATV's and killed the driver and injured his wife seriously! ATV's in the city???

It already seems like this mayor Lightfoot has lost control of the city of Chicago.

When the blacks destroyed Chicago during the Floyd riots the blacks were looting the stores and it was during Lightfoot's reign.

Chicago deserves her is she wins re-election.

17 posted on 06/27/2021 5:06:14 PM PDT by TheConservativeTejano (The Business of America is Business...)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Politicians are there to proliferate problems, not solve them. That applies to both parties. We could resolve many quite easily, but the Derp State (and their private sector allies) doesn’t want them to be. They’re the single greatest threat to our nation and our very existence.


18 posted on 06/27/2021 5:07:23 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (DEFEAT THE COUP D'ETAT BY THE STALINAZI DERP STATE !)
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To: simpson96

As someone said....”Lori Lightfoot is what you see when someone taps on an Aquarium window”!!!! LOL!!!


19 posted on 06/27/2021 5:10:23 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: digger48

LUCKILY, they only shoot each other in Chicago on the WEEKENDS!!!


20 posted on 06/27/2021 5:11:05 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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