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NEWS Chicago student rips mayor’s ‘blatant lie’ about crime after classmate’s death
NY Post ^ | 7/8/2021 | Jackie Salo

Posted on 07/09/2021 11:40:04 AM PDT by simpson96

A University of Chicago student blasted Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Thursday for her “blatant lie” that crime was plummeting — just days after a fellow student was killed by a stray bullet on the train.

Audrey Unverferth, a rising senior, said she’s lost confidence in Lightfoot following the violence that besieged Chicago over the Fourth of July holiday weekend.

“Lori Lightfoot had the nerve recently to say that crime in Chicago is on the decline — that’s a blatant lie,” Unverferth told “Fox & Friends.”

“Crime is not on the decline. Homicide and shooting rates are up and as we’ve seen, Chicago had its most murderous weekend of the year over the Fourth of July. Over 90 people were shot.”

In an op-ed for The Federalist, Unverferth said Lightfoot “should be ashamed” over the fatal shooting of her classmate, Max Solomon Lewis.

“His young life was senselessly cut short when his train ride home was interrupted by yet another Chicago shooting,” she wrote.

Lewis, a rising junior, had been commuting home from his internship last Thursday when a bullet pierced a window of the train at the 51st Street Green Line station and struck him in the neck, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.

He was taken to a nearby hospital, where he died from his injuries on Sunday, the outlet reported.

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Unverferth is white.

Lewis was white.

Lightfoot is what she is,

So...

1 posted on 07/09/2021 11:40:04 AM PDT by simpson96
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To: simpson96
"Audrey Unverferth, a rising senior, said she’s lost confidence in Lightfoot following the violence that besieged Chicago over the Fourth of July holiday weekend."

Well, for Audrey Unverferth, as co-founder, publisher, and editor-in-chief of the Chicago Thinker (a conservative alternative to what, even back in my student days, was called the Chicago Moron), wising up to Shitcago corruption is better late than never.

2 posted on 07/09/2021 12:18:24 PM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: simpson96

Back in the ‘80s I was on my way to a jobsite in a nearby suburb of Chicago, Cicero. It was at night. I stopped at a Red light at an intersection in the Windy City’s North side.

Suddenly a blue & white Chicago patrol car pulled up along side me in the oncoming traffic lane facing in the wrong direction. The passenger window rolled down and the officer in the passenger seat started yelling at me, “What the Hell are you doing”! I told him “I’m waiting for a red light.”

He started to berate me for stopping in this neighborhood. Long story short, the two officers made me follow them as they provided a flashing light escort through town all the way to Cicero.

I never got to thank them for saving my naive ass that evening. Welcome to Chicago, white guy . . .


3 posted on 07/09/2021 12:22:39 PM PDT by BraveMan
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To: simpson96

“Audrey Unverferth, a rising senior, said she’s lost confidence in Lightfoot”

so? she’ll probably just keep voting for Democrats anyway ...


4 posted on 07/09/2021 12:24:05 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: simpson96

That’s what liberals do when they’re shown to be incompetent. They lie about everything.

People like Lightfoot should never be put in charge of anything.


5 posted on 07/09/2021 12:43:55 PM PDT by Bullish (CNN is what happens when 8th graders run a cable network.)
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To: simpson96

Chicago enjoys being like Haiti and elected Lori Trollhair to make that happen.


6 posted on 07/09/2021 2:22:16 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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