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Mayor Lightfoot, top cop botch slain Chicago cop's name: 'Ella Fitzgerald'
Fox News ^ | 8/13/2021 | Emma Colton

Posted on 08/13/2021 1:31:19 PM PDT by simpson96

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot botched fallen officer Ella French’s name just days after Chicago police superintendent David Brown did the same.

"The horrible tragedy of Ella Frank’s murder," Lightfoot said during the 2022 budget engagement forum held at Truman College on Thursday.

The flub was criticized by the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police, which tweeted on Friday, that "This is one of those times when words really matter."

The mayor’s office did not immediately respond to Fox News’s request for comment on the matter.

French, 29, was shot and killed on Saturday night during a traffic stop. She is the first officer since 2018 to be killed in the line of duty in the city.

Lightfoot botching her name comes just days after Brown referred to French as "Ella Fitzgerald" twice on Monday.

"The offender who is charged with first degree murder of Ella Fitzgerald," Brown said at one point during the press conference.

"The gun used in this shooting and this murder of Ella Fitzgerald was illegally possessed," he said at another point.

Ella Fitzgerald is the name of an award-winning jazz singer who died in 1996.

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To: simpson96

You know, the thing.


21 posted on 08/13/2021 1:47:41 PM PDT by Pollard
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To: simpson96

Maybe she was thinking of Barney Frank, her side “girlfriend.”


22 posted on 08/13/2021 1:48:55 PM PDT by fwdude (True shepherds carry a sling and plenty of stones.)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

But what does it say about the morons who elected her

Thats the important part


23 posted on 08/13/2021 1:49:41 PM PDT by Bell Bouy II
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To: ImpBill

Agreed. Ella is not a very common name, and I’m willing to cut him a bit of slack on this.


24 posted on 08/13/2021 1:49:46 PM PDT by allblues (God is neither a Republican nor a Democrat but Satan is definitely a Democrat)
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To: gov_bean_ counter
But what does it say about the morons who elected her???

Idiots like her are getting elected everywhere when 30% of the registered voters vote of which a 16 or 17% "majority" vote "people" like her into office.

25 posted on 08/13/2021 1:54:19 PM PDT by llevrok (I'm old enough to remember metal toys in Cracker-Jacks.)
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To: simpson96

26 posted on 08/13/2021 2:09:02 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: simpson96

Maybe it was deliberate.


27 posted on 08/13/2021 2:13:32 PM PDT by Dante3
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

Assuming they actually elected her. I am betting voter fraud is what got her into office.


28 posted on 08/13/2021 2:16:33 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: simpson96

This is so bad on so many levels it is hard to be sure I can cover them all.

Let’s get to the first level: Cops, especially White cops don’t mean a damned thing to these miserable dogs.
Next, because this was two Black criminals killing a White cop, subconsciously these people are forced to openly show disrespect to Officer French to placate their criminal voters.This “mistake” would be like discussing the mayor’s murder and referring to her as Mayor Bumble juice.

Being “down with the struggle” means never ever being seen as anything but coldly civil in a situation like this.

The stress of this situation has brought the inate racial hatred these Bloack officials harbor toward Whites in general and White cops in particular to the sueface.

Because the “curtain” has been pulled away and there is now no question about the true feelings of these people. Their relationship to the city’s cops can never be repaired.


29 posted on 08/13/2021 2:18:14 PM PDT by jmaroneps37
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To: simpson96; Gamecock; SaveFerris; PROCON; mylife; Rebelbase
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot botched fallen officer Ella French’s name just days after Chicago police superintendent David Brown did the same.

That Gordon Lightfoot and David Bowie. Always mucking up folks' names.

30 posted on 08/13/2021 2:18:29 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: simpson96

Contempt for the cops shown at the top:

From: https://nypost.com/2021/08/12/chicago-official-skipped-sacred-ritual-at-ella-frenchs-send-off/

The second-in-command of the Chicago police force ignored a “sacred” ritual by skipping the playing of bagpipes during the final send-off for slain Officer Ella French – impatiently declaring, “We don’t have 20 minutes for this s—.”

First Deputy Police Superintendent Eric Carter enraged cops who gathered Saturday night to bid farewell to the late officer, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.


31 posted on 08/13/2021 2:22:47 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: Richard Axtell

It would be hard to imagine anyone electing Beetljuice to anything but Beetlejuice seems to be what the fidiots of Chicago want. The whole Chicago police force should call out sick.


32 posted on 08/13/2021 2:29:33 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: martin_fierro
Set the hook!



d:^)

33 posted on 08/13/2021 2:30:27 PM PDT by apostoli (“Violence has no place...” Then stop re-naming our streets after people that burn down cities!)
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To: simpson96

Groot should move to Romania. Or maybe Chile.


34 posted on 08/13/2021 2:35:03 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: simpson96

No reason to go to Chicongo.


35 posted on 08/13/2021 2:40:19 PM PDT by cp124 (Focus on treatment and not an experimental vaccine/flu shot.)
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To: martin_fierro

Never underestimate the stupidity of the voting public... There’s proof


36 posted on 08/13/2021 2:41:17 PM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ, and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJusChrist.Com)
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To: martin_fierro

And F’UGLY to boot.

Not even blessed with a good personality.

I’m groping for some kind of kindness to bestow on her.

deargawd I said “groping”*😳*


37 posted on 08/13/2021 2:46:06 PM PDT by smvoice (I WILL NOT WEAR THE RIBBON. OR THE MASK)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

“ True, ugly and stupid is a tough combination. But what does it say about the morons who elected her???”

What’s the definition of insanity? Doing the same thing over and over and expect a different outcome? Well, the Chicago electorate do exactly that; elect liberal democrats over and over. Insanity……


38 posted on 08/13/2021 2:46:44 PM PDT by snoringbear (,W,E.oGovernment is the Pimp, )
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To: Bigg Red

No Fraud - Liberal whites voted her in and they will again. Chicago has not had a Republican Mayor since 1931.

Lighthead wins the next election in a cakewalk


39 posted on 08/13/2021 3:00:33 PM PDT by EC Washington
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To: simpson96

Leadership


40 posted on 08/13/2021 3:03:14 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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