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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

Not only is she a stupid dyke, she’s an incompetent stupid dyke!


41 posted on 08/13/2021 3:07:29 PM PDT by Mashood
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To: simpson96

Eventually we will have to admit we are in a war with ourselves. Coexistence is impossible. The hate us, want us dead and don’t even know who we are. We just in their way. They can rule over the dumb, addicted, crazy, confused, entitled, and foolish but we stand in their way. We have to go. Either conform, die or hide. They don’t care as long as you don’t fight or vote back.

The entire vax vs unvax is another way to put us in their farm stalls.


42 posted on 08/13/2021 3:12:39 PM PDT by wgmalabama (We will find out if the Vac or virus risk was the correct choice - can we put truth above narrative)
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To: lee martell

Obama and company did that all the time..


43 posted on 08/13/2021 3:25:00 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: SaveFerris

Or the abilities of Dominion voting machines. They cheat really good.


44 posted on 08/13/2021 3:36:07 PM PDT by mcshot (We've been bamboozled.)
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To: Bigg Red

Actually, her runoff opponent, fellow ultraleft Demonrat Toni Prickwinkle, was considered worse(!) than Beetlejuice. Hard to imagine, but each Chicago Mayor seems to be even more horrid than the last. Voter fraud is, of course, rampant in Chi-town, but was unnecessary for this particular race.


45 posted on 08/13/2021 3:49:48 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (DEFEAT THE COUP D'ETAT BY THE STALINAZI DERP STATE !)
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To: simpson96

Disrespecting the murder of Officer French is politically advantageous to reinforce the rodent queens street credibility.


46 posted on 08/13/2021 3:55:24 PM PDT by daku
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To: EC Washington

And, unfortunately, that last GOP Mayor was a horror. Big Bill Thompson was in the back pocket of Capone. There hasn’t been a non-corrupt/non-incompetent/non-thug Mayor since Thompson’s Democrat predecessor (1923-27), Honest Bill Dever. Chicago, sadly, usually prefers the crook.


47 posted on 08/13/2021 3:56:13 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (DEFEAT THE COUP D'ETAT BY THE STALINAZI DERP STATE !)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Tell me you made up that name....


48 posted on 08/13/2021 4:00:47 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: gov_bean_ counter

The morons that elected her are UGLY MORALLY and VERY STUPID!!


49 posted on 08/13/2021 4:14:23 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: lee martell
Those are not ‘mistakes’. Those are events of purposeful and blatant disrespect. If the injured (or murdered) party is not black, this Mayor doesn’t give a flip about them.

Mayor Beetlejuice is probably more concerned for the welfare of the POS who murdered her.

50 posted on 08/13/2021 4:46:11 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: mcshot

🤔💉😷🤔


51 posted on 08/13/2021 4:49:36 PM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ, and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJusChrist.Com)
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To: lee martell
Those are events of purposeful and blatant disrespect.

Absolutely.

52 posted on 08/13/2021 4:51:54 PM PDT by M. Thatcher
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To: Bell Bouy II

Chicago hasn’t had a fair election in 50 years.


53 posted on 08/13/2021 5:08:15 PM PDT by bray (Hating Whites is racist)
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To: Bigg Red

I didn’t. Neither Prickwinkle or Beetlejuice.


54 posted on 08/13/2021 5:25:47 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (DEFEAT THE COUP D'ETAT BY THE STALINAZI DERP STATE !)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Yipes


55 posted on 08/13/2021 5:38:37 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: alstewartfan
Yeah, like calling George Floyd George Washington.

Nancy Pelosi called him George Kirby. But she's a drunk.
56 posted on 08/13/2021 6:56:09 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Republican politicans love being in office, Democrat politicians love being in power.)
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To: Larry Lucido

The Wreck of the Lori Lightfoot

The legend lives on from the loop on down to the south side of Chicago


57 posted on 08/13/2021 7:09:51 PM PDT by xp38
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To: simpson96; Impy; BillyBoy; GOPsterinMA; NFHale; LS; campaignPete R-CT; AuH2ORepublican; Clemenza; ..
Cut Mayor Beetlejuice some slack. I'm sure she used to whistle "The Wreck of the Ella Fitzgerald" on the way to school back in the '70s. She remembers that as one of the ships we lost in the Revolutionary War when the Germans bombed Pearl Bailey.
58 posted on 08/13/2021 7:10:21 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (DEFEAT THE COUP D'ETAT BY THE STALINAZI DERP STATE !)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

with schnaps?


59 posted on 08/13/2021 7:11:44 PM PDT by xp38
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To: xp38

Colt 45. It works every time.


60 posted on 08/13/2021 7:30:23 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (DEFEAT THE COUP D'ETAT BY THE STALINAZI DERP STATE !)
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