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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True, ugly and stupid is a tough combination. But what does it say about the morons who elected her???
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.
We know whose life doesn’t matter to Chicago’s ruling elite.
Re “Those who elected her”. Also “STUPID” and “Democrat Plantation Addicts” (Free things, excuses for crime, woke and super-Stupid).
And it is not a racial thing since most Chicago mayors were far-left, white corrupt politicians. STUPID IS AS STUPID VOTES!!!
Mayor Retard 🤪
Say her name.
I would not be so hard on Larry Lightfoot. Anybody could make a mistake.
Leave Groot alone!
Wypipo all look the same to me.
Correct. How can any officer in their right mind stay on that force?
If I was treated that way I'd find another employer, and quick. It's an employee's market right now.
You stupid jackass, Lori!!
That is indeed the $64,000.00 question!
I can give the Chief a pass as I am old enough to have listened to Ella Fitzgerald and when the name Ella is mentioned I immediately think of her. What a voice and what a lady!
There is nothing behind those bug eyes, it seems. Ugly and stupid are two sides of the same counterfeit coin, it seems.
Yeah, like calling George Floyd George Washington.
They simply don’t care. Period. She was white and of no consequence. What would have happened if a couple of white guys shot a black female cop?
Was it real, or was it Memorex?
Mayor Beetle-juice, Mayor Beetle-juice, Mayor Beetle-juice LOL
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