Posted on 08/21/2021 12:57:47 PM PDT by simpson96
The family of the severely wounded partner of slain Chicago cop Ella French has released a video in which the officer spoke publicly for the first time since the shooting — as his father ripped the mayor on police reform.
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Meanwhile, Yanez’s father slammed Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot for a series of reforms and policy changes that he claimed laid the groundwork for the traffic stop that led to the shooting.
Former cop Carlos Yanez Sr. told the Chicago Sun-Times that he twice told the mayor’s office staff that his son was “not a fan of Lori Lightfoot, to put it mildly” and that the family did not want her at the hospital where he was taken the night of the shooting.
“I said that the actions by her administration and her rhetoric of saying how police need to be reconditioned or retrained or whatever was causing them to be in danger. That it was not allowing the officers to take the instinctive action necessary to protect themselves,” Yanez Sr. told the newspaper.
“All the officers are told now that, if you draw your weapon and it’s not a situation that warrants it, unless you have guaranteed proof, there’ll be consequences,” he said.
“They didn’t do that when I was on the job. They let us be the police. There wasn’t a day that I didn’t draw my weapon, have it behind my leg or behind my thigh … It’s not about race. It’s about survival of the officer. But they don’t have that now. They don’t have that confidence that someone’s gonna back them up,” the father said.
The mayor’s office declined to respond to the Sun-Times about Yanez Sr.’s remarks.
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How many milliseconds after he criticized Lightfoot was he called racist and sexist?
But the violent BLM/Antifa doesn't seem interested in any of that. Instead, the violent BLM/Antifa is intensely pressuring and warning Congress to not do anything that might, in any way, slow down their idiotic "Defund the Police!" crusade.
This is an actual recent tweet from the communist, violent BLM: "Tell the House to Remove the Senate’s Anti-Black Amendment to the Budget Resolution."
In other words, if you don't want to "defund the police," then you're an anti-black racist.
Violent BLM/Antifa: The dumbest, most racist people on earth.
And homophobic.
I can’t imagine being a cop in a neighborhood where you drew your weapon every day. Those same neighborhoods where the Dad worked are worse today.
Afghanistan is safer than Chicago.
This Officer will never be the same. All because of Lighthead.
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