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Citing threats, Mayor Lori Lightfoot defends ban on protesters on her block: ‘I have a right to make sure that my home is secure’
Chicago Tribune ^

Posted on 08/20/2020 3:45:47 PM PDT by ameribbean expat

Lightfoot refused to elaborate on the specific threats, but said she receives them daily against herself, her wife and her home. Comparisons to how the Police Department has protected previous mayors’ homes, such as Rahm Emanuel’s Ravenswood residence, are unfair because “this is a different time like no other,” Lightfoot told reporters.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: bulldagger; chicago; illinois; lightfoot; lightweight; lorilightfoot; nimby
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Oink oink. Inequality is the problem. Oink.
1 posted on 08/20/2020 3:45:47 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
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Bookmark


2 posted on 08/20/2020 3:46:28 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you.)
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Not Babylon Bee.


3 posted on 08/20/2020 3:47:16 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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Mayor tone deaf


4 posted on 08/20/2020 3:47:31 PM PDT by captain_dave
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‘I have a right to make sure that my home is secure’,

All you other peons, sorry, NO GUNS FOR YOU!

5 posted on 08/20/2020 3:47:31 PM PDT by workerbee (==)
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Some animals are more equal than others


6 posted on 08/20/2020 3:48:26 PM PDT by JerryBlackwell (some animals are more equal than others)
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How about the rights of those business owners that got looted? Does that count, lesbian fool?


7 posted on 08/20/2020 3:49:15 PM PDT by Fungi
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against herself, her wife and her home.

I did not know is was gay! Not surprised though.
8 posted on 08/20/2020 3:49:22 PM PDT by JoSixChip (Its not about color, its about character.)
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Ne zot, you can’t make this stuff up.

“I have a right ...,” because I’m special, but the rest of you peons can go fish.


9 posted on 08/20/2020 3:49:40 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("What we can see of God's canvas is laughably small." ~Bp. Barron)
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Walleyed blowfish...How in hell do these people get elected.


10 posted on 08/20/2020 3:49:45 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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The rest of us also have a God-given right to make our homes and neighborhoods safe, you butt-ugly mutant. Where’s our police protection, Groot?


11 posted on 08/20/2020 3:50:03 PM PDT by Mr. Rabbit
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HER WIFE...? What the hell???
Not surprising. They gave America Obozo and his hubby, Michael.
I thank God daily that I turned down a corporate promotion because it included a transfer to CHICAGO!!


12 posted on 08/20/2020 3:50:10 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (THE DEEP STATE HATES YOU!)
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She is royalty. The peasants don’t of course have a right to protect their homes. Typical leftist hypocrisy.


13 posted on 08/20/2020 3:50:40 PM PDT by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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Isn’t this a riot? OK for me, but not for thee!


14 posted on 08/20/2020 3:50:57 PM PDT by laweeks
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“‘I have a right to make sure that my home is secure’,”

ME TOO!


15 posted on 08/20/2020 3:50:57 PM PDT by Samurai_Jack (Democrats are not the enemy, Republicans are not your friends. We're on our own folks!)
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I don’t belive these constant claims of threats leftists are always claiming. I wouldn’t even know how to make a threat and hide my identity from anyone who really wanted to discover it.

PRODUCE THE THREATS OR THEY NEVER HAPPENED!!!


16 posted on 08/20/2020 3:52:30 PM PDT by TalBlack
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If the citizens of Chicago are good with this, they are idiots!!


17 posted on 08/20/2020 3:52:45 PM PDT by eeriegeno
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Wife looks like a 6 foot tall Rosa Delauro


18 posted on 08/20/2020 3:52:49 PM PDT by digger48
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The Little People can get stuffed , in a suitcase


19 posted on 08/20/2020 3:52:53 PM PDT by butlerweave
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Mayor tone deaf stupid.
20 posted on 08/20/2020 3:55:15 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrats' John Dean])
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