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Chicago cops turned their backs on Lori Lightfoot at late night hospital visit for wounded officer
thepostmillenial.com ^ | August 9, 2021 | Nick Monroe

Posted on 08/10/2021 5:21:46 AM PDT by lowbridge

Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot got an icy reception from dozens of police over the weekend when she visited the hospital where the surviving cop at a traffic stop was in critical condition.

His female partner, 29-year-old officer Ella French, died from her injuries. She had just returned from maternity leave and left behind an infant daughter.

The scene at Chicago Medical Center at midnight on Saturday is described by Chicago Sun-Times.

Nearly thirty CPD officers accompanied the critically injured male officer’s family in the waiting area on the seventh floor. The guy’s father is a retired police officer and gave Lori Lightfoot his opinion she was to blame for his son’s situation.

(Over the summer, Chicago’s mayor instituted new police policies about their ability to chase suspects on foot, but also admitted to her city’s crime problem and needing federal help.)

Lightfoot listened to what the father had to say, as the retired cop yelled at her. But then Chicago’s mayor tried to move things along by making a more general speech to the crowd of cops.

That’s when the group collectively turned their backs on her.

(Excerpt) Read more at thepostmillennial.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
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1 posted on 08/10/2021 5:21:46 AM PDT by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

Good for them!


2 posted on 08/10/2021 5:22:30 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: lowbridge

Sounds like Lightfoot has lost the Mandate of Heaven. She has lost all control.


3 posted on 08/10/2021 5:25:57 AM PDT by Ciaphas Cain (#notmypedophile)
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To: lowbridge

They should have faced her, locked and loaded.


4 posted on 08/10/2021 5:30:57 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: lowbridge

Couldn’t happen to a finer Beatlejuice.


5 posted on 08/10/2021 5:31:16 AM PDT by DAC21
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To: lowbridge

Communism is a lonely business


6 posted on 08/10/2021 5:31:41 AM PDT by albie
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To: Ciaphas Cain

She’s a stooge and puppet for the Crook County Democrat machine! Same for Governor Prickzker!


7 posted on 08/10/2021 5:32:04 AM PDT by dowcaet
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To: lowbridge
"...As described in earlier reporting, Mayor Lightfoot gave a speech declaring an "official day of mourning" and called on people to support the police.

Lightfoot’s office responded to the Sun-Times report via Fox News. The statement said the mayor had made an effort to reach out over the weekend.

"As the Mayor stated yesterday, now is not the time for divisive and toxic rhetoric or reporting. This is a time for us to come together as a city. We have a common enemy and it is the conditions that breed the violence and the manifestations of violence, namely illegal guns, and gangs. The Mayor is focused on healing the wounds and will reject any and all that try to use this moment to drive further divisions in our city..."

Wow. The sheer chutzpah. The unmitigated gall. She is lucky the police didn't come after her and everyone in her entourage with their nightsticks.

If they had, it would have been wholly deserved.

She, and her political allies are solely responsible for the terrible violence, all of it.

8 posted on 08/10/2021 5:32:58 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists are The Droplet of Sewage in a gallon of ultra-pure clean water.)
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To: dowcaet

I call her an ugly Marxist pig.


9 posted on 08/10/2021 5:33:56 AM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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To: lowbridge

So what? NYC cops do this all the time and we’re still slipping down the slope of full on police state. I got to the PATH station in Harrison, NJ this morning and there were 3 transit cops enforcing mask wearing. I studied this behavior at USAFA, only we were studying the Soviets, not ourselves. The police have been largely complicit in the rapid loss of our freedoms. They can turn their backs all they want, it’s meaningless symbolism to make themselves feel better for 5 minutes.


10 posted on 08/10/2021 5:35:24 AM PDT by usafa92 (Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America! )
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To: lowbridge

Please identify who murdered Ella French.


11 posted on 08/10/2021 5:36:06 AM PDT by Arcadian Empire
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To: lowbridge

“Stop or I’ll shoot!”

Fleeing suspects forfeit their right to live


12 posted on 08/10/2021 5:36:54 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Like BLM, Joe Biden is a Domestic Enemy )
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To: lowbridge

They should have turned their guns on her. Blood is on her hands.


14 posted on 08/10/2021 5:40:20 AM PDT by kabar
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To: lowbridge

Democrats have a mission: allow inner city people to shoot each other up; allow it to continue and to expand. Then, with the usual hypocritical words, declare that gun violence must be stopped and take guns from the innocent, non-violent people who aren’t shooting each other up.


15 posted on 08/10/2021 5:44:57 AM PDT by I want the USA back (We have more to fear from our government than from the bug that the chicoms made for us. )
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To: lowbridge
This is all theater. Even after the death of one of their own by criminals aided by mayor Lori Lightfoot, Chicago police officers aren't going to do anything.

They'll still serve on her protective detail. Those not on the detail will still back up those who are. They'll dutifully cordon off her street and she'll still have police protection everywhere she goes in Chicago. They'll grumble into their beers and tell each other they care but they won't do a damn thing. They only care that that the bankrupt city will make their pension payment.

The Chicago police officers who care are the ones that already left.

16 posted on 08/10/2021 5:46:14 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: lowbridge

This is heartbreaking
I read the wounded officer was shot 3 times, once through the eye
The cop that died outright was shot in the head
The murderer intended coldly to kill


17 posted on 08/10/2021 5:55:22 AM PDT by silverleaf (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act)
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To: bert

Commies


18 posted on 08/10/2021 5:56:38 AM PDT by romanesq (TRUSTY THE PLAN! ChiCom Joe is the Plan? Que magnificent! 👹)
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To: T.B. Yoits

Chicago is in the state of Illinois which has one of the highest underwater pension funding of any state.
So good luck collecting those stoopid high pension promises.


19 posted on 08/10/2021 6:02:10 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (Dementia Joe and the Whore, leaders of the Free world.)
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To: lowbridge

I wonder how many of them have voted for her…just ask’n for a friend. 😊


20 posted on 08/10/2021 6:04:23 AM PDT by SMARTY (Republics decline into democracies & democracies degenerate into despotisms. Aristotle)
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