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  • Protesters gather in Logan Square, reportedly headed to Lightfoot's home

    07/23/2020 7:32:15 PM PDT · by blueyon · 84 replies
    FOX 32 Chicago ^ | 7/23/20 | FOX 32 Chicago
    CHICAGO - Hundreds of protesters gathered in Logan Square Thursday night, reportedly marching to Mayor Lori Lightfoot's house. The protesters were demanding the Chicago Police Department be defunded. They also wanted justice for 18-year-old activist Miracle Boyd, who was allegedly punched by a Chicago police officer last week as demonstrators and cops clashed near the Christopher Columbus statue in Grant Park.
  • Chicago Mayor Lightfoot defends insulting texts to police union president: 'I don’t take back one word'

    07/23/2020 5:40:49 PM PDT · by simpson96 · 85 replies
    Fox News ^ | 7/23/2020 | Louis Casiano
    Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Wednesday defended a series of insulting text messages sent to the city's police union president after he asked President Trump for help in addressing the city's violent crime wave. In the messages to Fraternal Order of Police President John Catanzara, Lightfoot called him a "cartoon character" and "clown" who is "desperate for relevance." The exchange was obtained by WGN-TV. The remarks came after Catanzara asked Trump in a July 18 letter for help in combating Chicago's violent crime epidemic, while calling Lightfoot a "complete failure." In a news briefing, the mayor refused to walk back...
  • WATCH: “Pathetic” Lightfoot is “running the Titanic into an iceberg intentionally” police union chief says

    07/22/2020 9:25:53 AM PDT · by Steve1999 · 20 replies
    NT ^ | 07-22-20 | Paul Goldberg
    Fox News reports Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot was called “unprofessional,” “childish” and “pathetic” by the city’s president of the Fraternal Order of Police, John Catanzara, who was in turn responding to her sharp criticism of him. Catanzara appeared Tuesday night on “The Ingraham Angle,” where he also reacted to breaking news that at least a dozen people had been shot outside a funeral home. Lightfoot had referred to Catanzara as “unhinged” and attention-seeking after the union leader wrote a letter to President Trump asking for federal assistance amid Chicago’s continuing crime wave. Lightfoot called the prospect of federal intervention “chaos”...