Chicago Mayor Lightfoot takes hypocrisy to a new level
The Chicago Tribune recently reported that the city has banned all protests—even peaceful ones—on Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s Chicago street, assumedly by her orders.
Yet she openly supports protests in the rest of her city, even non-peaceful ones. Moreover, the mayor has ordered that a continuous and heavy police presence be kept up outside her home in Logan Square, even as she continues to defame and defund them. Fraternal Order of Police President John Catanzara told the Chicago Sun-Times that as many as 140 police officers have been assigned to Lightfoot’s home at one time.
Incredibly, according to an email sent by the district’s commander, the officers assigned to the directive were instructed to tell protesters that “it is against the city code and state law to protest” and that they therefore must “leave immediately.” Say, why don’t they try that with all those protesting, looting and burning in the rest of the Windy City?
This tells you all you need to know about Mayor Lightfoot and countless other progressives, whether mayors, governors, congressmen, Hollywood stars, late-night television hosts or mainstream media types. This is the rankest possible hypocrisy, stemming from a total lack of respect or regard for everyone else. And it should not be tolerated. Police officers are resigning and retiring in record numbers. The dwindling number remaining on duty are treated like a baby treats a diaper.
Chicago is in the grips of a massive crime wave. Dozens of people are shot and assaulted every day. Rioters are still wreaking havoc, lighting fires and looting stores, but the city’s mayor siphons a measurable percentage of her police force from where it would do the most good and uses it to protect her own turf. Sickening. Neighbors disparagingly call her home “Fort Lori.” The Tribune noted that Lightfoot’s order has led to “some quiet grumbling” within the police department. It would be nothing short of amazing if that’s all it has led to, so far. I don’t know how Lightfoot sleeps with herself. Or how her wife sleeps with her for that matter.
Lightfoot defended her actions, telling reporters, “Given the threats that I have personally received, given the threats to my home and my family, I’m gonna do everything to make sure that they are protected. I make no apologies whatsoever. We have a right in our home to live in peace.”
Doesn’t everyone else, too?
Chicago Activist Tells People Mad About Looting to ‘Get over it! These Buildings Are Insured!’
An activist accused people upset over the recent looting in downtown Chicago of being upset about the wrong thing during a recent press conference.
“People are worried about looting and there are literal lives being taken away? There are people who are dying and y’all are mad about looting Mag Mile? Get over it!” Alycia Moaton said at the event hosted by the group GoodKids MadCity.
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— BLMChicago (@BLMChi) August 20, 2020
She continued:
These buildings are insured. Materials will come back, but we will not come back if they kill us. What do y’all not get about that? Gucci, Apple store, whatever it is, that stuff can be replaced. But we won’t be replaced. We lose our lives every single day for this cause, and y’all are mad about the wrong shit.
On what appeared to be her Twitter profile, Moaton described herself as a “mad abolitionist” and a member of GoodKids MadCity.
The looting and rioting in downtown Chicago on August 10 lasted nearly five hours, according to Breitbart News.
At the press conference, Moaton also referenced a protest on August 15 when police arrested multiple individuals and several officers were injured once the event turned violent, according to Fox 32.
“Y’all want to know what makes a protest not peaceful? Police officers. Y’all want to know what makes a protest not peaceful? Pepper spray, batons, tear gas,” Moaton said, then accused officers of pushing people off bikes and hitting them in the head.
She stated:
I was arrested and I wasn’t told what I was arrested for until five hours later in the holding cell. I was not given my rights. I was not able to talk to anybody for almost eight hours. They put 16 people in one cell during a pandemic. These officers are not wearing masks inside of this police station. I was touched inappropriately before my arrest, after, in this station. And other people can attest to that statement. Also, all of my friends were also locked up last night trying to protect me.
Moaton then accused police of “misgendering people” and claimed that “Sexual violence happened in this station last fucking night.”
She also claimed Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) sent Chicago police officers to protests and rallies to “attack us and pepper spray and do all this extra stuff to youth.”
“This is a fight that’s never-ending. It’s a fight that’s been going on way before anybody who’s been here, so that means it’s not gonna stop. We’re gonna keep it going,” she concluded.
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