“They did the about-face - it looked like it had been choreographed,” one of the sources said, adding that the display was “astounding.” Ella French was the first cop killed since Lori Lightfoot became mayor in 2019. When Lightfoot tried to talk with the injured officer’s father, himself a retired cop, he lambasted the mayor and blamed her for what happened earlier in the day, two sources at the scene told the newspaper.Īnd when she then tried to comfort the grieving officers nearby, they walked away and turned their backs on her, the sources told the outlet. On Saturday, about 30 rank-and-file officers gave Lightfoot the cold shoulder when she showed up at the University of Chicago Medical Center and approached them as they stood vigil, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.Ĭhicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot was met with the cold shoulder when she showed up to the hospital where a wounded cop was recovering.

Officer Ella French, 29, is the first Windy City cop killed since Lightfoot became mayor in 2019, but the city’s officers have faced a surge of gunfire in the past two years.įrench and her partner were hit by gunfire on the city’s South Side on Saturday after pulling a car over for expired plates, according to the Chicago Tribune.Įmonte Morgan, 21, and his brother Eric Morgan, 22, both convicted felons, have been charged in the brazen attack. New York is not America’s rattiest city… this one isĭemocrats’ pathetic responses to crime horrors show they’re completely out of gas on public safetyĬhicago police officers turned their backs on Mayor Lori Lightfoot when she visited a hospital after two of their colleagues were shot, one fatally - and a former cop has blasted progressive politics for the death. Landlord found dismembered in freezer called cops ‘many times’ on tenant Kanye’s Chicago hometown paints over mural after rapper’s vile anti-Semitic rant

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