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Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot is SUED by white reporter from Daily Caller after she said she would only give one-on-one interviews to black or brown journalists
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
  • Lori Lightfoot last Tuesday said she would only give interviews to people of color

  • Her temporary policy, she said, was to draw attention to a lack of diversity

  • On Thursday, a white reporter from the Daily Caller suing Lightfoot in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

  • The lawsuit, filed by Daily Caller News Foundation and Judicial Watch, alleges that Thomas Catenacci was denied an interview by Lightfoot

  • The lawsuit claims Catenacci's First Amendment rights were violated, as well as his Fourteenth Amendment right to equal protection

  • Tucker Carlson has described Lightfoot as a Nazi and monster and other journalists also reacted in anger towards the mayor's decision

  • One Latino journalist in the city said his newspaper cancelled their interview

Posted by: Skidmark 2021-05-28
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=603071