...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
Mayor Lori Lightfoot
...the diminutive and vacuous Heronner da Mare of Chicago. When the corpse count rises she blames the guns, which are banned anyway...snapped at a news hound who questioned whether city officials went too easy on looters from protests in recent months.The exchange took place Monday after widespread violence and looting took place downtown in the early morning hours following a police-involved shooting that left a man injured. More than 100 arrests were made, and 13 officers were hurt during the unrest, Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown said during a presser Monday morning.
"It almost sounds as though you’re saying this is — the reason [this is happening] is because the courts and the prosecutors were not doing their job, that they’re going too easy on the looters from the last time around," a news hound asked during a presser with Lightfoot and Brown.
Brown began to respond but was cut off by Lightfoot, who accused the news hound of trying to "bait" them with the question.
"No, no, don’t — do not bait us," Lightfoot said. "Do not bait us. This is a serious situation. People are concerned about their safety. Officers are concerned about their safety. So don’t bait us."
Lightfoot added that the city is aggressively searching to identify the people responsible for the unrest.
"When we do [identify them] and we do make those arrests, our expectation is that this is going to be treated with the level of seriousness that it should be, period," Lightfoot said. "Don’t try to bait us, mischaracterize, pit one against the other — we’re not playing that. We are in a serious situation here, and we need a serious response. That’s what we’re saying, period."
The question asked likely revolves around Cook County State Attorney Kim Foxx's decision last month to drop charges against hundreds of protesters who gathered in the city following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
Foxx said at the time that