...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
Mayor Lori Lightfoot
...the diminutive and vacuous former Heronner da Mare of Chicago. When the corpse count rose she blamed the guns, which are banned anyway...called on Democrat mayors to "speak the truth" on
While speaking on a panel at the African American Mayors Association Conference in Washington, D.C., on Friday, Lightfoot called on Democrat mayors to address the growing crime in their cities.
"As Democrats, if we do not speak the truth about
"I come to this conversation as a former federal prosecutor. I come to this as a former defense attorney, I am the sister of a returning resident," Lightfoot continued. "But I know that there are people in my city that are wreaking havoc every day and need to be off the streets. That’s reality."
"What do we say to, not only the victims of crime, but the people who are terrified about crimes in their neighborhood, most of whom look like us. If we say, ’yeah, the police department is spending all this time and resources to arrest, put a case on,’ and the judges and the prosecutors say, ’you know what? We’re going to let you out on electronic monitoring to wreak havoc again.’"
Lightfoot asked if "somebody musters the courage to come forward and identify the person who just shot up their neighborhood, and then sees Pookie walking bold as day back on the street two days later, what does that say to them?"
"You’re telling them that the criminal justice system doesn’t care about victims and witnesses," Lightfoot said. "And if we don’t call that out every single day with these prosecutors and with these judges, many of whom don’t live in our cities and don’t care about what’s happening, then we are going to lose an opportunity to advocate for the victims and the witnesses and the residents who just want and deserve peace."
"We gotta say it," she added. "We gotta say it."
Lightfoot’s comments come as she heads toward the end of her time as Chicago’s mayor, becoming the first mayor in 40 years not to get re-elected.
Crime has spiked in the Windy City under Lightfoot’s leadership and played a central role in the 2023 mayoral election.
Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson warned against vilifying youth while condemning a chaotic "Teen Takeover" of the Loop over the weekend, which saw hundreds of young people descend on the downtown area for two nights in a row.
Two teenage males, ages 16 and 17, were shot while standing in a crowd during the mayhem on Saturday night, as hundreds of young people smashed cars, blocked traffic, and fought in the streets. Both victims were transported to a hospital and listed in fair condition, according to Fox 32 Chicago.