{"id":240732,"date":"2021-08-13T07:23:24","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T07:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=240732"},"modified":"2021-08-14T05:27:36","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T05:27:36","slug":"mayor-lori-lightfoot-encouraged-cop-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=240732","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Lori Lightfoot &#8216;encouraged&#8217; cop killer"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Chicago police union chief says city&#8217;s mayor shares responsibility for death of Ella French, 29, and that Lightfoot has &#8216;vilified police&#8217;<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>John Catanzara, the head of the Fraternal Order of Police in Chicago, blamed Mayor Lori Lightfoot for the fatal shooting of a police officer on Saturday\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>A group of nearly 30 Chicago police officers turned their backs on Mayor Lori Lightfoot as she approached them at a vigil after two cops were shot- one fatally<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The mayor of Chicago was also slammed by the father of another cop shot during the same incident who survived<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Catanzara says that officer&#8217;s dad &#8211; himself a former policeman &#8211; told Lightfoot she had , a former Chicago PD, of the injured officer blaming her for the incident\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Officer Ella French, 29, was shot and killed during a traffic stop Saturday night, while her male partner is fighting to recover from his injuries\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Two brothers Eric, 22, and Emonte Morgan, 21, have since been charged and denied bond over the shooting murder<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Evelana Flores, 41, was arrested after she tried to barge her way into the hospital room where her son, Emonte Morgan, was being treated for a gunshot wound\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Earlier this year Chicago&#8217;s police union issued a vote of &#8216;no confidence&#8217; in the mayor for her stance with the defund the police movement<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Saturday night&#8217;s shooting occurred on another violent weekend in Chicago, with at least 64 people shot, 10 fatally, by Sunday afternoon<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Ariel Zilber, Christopher Eberhart and Adriana Diaz \u2013 Daily Mail.com Aug 12, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>A Chicago police union boss says the city&#8217;s mayor Lori Lightfoot is to blame for a deadly shooting which killed one cop and seriously-injured another.<\/p>\n<p>John Catanzara, the president of the Fraternal Order of Police Chicago Lodge #7, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/fox-news\/index.html\"><strong>Fox News<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0that Lightfoot&#8217;s tough on cops, soft on crime approach has emboldened criminals like the killer who shot and killed Ella French, 29, and blasted a bullet into her brain.<\/p>\n<p>He also said that dozens of officers were justified in turning their backs on the mayor as she approached them at University of Chicago Medical Center on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018A violent individual who was encouraged to do violent things by the people who run this city and state,\u2019 Catanzara said, implicitly referring to Lightfoot and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/illinois\/index.html\"><strong>Illinois<\/strong><\/a> Governor J.B. Pritzker, both Democrats<\/p>\n<p>He slammed Lightfoot, saying that she lost the respect of CPD rank-and-file despite the mayor\u2019s comments over the weekend that \u2018police officers aren\u2019t the enemy.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018She\u2019s a flag in the wind,\u2019 Catanzara said, suggesting that Lightfoot lacks any political backbone.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018A violent individual who was encouraged to do violent things by the people who run this city and state,\u2019 Catanzara said, implicitly referring to Lightfoot and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/illinois\/index.html\"><strong>Illinois<\/strong><\/a> Governor J.B. Pritzker, both Democrats<\/p>\n<p>He slammed Lightfoot, saying that she lost the respect of CPD rank-and-file despite the mayor\u2019s comments over the weekend that \u2018police officers aren\u2019t the enemy.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018She\u2019s a flag in the wind,\u2019 Catanzara said, suggesting that Lightfoot lacks any political backbone.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_240733\" style=\"width: 644px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/police-officers-turn-their-backs-on-Lightfootas-she-tried-to-approach-them-during-a-vigil-at-the-University-of-Chicago.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-240733\" class=\"wp-image-240733 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/police-officers-turn-their-backs-on-Lightfootas-she-tried-to-approach-them-during-a-vigil-at-the-University-of-Chicago.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"634\" height=\"471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/police-officers-turn-their-backs-on-Lightfootas-she-tried-to-approach-them-during-a-vigil-at-the-University-of-Chicago.jpg 634w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/police-officers-turn-their-backs-on-Lightfootas-she-tried-to-approach-them-during-a-vigil-at-the-University-of-Chicago-480x357.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 634px, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-240733\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police officers turn their backs on Mayor Lightfoot when she tried to approach them during a vigil at the University of Chicago Medical Center<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9885255\/Chicago-Mayor-Lori-Lightfoot-branded-disgusting-citys-police-union-chief.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago police union chief says city&#8217;s mayor shares responsibility for death of Ella French, 29, and that Lightfoot has &#8216;vilified police&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":237726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=240732"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240735,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240732\/revisions\/240735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/237726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=240732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=240732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=240732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}