‘We need help’: Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot admits she can’t control her city after 2nd mass shooting in 4 days
Lightfoot pleaded for help from the Biden administration, calling the issue “a national problem.”
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Lightfoot pleaded for help from the Biden administration, calling the issue “a national problem.”
The unrest is heightened over disputes as to whether or not 13-year-old Toledo had a gun. Defining the incident as an “armed confrontation” is being brought into question.
Their entry into the field was seen as less than optimal for the duo.
President Biden has come down on the side of the Chicago Teachers Union that has refused to go back to work and threatened to strike.
In yet another weekend wave of gun violence, 23 people wound up shot in the city of Chicago, with six of them succumbing to their injuries.
A Chicago man who Mayor Lori Lightfoot had referred to as the “Census Cowboy” took his injured horse for a seven-mile run down the Dan Ryan Expressway on Monday. The horse, NuNu, is reported to be in critical condition and may need to be euthanized.
Following the suspected “Magnificent Mile” looting orchestration, Chicago police cracked down on a massive protest downtown, leading to 24 arrests including four felonies on Saturday night.
Chicago’s Fraternal Order of Police sent a letter to the United States Attorney’s office late last week, urging the federal government to charge dozens of looters who wrecked the city’s “Magnificent Mile” shopping district and caused an estimated $60 millio
A police officer took his own life at the Homan Square police station on the West Side of Chicago, where he apparently worked.
He will be enforcing the laws of public order that these mayors have allowed to go unheeded in their cities.