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Aldermen rip mayor after neighborhoods ransacked, plead for National Guard protection
The Chicago Sun-Times ^ | June 1, 2020 | Staff

Posted on 06/01/2020 3:44:58 PM PDT by PBRCat

Chicago needs 3,000 National Guardsmen. Aldermen arguing that the deployment of 375 National Guard troops to seal off the downtown had left South and West Side unprotected.

During Sunday calls between the mayor and aldermen, Lopez asked Lightfoot directly what her plan was to protect the neighborhoods after sealing off a downtown devastated by looting, vandalism and arson on Saturday. According to Lopez, the mayor responded that she had a plan for every neighborhood.

By Sunday night, neighborhoods were in chaos, warnings about a “coordinated attempt to destabilize our city” turned out to be right. On a second conference call between the mayor and City Council, Lopez said several aldermen were “in tears."

“I asked her point-blank. I told you this was gonna happen. What is our plan for the neighborhoods? How are we gonna stabilize the communities? We need a five-day plan. The assumption that this is all gonna go away because you’ve got a curfew is wrong. I want an answer."

“When I finished, she said, ‘Okay. Next’ and tried to move on without answering me. I interrupted, ‘No. I demand an answer. I want to know what your plan is.’ ... She said I was full of s - - t for saying that all she cared about was downtown and that she wasn’t prepared and that there’s nothing she could say intellectually that would make sense to me.’”

Lopez said he answered profanity with profanity.

“I told her, ‘F - - k you. You don’t know what’s going on. You need to come out from wherever you’re hiding and see what’s going on in the neighborhoods. You need to check your f----ing attitude. That’s not what this is about. … That just underscores and totally proves the fact that she had no plan for the neighborhoods.”

(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.suntimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: chicago; civilunrest; illinois; lightfoot; looters; riot; riots
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To: L.A.Justice
Is she the worst mayor in US? It’s either she or Mayor Frey of Minneapolis...

There is a lot of competition for the title. We must not forget Kaiser Wilhelm DeBlasio.

41 posted on 06/01/2020 5:23:59 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: mewzilla

Where’s Pritzker....?
________________________

He is worse than Governor Walz...Walz told Mayor Frey to get out of the way...He took charge...

Would Governor P tell the Chicago Mayor to get out of the way?

I am not sure...


42 posted on 06/01/2020 5:27:33 PM PDT by L.A.Justice
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To: PBRCat

Wait - The Far Left Chicago Media machine has not reported on any damage in the neighborhoods. It is only Downtown by Peaceful Demonstrators.

Lopez will either be ignored by the Chicago Media or on signal from Lighthead, raked over hot coals.


43 posted on 06/01/2020 5:45:02 PM PDT by EC Washington
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To: PBRCat
According to Lopez, the mayor responded that she had a plan for every neighborhood.
The commie's plan was to let them get destroyed by paid agitators and looters. Orange man bad won, don't you know.
44 posted on 06/01/2020 5:59:09 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: mewzilla

Probably caring for his horses in Wisconsin. He claimed that this is essential work. People are asking where the First Lady of Illinois has been since March? Florida and Wisconsin primarily — two states not under quarantine.


45 posted on 06/01/2020 6:50:10 PM PDT by PBRCat
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To: PBRCat

My guess is that the Mexicans are really feeling the ill effect of the mayor’s black rioters, and the Mexicans are pissed.

The fact that Lopez told the black racist mayor to GFH probably means that a race war is about to commence.


46 posted on 06/01/2020 7:11:48 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
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