Cook County State Attorney Kim Foxx dropped charges against several hundred protesters arrested for looting and other offenses during the George Floyd protests.
David Brown, Chicago Police Superintendent, said at the Monday press conference that looters could have been behaving ‘as if there are not consequences’ because of ‘what happened previously’.
A reporter, addressing the police chief, said: ‘It almost sounds as though you were saying the reason we have this is the courts and the prosecutors were not doing their job, that they were going too easy on the looters from the last time around. Is that my understanding?’
Brown replied: ‘Don’t take it from me. Just go about what’s been done. I don’t want to do your job for you but go about what’s been done. There were no consequences for the people arrested.’
At this point, Lightfoot stood up and addressed the reporter.
‘Let’s be clear,’ she said. ‘Don’t bait us! OK? Do not bait us. 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.
‘What we’re saying is, as a result of what happened last night, there have to be consequences.
‘We’ve got teams of people that are aggressively out there identifying the people responsible, looking at the plates, and working on bringing them to justice.
‘But when we do, and we do make those arrests, our expectation is that is going to be treated with the level of seriousness that it should be, period.’
She angrily denied that Foxx’s decision, or any other ruling by the Chicago authorities, contributed towards the unrest.
‘Don’t try to bait us, mischaracterize, pit one against the other,’ she said.
‘We’re not playing that. We’re in a serious situation here, and we need a serious response. That’s what we’re saying, period.’
‘This is a serious situation. People are concerned about their safety. Officers are concerned about their safety. So don’t bait us.
‘What we’re saying is, as a result of what happened last night, there have to be consequences.
‘We’ve got teams of people that are aggressively out there identifying the people responsible, looking at the plates, and working on bringing them to justice.
‘But when we do, and we do make those arrests, our expectation is that is going to be treated with the level of seriousness that it should be, period.’
She angrily denied that Foxx’s decision, or any other ruling by the Chicago authorities, contributed towards the unrest.
‘Don’t try to bait us, mischaracterize, pit one against the other,’ she said.
‘We’re not playing that. We’re in a serious situation here, and we need a serious response. That’s what we’re saying, period.’
Mike Judge and Etan Cohen are like a two headed, modern-day Nastradamus. We’re living through the performance art version of Idiocracy and Lightfoot is the guy that laughs at the suggestion that “toilet water” is better for plants than Brawndo.