Here’s a newsflash: Chicago’s Mayor Lori Lightfoot has a violent crime problem in her city. Last week, when President Trump offered to help solve the horrific violence on Murder City, USA’s streets, Lightfoot rudely rebuffed him. “I don’t need leadership lessons from Donald Trump,” she tweeted. Then this past weekend, gang-driven violent crime claimed 18 more lives with another 48 wounded.
Donald Trump has a savvy sense of timing. After the horrific toll of the Father’s Day weekend, President Trump publicly extended an offer to help.
I write to you today to call your attention to and urge action on the devastating violence in Chicago. While I have been heartened to see crime reductions nationally the last few years, I have been horrified by the continued violence in this great American city…
Your lack of leadership on this important issue continues to fail the people you have sworn to protect. I am concerned it is another example of your lack of commitment to the vulnerable citizens who are victims of this violence and a lack of respect for the men and women in law enforcement..
Violence and death, which are disproportionately harming young African Americans, are tragic and unacceptable, particularly on such a shocking scale…
If you are interested, I am willing to ask members of my Cabinet to meet with you and help devise a plan to make Chicago safe, since a successful formula has escaped both you and your predecessors…
Mayor Lightfoot didn’t take kindly to Trump calling out her out for, as Trump described it, a “lack of any modicum of leadership.”
As our police officers, street outreach workers and residents continue to work tirelessly to keep our communities safe, he’s using the victims of gun violence in our city to score cheap political points, spew racist rhetoric, and ignore the impact of COVID across this country.
— Mayor Lori Lightfoot (@chicagosmayor) June 27, 2020
Notice how the mayor cites victims of gun violence while ignoring the rampant gang culture in her city. Given the unholy alliance between gangs and politicians in Chicago, this shouldn’t surprise anyone. Furthermore, how exactly is it racist to bring attention to rampant black-on-black crime in a Democrat-run city?
I stand with @GovPritzker in providing for the safety and well-being of our residents.
— Mayor Lori Lightfoot (@chicagosmayor) June 27, 2020
Because Governor Pritzker has shown himself to be such a great leader in restoring law and order to Chicago’s streets?
I don’t need leadership lessons from Donald Trump.
— Mayor Lori Lightfoot (@chicagosmayor) June 27, 2020
Lightfoot wrote that she doesn’t “need leadership lessons” from the President. In a matter of a few hours, her tweet didn’t age well.
Over the weekend, Lightfoot’s so-called leadership served up 18 dead and 48 more wounded. Once again, past weekend had more people murdered in Chicago than the previous three years’ combined.
From HeyJackass!
Final Stupidity Tally: 18 killed, 48 wounded
2019 weekend tally: 5 killed, 55 wounded
2018 weekend tally: 3 killed, 23 wounded
2017 weekend tally: 7 killed, 47 wounded
2016 weekend tally: 8 killed, 50 wounded
2015 weekend tally: 5 killed, 24 wounded
2014 weekend tally: 2 killed, 42 woundedFriday 6/26
3:50p 10300 S Halsted, Washington Park, M/31
5:40p 200 N Leclaire, Austin, M/42
6:15p 2700 S Kedvale, Little Village, M/41
7:30p 5200 S Wood, New City, M/46
☂☁ Rain Delay ☁☂
Saturday 6/27
12:20a 600 W Lawrence, Uptown, M/27
1:35a 2200 W 21st, Lower West Side, M/46
4:50a 1500 S California, North Lawndale, M/25
4:50a 800 E 81st, Chatham, M/50
6:20a 9300 S Lyon, Chatham, M/33
6:50a 1100 W 57th, Englewood, M/?
9:25a 3100 W Flournoy, Garfield Park, M/39
9:25a 3100 W Flournoy, Garfield Park, M/48
10:25a 1300 S Springfield, North Lawndale, M/?
11:25a 1100 N Monticello, Humboldt Park, M/17
12:10p 8000 S Exchange, South Chicago, M/37
2:00p 6000 S Halsted, Englewood, M/1 (story)
2:00p 6000 S Halsted, Englewood, F/22
3:50p 7600 S Phillips, South Shore, M/28
3:50p 4400 S Kedzie, Brighton Park, M/?
5:00p 3300 W Douglas, North Lawndale, M/30
5:00p 3300 W Douglas, North Lawndale, M/31
9:40p 3500 W Dickens, Logan Square, F/10
10:05p 100 W Illinois, Near North Side, M/20
11:00p 6300 S Eberhart, Woodlawn, M/43
11:20p 7300 S Kimbark, South Shore, M/29
11:20p 6600 S Wood, Englewood, F/8
11:35p 3100 S Rhodes, Douglas, M/19
11:35p 3100 S Rhodes, Douglas, M/21
11:35p 3100 S Rhodes, Douglas, M/22
11:35p 3100 S Rhodes, Douglas, M/24
Sunday 6/28
12:00a 2700 75th, South Shore, M/29
12:55a 10900 S State, Roseland, M/22
1:10a 6400 S King, Grand Crossing, M/19
1:10a 6400 S King, Grand Crossing, M/32
1:25a 3400 W Franklin, Humboldt Park, F/26
1:45a 7000 S South Chicago, South Shore, M/22
1:45a 7000 S South Chicago, South Shore, M/27
1:50a 7800 S May, Auburn Gresham, M/38
2:30a 2400 S Leavitt, Lower West Side, M/24
3:35a 1000 N Trumbull, Humboldt Park, M/19
3:35a 1000 N Trumbull, Humboldt Park, M/34
3:55a 1300 N Mayfield, Austin, M/28
4:25a 500 N Menard, Austin, M/31
4:25a 500 N Menard, Austin, F/35
4:25a 500 N Menard, Austin, F/37
5:40a 1700 W Juneway, Rogers Park, F/31
7:00a 1400 W Lunt, Rogers Park, M/19
7:20a 8200 S Muskegon, South Chicago, M/18
8:30a 2500 S Troy, Little Village, M/38
8:30a 7500 S Harvard, Grand Crossing, M/21
11:05a 3100 W Flournoy, Garfield Park, M/37
11:05a 3100 W Flournoy, Garfield Park, M/39
12:00p 6400 S Wolcott, Englewood, M/20
12:45p 5200 W Le Moyne, Austin, M/32
3:40p 6800 S Sangamon, Englewood, M/30
4:40p 1400 E 67th, South Shore, M/18
8:40p 6600 S Evans, Woodlawn, F/24
8:40p 12100 S Michigan, West Pullman, M/24
9:00p 4600 S La Crosse, Garfield Ridge, M/19
10:00p 7600 N Marshfield, Rogers Park, M/20
10:00p 7600 N Marshfield, Rogers Park, M/24
11:05p 4500 W Maypole, Garfield Park, M/23
11:50p 5400 W Belmont, Belmont Cragin, F/34
No Accountability Monday
12:40a 900 N Central Park, Humboldt Park, M/22
2:20a 4400 S Whipple, Brighton Park, M/21
From ABC7 Chicago:
A toddler and a 10-year-old girl were among 14 people shot to death in Chicago in yet another weekend of gun violence that has rocked the city over the past month.
Between Friday and Sunday morning, a total of 52 people were shot in Chicago, according to police department records.
“As a mother, I am tired of the funerals. I am tired of burying our children,” Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot tweeted, adding that the city was in the throes of a “gun violence epidemic.”
What’s next in Chicago under Mayor Lightfoot’s vaunted leadership? Defunding the police?
The Mayor is showing — week after week — that government either can’t or won’t protect the people. And that’s why millions are deciding they’ll be responsible for providing their own protection.