Chicago Democratic Mayor Lori Lightfoot was in trouble this

Chicago Democratic Mayor Lori Lightfoot was in trouble this week when she was caught in a hot microphone quietly beating a local police union leader at a city council meeting. A hot microphone took Mayor Lori Lightfoot and called a vice president of the police union “FOP clown” at a city council meeting. The vice president of the Fraternal Order of Police, Patrick Murray, was present at Wednesday’s meeting to defend officers who were fired by the Chicago Police Board last week after Laquan McDonald’s murder, according to the Chicago Tribune. “Mayor Lightfoot’s derogatory remark is a misguided and dangerous thing to say to an experienced 30-year-old police officer and PFO representative, especially at a time when the city faces chronic violent crime. The BAP responded to Lightfoot’s insults a few hours later in a Facebook statement, describing the insult as “dangerous” at a time when “the city faces a chronic violent crime” and is heavily dependent on its police. However, as Murray was called to speak during the time allotted for the public statement, Lightfoot was recorded by recording devices that broadcast the meeting live on his mayor’s Facebook account and whispered derogatory remarks about the BAP vice president. According to Sun-Time, Wednesday’s controversy will also take the bait this year, when he will have to sit at the negotiating table with the police union to discuss the terms of a new police contract. According to the newspaper, Lightfoot repented – not for his rude comment or verdict on Murray, but because he had said it “aloud” – at a press conference after the meeting. “Oh, back there,” Lightfoot told his attorney Mark Flessner about the Chicago Sun-Times. The incident comes at a time when trust between CPD officials and the city’s political establishment has already been highlighted, particularly with respect to Kim Foxx, the Cook County prosecutor in response to Jussie Smollett’s hate controversy earlier this year. “It wasn’t appropriate for me to say it out loud,” says Lightfoot. Sciascia has been a regular contributor to the Western Journal since September 2018 and also works briefly as a policy officer at MassGOP and is currently editor-in-chief of the student newspaper Connector. Chicago police were not impressed by the mayor’s response. She also said the mayor wouldn’t even apologize,” BAP: Chicago Lodge No. “Under pressure from journalists to know whether or not an official apology would be made, the mayor said she had already made one.