Reminder: Mayor Lightfoot demeaned the "defund" movement as a "nice hashtag," fought bail reform, supported militarized responses to protests, & fought to block transparency & protect the most outrageous misconduct when cops raided a social workers home. She enabled this murder.
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1382763172558475274
If history is any guide--and unfortunately it is--Mayor Lori Lightfoot will soon be slandering protestors as "looters" & defending her militarized police force as they beat, gas, & maim her residents. And then go on to support an increase in their budget for next year.
Last year, the Chicago Police Department’s budget totaled $1.68 billion, with $5 million spent on policing every day. chicago.suntimes.com/2020/6/8/21284…
Lori Lightfoot's 2020 budget proposal featured a 7 percent increase in the police budget at a time when the city was facing budget shortfalls. dailynorthwestern.com/2020/06/18/cam…
Chicago is still spending more on policing per person than at any time in the last half-century, despite a persistent drop in crime over the last two decades. injusticewatch.org/data/2020/chic…
Chicago police department is infamous for corrupt & racist policing. For decades, the Chicago police department tortured people, including over 100 Black men, to force confessions or to get them to falsely
incriminate co-defendants.theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
incriminate co-defendants.theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
A 2017 DOJ investigation concluded that the Chicago police department had “violated the constitutional rights of residents for years, permitting racial bias against blacks, using excessive force and shooting people who did not pose immediate threats."theroot.com/feds-confirm-t…
In the past decade alone, police misconduct has
cost Chicagoans more than $700 million on settlements and legal fees related to lawsuits alleging police brutality.
cost Chicagoans more than $700 million on settlements and legal fees related to lawsuits alleging police brutality.
The Chicago police union president has made clear that any efforts by police to demonstrate support for Black Lives Matter protests would be met with disciplinary action.
And yet, Mayor Lori Lightfoot has the gall to claim shock & outrage about a 13 year old boy being murdered by her police force. This is/was inevitable. And she's responsible. Police are unreformable.
Call her out. chicagomag.com/news/june-2020…
Call her out. chicagomag.com/news/june-2020…
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