Lori Lightfoot’s Private Text During George Floyd Riots: ‘The City Is Up For Grabs’

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by Hank Berrien

The texts that Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot — who has been harshly criticized for her leadership as her city descends further into chaos — sent over more than two and a half years with city aldermen have been revealed, and in one text during the riots after the death of George Floyd she bluntly stated, “The city is up for grabs.”
 

new report from The Chicago Tribune details text messages Lightfoot has sent over more than two and a half years. “The Tribune obtained more than two and a half years of Lightfoot’s text messages with aldermen through a series of Freedom of Information Act requests — which her staff failed to comply with until the state attorney general admonished them and the Tribune threatened a lawsuit,” The Tribune reported.

 
The Tribune stated that on May 31, 2020, Alderman Pat Dowell “complained that police weren’t ‘doing a damn thing’ and in fact were ‘letting these folks loot’ in her ward. ‘The police have to engage these lawless f****,’ Dowell added.”
 

 
Ald. Rossana Rodriguez Sanchez informed Lightfoot that there were people downtown that were not looting, asking Lightfoot if the Chicago Transit Authority could start again so they could leave. Lightfoot responded that those people could go west to catch the Blue Line or go to the Brown Line north.
 
The Tribune continued:

After Rodriguez Sanchez said she was getting messages from “scared young black People who don’t know where to go,” Lightfoot responded, “Go west and then north. Rossana, the city is up for grabs.”

Last July, University of Chicago student Audrey Unverferth, whose classmate Max Lewis was killed as he was commuting home on the city’s subway system, ripped Lightfoot for claiming crime was declining after a violent weekend that saw more than 100 people shot and at least 18 killed.

 
   
 

“Lewis, 20, was commuting on the city’s Green Line during rush hour on July 1 from his internship at an investment firm in downtown Chicago, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. While sitting inside the train, a bullet pierced the window and struck the back of his neck at the 51st Street/Washington Park Station,” Fox News reported.

 
After Lightfoot insisted that crime was on the decline, Unverferth slammed her on Fox News, saying, “Lori Lightfoot had the nerve recently to say that crime in Chicago is on the decline—that’s a blatant lie. I don’t have confidence in Lightfoot anymore.”
 

In July 2020, Lightfoot explained that the gun violence terrorizing the city was primarily due to lax gun laws and coronavirus-related lockdowns. As the Washington Examiner reported, when she was asked about the spike of violence in the city, Lightfoot declared, “That’s a complicated question. We have way too many guns on the streets.”

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I don’t doubt for a moment that Lightfoot is correct about too many guns on the street. They are in the hands of criminals they keep letting out of jail, though, and those criminals know that they can commit more crimes and be let back out to commit MORE crimes. She and her benefactors (Soros) are the problem. The solution is leadership, which Democrats cannot provide.

Democrats need to stop checking boxes and elect competent leaders. They need to accept the fact that their ideology is a failure and using ideology as a guide in selecting leadership is getting people killed. When crime in Chicago goes UP, you know there is a major problem. No doubt after it increases over and over and over again, when it drops a few points they’ll celebrate a great achievement, like Obama touting bringing deficits down after driving them up to $1.4 trillion a year or idiot Biden celebrating gas prices dropping a few cents after driving them up $2 a gallon.

If they can’t figure out how to govern and put their ideology and racism aside, they need to get out of the damned way and let someone competent take charge.

Still as Clueless as any liberal Democrat running the Windy City of Liberal Democrat Windheads

The city is up for grabs
Because the rule of law has broken down
Because I and others have been catering to the Criminal element
Rather than enforcing the Law and protecting the People.

the idiot, hiv, gay mayor was born in Massillon, oh. she attended law school at North Western university. she was not one of the bright ones in her class. she had two brothers, one dead-drug dealer and the 2ed in prison for drug dealing. married to a cracker and hiv positive. recall when she broke protocol during the alleged lockdown and went to a beauty shop.. Her dolt response was “I am the face of Chi.” she is a a useful idiot, requiring CPD protection 24/7 on her domicile block, note not street. There are 53 gangs in Chi., now, she is going to SUE the gangs for acts of violence. Good, only which gang. recall that burglary murder, arson and antif**k up, and all social justice worries(Jihadist) gets free passes on violance.
she is the poster child for a great piece of shit that has buried a once very vibrant city. RIP chi…

Smash and Grab at Lamborghini dealership…

Man smashes glass case at Chicago Lamborghini showroom, runs out with $1 million in watches

Lori Lightfoot is blaming business owners for the crime wave…

Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot says that if you run a business in Chicago, you should be doing more to protect it and she’s disappointed with retailers. It’s your fault if your store gets looted.

Here is an idea; how about an AR-15, when the dirtbags dash in, gun them down. That will be thier last smash…
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