Chicago cops turn their backs to Mayor at hospital after 2 cops shot

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) attended University of Chicago Medical Center at midnight Saturday where an officer remains in critical condition and one had died from a shooting at a traffic stop. As of this writing, the officer has been reported to be making some improvement, but it is too soon to know the prognosis.

About thirty Chicago police officers greeted Lightfoot by turning their backs on her, like she continuously does to the city's police.

Chicago Police Officer Ella French, 29, was shot and killed during a traffic stop Saturday night, and her partner fights for his life. 

Officer Ella French

When Lightfoot visited the hospital on the 7th floor, the cops showed her their backs.

"It looked like it had been choreographed," one source told the media.

So, who cares if it was choreographed? It makes no difference because the message was the same for each officer that turned away from Lightfoot, who has consistently taken an opposing position from the police, especially since the 2020 violent protests over the death of George Floyd. In fact, she campaigned as a police reformer and said the police unions are one of the main obstacles to reforming the police.

She said back then that police violence and brutality "demean the badge" and asked that people report police misconduct.

"Unfortunately, in history in our city, and I think the history of other cities, unions are extraordinarily reluctant to embrace reform and that's a current state of affairs here... We have had to take them to arbitration to win very modest reforms, and that's a shame of the history of collective bargaining where there hasn't been an emphasis on reform and accountability... These contracts... are a significant problem and challenge in getting the reforms necessary."

But apparently, the looting and rioting in August of last year wasn't an issue for Lightfoot. She was strongly criticized for allowing protests in the city, but not on the block where she lives with her wife.

Prior to that, on a May 31 conference call with all 50 Chicago aldermen, she got into a heated argument with Ray Lopez (D) of the 15th Ward. They actually swore at each other and Lopez called her out on the anemic response to looting and violence during the Floyd protests.

So it's understandable why the police would turn their backs on her like she did with them and the law in general. 

At the hospital, Lightfoot tried to speak with the male officer's father, a retired Chicago cop himself, and didn't expect it when he blamed her for what happened.

The mayor's press office provided an excuse in a statement to Fox News, "In a time of tragedy, emotions run high and that is to be expected."

"The Mayor spoke to a range of officers that tragic night and sensed the overwhelming sentiment was about concern for their fallen colleagues," the statement read. "As the Mayor stated yesterday, now is not the time for divisive and toxic rhetoric or reporting. [She should know all about divisive rhetoric.] This is a time for us to come together as a city. We have a common enemy and it is the conditions that breed the violence and the manifestations of violence, namely illegal guns, and gangs. The Mayor is focused on healing the wounds and will reject any and all that try to use this moment to drive further divisions in our city."

More people are shot and more are killed in an average week in Chicago than those killed in the last year and a half of those in our military killed in Afghanistan--that number is one.

Dozens of shooting incidents across Chicago over the weekend left 13 people dead and 73 injured.

In the period beginning Friday at 6 p.m. and ending at midnight Sunday, the Chicago Police Department recorded 54 shooting incidents, statistics show.

The suspects in the police shooting on Saturday are in custody.

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