Chicago: The riots in perspective

On May 21 in Chicago 699 rioters were arrested, 132 police offers were injured, there were 48 shootings, and 17 homicides as well as extensive property damage.

The mayor had a meeting with the alderman where at least one wept while they decried what was going on.

Ald. Susan Sadlowski-Garza (10th Ward) broke down while pleading with Lightfoot for help.

“My ward is a s–t show,” Sadlowski-Garza said, adding that cop cars and banks were burned. “They are shooting at the police.”

Sadlowski-Garza began to cry as she said the unrest began about 11 a.m. Sunday, when a group of 40 people broke into a marijuana dispensary, but had nothing to do with a protest.

“I have never seen the likes of this,” Sadlowski-Garza said. “I’m scared.”
The mayor was asked how the poor, mostly people of color in Chicago, and the elderly could get food and medicine if all the stores were shutting down or being looted?

The mayor, who has previously attacked Trump, said that the rioters were "just f....ing lawless right now."

But she apparently didn't keep that attitude for long for she also said the following:

Ald. Raymond Lopez (15th Ward) demanded that Lightfoot develop a plan to stabilize Chicago’s neighborhoods for five days, calling his Southwest Side ward “a virtual war zone” where gang members armed with AK-47’s were threatening to shoot black people.

The call came to a screeching halt when Lightfoot declined to address the substance of Lopez’s remarks, and Lopez demanded that she respond.

Lightfoot told Lopez he was “100% full of s–t.”

“Well, f–k you then,” Lopez responded.

“I understand you want to preen,” Lightfoot told Lopez.

As aldermen objected, Lopez continued to speak.

“Mayor you need to check your f—–g attitude,” Lopez said.
Of course the just a few days later the Mayor, ultra radical Lori Lightfoot, said she'd take Trump to court if he sent in the to military to protect the honest citizens of Chicago which includes most Blacks.

She also attacked Trump for pointing out that when rioting starts shooting starts.  This 8 days after one of her own alderman said that people were shooting at the police.

Clearly her first concern is attacking Trump with protecting the people of Chicago, including Blacks, a distant second.

That's not sitting well with the aldermen whose people were bereft of protection:

“People are still furious,” [Alderman Anthony]Beale said.

Beale’s Far South Side ward, which includes Pullman and Roesland, was hit hard. He is still angry too.

“The lack of response was just totally ridiculous,” Beale said. “They were calling, they were calling, and they couldn’t get help. I was calling, trying to get resources couldn’t get help.”

And he blames the mayor.

“We were totally dismissed,” Beale said.

The simple reality is that the #FakeNews media and the Democrat leaders like Lightfoot are covering up the horrible damage the riots have done to average honest Chicagoans, many of whom are people of color, in order to attack Trump.