{"id":1147395,"date":"2021-12-23T17:49:46","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T22:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1147395"},"modified":"2021-12-23T17:49:52","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T22:49:52","slug":"2-democrat-lawmakers-carjacked-within-16-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/2-democrat-lawmakers-carjacked-within-16-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Democrat lawmakers carjacked within 16 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F2-democrat-lawmakers-carjacked-within-16-hours%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1147395&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2621088\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2621088\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2621088\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/maryw-655x437-1.jpg\" alt=\"Represenative Mary Gay Scanlon, D-Pa., speaks during a House Rules Committee hearing on the impeachment against President Donald Trump, December 17, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. (Photo by Patrick Semansky \/ POOL \/ AFP) (Photo by PATRICK SEMANSKY\/POOL\/AFP via Getty Images)\" width=\"655\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/maryw-655x437-1.jpg 655w, https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/maryw-315x210.jpg 315w, https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/maryw-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/maryw.jpg 1024w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2621088\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Represenative Mary Gay Scanlon, D-Pa., speaks during a House Rules Committee hearing on the impeachment against President Donald Trump, December 17, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. (Photo by PATRICK SEMANSKY\/POOL\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 1:56 PM PT \u2013 Thursday, December 23, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Two Democrat lawmakers were recently carjacked within 16 hours of each other.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon (Pa.) was robbed and carjacked in broad daylight at FDR Park in South Philadelphia on Wednesday. Two gunmen demanded the congresswoman hand over her keys and belongings, which included her government issued ID and cell phone.<\/p>\n<p>The assailants sped off in her car while an accomplice followed in a different vehicle. Police have reportedly arrested five suspects in connection to the carjacking.<\/p>\n<p>Scanlon\u2019s office released a statement after the incident thanking the Philadelphia Police. This was a far cry from a tweet she posted in 2020 which read, \u201cwe have seen too many lives and communities devastated by police brutality and racial profiling\u2026action is long overdue.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Statement from the Office of Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon on today&#8217;s incident: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fomScnWUXo\">pic.twitter.com\/fomScnWUXo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon (@RepMGS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepMGS\/status\/1473777010010951681?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 22, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There have reportedly been more than 700 carjackings in Philadelphia this year alone. The incident comes after Illinois State Senate Majority Leader Kimberly Lightford was also carjacked just 16 hours earlier on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said three masked suspects stole Lightford\u2019s vehicle Tuesday night in a Chicago suburb. Cynthia Boyd witnessed the armed carjacking and called 911 while the trio of gunmen terrorized the senator and her husband.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey had guns at her. All three of them had a gun and was pointing guns at her and at her husband,\u201d said Boyd. \u201cShe was saying, \u2018don\u2019t shoot my husband, please don\u2019t shoot my husband. Take whatever you want.\u2019 So, they took her purse and they took the car, and everything that was in the car and they took off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses said a barrage of gunshots rang out in the suburban neighborhood, but Lightford and her husband were not physically injured. The carjacking comes amid a surge in violent crimes in the Windy City, where Lightford has pushed the \u201cdefund the police\u201d movement.<\/p>\n<p>Both Lightford and Scanlon have supported police reform measures, with Lightford previously proposing $59 million in budget cuts. Both Democrat lawmakers co-sponsored bills in their respective offices that called for mental health specialists to be dispatched instead of police to some incidents.<\/p>\n<p>Scanlon co-sponsored the so-called \u201cMental Health Justice Act\u201d in Congress in February. Critics of the measure say it merely makes it easier for progressive lawmakers to defund the police by funding mental heath services and authorizing them to respond to emergencies instead of armed officers.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/autopsy-reveals-cause-of-death-of-fmr-nfl-star-vincent-jackson\/\">Autopsy Reveals Cause Of Death Of Fmr. 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