{"id":1170480,"date":"2021-12-29T19:34:22","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T00:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1170480"},"modified":"2021-12-29T19:34:24","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T00:34:24","slug":"blood-on-her-hands-chicago-911-dispatcher-slams-mayor-lori-lightfoot-over-skyrocketing-murder-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blood-on-her-hands-chicago-911-dispatcher-slams-mayor-lori-lightfoot-over-skyrocketing-murder-rate\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Blood On Her Hands&#039;: Chicago 911 Dispatcher Slams Mayor Lori Lightfoot Over Skyrocketing Murder Rate"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/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%2Fblood-on-her-hands-chicago-911-dispatcher-slams-mayor-lori-lightfoot-over-skyrocketing-murder-rate%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=1170480&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AP_20080764401686-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">A Chicago 911 dispatcher slammed Chicago\u2019s Democrat Mayor Lori Lightfoot over the skyrocketing crime rate in the Windy City, saying that she has \u201cblood on her hands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll hell has broken loose,\u201d dispatcher Keith A. Thornton, Jr. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/news\/chicago-911-dispatcher-says-all-hell-has-broken-loose-rips-lightfoot-over-crime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> Fox News on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIn my opinion and fact, the blood is on her hands,\u201d Thornton said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not a black problem, a white problem, a Democratic problem, a Republican problem, a Latino problem, this is an all-hands-on-deck problem and everyone within Chicago should be fueled up\u2014and that\u2019s why I\u2019m taking a stand,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the latest video at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\">foxnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cEvery child and every youth and adult and elderly person that is shot, killed, pulled out of their vehicle because of carjackings with AK-47s, that is on her hands,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Thornton initially came to the nation\u2019s attention after sharing a Facebook video post making similar accusations against the mayor and calling Chicago a \u201cdeath zone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you say \u2018Chicago,\u2019 people are afraid,\u201d Thornton exclaimed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-video\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/KATTJR\/videos\/274234451354849\/\" data-width=\"640\">\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/KATTJR\/videos\/274234451354849\/\" class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\">\n<p>CPD IS SHORT MANPOWER AND YOU ARE BEING LIED TOO BY THE MAYOR AND CPD UPPER MANAGEMENT.<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/29\/blood-on-her-hands-chicago-911-dispatcher-slams-mayor-lori-lightfoot-over-skyrocketing-murder-rate\/#\" role=\"button\">Keith A. Thornton Jr.<\/a> on Thursday, December 23, 2021<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Thornton is not just a random dispatcher suddenly jumping to national renown.<\/p>\n<p>The employee of the city\u2019s Office of Emergency Management and Communications, a Chicago native, was lavished with <a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/2021\/8\/10\/22618796\/ella-french-chicago-police-dispatcher-homicide-editorial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">praise<\/a> for his heroics during the <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/ella-french-murder-eric-morgan-emonte\/11340581\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shooting<\/a> of Chicago Police officer Ella French in August. Thornton was praised for his calm and commanding presence on the air as he directed resources as the Chicago Police Department rushed to respond to the shooting that took an officer\u2019s life.<\/p>\n<p><i>Follow Warner Todd Huston on Facebook at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston\">facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Chicago 911 dispatcher slammed Chicago\u2019s Democrat Mayor Lori Lightfoot over the skyrocketing crime rate in the Windy City, saying that she has \u201cblood on her hands.\u201d \u201cAll hell has &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1170480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1170480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}