{"id":1628082,"date":"2022-08-31T09:33:49","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T13:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1628082"},"modified":"2022-08-31T09:35:12","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T13:35:12","slug":"chicago-drag-racers-kill-woman-pelt-police-with-rocks-mayor-lightfoot-blames-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chicago-drag-racers-kill-woman-pelt-police-with-rocks-mayor-lightfoot-blames-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Drag Racers Kill Woman, Pelt Police With Rocks. Mayor Lightfoot Blames Social Media."},"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\">28<\/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%2Fchicago-drag-racers-kill-woman-pelt-police-with-rocks-mayor-lightfoot-blames-social-media%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=1628082&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--><p>After drag racers terrorized residents of Chicago, speeding through intersections \u2014 with one reportedly killing a 40-year-old woman visiting the city \u2014 \u00a0they pelted Chicago police with rocks and bricks as Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot blamed social media for the behavior.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Shawman Meireis, 40, was standing in the crosswalk near Midway Airport the day before her birthday when she was hit by a speeding car. She was later pronounced dead at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn. Also on Sunday in the Pilsen area, \u201can angry crowd attacked police with bricks, a road sign, a tree and rocks as a police vehicle drove toward the crowd,\u201d The Chicago Tribune <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/chaotic-drag-races-street-takeovers-231700125.html\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Lightfoot blamed social media for the drag races, snapping, \u201cTheir failure to be proactive in addressing these issues to work proactively with law enforcement is an absolute abomination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lightfoot was asked at a press conference on Monday, \u201cWhat roles do the TikToks and the Instagrams that are posting all these videos do? These [drag races] are clear violations of the law. If these [videos] are taken down because people are watching them, then what\u2019s the attraction of them? It\u2019s diminished, right? Should the police department be working with them to try to take these things down?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re trying to trigger me, aren\u2019t you?\u201d Lightfoot responded, adding, \u201cI\u2019m being somewhat facetious.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then she launched into her attack on social media companies: \u201cI think the lack of responsibility on the part of social media companies, who absolutely know exactly the kind of things that are being posted, their failure to be proactive in addressing these issues to work proactively with law enforcement is an absolute abomination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lightfoot called for federal intervention to censor social media, declaring, \u201cI\u2019m one who believes that the federal government has to step up and regulate every single one of these platforms, whether it\u2019s selling guns on social media, brazenly and openly, and nothing\u2019s being done about it. Whether it\u2019s this kind of thing, advertising things that clearly threaten public safety, whether it\u2019s violence against women, whether it\u2019s child pornography, there is a whole marketplace of illegal activity that is going on every single day on social media.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd these social media companies absolutely have the ability to regulate what\u2019s happening on their platforms,\u201d she continued. \u201cThis isn\u2019t a question of First Amendment rights; this is a question of public safety for our kids and for our communities, and if these social media companies continue to frankly, stiff-arm us and not own their responsibility, it\u2019s gonna be an even worse problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany of the things we see with young people ending in gunfire and violence, you know where they start? The start on social media,\u201d she asserted.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After drag racers terrorized residents of Chicago, speeding through intersections \u2014 with one reportedly killing a 40-year-old woman visiting the city \u2014 \u00a0they pelted Chicago police with rocks and bricks as Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot blamed social media for the behavior. On Sunday, Shawman Meireis, 40, was standing in the crosswalk near Midway Airport the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1628085,"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-1628082","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\/1628082","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1628082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1628085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1628082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1628082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1628082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}