{"id":629923,"date":"2021-08-10T13:52:29","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T17:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=629923"},"modified":"2021-08-10T13:52:32","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T17:52:32","slug":"its-past-time-to-stop-thistreatment-of-police-officers-chicagos-top-cop-speaks-out-after-officers-alleged-murderer-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-past-time-to-stop-thistreatment-of-police-officers-chicagos-top-cop-speaks-out-after-officers-alleged-murderer-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s Past Time To Stop This\u2026Treatment Of Police Officers\u2019: Chicago\u2019s Top Cop Speaks Out After Officer\u2019s Alleged Murderer Arrested"},"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\">38<\/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%2Fits-past-time-to-stop-thistreatment-of-police-officers-chicagos-top-cop-speaks-out-after-officers-alleged-murderer-arrested%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=629923&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\/08\/GettyImages-1323740320.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Brown said that investigators do not yet know why Officer Ella French and her partner pulled over an SUV on Chicago\u2019s south side Friday night around 9 pm.<\/p>\n<p>Body came footage \u201cshows the three occupants were out or in the process of being taken out of the vehicle when [first suspect] Eric Morgan ran, leading one officer to chase and apprehend him nearby,\u201d according to Chicago police sources who spoke to the outlet. \u201cThe second suspect, Emonte Morgan, pulled away from French and made a move back toward the inside of the vehicle. As the officers tried to apprehend him, he allegedly fired a gun, striking both officers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Morgan was wounded in the altercation. Both officers were also wounded. French died of her injuries at a nearby hospital. Her partner is still recovering but his condition is reportedly improving.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmonte Morgan, 21, is charged with first-degree murder in Saturday\u2019s fatal shooting of 29-year-old officer Ella French, as well as attempted murder and other charges,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/chicago-police-officers-suspected-killer-charged-first-degree-murder\">Fox News added<\/a>. \u201cHis brother, 22-year-old Eric Morgan, faces charges of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, unlawful use of a weapon by a felon and obstruction of justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Federal prosecutors have also charged an \u201cIndiana man who allegedly told investigators he was in a relationship with one of the brothers, with straw-purchasing the gun that was ultimately used to kill French,\u201d per the Tribune. The suspect gave the weapon to one of the Morgan brothers after buying it under \u201cfalse pretenses\u201d in Indiana.<\/p>\n<p>French was the first Chicago Police Officer killed in the line of duty since 2018, and the first female cop to lose her life on the job since the late 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has been largely silent on the incident since Monday, after a group of officers, standing watch over their colleague outside his hospital room, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/chicago-cops-turn-backs-on-mayor-after-female-cop-killed\">turned their back on the mayor<\/a> when she paid a visit to the recovering officer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLightfoot was given the cold shoulder by CPD rank and file about midnight Saturday at the University of Chicago Medical Center when she approached them on the 7<sup>th&nbsp;<\/sup>floor as they grappled with the shootings of two fellow officers,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/city-hall\/2021\/8\/9\/22616490\/chicago-cops-give-cold-shoulder-mayor-lori-lightfoot-hospital-ella-french\">Chicago Sun-Times<\/a> reported, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/chicago-cops-turn-backs-on-mayor-after-female-cop-killed\">per The Daily Wire<\/a>. \u201cJust moments before about 30 officers turned their backs on the mayor, Lightfoot tried to talk to the male officer\u2019s father, who himself is a retired Chicago police officer. He clearly wanted nothing to do with Lightfoot, according to two sources who were there. The father excoriated the mayor and blamed her for what had happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brown said that investigators do not yet know why Officer Ella French and her partner pulled over an SUV on Chicago\u2019s south side Friday night around 9 pm.Body came footage &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-629923","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\/629923","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=629923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629923\/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=629923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}