{"id":637106,"date":"2021-08-12T12:36:53","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T16:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=637106"},"modified":"2021-08-12T12:36:54","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T16:36:54","slug":"lori-lightfoot-claims-covid-regulations-prevented-tribute-for-fallen-chicago-cop-thats-not-true-medical-examiner-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lori-lightfoot-claims-covid-regulations-prevented-tribute-for-fallen-chicago-cop-thats-not-true-medical-examiner-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Lori Lightfoot Claims COVID Regulations Prevented Tribute For Fallen Chicago Cop. That\u2019s Not True, Medical Examiner Says."},"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\">34<\/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%2Flori-lightfoot-claims-covid-regulations-prevented-tribute-for-fallen-chicago-cop-thats-not-true-medical-examiner-says%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=637106&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\/07\/GettyImages-1331487265.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot claimed that the body of fallen Chicago Police Officer Ella French did not receive the CPD\u2019s traditional bagpipe tribute because the musical performance would have violated the city\u2019s COVID-19 restrictions. The Chicago Sun-Times reported Thursday that that is simply not true: French was denied the traditional honor by a deputy superintendent who refused to allow massed officers to perform the ritual.<\/p>\n<p>French was killed in an exchange of gunfire that resulted from a traffic stop last Friday. Her partner was critically wounded and remains in intensive care at the University of Chicago medical center. Two occupants of the vehicle the pair of officers stopped have been arrested, and one is charged with first-degree murder in French\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday night, the Sun-Times reports, officers gathered&nbsp;\u201cat the Cook County medical examiner\u2019s office to give their slain colleague, Ella French, a final send-off,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/crime\/2021\/8\/10\/22619118\/ella-french-grieving-chicago-police-officers-direct-anger-cpd-second-in-command\">according to the Chicago Sun-Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, they were waved off by a deputy superintendent who told officers that \u201cwe don\u2019t have time for this s***,\u201d in reference to the 20-minute tribute.<\/p>\n<p id=\"dUA5uT\">\u201cIgnoring a sacred ritual, [First Deputy Police Supt. Eric] Carter impatiently declared: \u2018We don\u2019t have 20 minutes for this s***.\u201d He demanded the Chicago Fire Department ambulance bearing French\u2019s body be taken directly into the medical examiner\u2019s office, skipping the Emerald Society\u2019s traditional playing of bagpipes,\u201d the Sun-Times noted, based on a recording of the incident. \u201c\u2018We\u2019re not waiting on the bagpipes. Go ahead and get the vehicle inside.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"Ql599k\">\u201cTake it all the way inside. Do not stop,\u201d Carter can be heard saying.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot claimed when asked about the incident, that Carter did not make the decision, but that the outdoor bagpipe tribute was, instead, limited by COVID-19 protocols.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMayor Lori Lightfoot says the decision not to allow the honor guard\/bagpipes at the morgue after the shooting death of Officer Ella French was due to COVID-19 protocols set by the medical examiner, and it was not a decision made by First Deputy Eric Carter,\u201d a reporter for Chicago\u2019s public television network, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HeatherCherone\/status\/1425491311579312132?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1425491311579312132%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitchy.com%2Fgregp-3534%2F2021%2F08%2F12%2Fit-appears-that-mayor-lightfoot-lied-when-she-said-covid-protocols-prevented-bagpipes-to-honor-murdered-officer-ella-french%2F\">WTTW noted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Cook County Medical Examiner, however, responded just a short time later, contradicting Lightfoot\u2019s explanation, and pointing out that COVID-19 protocols have not changed on the matter of outdoor bagpipe tributes, and that the tribute for French would have been appropriate and within pandemic regulations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Medical Examiner\u2019s Office contradicts Mayor Lightfoot\u2019s claim that COVID protocols prevented bagpipers from playing to honor Officer French Saturday night,\u201d a reporter for WGN who spoke to the ME\u2019s office said on social media<\/p>\n<p>In their statement, the Medical Examiner noted that&nbsp;\u201c[p]rotocols for processions at the Cook County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office have not changed since the pandemic began. First responders have always gathered in the office parking lot and dock to pay respects to fallen police officers and firefighters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEarly Sunday morning, police officers gathered in the parking and dock area as usual and bagpipers accompanied the body of Officer Ella French through the parking lot to the dock. At no time did personnel from the Medical Examiner\u2019s Office try to impede officers or bagpipers,\u201d the office said.<\/p>\n<p>Lightfoot has not responded, though social media commentators quickly pointed out that applying an outdoor music protocol to a bagpipe tribute for an officer killed in the line of duty seems to fly in the face of Lightfoot\u2019s own approach to outdoor performances. Lightfoot attended the outdoor, mega-festival Lollapalooza just days after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) refined their COVID-19 guidelines, suggesting a much stricter approach to masking and gathering in light of the Delta variant\u2019s spread.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShould have given one of the musicians at Lolla a set of bagpipes,\u201d one commenter said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"css-1dbjc4n\">\n<div id=\"id__ygu5bw2ehmq\" class=\"css-1dbjc4n\" aria-labelledby=\"id__ew9e9tabjqd id__zzzkk8nzmt\">\n<div class=\"css-1dbjc4n r-1s2bzr4\">\n<div id=\"id__ew9e9tabjqd\" class=\"css-1dbjc4n\"><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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