{"id":637814,"date":"2021-08-12T16:06:58","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T20:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=637814"},"modified":"2021-08-12T16:07:01","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T20:07:01","slug":"lori-lightfoot-attacks-nasty-vicious-talk-media-after-being-asked-about-chicago-cops-turning-their-backs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lori-lightfoot-attacks-nasty-vicious-talk-media-after-being-asked-about-chicago-cops-turning-their-backs\/","title":{"rendered":"Lori Lightfoot Attacks \u2018Nasty, Vicious Talk,\u2019 Media After Being Asked About Chicago Cops Turning Their Backs"},"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\">32<\/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-attacks-nasty-vicious-talk-media-after-being-asked-about-chicago-cops-turning-their-backs%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=637814&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-1228565959.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot attacked the media and \u201cnasty, vicious talk\u201d on social platforms after being asked about a weekend incident that saw Chicago Police Officers, standing vigil over a wounded colleague, turn their backs on Lightfoot during a visit to University of Chicago medical center.<\/p>\n<p>Lightfoot has faced harsh criticism in the days since Chicago Police Officer Ella French was shot and killed during a traffic stop on Chicago\u2019s south side. French\u2019s partner, who was also wounded, remains in critical condition at the University of Chicago. Two brothers \u2014 two of the three occupants of the vehicle French and her partner pulled over \u2014 have been arrested and charged with crimes related to the incident. One of the suspects, Emonte Morgan, is charged with first-degree murder.<\/p>\n<p>Journalists cornered Lightfoot during a press conference on the city\u2019s budget, but Lightfoot took the opportunity to berate reporters for their ineptitude rather than answer questions about French\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about the incident where a dozen police officers turned their backs on Lightfoot when she showed up to visit French\u2019s partner, who was reportedly shot in the head, Lightfoot called reporting on the incident \u201csickening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are living in&nbsp;a time where&nbsp;people don\u2019t respect each other,\u201d Lightfoot snapped.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLarger than that is this moment where people feel like it is their right to spew hatred at everyone that they don\u2019t agree with or make fun and mock, usually anonymously and cowardly from social media, not confronting somebody directly and talking to them, but using the power of the pen and the keyboard to just spew unbelievable hate,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n<p>She then called discussion around the subject, \u201cnasty, vicious talk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo this is a larger question than what may have happened with 10 or 15 officers on Saturday night. It\u2019s why do we think it is OK for people to engage in such nasty, vicious talk, orally or worse, on social media, and then have it repeated by media as if it is fact and true,\u201d Lightfoot raved.<\/p>\n<p>She then called the media, \u201csickening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think our media plays a very important role in our democracy, but you lose me, you lose me when it\u2019s a race to the bottom and it\u2019s all about the fight and it\u2019s all about the conflict,\u201d Lightfoot said. \u201cI\u2019ve got to tell you, some of the reporting I\u2019ve seen this week is just sickening. We all need to ask ourselves what we can do better to show our people everywhere that we have the capacity to be human beings again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The aggressive questioning, though, failed to subside. After Lightfoot finished opining on the media\u2019s coverage of the CPD hospital incident, she was triggered into another tirade by a reporter asking whether she\u2019d like to clarify her statement on why French did not receive a traditional bagpipe tribute. Lightfoot claimed, earlier, that the tribune ran afoul of COVID-19 restrictions. The city\u2019s medical examiner\u2019s office said there were no such regulations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reporting on that is just not true,\u201d Lightfoot responded. \u201cIt\u2019s not true.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She then defended Deputy Superintendent Eric Carter, who is accused of nixing the tribute because of time constraints \u2014 an allegation Lightfoot labeled, \u201cpropaganda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEric Carter made the right call. I support what he did,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd I\u2019m horrified that in this moment, people are trying to savage him for whatever agenda or purpose.&nbsp;And I would just caution you all. Be careful. Be careful. Check your sources,\u201d she added, apparently referring to a recording of Carter sent to media. \u201cMake sure they\u2019re accurate. Get the right context. Because I know firsthand, it\u2019s really hard when the media becomes ferocious in propagating a story that\u2019s just not true.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lightfoot reserved her harshest rhetoric for the final question from a reporter who asked whether Lightfoot had barreled her way into the hospital to visit the wounded Chicago police officer, despite indications that CPD\u2019s rank and file were unhappy with how she had handled law enforcement issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not going to respond to that,\u201d Lightfoot snapped before continuing.&nbsp;\u201cI don\u2019t force my way anywhere. And that\u2019s offensive, frankly, that you would ask me that question. I just sat here and talked about the fact that we\u2019ve got to be really careful and you have to be really careful in your reporting and be responsible. And you just keep lobbing this nonsense that\u2019s offensive and insulting and really does a disservice to the moment that we\u2019re in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat else are you&nbsp;going&nbsp;to mine from the bottom of the chum barrel?\u201d she raved. \u201cCome on. You\u2019re better than that. You\u2019re better than that. You\u2019re better than that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chicago police reportedly continue to be incensed by the city\u2019s handling of French\u2019s death. On Thursday, news broke that a third man, charged \u2014 by the federal government \u2014 of supplying the two brothers involved in French\u2019s murder with a gun purchased in Indiana under false pretenses, was released on a $4500 bond.<\/p>\n<p><i>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 <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.&nbsp;<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot attacked the media and \u201cnasty, vicious talk\u201d on social platforms after being asked about a weekend incident that saw Chicago Police Officers, standing vigil over a &#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-637814","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\/637814","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=637814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637814\/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=637814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}