(This should come as no surprise to anyone.)

From: https://tinyurl.com/y86mqoqg (zerohedge.com)

Mayor Apologizes As Chicago Cops Caught Lounging In Congressman's Office        
              Instead Of Arresting Looters

   by Tyler Durden
   Thu, 06/11/2020 - 19:45

   Thanks to her history as a local prosecutor, many of Chicago Mayor Lori
   Lightfoot's critics during her ultimately successful campaign to succeed
   Rahm Emmanuel warned that she was "The Fraternal Order of Police's first
   choice", a reference to the powerful police union. Now, after accusing an
   alderman of being "100% full of sh*t" when he claimed that Chicago PD cops
   were ignoring looters in poorer neighborhoods in the city, Lightfoot is
   apologizing after 8 cops were caught lounging in a Democratic
   Congressman's office, making coffee and snacking on popcorn, while nearby
   neighborhoods were looted.

   The district office of US Democratic Congressman Bobby Rush - best known
   outside Illinois as the Congressman who survived a primary challenge from
   Barack Obama, who would go on to be president of the US - was looted 2
   weeks ago during the aftermath of George Floyd's murder at the hands of a
   Minneapolis police officer.

   When Rush reviewed the film from the evening, he saw 8 Chicago officers,
   including 3 supervisors, who responded to reports of the looting used his
   office as a temporary lounge, hanging out for hours drinking coffee and
   snacking on popcorn that had - according to Rush - been purchased for his
   office, according to the Chicago Tribune.

   Meanwhile, the area surrounding Rush's office at 54th Street and South
   Wentworth Avenue was looted, but the cops did nothing to stop that.

   Instead of taking the footage public on his own, Rush alerted Mayor
   Lightfoot, and the two held a joint press conference to bilaterally
   denounce the Chicago PD and promise that all the officers involved and
   their commanders would be punished - though Lightfoot stopped short of
   promising that the officers would be fired.

   Rush accused the officers of treating his office with a galling level of
   disrespect, while Lightfoot assured the assembled reporters that she and
   her staff were "enraged" by the news.

     "One was asleep on my couch in my campaign office," Rush said.

     "They even had the unmitigated gall to go and make coffee for themselves
     and make coffee for themselves and to pop popcorn, my popcorn, in my
     microwave while looters were tearing apart businesses within their sight
     and within their reach," Rush said.

     Rush brought the matter to Lightfoot's attention on Wednesday, and the
     information "enraged" her and her team, Lightfoot said.

     Lightfoot apologized to Rush during the news conference on behalf of the
     city for his office being treated "with such profound disrespect."

     "That's a personal embarrassment to me," Lightfoot said. "I'm sorry that
     you and your staff even had to deal with this incredible indignity."

   Lightfoot publicly apologized to Rush for the incident, saying ultimate
   blame for the incident "lies with me".

     Lightfoot apologized to Rush during the news conference on behalf of the
     city for his office being treated "with such profound disrespect."

     "That's a personal embarrassment to me," Lightfoot said. "I'm sorry that
     you and your staff even had to deal with this incredible indignity."

   It's particularly disrespectful when you consider that Rush was a member
   of the Black Panther Party of Illinois, a fact that lends the incident an
   unflattering racial tinge.

   As Lightfoot's popularity sags in Chicago due to her longstanding ties to
   the police, another black female former prosecutor is topping the polls to
   be Biden's VP.


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