[ April 22, 2024 ]
Right, but YOU don’t have the same right to a safe and secure home. My Gd, the hubris!~
Hunchback can’t see her own hunch.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot defends ban on protesters on her block: ‘I have a right to make sure that my home is secure
By: MSN, August 20, 2020:
Story continues below advertisementMayor Lori Lightfoot defended the Chicago Police Department’s ban on protesters being able to demonstrate on the block where she lives, telling reporters Thursday that she and her family at times require heightened security because of threats she receives daily.
a group of people wearing costumes: Some protesters hold umbrellas while facing off with police near Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s home in Logan Square on July 23, 2020. © Armando L. Sanchez / Chicago Tribune/Chicago Tribune/TNS Some protesters hold umbrellas while facing off with police near Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s home in Logan Square on July 23, 2020.Lightfoot refused to elaborate on the specific threats, but said she receives them daily against herself, her wife and her home. Comparisons to how the Police Department has protected previous mayors’ homes, such as Rahm Emanuel’s Ravenswood residence, are unfair because “this is a different time like no other,” Lightfoot told reporters.
“I think that residents of this city, understanding the nature of the threats that we are receiving on a daily basis, on a daily basis, understand I have a right to make sure that my home is secure,” Lightfoot said.
Lightfoot and Chicago police Superintendent David Brown were asked at an unrelated news conference about a Tribune report noting police have banned protesters from demonstrating on her block in the Logan Square neighborhood, ordering officers to arrest anyone who refuses to leave.
The directive surfaced in a July email from then-Shakespeare District Cmdr. Melvin Roman to officers under his command. It did not distinguish between the peaceful protesters Lightfoot regularly says she supports and those who might intend to be destructive, but ordered that after a warning is given to demonstrators, “It should be locked down.”
Activists and police sources could not cite instances when the city repeatedly locked down her predecessor Emanuel’s block against protesters. The Kenwood block where former President Barack Obama lived with his family when his primary residence was in Chicago was shut down for access only by residents after his election.
But Lightfoot said such comparisons “don’t make any sense,” after Brown referenced the ongoing coronavirus pandemic as well as civil unrest that have flared since the George Floyd killing at the hands of Minneapolis police.
“I’m not going to make any excuses for the fact that, given the threats I have personally received, given the threats to my home and my family, I’m going to do everything I can to make sure they’re protected,” Lightfoot said. “I make no apologies whatsoever for that.”
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Since the order, and even for a time just prior to its writing, Chicago cops have repeatedly blocked protesters’ access to the block with groups of officers and barricades. Police have often kept protesters contained at the nearby corner of Kimball and Wrightwood avenues, though one standoff between activists and officers last month saw police go as far as bringing in an armored vehicle in case things got out of hand.
Aside from the expanded police presence to block protesters from reaching her home, Lightfoot already receives 24/7 protection from cops including officers stationed at the residence. The aggressive policing has sometimes siphoned away resources from the area’s police district, some sources with knowledge of the situation said, leading to quiet grumbling.
Both Lightfoot and Brown noted there are laws on the books banning residential protests, but Brown acknowledged the Police Department does not always enforce them. Brown said the city tries to give “wiggle room” for protesters.
Brown also cited instances where peaceful protests have been “hijacked” by agitators as reason for keeping demonstrators off Lightfoot’s block.
“We have seen very peaceful First Amendment protests for the most part but embedded in each of those protests have been very violent people. And they’re embedded. They put up umbrellas. And they come for a fight,” Brown said. “So we have to prepare for what we’ve seen.”
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113 Comments
3 years ago
This is of utterly no surprise at all. None.
3 years ago
Reply to
tigertmoore
Of course not, don’t the plebs realise she is better than them? A veritable legend in her own lunch time.
3 years ago
Reply to
Trevor Fortune
she is democrat slave owner . she has right to protect herself . slaves have no such right .
They just vote for them !
3 years ago
Reply to
tigertmoore
“I have a right to make sure that my home is secure”
How about the rest of us?
We all have inalienable right to be secure in our homes and everywhere we go.
3 years ago
Reply to
VTS
no, we don`t. not quite so much,any more. Now, don`t mis-understand, I agree with you. We do have that right, but unless it is honored by our benevolent leaders, that right is null&void. They will not honor it unless we do.We have to remind them constantly that our government is of the people,and by the people. We are their boss and we have to act like it. Otherwise,we become subjects.
3 years ago
Reply to
VTS
no, we don`t. not quite so much,any more. Now, don`t mis-understand, I agree with you. We do have that right, but unless it is honored by our benevolent leaders, that right is null&void. They will not honor it unless we do.We have to remind them constantly that our government is of the people,and by the people. We are their boss and we have to act like it. Otherwise,we become subjects.
3 years ago
Reply to
VTS
I remember many years ago when notorious anti-gunner evil Barbra Boxer was discovered to have a secret CCW in CA and when confronted she said “well I am a famous person I need one”. But of course. How expected of the elite. Rules for thee and not for me. Of course.
3 years ago
What a hypocrite.
3 years ago
EVERYONE has the right to be and feel secure in their home.
Not just black “mayors” who don’t give a $h!t about how many other blacks get murdered every week in the $h!th0le of a city she “manages”.
ALL LIVES MATTER when it comes to feeling safe and secure.
Knock of the bs and protect the people you’re “supposed to” represent.
In the real world, you’d be fired for poor job performance. No one needs to keep paying your way.
3 years ago
Reply to
Thurston Howell III
And we are in non-libturd controlled areas. Carry 24/7 and you’ll have no worries.
3 years ago
scumbag !!!!!!!!!!!!!
3 years ago
ZOMBIE Lori Lightintheloafers.
3 years ago
Reply to
whoselineisitanyway
ZOMBIE STRANGE but my exact thought about this disgusting freak also she needs to be gone .
3 years ago
LMAO!!!! And the moronic libturd iditos have no clue that the POS mayor feels she is entitled to security but not the taxpayers in chicagostan! Keep voting for that moron you idiot libturds!
3 years ago
The creature from the Black Lagoon is really something.
3 years ago
What, yo mean Lori dun wan her hood burn down? But, but Lori. What about their right to protest??!!!
3 years ago
security for me but not for thee
3 years ago
Why are the cops, she has crapped on, protecting her?
…Oh, I forgot. The hypocrite cops are protecting their pensions.
3 years ago
Reply to
CharlieSeattle
Never forget that when the SHTF the “just following orders” guys are not going to be your friends. They will follow orders to take you down just as they follow orders to protect your rulers and not you.
I am not against police or law and order. I am in favor of both….up to the point when they stop enforcing the law equally because a Mayor Lightfoot tells them to go easy on rioters & let them destroy your property and harm you while protecting her. When they follow a mayor’s orders to arrest people for defending themselves and their property then you know who they’re going to be looking out for when things get really nasty. And it will not be you.
3 years ago
Reply to
CharlieSeattle
they are not there to protect you, or your property, or your family. they’re there to protect the system. and when folks find out how badly they’ve been screwed by “the system” and the animals that run it; they’re going to be VERY busy
3 years ago
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
~ A proclamation by the pigs who control the government in the novel Animal Farm, by George Orwell.
3 years ago
Reply to
CharlieSeattle
You beat me to it, I added her/it’s picture at the top, our brains think alike!
3 years ago
Reply to
RebelFred
Do we drink the same Whiskey? Chilled, No Ice!
https://www.totalwine.com/spirits/liqueurs-cordials-schnapps/irish-mist/p/3692750
3 years ago
Only Demoncrat politicians have rights 🙂
3 years ago
…but not for businesses in Chicago, right Mayor?
…but not for any other families in the area, right Mayor?
CHICAGO: You NEED to run your Mayor out of the City.
….yeah, I know….I got the city wrong the 1st time, but we all know who this fool as Mayor is and where she is.
3 years ago
The criminals know Lightfoot’s a Lightweight. They smell blood.
3 years ago
Reply to
Worsethanitlooks
The bigger point: SHE deserves protection, nobody else in Chicago does. Is there any better definition of a totalitarian dictator?
3 years ago
Another democrat in a position of authority with an IQ in double digits.
3 years ago
Reply to
QuinnTG
Lol, that many???
Doesn’t that make her a genius on the dhimmicrat scale of intelligence?
3 years ago
BigFoot will make a better Mayor. Can’t wait the next Chicago mayor election
3 years ago
And how many people where shot in Chicago last weekend? Bet they wanted to feel safe in their neighborhood to right Lori? But then, they didn’t have a police force to protect them or their homes and families.
3 years ago
I think it’s funny. But sad she hasn’t been removed from office either.
3 years ago
What a coincidence, I have that same right. It is called the Second Amendment .
It is better to have a gun and not need it than to need a gun and not have it.
Be safe, be trained, be alert.
3 years ago
Just another corrupt,criminally incompetent only there because someone said “diversity”. That seems to be the one credential you need nowadays. Goodbye meritocracy! That is, if it ever existed.
3 years ago
Her wife….(gagging noises). What a repulsive, revolting, dopey creature this is. The residents of Chicago need protection from her not the other way around. Talk about far exceeding the limits of one’s capabilities.
3 years ago
Rug muncher!
3 years ago
And the turds in Chicago will vote for her again and again and again. They DESERVE what they get. NO SYMPATHY!
3 years ago
“Rights for me, and none for thee”
The motto of the Democratic Party.
It’s always been their motto, just now they don’t even try to hide it anymore.
3 years ago
Bettlejuice insisted she had every right to get her hair done when the rest of Chicago was locked in their homes for the China Virus hysteria. Getting her hair done did not help her look any better.
3 years ago
I wonder what the alleged threats were, or who sent them. Would it be from citizens demanding that she fully fund the police? Citizens demanding something be done about the “peaceful protestors” who are no less than looters and rioters? How about people demanding that their streets and homes be made safe by the mayor?
3 years ago
“Her wife”, eh? Depraved filthy pervert.
Look for more of the same rioting, random assaults and murders here in the USA unless and until we repent and turn back to the Lord. We have free will-you want Satan? You may have him!
3 years ago
Reply to
Kathy Brown, Esq.
You have to wonder what the people there were thinking when they voted for her…..not a place I would want to live or do business.
3 years ago
Reply to
ladywarrior
that’s easy…” we’re so enlightened, cosmopolitan, edgy, progressive, superior to all those rubes in flyover country. do you new York will notice? they just have a communist. WE have a black lesbian communist. that’ll show them who’s the 2nd city”
3 years ago
Reply to
ladywarrior
Beats the heck outta me Lady!
But it’s the same explanation, I’m thinking, as that which shows how/why DeBlasio and AOC were elected. Also think of it: Pres. Trump comes from Queens NYC, and AOC represents part of that borough too. That was my borough and it used to be Italian/Irish heavily Catholic homeowners living the dream. But I haven’t been back in more than 20 yrs; God knows who’s there now.
I can tell you that these 2 lunatics were elected by a very small turnout, but one which was highly motivated (illegals, “immigrants”, and really stupid white-guilted idiots).
3 years ago
Reply to
Kathy Brown, Esq.
Remember when Rush Limbaugh said that “liberalism was the only path to political power for ugly women. This is prima facie evidence of that “undeniable truth of life.” But wait, there’s more! 
3 years ago
Reply to
Radman414
I have been noticing that the vast majority of “females” at Democratic Demonstrations or Rallies against Trump are women I do not wish to see naked, however the women Of The Right is another thing entirely… Smart and sexy is a great combo and these Libtards just dont have it whatsoever.
3 years ago
Mayor Lori Lightfoot defends ban on protesters on her block: ‘I have a right to make sure that my home is secure”.
Mayor Lezzzbo McBullDyyyke has a right to make sure that she and her WIFE are feeling safe at home, especially when laying carpet late at night. The rest of you, especially all y’all white peoples…..an’ what da hell–all you black folk, too….you ain’ got no rights neitherz….nunz at ALLz…..
3 years ago
Mayor Lori Lightfoot defends ban on protesters on her block: ‘I have a right to make sure that my home is secure”.
Mayor Lezzzbo McBullDyyyke has a right to make sure that she and her WIFE are feeling safe at home, especially when laying carpet late at night. The rest of you, especially all y’all white peoples…..an’ what da hell–all you black folk, too….you ain’ got no rights neitherz….nunz at ALLz…..
3 years ago
What about everybody else’s?
3 years ago
Reply to
arthur facteau
Lori has achieved the highest form of life – i.e. being a tranny. That’s the Great Work of the freemasons. The rest of us are all scum in their eyes. Keep voting for the trans madness – just look where it got you now, imagine how great it will be in the future, lol.
3 years ago
Reply to
CNN sucks!
HA! Couldn’t in your wildest get me to vote for something like that! :)! Nasty piece of work that one is, gotta tell ya, grew up in Jersey, left when I was 18, was a shithole then way worse now, will be 58 in October, and never looked back once. That’s how I feel about people like that and voting for them. They deserve what they get, and more people need to get off their backsides and get out and vote!
3 years ago
Reply to
arthur facteau
There are so many of them – almost every mayor, governor like Herr Whitmer, its insane. Sorry, I did not intend to mean you Arthur. You are quite right that people must get off their backsides and vote instead of leaving everything to chance. Good on yer for leaving then, all the best to you Sir, from South Africa.
3 years ago
Reply to
CNN sucks!
Hey, no problem, I know you didn’t mean me. I took no offense. You’re so right about Whitmer! She has no future in politics though, she will never get voted in to anything ever again, not even dogcatcher, pretty sure the people of that state will get rid of her next voting cycle.
Take care of yourself there in S.A., I understand it’s rather dangerous there.
3 years ago
Reply to
arthur facteau
Great, thanks for your reply. Yeah, Devil keeps trying to kill me, just can’t seem to get it right, he’s such a loser, lol. I walk with Psalm 23 in my heart and mind, kept me going for 62 years already, made my faith even stronger. My prayers to all you good folks there in America.
3 years ago
Reply to
CNN sucks!
I hear you brother, he’s tried to take my wind a few times, but still here. Been knowing for a long time now that I’m here for a reason, that God wants me to do something, and not dying until I do it. Have no idea what that it, might be something really small, and might never even know I’ve done it, but not gonna go anywhere until I do it. Not stressing it, either,when the time comes it comes, same as it is for us all.
Known for a long time the Rapture would be in my lifetime, but that I would be an old man when that time came, and old man I’m getting to be, so it’s coming soon I’m thinking, and brother, as far as I’m concerned, it can’t come soon enough to suite me. I’ve seen enough, and the more i see of this world, the less I want to be in it.
Stay strong brother, stay vigilant, the enemy is always waiting for you to slip. Be that watchman on the wall, look out for others, be their strength when you can. Prayers with you man!
3 years ago
Reply to
arthur facteau
Amen brother, we can face the coming storm sheltered under the protective arms of our loving Father. Every day is a new challenge to be a better person in the name of Yeshua, than I was the day before.
3 years ago
Reply to
CNN sucks!
Let’s all be thankful that pair can’t actually breed!!!
I’ve never seen anything so fugly and vomit inducing in my life!
3 years ago
Reply to
evangeline golding
….and it is appearance…but the appearance is made far worse when you see the evil they believe and practice.
These are examples our kids see ….and then sadly immolate.
We HAVE TO START GETTING BETTER EXAMPLES FOR OUR KIDS!!!
3 years ago
Reply to
evangeline golding
Actually, they do “breed”, by “transforming” people starting in our schools, colleges, etc…where they call trannys and Lesbians, etc as normal and actually promote becoming them. Now, taxpayers pay for their sex change surgery, sex change medications and now child adoptions for perversive conversions!
All part of the liberal democrat “transformation of America” goals.
3 years ago
Reply to
John Roberts
I have to admit, I hadn’t thought of that.
I was thinking about them being unable to to reproduce together, not what they do to kids in the cities.
Thankyou for the grim reminder of the whole story.
3 years ago
Reply to
evangeline golding
Slow Loris Monkey with the big round eyes is Mayor of ChiCongo.
https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/slow-loris-monkey-laurie-little-big-1423157492
3 years ago
“The medium is the message ” is a phrase coined by Marshall McLuhan.
One need look no further than this sentence, which was not intended to provoke, nor to be read with discomfort – to get as good as a sense as any why society is unraveling:
“Lightfoot refused to elaborate on the specific threats, but said she receives them daily against herself, her wife and her home.”
3 years ago
Reply to
Michael Garfinkel
Facts do NOT matter to her, only that the narrative be swallowed by the “useful idiots” who elected however she identifies.
3 years ago
Lori pretends to be a lesbian, but he’s actually a tranny. Most of them are. So, why do you trust someone who cannot even be honest about what they are, as a mayor? Surely, surely, Americans are smarter than that!
3 years ago
burn her house down.
3 years ago
Reply to
blackfeather
No, WHITE LIVES MATTER.
No better way to get this b*t*ch to haemorrhage herself to death.
3 years ago
Her reasoning is all you need to know about the totalitarian mentality.
3 years ago
I see – but all us white folk don’t – i see –
3 years ago
well played
3 years ago
Just as ant Soviet oligarch would ct
3 years ago
@SuperintendantDavidBrown don’t let @MayorLightfoot schmooze you with BS. Your PD under your command are being used as private security for her at the expense of availability for the citizens of Chicago who pay taxes (a lot of taxes) to have Police protection. Don’t forget what the esto hire private security. This despite all the Corporate Taxes and Property Taxes they pay not to mention payroll taxes and a million and one other Chicago schemes to fatten the pot at city hall. Now Mayor Lightfoot feels that the Police are her own Pretorian Guard. You @DavidBrown are going along with it as a Yes man at the expense of hard working Chicagoans, SHAME! Ditch this Mayor for someone who cares about ALL Chicagoan and less about herself, her own community, her own Race and stop pointing fingers. Soon this City won’t have a tax base. Building will be vacant, Businesses, Professionals, Millionaires, and anyone with commonsense will have have left Chicago and Illinois for a more fair minded tax structured and socially cohesive State.
3 years ago
Chicago ,Where in the last election 91% of the Latin Voters voted for Mrs Dracula , Now they’re crying that a majority of their businesses have been burnt down and destroyed.Chicago has become a Typical Democratic rat hole that is $61 billion in the hole and is bankrupt. No institution is touching their municipal Bonds .What even more pathetic is that Lori Lighbrain makes $230,000 a year , What they don’t tell you is that she will
Easily make another $200,000 in bonuses plus travel expenses .
3 years ago
Reply to
Dave De La Rond
She should be given a 50% raise. After all, she is doing well what ChiCongo elected her to do.
3 years ago
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“All animals are equal. Some animals are more equal than others.”
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“Beatlejuice, Beatlejuice, …”
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(oh, come on man! lighten up! you know you were thinking the same thing!)
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3 years ago
I hope they take over Lighhead’s home!
3 years ago
And what about everybody else, you hypocritical b*st*rd????
They deserve protection much more than you.
If I were a police officer I would refuse to defend any of you scumbags, or your homes or families.
You wanted it, you got it!!!!
3 years ago
????????????????????????
3 years ago
What a completely self-involved criminal she is….using tax payer dollars to make her life safe and comfortable……but not the citizens who pay the taxes she accesses for herself.
If these voters keep her in…..I have no sympathy for them.
3 years ago
…she even looks evil….gag.
3 years ago
What hell she causes you peons is OK as long as she is OK. We need to create a new word to describe the level of hypocrisy. Opps! Wait a minute. Already is such a word. Democrats!
3 years ago
the arrogance of little buckwheat reaches new highs weekly. she don’t need no mask, she can go to a hairdresser but you can’t, and her property is important but yours isn’t. i believe this how the rulers in all communist countries act, and apparently the morons in chicago approve because she’ll get re-elected. welcome to mogadishu on lake michigan
3 years ago
This POS needs to go. How is it that she gets elected? Ignorance? Stupidity? Corruption? It is a true puzzle. Does she not realize that it is her responsibility to provide safety and security for all citizens of Chicago?
3 years ago
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