Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is becoming “hypocritical” by allowing the Chicago Police Department to prevent protesters from demonstrating on the block where she lives, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie LeDuff told The Story Friday.
“In a way, I understand. She’s scared,” LeDuff told host Martha MacCallum. “Indeed, however, you have a responsibility to us to explain the nature of these threats so that we can assess the need for them. Two – I mentioned my people in the Chicago branch of Chicago – you have cops in your house, you have them outside your house.To expand that [perimeter] out is to pull politicians out of that district so that everyone gets less, so in a way it is hypocritical.
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“You have an 80% approval rating, and yet you feel coveted by a really growing minority … I just think at this point, it’s just not credible. You took the job. You must not leave the world like the rest of us want exactly what you want. We want the police to respond to us. We want professional police to protect us, and if you do, we do not have that. So, I think it’s up to Chicago to address it. packs, but if it had to be done in Detroit, the man would laugh out of town, ‘he said.
Host Martha MacCallum said the furor reminded her of when Lightfoot defended making a trip to a hair salon while Chicago was in order-to-home orders because of the coronavirus pandemic in April by saying it was the ‘public face’ of this city. ‘ m on national media and I’m out in the public eye. “
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“You need to know when you’re a public figure in this country, you need to live like the rest of us. You do,” LeDuff said. “Are you on TV? Put on a hat.”
