Although this is not the direct responsibility of Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (Lori Lightfoot), she was criticized along with Chicago Police Department officials for her disgraceful treatment of a fallen police officer and her comrades-in-arms.
On August 7, Chicago police officer Ella French and her partner conducted a night traffic stop in the notorious Englewood District. This is an area full of gang competition and car shooting. There were three people in the parked car. One (or more) of them opened fire on Officer French and her partner. The French died on the spot, and her partner was in the hospital, fighting for his life.
French, 29, has been a CPD officer since 2018. She is the fifth woman to die in the line of duty in CPD history and the first woman in 20 years.
From Chicago Sun Times:
The Chicago police were dissatisfied with the reform policy of Mayor Lori Lightfoot, and they also pointed their anger at the second in command of the Chicago Police Department.
First Deputy Sheriff Eric Carter angered the officers who gathered at the Cook County Forensic Examiner’s Office on Saturday night to say a final farewell to their killed colleague Ella French.
Ignoring a sacred ceremony, Carter announced impatiently: “We don’t have 20 minutes to do this–.” He asked the Chicago Fire Department ambulance to take French’s body directly to the forensic office, skipping the Emerald Society. Traditional bagpipe playing.
“We are not waiting for the bagpipes. Keep driving the car in,” Carter said in the recording.
“Keep it in. Don’t stop.”
I just want to say that for a long time, for political gain, we have been overwhelmed by empty symbolism, so that most of us cannot understand the importance of true symbolism and ritual behavior, and why they are important. It seems to be the deputy sheriff. Carter couldn’t understand this weight.
Gary McCarthy, the former Chicago Police Department, said that the long-standing ceremony related to the death of a Chicago police officer on duty was “sacred.” He said that for the department’s second-in-command, ignoring it is not only a blasphemy, but also an “unforgivable” insult to the ordinary officials assigned by Carter.
“When Cliff Lewis was killed and his fiancée came to the hospital, I took her to another room, had her sit down and explained to her what happened. And she completely lost it. When I said losing it At times, she was basically rolling around on the floor,” McCarthy said Tuesday.
“Do you know what I did? I rolled with her in the emergency room of Christ Hospital, trying to catch her and comfort her. The sensitivity of an officer who was killed. The treatment of the family. The treatment of the body. It’s a bit sacred. “
When asked about Carter’s order to speed up the process, McCarthy said: “There is always enough time. Let’s put it this way. If we have to wait two or three days, I will do it.”
Local WTTW reporter Heather Cherone wrote on Twitter:
Mayor Lori Lightfoot stated that the decision not to allow the honor guard/bagpipe to appear in the morgue after Officer Ella French was shot was due to the COVID-19 protocol made by the forensic doctor, not the decision made by the first officer Eric Carter.
-Heather Cherone (@HeatherCherone) August 11, 2021
Really? COVID agreement? This is after millions of people gathered for the Lara Paloosa Festival throughout the weekend. But will the bagpipe parade violate the agreement? Lightfoot continues to lose credibility, largely due to untrustworthy comments like this one.
Officials have also developed new anger at the mayor, which has exacerbated the contempt she has been served by ordinary people.
Lightfoot caused the Frenchman’s death at a traffic stop in West Englewood on Saturday night, and her partner faced her own political opposition after she shot and killed a man in a stopped car.
The mayor has been repeatedly told that the injured officer’s father, who is also a retired Chicago police officer, does not want her to stay on the floor of the University of Chicago Medical Center, where his son is being treated in the intensive care unit. But Lightfoot ignored his wishes and was abused by his father.
Soon after, Lightfoot walked out of the corridor and suffered the final insult.Officials gathered to pray for French and her injured partner Betray the mayor When she approached.
