4:55 p.m. Timid City Hall and undermanned cops turned Saturday unrest into a ‘s—tshow,’ police union president says
Saturday night was a “s—tshow” in downtown Chicago because police were undermanned and ill-equipped and City Hall was too timid to take the steps necessary to prevent rioting, looting and mayhem, the police union president said Wednesday.
Fraternal Order of Police President John Catanzara said curfew should have been imposed on Saturday morning — not Saturday night — and strictly enforced by impounding vehicles instead of allowing those vehicles to transport looted merchandise. The downtown area should have been sealed off Saturday morning also, he said.
Police days off should also have been canceled Saturday morning — not Sunday — and the Illinois National Guard should have been called out sooner and in far greater numbers than the 375 authorized by Gov. J.B. Pritzker at Lightfoot’s request only to control the downtown perimeter, Catanzara said.
Earlier this week, CPD Supt. David Brown pegged the number of injured officers at 132, including one officer suffering a heart attack during the mayhem.
431 Law Enforcement Officers Were Injured in the Black Lives Matter/Antifa War
ReplyDeleteWhen over 400 law enforcement officers are wounded, that’s not the aftermath of protests or even riots. That’s a war. And it’s about time that we started calling the violent leftist mobs burning and looting their way from one end of the country to the other by their rightful name. The enemy.
My family and me will never ever vote Democrat again.
ReplyDeleteHas anyone heard of any Democrats condemning the all looting and rioting? Hello O'Shea?
ReplyDeleteFor all of the good that Matt does, and he does a lot. For instance he was at Kean Gas the other day helping out after they got broken into,Kean was way ahead of them though and had everything pretty much packed up and out of store. I digress. Matt does a lot of good however you are correct he needs to openly start to criticize this crap and he doesn't. Still my major gripe with Matt, he is and has been an automatic Pro vote for every Mayor he's served under
DeleteWell said southside tony.....
DeleteWhatever preparations needed for riot and looting should have been prepared long ago or certainly by Thursday and operational by Thursday or Friday the latest. ☹️
ReplyDeleteMy compliments to the new head of FOP Catanzara. You told the truth about that lefty boy that allowed millions of dollars of property to be destroyed and countless of honorable Police Officers to be overwhelmed and injured for no reason. Screw him.
ReplyDeleteHey Catanzara! That was a good start. Keep it up. You have no idea how many members of the silent majority have your back. Let's make it very tough on the little mutant.
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