Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot pleads with
AG Merrick Garland to send ATF agents
to city after more than 760 murders this
year - a 25-year high: Just one year after
she proposed CUTTING $80M from police budget
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Melissa Koenig
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
12/21/2021 1:57:10 PM
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot pleaded with Attorney General Merrick Garland on Monday to send Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents to the city for six months after the city reaches a 25-year high in the number of murders. The woke mayor announced at a news conference in Garfield Park on Monday that she made a formal request to Garland to send ATF agents to Chicago for six months, a well as more federal prosecutors and federal marshals to help get illegal guns off the streets. This comes after the democrat proposed slashing $80 million from the Chicago Police Department budget in 2020 during 'defund the police' protests.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
stablemoney 12/21/2021 2:04:00 PM (No. 1014529)
Chicago is your job, Lori.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
FJB 12/21/2021 2:08:57 PM (No. 1014533)
The Magic Bug-Eyed Nigress finally admits to a self-inflicted wound. Nice work, sweet cheeks.
31 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
66Strat 12/21/2021 2:11:54 PM (No. 1014538)
I am certain that Chicago PD could easily solve it if only allowed to do their jobs.
37 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 12/21/2021 2:17:39 PM (No. 1014545)
She always looks so…charming.
21 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
Northcross 12/21/2021 2:22:25 PM (No. 1014554)
She wants help to get the guns off the streets. I want the murdering thugs off the streets.
27 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
Edgelady 12/21/2021 2:22:35 PM (No. 1014555)
This is the end game of all the cities that defunded their police - to get Federal police to their cities, Federal control = Communism.
30 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 12/21/2021 2:24:15 PM (No. 1014560)
ATF? Why? Are they going to go in the streets and killing field to see if all the firearms are legally purchased and registered?
The only thing the ATF can do is go all out Waco, David Corish burning the murdering punks out they are good at doing that.
6 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
udanja99 12/21/2021 2:29:50 PM (No. 1014570)
In a sane country, Garland would tell her to pound sand.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
lakerman1 12/21/2021 2:29:54 PM (No. 1014571)
ATF acts after the fact, in most cases.
10 people like this.
Trump offered her federal agents - she told him to shove it.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
sunshinehorses 12/21/2021 2:34:59 PM (No. 1014574)
She is trying to shift the cost of policing to the feds instead of her city budget. Bet if you dig deep there is a reason for that.
21 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
thomthomp 12/21/2021 2:35:33 PM (No. 1014576)
If they ever want to do a remake of "Beetlejuice " with a black lead...
12 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
MickTurn 12/21/2021 2:39:15 PM (No. 1014581)
Hello Miss White brain sounds like you want them to come arrest you and all your thugs then go after the gangs that will solve the problem
8 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
TJ54 12/21/2021 2:39:39 PM (No. 1014584)
I used to spend thousands each year in downtown Chicago. No more because it is simply not safe
11 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
edgar 12/21/2021 2:57:39 PM (No. 1014617)
It must really suck for her to make the mea culpa that basically says, Trump was right.
15 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 12/21/2021 3:01:21 PM (No. 1014624)
The ATF isn't going to tangle with the gangs of Chicago. They much prefer less dangerous activities like framing political enemies.
22 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
bobn.t 12/21/2021 3:03:27 PM (No. 1014630)
Poor Lori,
You made it happen.
Now fix it you BLM Fool
20 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
PESSIMIST 12/21/2021 3:12:12 PM (No. 1014642)
I cannot believe that no one is pointing out the most outrageous fact-- Lightfoot demeaned and rejected an offer of extra law enforcement forces from President Trump. And was congratulated by liberals for her "brave defiance."
She and the people who elected her -- believe it or not, she was considered the moderate in the race -- can do without my tax dollars now.
17 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 12/21/2021 3:12:48 PM (No. 1014643)
Defund ATF. Defund the police. Increase funding and bail money for Antifa and BLM. Praise and encourage looters and anarchists. Do nothing and say nothing about black-on-black gun violence. Destroy Dr MLK's philosophy and increase racism as much as possible. Should work just fine.
10 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
Birddog 12/21/2021 3:19:35 PM (No. 1014650)
Stop and frisk was taking 2500 guns off Chicago streets a month, cops would step out and guns would go flying, they'd just pick them up off the ground and call that a "Win", rather than tie them to anyone in the group of individuals they stopped to talk to.
The Program/practice was "Cancelled" instead they have to fill out a 7 page form for EVERYONE they even talk to.
More than half of all Chiraq shooters AND Victims have prior gun arrests, many plea bargained away rather than tried.
Over 25% of both shooters AND Victims have more than three gun priors.
Cops and Politicians, as well as prosecutors and Judges KNOW who the bad guys are, she just wants Feds to come in now so SHE doesn't face the backlash over the "Wrong" people getting correctly convicted. Trump offered a similar deal to her was called a "Racist", he did send 13 extra fed prosecutors and encouraged local PD/Prosecutors to hand over any gun crime cases where the guns came from out of state to the Feds. Lightfoot and others have consistently blamed "Lax Gun Laws" of surrounding states for HER constituents shooting each other. Though none of those "Lax Gun Law" places have the same issues with rampant gun crime.
6 people like this.
Reply 21 - Posted by:
DVC 12/21/2021 3:24:30 PM (No. 1014657)
A friend at work also ran a small photo printing business on the side. One day I mentioned something about ATF doing such and so......and my computer nerd, totally non-gun oriented friend laughed out loud and said, "ATF! Those crazy, out of control cowboys?" I laughed, too, but more in surprise. Most average persons who aren't involved with shooting have no idea what "ATF" means, or anything about them. My friend nailed it. I asked how he came up with that view. He said that his business partner, another late twenties young man, had worked as an ATF agent for a couple of years until he decided that
he "didn't want to have anything to do with that bunch of out of control, crazy, federal cowboys".
Yeah....all true. And ATF isn't much for solving anything, they are far better at causing huge problems that others have to deal with. ATF caused both Ruby Ridge and Waco due to their showboating, violent, stupidity and incompetence.
Expecting ATF to help a crime wave is just stupid.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Roscoelewis 12/21/2021 3:24:55 PM (No. 1014658)
Putting them in prison stops the crime - anything else is wasted time and man power. If you really wish to stop the crime, you have to build prisons, police need to arrest, prosecutors need to prosecute, juries need to convict, and judges need to sentence to prison.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
DVC 12/21/2021 3:25:13 PM (No. 1014659)
How can a person look so dead when they are still alive?
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
AltaD 12/21/2021 3:50:11 PM (No. 1014695)
In her response to Trump's offer of help she said: “What we do not need, and what will certainly make our community less safe is secret, federal agents deployed to Chicago,”. Now she's begging for secret, federal agents?
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
nwcudagal 12/21/2021 3:52:25 PM (No. 1014701)
#23, She may indeed be alive but her soul is definitely dead.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
hershey 12/21/2021 3:56:56 PM (No. 1014711)
I still think she looks like a fugitive from 'The Walking Dead'....but the dead in Chi-town ain't walking no more...783 dead...
www.heyjackass.com for the latest figures...
6 people like this.
Reply 27 - Posted by:
mifla 12/21/2021 3:59:19 PM (No. 1014715)
I can't do my job. Please send help so I can keep my high paying government job.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Heraclitus 12/21/2021 4:07:48 PM (No. 1014734)
President Trump constantly offered Federal help, but the Dems' political power was and is and always will be more important to them than the welfare and lives of their constituents. Someday they'll finally get it: they are nothing to the Left. Nothing but a steppingstone to more power.
5 people like this.
Reply 29 - Posted by:
SALady 12/21/2021 4:08:24 PM (No. 1014736)
Chicago made their bed by cutting police funding.
There is not a bat's chance in Hades that the federal government (meaning your and my tax dollars) need to be bailing them out. But they knew that is exactly what would happen under the current administration, so no shock there!!!
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 12/21/2021 4:25:31 PM (No. 1014748)
Didn't President Trump offer to help her, and she turned him down?
The majority of this is happening in just a few police precinct's, and they know which one's.
And, I'll bet those same precinct's vote democrat year after year. Problem is, today's democrats aren't like democrats just 10 years ago and certainly not like those of 25 years ago.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 12/21/2021 4:41:29 PM (No. 1014766)
FJB could put 10,000 ATF agents on the streets in Chicago, and it wouldn’t do a bit of good. Why? Because the U.S. Attorney in Chicago won’t prosecute any gun crimes. Why? Because it’s not flashy and doesn’t enhance a federal attorney’s career. Besides, EVERYBODY they arrest and prosecute would be black - and a lot of them would be girlfriends and grandmothers of gangbangers, who bought guns in “straw man” purchases because their boyfriends and grandsons couldn’t pass a background check.
5 people like this.
Reply 32 - Posted by:
formerNYer 12/21/2021 4:42:05 PM (No. 1014767)
Whoever said Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice.... please take it back
4 people like this.
Reply 33 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 12/21/2021 5:02:43 PM (No. 1014794)
Lighthead, how about hire more police with orders to arrest with no questions asked. Then watch your crime rate to drop to nothing.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
moebellini3 12/21/2021 5:18:14 PM (No. 1014809)
Complete insanity. You don't need ATF agents, what you need are prosecutors and judges who have the guts to put those thugs behind bars for life. What you need are more prisons. How does this mayor still have a job. Total incompetence.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
skacmar 12/21/2021 5:44:37 PM (No. 1014850)
Is this the same Mayor Lori Lightfoot who a little over a year ago cut the police budget? Is this the same Mayor Lori Lightfoot who a little over a year ago ridiculed Donald Trump for offering federal assistance to Chicago to help with their soaring murder and shooting rates? Is this the same Mayor Lori Lightfoot who, when offered federal assistance, and turned it down said that it would just make the streets of Chicago even more dangerous? How did all of that work out for the City of Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot? How does it feel to be wrong so much? The city's current problems fall squarely on YOUR POOR CHOICES AND DECISIONS. Lori Lightfoot's choices and decisions have had dire consequences for the city.
5 people like this.
Reply 36 - Posted by:
lakerman1 12/21/2021 6:16:22 PM (No. 1014878)
The mayor looks like one of the minor characters from True Blood.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
rochow 12/21/2021 8:02:20 PM (No. 1014966)
Police should be sent in to remove this brainless Lighthead. The murders are all on her account!
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How many times have we learned that serious criminals had multiple arrests for illegal gun possession? The ATF won't help a bit when the root problem is that Democrats love to enact gun laws but hate to prosecute and jail their constituents for violating theml
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