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Lori Lightfoot Defends Decision To Speak To Only Non-White Reporters: ‘I Would Absolutely Do It Again’

Emily Zanotti
Lori Lightfoot Defends Decision To Speak To Only Non-White Reporters: ‘I Would Absolutely Do It Again’
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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is “unapologetic” over her controversial decision to grant only non-white and female reporters interviews as part of her mid-term media blitz.

The city’s embattled mayor, who is now presiding over a record-breaking spike in crime, says she would “do it again” and that the move “spurred a very important conversation” that had been coming in the city for a long time.

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