After nearly a year-long investigation, the Chicago Police Department said the misconduct of one of its officers has been proven after he pleaded guilty to vandalizing an elderly rabbi’s car.
The news comes just days after The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chicago-pd-still-hasnt-disciplined-cop-who-pled-guilty-to-vandalizing-rabbis-car" target="_blank" rel="noopener">first reported</a> that Mohammed Khan, 35, was arrested last March after he broke the side mirrors off of the vehicle of 77-year-old Rabbi Abraham Wineberg who was visiting his granddaughter and great-grandchildren in Chicago’s West Rogers Park Neighborhood. His family believes the car was targeted because it belonged to a Jew.
“It’s quite interesting that just days after The Daily Wire published on Officer Khan’s vandalism, the Chicago Police finally took action,” Wineberg’s granddaughter’s husband, Yisroel Wolf said. “They have not been forthcoming with information over the past year, so I do not think this is a coincidence.”
Weinberg’s family received an email every few months from the Chicago Police Department’s Bureau of Internal Affairs telling him that their investigation into his complaint about Khan was still ongoing. But on Tuesday they were notified the investigation was complete, and that Khan’s misconduct had been proven.
Wolf said he called the police after receiving the email, who told him Khan had been temporarily stripped of his policing duties and will undergo an internal process to determine what action to take.
“There is an internal investigation into this, and the process remains ongoing,” a spokesperson for the Chicago Police Department told The Daily Wire. The spokesperson did not immediately give a clarification after being presented with the email sent to Wolf.
Khan was seen in surveillance footage from around 2:30 a.m. on March 3, 2024, where he first issued a parking ticket to Wineberg, who was illegally parked in Khan’s private handicapped spot, issued to accommodate Khan’s handicapped family member. Khan was off duty at the time and driving his personal vehicle.
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EXCLUSIVE: Chicago Police Officer Mohammed Khan was caught kicking an elderly rabbi’s car mirrors after issuing a ticket.
Rabbi Abraham Wineberg’s family believes he was targeted for being a Jew.
Khan pleaded guilty last year but has faced no discipline from the police force. <a href="https://t.co/XzsTeJW7MX" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/XzsTeJW7MX</a>
— Kassy Akiva (@KassyAkiva) <a href="https://twitter.com/KassyAkiva/status/1904252224361914879?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">March 24, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Footage shows Khan peering through the rear window at Jewish and Hebrew prayer books and paraphernalia. He then returned on foot and was seen in the footage kicking off one of the vehicle’s mirrors, which was left dangling by its wire. A few minutes later, he is seen from another angle returning again to break the other mirror, which Wineberg’s family says was completely cut off with a tool. The vehicle was then later towed.
The next morning, Khan is seen on footage talking to a second police officer, who issued another ticket around 10 a.m. Khan — whom the family had never spoken to before — told Wolf that morning that he was unsure who damaged the vehicle.
“When we confronted him the next day, he tried to use his status as a police officer to get out of the crime, telling me ‘I’m a police officer, I would never do such a thing, I don’t know what you’re talking about.’” Wineberg told The Daily Wire. “That’s how we realized he was the one who wrote the ticket.”
The ticket issued, which was viewed by The Daily Wire, has an illegible signature in the “issued by” section.
“He didn’t legibly sign his name or put his badge number on the ticket, so he knew he was doing something wrong,” Wolf said.
Wolf added that he thought it was unusual the car was towed because after speaking to his neighbors, it’s more typical to just ticket illegally parked cars.
“I believe the act is deeper than road rage because Khan left the scene and then returned twice, once with a tool to cut the mirror,” Wolf said. “It is evident that Khan targeted the car because it belonged to a Jew.”
Khan was sentenced to 40 hours of community service, 10 hours of anger management, and $800 to pay for damages, according to Wolf.
The family filed a complaint to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Eastern Division earlier this month to seek action. The complaint seeks damages under the Fourth Amendment, Fourteenth Amendment, and common law of the State of Illinois for malicious acts that damage property.
The suit alleges that the incident caused Wineberg “a great amount of stress and emotional distress” which was compounded “by the realization that Khan had evidently acted in such a fashion after noticing that the owner of the car was likely Jewish.”
Wolf said the ordeal was deeply upsetting for his family because his wife’s grandparents were coming to meet his newborn daughter for the first time and had to drive home in an unsafe vehicle.
“He left very upset, it pretty much ruined the entire weekend for him and their drive back to Michigan was very scary because my grandmother had to act as the mirror and look out for him because we could only tape on one mirror as the other was missing,” Wolf said. “For people their age, that is very scary.”
Wolf said Wineberg accidentally parked in the handicapped spot because it was dark and he was unfamiliar with the neighborhood.
Khan has been a full-time, active Chicago police officer since 2017, <a href="https://www.ptb.illinois.gov/resources/officer-lookup/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to public records</a>.

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Chicago PD Concludes Investigation Into Cop Who Pled Guilty To Vandalizing Rabbi’s Car

Anti-Semitism

Chicago

Chicago Police

A Chicago police officer has yet to face any disciplinary action from his police force after pleading guilty to vandalizing an elderly man’s car, according to the victim’s family, who believe the car was targeted because it belongs to a Jew.
Mohammed Khan, 35, <a href="http://publicsearch1.chicagopolice.org/Arrests/Details/18284442" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was arrested</a> last March after he broke the side mirrors off of the vehicle of 77-year-old Rabbi Abraham Wineberg who was visiting his granddaughter and great grandchildren in Chicago’s West Rogers Park Neighborhood.
Khan was seen in surveillance footage from around 2:30 a.m. on March 3, 2024, where he first issued a parking ticket to Wineberg, who was illegally parked in Khan’s private handicapped spot, issued to accommodate Khan’s handicapped family member. Khan was off duty at the time and driving his personal vehicle.
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EXCLUSIVE: Chicago Police Officer Mohammed Khan was caught kicking an elderly rabbi’s car mirrors after issuing a ticket.
Rabbi Abraham Wineberg’s family believes he was targeted for being a Jew.
Khan pleaded guilty last year but has faced no discipline from the police force. <a href="https://t.co/XzsTeJW7MX">pic.twitter.com/XzsTeJW7MX</a>
&mdash; Kassy Akiva (@KassyAkiva) <a href="https://twitter.com/KassyAkiva/status/1904252224361914879?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 24, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Footage shows Khan peering through the rear window at Jewish and Hebrew prayer books and paraphernalia. He then returned on foot, and was seen in the footage kicking off one of the vehicle&#8217;s mirrors, which was left dangling by its wire. A few minutes later, he is seen from another angle returning again to break the other mirror, which Wineberg’s family says was completely cut off with a tool. The vehicle was then later towed.
<div id="attachment_896847" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-896847" class="wp-image-896847 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/03/Cover-images-1024x576.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/03/Cover-images-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/03/Cover-images-300x169.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/03/Cover-images-768x432.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/03/Cover-images.jpg 1280w" sizes=" (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" />Evidence of vandalism on Rabbi Wineberg&#8217;s vehicle.</div>
The next morning, Khan is seen on footage talking to a second police officer, who issued another ticket around 10 a.m. Khan — whom the family had never spoken to before — told Wineberg’s granddaughter&#8217;s husband, Yisroel Wolf, that morning that he was unsure who damaged the vehicle.
“When we confronted him the next day, he tried to use his status as a police officer to get out of the crime, telling me ‘I’m a police officer, I would never do such a thing, I don’t know what you’re talking about.’” Wineberg told The Daily Wire. “That’s how we realized he was the one who wrote the ticket.”
The ticket issued, which was viewed by The Daily Wire, has an illegible signature in the “issued by” section.
“He didn’t legibly sign his name or put his badge number on the ticket, so he knew he was doing something wrong,” Wolf said.
Wolf added that he thought it was unusual the car was towed because after speaking to his neighbors, it’s more typical to just ticket illegally parked cars.
“I believe the act is deeper than road rage because Khan left the scene and then returned twice, once with a tool to cut the mirror,” Wolf said. “It is evident that Khan targeted the car because it belonged to a Jew.&#8221;
<div id="attachment_896837" style="width: 786px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-896837" class="wp-image-896837 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/03/JEWISH-MATERIAL-IN-CAR-776x576.jpg" alt="" width="776" height="576" />Jewish and Hebrew prayer books and paraphernalia in Rabbi Wineberg&#8217;s car.</div>
Khan was sentenced to 40 hours of community service, 10 hours of anger management, and $800 to pay for damages, according to Wolf.
Wolf receives an email every few months from the Chicago Police Department’s Bureau of Internal Affairs telling him that their investigation into his complaint about Khan is still ongoing, despite Khan pleading guilty.
The family’s patience has run out and they filed a complaint to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Eastern Division earlier this month to seek action. The complaint seeks damages under the Fourth Amendment, Fourteenth Amendment, and common law of the State of Illinois for malicious acts that damage property.
The suit alleges that the incident caused Wineberg “a great amount of stress and emotional distress” which was compounded “by the realization that Khan had evidently acted in such a fashion after noticing that the owner of the car was likely Jewish.”
“Why is Khan still in the force? Why are they still investigating? He already pleaded guilty. If this was a Jewish cop and a Muslim victim would this be the same story?”
Wolf said the ordeal was deeply upsetting for his family because his wife’s grandparents were coming to meet his newborn daughter for the first time and had to drive home in an unsafe vehicle.
“He left very upset, it pretty much ruined the entire weekend for him and their drive back to Michigan was very scary because my grandmother had to act as the mirror and look out for him because we could only tape on one mirror as the other was missing,” Wolf said. “For people their age, that is very scary.”
Wolf said Wineberg accidentally parked in the handicapped spot because it was dark and he was unfamiliar with the neighborhood.
Khan has been a full-time, active Chicago police officer since 2017, <a href="https://www.ptb.illinois.gov/resources/officer-lookup/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to public records</a>.

Chicago PD Still Hasn’t Disciplined Cop Who Pled Guilty To Vandalizing Rabbi’s Car

Vandalism

Legacy media outlets have drawn criticism over their framing of an incident in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/chicago" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chicago</a> where a 26-year-old man was killed by police after he fired at officers who had pulled him over for a traffic stop last month, according to an initial investigation and body camera footage.
Dexter Reed was killed after police pulled him over for a traffic stop in Chicago on March 21 after officers said he was not wearing a seatbelt. When officers attempted to speak with him, Reed locked himself in his vehicle and gunfire broke out leading officers to run away from the vehicle. According to the preliminary investigation from the civilian-operated Chicago Office of Police Accountability, Reed fired at the officers first, injuring one of them and shooting at least 11 times at them.
The police accountability report said that a &#8220;review of video footage and initial reports appears to confirm that Mr. Reed fired first, striking the officer and four officers returned fire.&#8221;
Footage released from the incident shows police officers walking up to Reed in his vehicle and asking him to roll down his windows. Reed does not immediately respond, but eventually, he does and an officer asks him what he is doing. He then locks the door and rolls up the window, ignoring the commands of the officer to unlock and open the door. Then gunfire breaks out and two officers can be seen running from the car for cover as they are shot at. Reed was killed after officers responded to the gunfire.
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Just in: part of more than 30 videos released this morning by @COPA_Chicago related to the &quot;exchange of gunfire&quot; resulting in the death of Dexter Reed last month. (Graphic)
NOTE: This is a segment of the video. The full video and all COPA materials are available here:… <a href="https://t.co/73JeSAgtQd">pic.twitter.com/73JeSAgtQd</a>
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While much of the media coverage has focused on how many shots responding officers fired at Reed and complaints of excessive police force, little attention has been paid to indications that Reed fired at police first.
The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/04/10/dexter-reed-shooting-video-chicago-police/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">headline</a> read, “Police fire 96 shots in 41 seconds, killing Black man during traffic stop,” the Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/police-shooting-chicago-officers-investigation-ca147a5ea386e70190f23bd6912445f0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ran</a> with “Deadly Chicago traffic stop where police fired 96 shots raises serious questions about use of force,” and USA Today <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/04/09/seatbelt-check-cops-fired-96-shots-at-black-motorist-killing-him/73265324007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">had</a>, &#8220;Seat belt violation ends with Black man dead on Chicago street after cops fired nearly 100 bullets.”
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The Post did not mention that investigators believe Reed fired first until the eighth paragraph while the AP leaves out that detail until the seventh paragraph. Both outlets also did not mention that Reed was <a href="https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/dexter-reed-shooting-questions-over-traffic-stop-cpd-use-of-force-remains-after-body-camera-video-released/3406215/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">facing</a> three counts of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon and one count of possession of a firearm with a revoked FOID card, according to NBC Chicago.
Conservative commentators were quick to criticize media coverage of the incident, arguing legacy outlets were trying to foment unrest.
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The crucial fact that Reed fired on police officers first, injuring one, is not even mentioned until 8 paragraphs into the <a href="https://twitter.com/washingtonpost?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@washingtonpost</a> article by <a href="https://twitter.com/GuinnessKebab?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GuinnessKebab</a> (Jennifer Hassan). This is how the article begins, with a dishonest &amp; inflammatory narrative that police were just… <a href="https://t.co/04xt4EgfC8">pic.twitter.com/04xt4EgfC8</a>
&mdash; Christina Pushaw 🐊 🇺🇸 (@ChristinaPushaw) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChristinaPushaw/status/1778164881251844447?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 10, 2024</a></blockquote>
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It takes six paragraphs for the <a href="https://twitter.com/AP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AP</a> to mention that Dexter Reed fired at the officers first. Eight for the <a href="https://twitter.com/washingtonpost?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@washingtonpost</a> in their article.
The articles base their reporting on the findings of Chicago&#39;s COPA, a citizen oversight board that has authority to review &quot;All… <a href="https://t.co/tCGfBDoL2t">https://t.co/tCGfBDoL2t</a>
&mdash; Bryan Griffin (@BryanDGriffin) <a href="https://twitter.com/BryanDGriffin/status/1778513039345504556?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 11, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Chicago Police are still reviewing the shooting, as is the civilian police review board, to determine whether the shooting was justified or not.

Marquette v DePaul

Media Bury Key Detail About Police Shooting Of Man Facing Gun Charges

Crime

Police

Shooting

U.S.

Last year, a man in his mid-20&#8217;s named Dexter Reed was <a href="https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/dexter-reed-shooting-questions-over-traffic-stop-cpd-use-of-force-remains-after-body-camera-video-released/3406215/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">charged</a> with three counts of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon and one count of possession of a firearm with a revoked &#8220;Firearms Owners Identification Card,&#8221; which is required in the state of Illinois before you can possess a weapon or ammunition. Because no one really spends time in jail in Illinois anymore, Reed was <a href="https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/dexter-reed-shooting-questions-over-traffic-stop-cpd-use-of-force-remains-after-body-camera-video-released/3406215/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">free</a> on pretrial release for these felony charges as recently as this past March.
It goes without saying that at that point, any functioning member of society who somehow found himself charged with these crimes would try to lay low for a bit. Maybe they&#8217;d keep their illegal guns at home, for example. But Dexter Reed did not choose that approach because he&#8217;s not a functioning member of society. Instead, in March, Reed went for a drive in an SUV wearing a ski mask and carrying a firearm. 
That&#8217;s when police say they noticed that Reed was breaking yet another law: he wasn&#8217;t wearing a seatbelt. Instead of cooperating with the traffic stop, this is what happened. I&#8217;m going to show two angles of this incident from police body cams. The second body cam is from an officer who was shot as this unfolded. Watch:
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It&#8217;s clear from this footage that Dexter Reed is wearing a ski mask and he&#8217;s not cooperating with the officers. They tell him to unlock the door and stop rolling up the windows, and he refuses for quite some time. Then the officers see something that clearly puts them in fear of their life. They back up, and shots begin ringing out. One officer is hit in the wrist, and he survives.
According to the <a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2024/04/08/video-fatal-chicago-police-shooting-humboldt-park-dexter-reed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chicago Sun Times</a>: &#8220;Alderman Brian Hopkins, chairman of the City Council’s Public Safety Committee, said he&#8217;s been told 26-year-old Reed fired 11 shots through his car window in what Hopkins called &#8216;an attempt to kill police officers.&#8217; An empty gun was recovered at the scene, Hopkins said. &#8220;He fired 11 rounds at these police officers before he was eventually killed.&#8221;
As of now, police are still investigating this shooting. But Chicago&#8217;s Civilian Office of Police Accountability has determined that the evidence &#8220;appears to confirm&#8221; that Reed fired the first shot. And the video by itself shows that pretty clearly.
<h4><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/240411me">WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show</a></h4>
One social media user on Twitter, the account &#8220;<a href="https://x.com/ExposeDarkDeeds/status/1778286067931623896" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Expose Them</a>,&#8221; synced up footage from two of the body cams that Chicago police have released. The top bodycam is the one I just showed of the officer who got hit. The other bodycam is from a third officer on the scene. You can see that the first officer gets hit before the other officers fire:
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The footage is pretty clear evidence that the officers defended themselves. They should end the discussion entirely. But that hasn&#8217;t happened, because even before these body cams were released, professional agitators engaged in a concerted effort to turn Dexter Reed into a martyr.
A former Chicago mayoral candidate and BLM activist named Ja’Mal Green began <a href="https://cwbchicago.com/2024/04/videos-of-fatal-chicago-police-shootout-to-be-released-today-its-not-the-things-that-youve-been-told-top-cop-says.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posting</a> on social media this weekend that the footage would show an &#8220;execution.&#8221; He also &#8220;warned&#8221; about possible riots, which of course is exactly what Ja&#8217;Mal Green wants to happen.
And Green&#8217;s strategy appears to be working, at least so far.
This week crowds turned up outside a police station to heckle officers and make some of the most strained arguments imaginable. Watch:
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So they&#8217;re saying the cops couldn&#8217;t possibly have known whether he was breaking the seat belt law, because he was driving with heavily tinted windows, which is also against the law.
Apparently in BLM circles this is seen as a sort of checkmate, even though they&#8217;ve just provided an additional reason why police would have wanted to pull this guy over.
And then they argue that there&#8217;s no need for &#8220;armed officers&#8221; to enforce seat belt laws. Well, apparently there is, especially in a city like Chicago — because you never know when someone who&#8217;s not wearing a seatbelt might be out of jail on a felony gun charge, still packing heat and wearing a ski mask and ready to shoot at you for no reason.
All of that is irrelevant anyway. Even if they had no reason to pull him over — which they did — it still obviously doesn’t justify him shooting at the cops. You don’t get to shoot at the cops if you disagree with their reason for stopping you. I’ve been pulled over for seatbelt violations before. I found it annoying. I never considered murder as a response.
But the push to portray Dexter Reed as a victim continues anyway, because none of this is really about the facts. Alleged academics are getting involved, too. An English professor at Amherst named &#8220;Frank Leon Roberts&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/DrFrankRoberts/status/1778093938550706269" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote on</a> social media:
<blockquote>His name was Dexter Reed. Murdered in broad daylight by the Chicago Police Department. 96 shots in 41 seconds. 26 years old. His crime: not having his seatbelt on. This is America. Defund and abolish the police.</blockquote>
A few hours after the professor wrote that tweet, he deleted it and erased his entire Twitter account, maybe because it was a little too ridiculous — even by the standards of Amherst. But it wasn&#8217;t too absurd for the corporate press. They&#8217;ve also done everything they can to portray the police as the aggressors here.
Here&#8217;s how the Washington Post covered Dexter Reed&#8217;s traffic stop, for example. The <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/04/10/dexter-reed-shooting-video-chicago-police/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">headline</a> reads: &#8220;Police fire 96 shots in 41 seconds, killing Black man during traffic stop.&#8221;
So there&#8217;s nothing in there about what Dexter Reed did during the traffic stop. There&#8217;s no mention of the fact he opened fire on police officers. In fact, if you read the story, you won&#8217;t find any mention of Dexter Reed shooting his handgun until the eighth paragraph of the story. That&#8217;s not an exaggeration. They just ignore it until eight paragraphs in.
Instead, here&#8217;s what the Washington Post talks about first. This is from the beginning of their article. It&#8217;s as emotional and over-the-top as they possibly could have done it: 
<blockquote>Dexter Reed’s mother remembers the last time she saw her son alive. &#8230;. &#8216;He was just riding around in his car,&#8217; Dexter’s mother, Nicole Banks, [said] on Tuesday, as she broke down in tears. &#8216;They killed him.&#8217;</blockquote>
This is the footage they&#8217;re referencing:
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So Reed&#8217;s mother is out at press conferences crying and fainting on camera. I&#8217;m sure she is legitimately distraught given that her child was killed. But as always, there is no self-analysis, no moment of honest reflection where she wonders how she raised a child who would throw his life away for no reason during a traffic stop. Instead she blames the cops — and the lawsuit, I&#8217;m sure, will be close behind. And the Washington Post decides to lead with this, instead of an accurate description of what happened during the traffic stop.
It&#8217;s hard to think of a more deliberately dishonest way to frame the actions of an attempted cop-killer. And just for good measure, the Post puts a giant photo of Dexter Reed at some graduation ceremony from 5five years ago at the top of the article. They leave off his mug shot from his felony firearms arrest. This is the way it always goes with BLM martyrs. You never see graduation photos of anyone who makes the news for any reason — unless it’s a black guy killed by the cops.
On Twitter, a writer named Daniel Friedman <a href="https://twitter.com/DanFriedman81/status/1778253473441558700" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pointed out</a> the history of this tactic. It began after Michael Brown was shot ten years ago after fighting with a cop and trying to take his gun. Media outlets went on Brown&#8217;s Facebook, and then they used unflattering photos of Brown flashing gang signs in their coverage.
As Friedman writes, &#8220;Black Twitter reacted angrily. They said that the media was using images of Brown that stereotyped him. There was a trending hashtag &#8220;#if they gunned me down&#8221; of college students or professionals posting pictures of themselves looking like thugs in solidarity with Brown.&#8221;
So the media relented and swapped out the thug photos for graduation photos. And they&#8217;ve been doing that ever since.
In this case, the Washington Post wasn&#8217;t alone in whitewashing Reed&#8217;s actions. <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/09/us/dexter-reed-chicago-police-shooting-video/index.html">CNN</a> ran a similar headline that made no mention of Dexter Reed shooting at officers: &#8220;96 shots fired in a fatal traffic stop. Here’s what the bodycam footage shows.&#8221; The <a href="https://x.com/AP/status/1778251706389688495">AP</a> reported, &#8220;Deadly Chicago traffic stop where police fired 96 shots raises serious questions about use of force.&#8221;
It&#8217;s almost comical when you picture the editors carefully trying to construct these headlines so that they don&#8217;t mention the elephant in the room. It&#8217;s like imagining someone trying to describe the maiden voyage of the Titanic without saying anything about the whole iceberg thing.
But I&#8217;d be remiss if I mocked the media&#8217;s ridiculous coverage of this episode without mentioning the <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13293555/black-lives-matter-protestors-chicago-police-dexter-reed-shooting.html">Daily Mail</a>. They chose to portray Dexter Reed as an &#8220;aspiring broadcaster.&#8221; So he&#8217;s not an attempted cop killer — he&#8217;s the next Tom Brokaw apparently: 
<blockquote>On Tuesday, Chicago Police released footage of the March 21 encounter which showed them firing 96 shots at Reed, even as he lay motionless on the ground outside his vehicle. The aspiring broadcaster&#8217;s death has reignited conversations around excessive police force against black people, though officers maintain Reed opened fire first.</blockquote>
At least they get around to suggesting that the officers were defending themselves. So there&#8217;s that. It&#8217;s easy to laugh at how absurd this is, but there&#8217;s a point to it. BLM and their allies in the media are desperate to find a new George Floyd before the election. They know Democrats stand a very real chance of losing power in November. So they&#8217;re using the same tactics they did four years ago.
George Floyd, we were told, wasn&#8217;t a home invader, thief and drug addict. They <a href="https://www.mprnews.org/story/2021/03/08/remembering-george-floyd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told us</a> he was a &#8220;Gentle giant&#8221; trying to &#8220;Get his life back on track.&#8221; Now we&#8217;re expected to believe that Dexter Reed is also some misunderstood pillar of the local community, instead of the degenerate he is. The plan is to cause riots, terrify everyone into voting the way they want, and force a &#8220;national reckoning on race&#8221; to promote more of their mediocre allies into positions of power. And they plan to accomplish all of that by lying about a dead thug.
This is a strategy we&#8217;re seeing more and more often as the election approaches. Last October, for example, the media tried to incite riots over the shooting death of Leonard Cure — a man who tried to kill a police officer on camera during a traffic stop. There&#8217;s no dispute about this. It&#8217;s on tape. Watch:
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After seeing that footage, here was the Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/10/18/leonard-cure-exoneration-shooting-death/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">headline</a>: &#8220;Deputy fatally shoots man who served 16 years for wrongful conviction.&#8221; The article begins: &#8220;Leonard Cure, who was exonerated in 2020, was killed by a Georgia sheriff’s deputy during a traffic stop Monday &#8230; The deputy used a Taser and a baton before shooting Cure.&#8221;
The Post didn&#8217;t get around to mentioning that Cure tried to murder the deputy until 14 paragraphs into the story. And even then, they describe it as carefully as they can. They say Cure was &#8220;forcefully grappling with the deputy and pushing the deputy’s head back with his hand.&#8221; That&#8217;s the Post&#8217;s way of saying that he was trying to choke the officer to death. And of course, Ben Crump came out and <a href="https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1716237599235326460">declared</a> that Cure had been shot simply for being black.
That effort didn&#8217;t catch on in quite the way the media and BLM activists had hoped. So now they&#8217;re trying again. And they will continue to try until one of two things happen. Either they get the riots they want and terrorize millions of people into voting for Democrats out of fear — or, for once, normal, sane people stand up and say what&#8217;s obvious. And that&#8217;s the fact that Dexter Reed and Leonard Cure and all of these BLM &#8220;heroes&#8221; are the dregs of society. They are not role models and they are not victims. They are, in fact, the cause of many serious problems that cities like Chicago are experiencing right now. That&#8217;s the only message that can put an end to these riots before they start, and avert a repeat of the pillaging we saw in 2020. It happens to be a message that most Americans believe, even if they&#8217;re afraid to say it. But as unpleasant as it may be, it&#8217;s time we started saying it.

The Media Nominates Their New George Floyd

Matt Walsh

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A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/chicago" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chicago</a> police officer is suing the city to change his race from &#8220;white&#8221; on official records after the police department started allowing cops to change their gender identity.
Mohammad Yusuf, 43, filed a federal civil rights lawsuit last week saying that he wants to change his race on police records from &#8220;Caucasian&#8221; because he &#8220;currently identifies as Egyptian and African American.&#8221;
&#8220;Yusuf wishes to correct the racial designation listed on his police personnel file, which currently indicates that he is Caucasian, to accurately reflect his race, as North African,&#8221; the lawsuit <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24440682-yusuf-v-chicago-pd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reads</a>.
The Chicago Police Department has refused Yusuf&#8217;s request, he claims.
The veteran cop claims that back in 20o4 when he joined the force, police records provided limited selections for race — only Caucasian, Hispanic, and African American. At the time, he chose Caucasian, but now there are more options.
Yusuf even provided his 23andMe results to prove his ethnicity, but the police department continued to refuse his request, he says.
The lawsuit accuses the police department of having a &#8220;double standard,&#8221; noting that officers are allowed to change their gender identity on official records.
&#8220;While other CPD officers are afforded the opportunity to have their gender identity corrected to match their lived experience, Officer Yusuf and others in similar positions are barred from obtaining accurate racial designations that align with their racial identity,&#8221; the suit says.
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One of the main issues is that Yusuf claims his career has suffered because he identified as white.
The lawsuit says that despite the Chicago police department claiming to have a race-neutral and merit-based promotion system, Yusuf has been &#8220;repeatedly bypassed&#8221; for promotions in favor of less qualified black officers who had &#8220;disciplinary issues.&#8221;
So far, Yusuf has not obtained the promotion to sergeant that he wanted, the suit says, despite scoring in the &#8220;first promotional tier&#8221; on the sergeant’s exam in 2019.
&#8220;We do not comment on pending litigation,&#8221; the Chicago Police Department <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-cop-sues-city-right-change-race-department-allows-officers-change-genders" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
Yusuf&#8217;s attorney Gianna Scatchell Basile, who is married to a Chicago police detective, said the city&#8217;s approach has been &#8220;arbitrary.&#8221;
“I think the City of Chicago was on the right track when they allowed people to change their gender identity, and allowed them to identify as the proper gender, but then when it comes to race, it’s just very arbitrary,” Basile <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-chicago-cop-muhammed-yusuf-sues-police-department-to-change-his-race" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The Daily Beast.
The lawsuit calls race a &#8220;social construct.&#8221;
“The idea of even having to prove race is wrong,” Basile said. “Race is not scientific.”

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Chicago Cop Sues City To Change Race On Records After Officers Allowed To Change Genders

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The Chicago Board of Education on Thursday voted unanimously to remove police officers from the city&#8217;s public schools.
The board voted 7-0 to end the school resource officer program as well as remove police officers from the 39 public schools that had cops on campus. Dozens of schools also had school resource officers on campus.
&#8220;Today&#8217;s resolution is fulfilling the board&#8217;s commitment to focus on alternative systems of safety,&#8221; <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-board-of-education-to-vote-resource-officers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Chicago Board of Education member Michelle Morales.
This means Chicago Public Schools will not renew its $10.3 million contract <a href="https://www.wbez.org/stories/chicago-board-of-education-is-considering-removing-cops-from-schools/809ab8f6-14b6-4a62-8594-d533ebe41f08" target="_blank" rel="noopener">with</a> the city to have police officers at schools.
&#8220;We will continue to collaborate with CPD on its support for arrival and dismissal times, and responses to emergencies,&#8221; said another Board of Education member, Rudy Lozano Jr.
Despite the unanimous vote, the education board meeting was heated with Chicago residents showing up to advocate both for and against officers in schools.
Members of the Chicago City Council were also divided.
&#8220;I&#8217;m just telling you all right now — the blood is going to be on your hands if something happens to some kids, or some teacher, or some crazy parent in the parking lot,&#8221; Alderman Nicholas Sposato said.
Last month, the push to remove cops from the city&#8217;s public schools drew backlash from school principals.
A December 15 meeting between principals and the city’s school board <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chicagos-push-to-remove-cops-from-schools-draws-backlash">did not go</a> the way the principals expected, according to Troy LaRaviere, president of the Chicago Principals &amp; Administrators Association.
Principals were told they would be able to give their input on the decision to remove school resource officers, but they did not get that chance, LaRaviere <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-public-schools-principals-plan-remove-police-officers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> CBS News Chicago.
“They were told that the board had made a unilateral decision, without the input of the people who actually run the schools,” LaRaviere said.
Before the current school year, 40 high schools voted on whether to keep police officers in their schools. All but one voted to keep officers on campus.
Some of the high schools chose to get rid of one of their two officers, however. The schools that chose to remove one or both officers received about $3.7 million for “alternative safety interventions.”
LaRaviere explained that school resource officers build relationships with the students, which is helpful when an incident occurs.
“If you don’t have an SRO, what are you supposed to do? You don’t have the SRO with the relationships. You have to call 911. And then you have to get the luck of the draw,” LaRaviere told the outlet. “Cops with no relationships with the children show up.”
Mark Grishaber, the principal of William Howard Taft High School in north Chicago, said his school’s resource officers “know half the kids by their first name” and are often able to deescalate situations.
“The SRO has been trained and knows how to deal with teens in a school community,” Grishaber <a href="https://nadignewspapers.com/school-board-reportedly-looking-into-eliminating-on-campus-police-at-all-chicago-high-schools-taking-decision-away-from-lscs/#google_vignette" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Nadig Newspapers. “You can see the difference.”
The move to remove police from schools echoes remarks Chicago’s mayor made when he was running for office.
Mayor Brandon Johnson <a href="https://www.wbez.org/stories/chicago-board-of-education-is-considering-removing-cops-from-schools/809ab8f6-14b6-4a62-8594-d533ebe41f08" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> at the time that “armed officers have no place in schools in communities already struggling with over-incarceration, criminalization, profiling and mistrust.”

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Chicago Democrat Mayor Brandon Johnson told reporters he agrees with the city’s Board of Education that police officers should be removed from the city’s high schools.
The Chicago Police Department has a $10.3 million contract with the city’s board of education, but the Board wants to terminate it. Johnson told the Chicago Sun-Times and WBEZ this week that he will give the go-ahead for the police to be removed. “Nearly all the board of education members who approved last year’s $10.3 million school resource office contract have been replaced by Johnson appointees,” <a href="https://www.wbez.org/stories/chicago-board-of-education-is-considering-removing-cops-from-schools/809ab8f6-14b6-4a62-8594-d533ebe41f08" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WBEZ</a> noted.
“The Board of Education is moving in the direction that I do support,” Johnson <a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2024/1/30/24056400/cps-johnson-ok-pulling-officers-out-schools-he-tells-chicago-sun-times" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a>. “There is an intergovernmental agreement between Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Police Department. To end that agreement, there’s no qualms from me there.” The Sun-Times said Chicago Public School officials informed high school principals last month that police officers would not be present next fall.
As a mayoral candidate, Johnson opposed officers being on school grounds, but after he was inaugurated as mayor, he <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/chicago-mayor-supports-removing-police-from-schools?intcmp=tw_fnc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reversed his position</a>, asserting that the decision to remove officers should be made by local school councils. But now he has reversed himself again.
In 2020, as the George Floyd protests surged, the Chicago Teachers’ Union urged the schools to rid themselves of the police, <a href="https://www.ctulocal1.org/posts/noon-tues-6-23-cps-students-teachers-parents-to-cps-we-demand-a-safe-and-equitable-reopening-of-schools/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stating</a>, “These students along with the parents, teachers and staff that support them have looked at the data, experienced the brutality and are calling for police-free schools. Members of the CPS community are calling on the $33 million contract between CPS and CPD to be better used for restorative justice coordinators, social workers, nurses, trauma supports and other critical programs in schools.&#8221;
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Reports surfaced that last month, the Chicago Board of Education was attempting to remove Local School Councils — comprised of parents, teachers, and students — of the authority to decide to have school resource officers (SROs) present on their campuses. Reports indicate that this summer, the Chicago Board of Education will vote on whether the contract with the CPD will be renewed.

Brandon Johnson Is Sworn In As The 57th Mayor Of Chicago

Chicago Mayor Supports Removing Police From High Schools

Brandon Johnson

High School

A push to remove police officers from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/chicago" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chicago&#8217;s</a> public schools is drawing backlash from school principals.
Principals, as well as a Chicago city council members, say the Chicago Board of Education is considering removing school resource officers (SROs) from public schools.
Alderman Nicholas Sposato said his school system sources revealed that the school board could make the decision as soon as its next meeting on January 25, according to Nadig Newspapers, a local paper covering Chicago’s Northwest Side that first <a href="https://nadignewspapers.com/school-board-reportedly-looking-into-eliminating-on-campus-police-at-all-chicago-high-schools-taking-decision-away-from-lscs/#google_vignette" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> the news.
“They told me there’s going to be no SROs,” Sposato told the outlet, calling it a &#8220;terrible idea.&#8221;
This would mean Chicago Public Schools this summer would not renew its $10.3 million contract <a href="https://www.wbez.org/stories/chicago-board-of-education-is-considering-removing-cops-from-schools/809ab8f6-14b6-4a62-8594-d533ebe41f08" target="_blank" rel="noopener">with</a> the city to have police officers at schools.
The decision could potentially take effect in the fall, Sposato said.
A December 15 meeting between principals and the city&#8217;s school board did not go the way the principals expected, according to Troy LaRaviere, president of the Chicago Principals &amp; Administrators Association.
Principals were told they would be able to give their input on the school resource officer decision, but they did not get that chance, LaRaviere <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-public-schools-principals-plan-remove-police-officers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> CBS News Chicago.
&#8220;They were told that the board had made a unilateral decision, without the input of the people who actually run the schools,&#8221; LaRaviere said.
Before the current school year, 40 high schools voted on whether to keep police officers in their schools. All but one voted to keep officers on campus.
Some of the high schools chose to get rid of one of their two officers, however. The schools that chose to remove one or both officers received about $3.7 million for &#8220;alternative safety interventions.&#8221;
LaRaviere explained that school resource officers build relationships with the students, which is helpful when an incident occurs.
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&#8220;If you don&#8217;t have an SRO, what are you supposed to do? You don&#8217;t have the SRO with the relationships. You have to call 911. And then you have to get the luck of the draw,&#8221; LaRaviere told the outlet. &#8220;Cops with no relationships with the children show up.&#8221;
Mark Grishaber, the principal of William Howard Taft High School in north Chicago, said his school&#8217;s resource officers “know half the kids by their first name” and are often able to deescalate situations.
“The SRO has been trained and knows how to deal with teens in a school community,&#8221; Grishaber <a href="https://nadignewspapers.com/school-board-reportedly-looking-into-eliminating-on-campus-police-at-all-chicago-high-schools-taking-decision-away-from-lscs/#google_vignette" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Nadig Newspapers. &#8220;You can see the difference.”
The move to remove police from schools echoes remarks Chicago&#8217;s mayor made when he was running for office.
Mayor Brandon Johnson <a href="https://www.wbez.org/stories/chicago-board-of-education-is-considering-removing-cops-from-schools/809ab8f6-14b6-4a62-8594-d533ebe41f08" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> at the time that “armed officers have no place in schools in communities already struggling with over-incarceration, criminalization, profiling and mistrust.”

Chicago’s Push To Remove Cops From Schools Draws Backlash

Chicago's Push To Remove Cops From Schools Draws Backlash

Law Enforcement

On Monday, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/illinois" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Illinois</a> became the first state to eliminate cash bail in a move celebrated by Democratic officials and criticized by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/police" target="_blank" rel="noopener">law enforcement</a>. 
After a lengthy legal battle, Illinois&#8217; Safety, Accountability, Fairness, and Equity-Today Act (SAFE-T Act) went into effect on Monday, meaning that meeting cash bail can no longer be a condition for release. Democrat officials argued that cash bail disproportionately impacted minorities and low-income people who have been arrested. 
“This bill, this law was worked on in conjunction with advocates – victims&#8217; rights advocates, domestic violence advocates, those who have been impacted by this system – who have seen people who have been able to pay their way out of jail and cause harm. This effort to detain those who hold a real threat to our public rather than detain those who are simply poor is the right thing to do,” <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/illinois-ends-cash-bail/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Cook County District Attorney Kim Foxx, a George Soros-backed prosecutor who has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/prosecutor-torches-soros-backed-chicago-da-kim-foxx-in-resignation-letter-will-not-raise-my-son-here" target="_blank" rel="noopener">faced criticism</a> over her approach to law enforcement in the Chicago area. 
In addition to abolishing cash bail, the SAFE-T Act “prevents the results of a risk assessment from being the sole basis for a detention decision and informs the accused person of the tool,” <a href="https://icjia.illinois.gov/researchhub/articles/the-2021-safe-t-act-icjia-roles-and-responsibilities" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority. It was initially passed in January 2021, and Democratic Governor J.B. Pritzker signed an amended version in December 2022. 
The cash bail provision of the SAFE-T Act was first put on hold by the Illinois Supreme Court before it upheld the law in July, a decision criticized by the Illinois Fraternal Order of Police.
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&#8220;The court ignored the pleas of nearly every prosecutor in the state of Illinois, Democrat and Republican, that the elimination of cash bail will put dangerous criminals back on the street, instead of keeping them in jail or forcing them to post cash bail as they await trial. Many of those offenders will commit crimes again within hours of their release,&#8221; Illinois FOP State Lodge President Chris Southwood said after the decision was released. 
&#8220;And who will have to arrest those offenders again and again? The police officers whose jobs have been made immeasurably more difficult by all of the new anti-law enforcement measures that are in place,” he added. 
Illinois Republican Rep. Mary Miller decried the law&#8217;s implementation, <a href="https://twitter.com/RepMaryMiller/status/1703430503716507882" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a> it would harm victims of crimes. 
“The left&#8217;s agenda is to Defund The Police, refuse to prosecute criminals, and release them from jail. Families deserve safe communities &amp; victims deserve justice!” she wrote on X.

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Two newborn children were found dead in a trash bag at a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/chicago" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chicago</a> child care center, according to police. 
Police said Thursday that two infant girls were found in a garbage bag in a bathroom at the Bernice Lavine Early Childhood Education Center located in the city’s Streeterville neighborhood, a community located north of the Chicago River. 
“Chicago police are conducting death investigations after two newborn girls were found dead inside a childcare center bathroom in Streeterville,” police <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12274467/Bodies-two-newborn-babies-trash-bag-inside-daycare-center-bathroom-Chicago.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a statement. “Dispatchers told responding officers that the babies were in a trash bag. The children were not breathing when first responders arrived.”
The children were pronounced dead at the Lurie Children’s Hospital after the discovery in the bathroom around 7:00 p.m. Thursday evening. “Area Three detectives are handling the investigation, which was initially classified as endangering the life or health of children,” police added. 
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According to ABC 7, a 29-year-old woman <a href="https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-crime-newborns-found-dead-northwestern-memorial-hospital-streeterville-child-care-center/13472292/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was transported</a> to Northwestern Memorial Hospital after being found at the location lying on the floor of the bathroom and covered in blood. Staff <a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2023/7/6/23786670/2-newborn-girls-found-dead-at-streeterville-child-care-center" target="_blank" rel="noopener">had</a> begun to look for her after she was late to a 6:00 p.m. class at the location. At the hospital, she underwent an undisclosed emergency surgery. 
Sources told the outlet that janitors discovered the bodies of the girls while going to clean the bathroom after the woman was discovered. According to the police report, the bag containing the infants, named Sepia and Radical Red by hospital staff, was found inside a bathroom cabinet. 
&#8220;An emergency medical situation involving a daycare employee occurred this evening at the daycare facility on the Northwestern Memorial Hospital campus,&#8221; Northwestern spokesman Christopher King <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/newborns-dead-found-streeterville-child-care-center/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a statement. &#8220;No daycare children were involved or impacted by the situation. The Chicago Fire and Police Departments were called. We are working with CPD regarding this incident and unable to comment further at this time.&#8221;
Police have not yet filed any charges in the case or made any arrests. The cause of death of the girls has yet to be determined. 
The daycare center <a href="https://ucarecdn.com/e5859e2b-1a00-4df5-a627-19eb75938d06/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says</a> that it &#8220;is open year-round and offers Infant through Kindergarten programs for children 6 weeks through 6 years old. Our center is a benefit for full and part time employees of Northwestern Medicine and their Campus Partners.&#8221;

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Two Newborn Babies Found Dead In Trash Bag At Chicago Child Care Center: Police

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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot lost her re-election campaign, rendering her the first chief executive of the Windy City in four decades to lose re-election.
Former Chicago Public Schools CEO Paul Vallas and Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson will <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chicago-democrat-mayor-lori-lightfoot-loses-re-election-race-as-crime-soars" target="_blank" rel="noopener">advance</a> to a runoff election after each garnered more votes than the incumbent. Lightfoot, who frequently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lightfoot-out-as-mayor-says-she-was-treated-unfairly-as-a-black-woman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">touts</a> her race and her self-identification as a lesbian, justified her loss to a reporter by noting that she is a “black woman in America,” but residents have a multitude of valid reasons to dismiss Lightfoot.
Crime rose dramatically during Lightfoot’s four-year tenure in Chicago City Hall. There were 490 homicides in the Windy City as of 2019, the year in which Lightfoot assumed office. Murders soared to 772 in 2020 and 800 in 2021, marking an increase of more than 58% as Black Lives Matter protests rocked the nation in the wake of the death of George Floyd.
Lightfoot, who has a personal police unit with 71 officers assigned to protect her life, meanwhile <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chicago-mayor-lightfoot-has-71-person-police-unit-to-protect-her-blames-trump-for-being-in-danger" target="_blank" rel="noopener">proposed</a> eliminating $80 million from the Chicago Police Department budget in 2020 as the Defund the Police movement gained momentum among prominent Democrats. She accordingly lost the respect of law enforcement: police officers <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chicago-cops-turn-backs-on-mayor-after-female-cop-killed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">turned</a> their backs on Lightfoot as she addressed reporters while one of their wounded colleagues was fighting for his life. 
“Turning their backs on the mayor was an excellent example of how the hundreds of police officers felt waiting outside the hospital,” Chicago Fraternal Order of Police President John Catanzara said in an <a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2021/8/9/22616490/chicago-cops-give-cold-shoulder-mayor-lori-lightfoot-hospital-ella-french" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with the Chicago Sun-Times. “They have had enough and are no longer going to remain silent anymore.”
Lightfoot has nevertheless boasted about the “real progress” she purportedly made on crime due to the marginal decreases in murders and shootings between 2021 and 2022, which still far exceeded the levels of criminality witnessed before she assumed office. “We have come a long way in making our city safer, but Mayor Lightfoot knows the work is not yet finished,” said her campaign <a href="https://lightfootforchicago.com/public-safety/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a>, which said she would hire hundreds more police officers if re-elected. “These investments represent her commitment to taking the necessary steps in this crucial work, and making sure Chicagoans in every neighborhood are safe and feel safe.”
Crime rates are one of several factors behind a mass exodus of businesses from the area. Ken Griffin, the former richest man in Illinois and current chief executive of hedge fund Citadel, moved much of his personal estate and business to Miami in response to the phenomenon. The multibillionaire and Republican megadonor indicated during one <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/illinois-former-wealthiest-man-reveals-the-breaking-points-that-prompted-his-move-to-florida" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> that a breaking point was the violent assault of two separate colleagues: the former was robbed after a person put “a gun to his head” during a coffee run, and another was attacked by “some random lunatic just trying to punch him in the head” while he was waiting for a car.
Beyond the city’s lackluster record on public safety, Chicago also has the second-highest tax burden in the nation for combined state and local sales tax rates, according to a <a href="https://taxfoundation.org/sales-tax-rates-by-city-2021/?utm_source=Tax+Foundation+Newsletters&amp;utm_campaign=7f2ef02e5b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_10_17_07_28_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_8387957ec9-7f2ef02e5b-429489705&amp;mc_cid=7f2ef02e5b&amp;mc_eid=a9b206fa6a#_ftn13" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study</a> from the Tax Foundation. Lightfoot had proposed a property tax hike but reversed the policy ahead of her re-election campaign, according to a <a href="https://www.illinoispolicy.org/lightfoot-cancels-property-tax-hike-in-announcing-new-budget/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from the Illinois Policy Institute.
The pressures have led other prominent businesses to leave Chicago: food processing company Tyson, airplane manufacturer Boeing, and construction machinery firm Caterpillar have also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/another-large-company-announces-departure-from-chicago" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> that they would shutter offices or move their headquarters from the city. Lightfoot still proclaimed on her campaign <a href="https://lightfootforchicago.com/economic-development/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a> that she is “committed to attracting new businesses” and “creating an environment that supports and sustains entrepreneurs and workers who make Chicago their home.” 
The departure of businesses occurs alongside a migration of residents away from Chicago. The region lost more than 91,000 people between 2020 and 2021 alone, according to a <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-census-chicago-metro-20220324-vyeushuf7vdw7jvg6s7hp6jdxa-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from The Chicago Tribune, following a trend seen in other major cities which instituted harsh lockdown mandates. Lightfoot <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoots-heavy-hand-vaccine-free-your-time-is-up" target="_blank" rel="noopener">informed</a> unvaccinated residents as late as December 2021 that their “time is up” and said that her public health mandates were “inconvenient by design.”
Despite the failures under her administration, Lightfoot <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lori-lightfoot-endorses-herself-getting-1st-pay-hike-for-chicago-mayor-in-16-years" target="_blank" rel="noopener">endorsed</a> a plan at the end of last year that would grant her a 5% pay raise, marking the first wage hike for her position in nearly two decades. Lightfoot, however, will now have to find a new position altogether.
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Wake Of Destruction: The Legacy Of Chicago’s Departing Mayor Lori Lightfoot

Wake Of Destruction: The Legacy Of Chicago's Departing Mayor Lori Lightfoot

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Black Lives Matter is a very effective slogan that elicits sympathy and empathy. It suggests many people outside the black community don’t believe black lives matter. While I agree with that assumption, I have a very different opinion about who the uncaring culprits might be.
<a href="https://blacklivesmatter.com/transparency/#bod">BLM’s vision statement</a> says: 
<blockquote>&#8220;Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation imagines a world where Black people across the diaspora thrive, experience joy, and are not defined by their struggles. By achieving liberation, we envision a future that is fully divested from police, prisons, and all punishment paradigms to be replaced with investment into justice, joy, and culture.&#8221;</blockquote>
Sounds like a noble mission. But that mission becomes confusing when you recall the violent protests we all watched leading up to the 2020 election. In some cases they were looting and rioting while calling for the murder of police officers.
It becomes even more confusing when you read the organization’s <a href="https://blacklivesmatter.com/blm-demands/">list of demands</a> on the same website:
<ol>
<li>Convict and ban Trump from future political office</li>
<li>Expel Republican members of Congress who attempted to overturn the election and incited a white supremacist attack</li>
<li>Launch a full investigation into the ties between white supremacy and the Capitol Police, law enforcement, and the military</li>
<li>Permanently ban Trump from all digital media platforms</li>
<li>Defund the police</li>
<li>Don’t let the coup be used as an excuse to crack down on our movement</li>
<li>Pass the BREATHE Act</li>
</ol>
So, BLM has identified Donald Trump, the racist police, and other &#8216;white supremacists&#8217; as the imminent threat to black lives in our country. Those villains line up nicely and not by accident with President Biden’s April, 2021, proclamation that white supremacy “is the most lethal threat to the homeland today.&#8221; 
It’s not climate change, the threat of nuclear war, not the thousands of unvetted, unvaccinated people illegally pouring into our country, or the Mexican drug cartels funneling deadly amounts of fentanyl and other drugs over our open border — killing over 100,000 Americans a year.
It’s also not the mentally ill and violent criminals living in tents on your streets, or the rising tide of violent crime and failing education.
It’s not even out-of-control inflation, the 31 trillion in national debt, or reckless government spending.
No, it’s none of that. It’s &#8216;white supremacy&#8217; that threatens our lives, but most especially black lives.
During my police career with the NYPD, I was involved in the investigation of hundreds of homicide cases. The majority of those cases involved the tragic death of a young black or Hispanic man murdered by another young black or Hispanic man. That is a fact. Not one of them involved a white supremacist.
I worked with and for hundreds of police officers of all different ethnicities. I’ve never met a white supremacist. I don’t know anyone who is a white supremacist. I don’t even know someone who knows someone who’s a white supremacist.
In 2018, the leading cause of death among black males from age 1-44 was homicide. In line with my own experience, the suspects in the majority of those cases were other young black men. That is a sad and tragic statistic and a national disgrace.
The data is readily available for those who choose to see it, though it might not comport with the white supremacist narrative our woeful president and dishonest BLM leaders are trying to feed you.
Every week the headlines scream at us:
“38 shot, 6 killed during weekend in Mayor Lightfoot’s Chicago.”
“New York City weekend bloodshed leaves 31 people shot, 6 killed…”
Why is this allowed to go on? Why do the people who support BLM ignore what is clearly the biggest threat to black lives in this moment — a threat happening right before our eyes, every single day?
Last night, tonight, and tomorrow night, as sure as the sun rises and sets, dozens more young black and brown men will be slaughtered on the streets of our cities by other young black and brown men. It’s no mystery where, why or how these killings are happening.
For the most part it’s in the same economically challenged, minority populated areas, where liberal democrat politicians have been in control for decades making empty promises and delivering nothing.
Where is the outrage about this daily massacre? Perhaps these political hacks are too busy screaming for bail reform, defunding the police or emptying our prisons — which inevitably leads to the loss of many more black lives.
To me, and the people I served with, every homicide victim’s life mattered. Regardless of the circumstances, every one of them was someone’s son or daughter, brother or sister, mother or father. The hearts of those families break like any other hearts.
Why isn’t this being treated like the national emergency it is? Why do the corrupt media, politicians and celebrities across the entertainment and sports world want you to believe the real threat is systemic racism inside police forces? Why do they say police officers are running amok, murdering unarmed young black men and women everyday when, with very few exceptions, there is no evidence to support it?
The CDC reports there were <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/homicide.htm">24,576 homicides in America in 2020</a>. Roughly 10,000 of those victims were African American or black. On average, police fatally shoot about 1,000 people per year. That number includes people who were using deadly force against the police or someone else when they were killed. About 6% of those <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/police-shootings-database/">police shootings</a> involve an unarmed suspect.  A very small fraction of those involved some accusation of misconduct by the police officer.
In a country with a general population of over <a href="https://www.census.gov/popclock/">333,000,000</a>, that doesn’t seem like an epidemic. But it is among these few cases that the race hustlers and their partners in the propaganda media find their ammunition to create and peddle this dangerous false narrative of white supremacy.
The New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles police departments are the <a href="https://policeteststudyguide.com/largest-police-departments-in-the-united-states/">three largest departments</a> in the country. They each serve a very significant minority population.
According to 2021 Census figures, of the <a href="https://www1.nyc.gov/site/nypd/about/about-nypd/about-nypd-landing.page">36,000 plus members of the NYPD</a>, 43% are White, 31% Hispanic, <a href="https://www1.nyc.gov/site/ccrb/policy/data-transparency-initiative-mos.page">16% Black, 10% Asian</a>.
In Chicago’s <a href="https://informationportal.igchicago.org/chicago-police-department-active-sworn-officer-overview/">11,000 plus member department</a>, 45% of the officers are White, 31% Hispanic, 20% Black and 3% Asian.
And of the roughly <a href="https://www.lapdonline.org/">10,000 officers serving in the LAPD</a>, 50% are Hispanic, 30% White, 9% Black, 8% Asian, 2% Filipino and .3% Native American — hardly a bastion of white supremacy.
Having done the job for over 2 decades in New York City, in a very violent era, I can’t think of a worse job for a white supremacist. Not only are you likely to be working side by side with or for a minority colleague, the vast majority of your duties are risking your life in dangerous neighborhoods while serving, protecting and coming to the aid of mostly minority residents.
In 1994, when Republican NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani came into office, the city would suffer <a href="https://www.disastercenter.com/crime/nycrime.htm">more than 2,000 homicides that year</a>. He implemented smart, sensible strategies that helped the men and women of the NYPD save tens of thousands of mostly black lives over the next two decades, in many cases risking and sometimes giving their own lives to do so.
After giving their blood sweat and tears to make the city a safe place, I can think of no greater insult than to be labeled a racist or white supremacist.
If BLM, the clueless social justice warriors like LeBron James, Colin Kaepernick, and the lemmings who blindly support them truly believed black lives matter, their fight for justice and equity would be away from the cameras. They would be on the violent, inner city street corners standing side-by-side with the police calling out the real problems, imploring these young people to stop killing each other, uniting not dividing. They would demand the crony politicians fix the failing schools and make the streets safe for the good people who live there. But don’t hold your breath.
BLM was founded by self proclaimed Marxists who have long ago forgotten the spirit of their optimistic mission statement. And as long as these phonies continue to peddle the false narrative that police departments are full of white supremacists and not well intentioned, honest, hard working police officers, many more black lives will be lost and that should matter to everyone.
John Dove is a retired NYPD Detective Lieutenant and the former co-executive producer of CSI-NY.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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