Officers 'turned away' from Lori Lightfoot during hospital visit

over the weekend chicago police officer ella french and her partner made a routine traffic stop they approached the vehicle and the suspects opened fire officer french shot in the head she's gone tonight her partner is still fighting for his life two brothers emante and eric morgan 22 and 21 years of age were charged in her murder joining me now is john canazera president of chicago's fraternal order of police john we heard a story about lori lightfoot going to see the officer in critical condition and his family in the hospital what happened when she got there well first of all i want people to say her name ella french our city is less safe because ella french is no longer with us it's a disgrace but when the mayor against the wishes of the family proceeded up to the seventh floor of that hospital she was given a little advice by the officer's father who was a recently retired cpd member and he let her know what he thought and he didn't appreciate her coming up there and the officers on that floor when she went to approach them all turned around faced the other way and took a couple steps away from her it was literally an exclamation point to the sentiment that was seven fours below on the street level where i was with several hundred officers it was a very palpable angry resentful just police force and it wasn't just because of the incident it was because the mayor was there and certain brass who have led to a lot of problems within this police department well there's an enormous amount of pent-up anger frustration a sense of betrayal among the officers we had a chance to talk to today they wouldn't come on camera words cannot describe their emotion but al of french's name is a name that i'm so glad you said said it the way you said it they want everyone to know her name given what happened amazing officer yes uh you know she is the face of what this department was supposed to be going forward the city's phrase of be the change ella was trying to be the change and because of policies that have been encouraged propaganded and actually promoted by city and state officials these criminals think they can do whatever they want with no repercussions i will tell you you know at the hospital saturday night you know a group of members made a stand and thankfully they did but i just left the cst unit where allah and officer yanez were out of and i spoke to a large contingent of these officers after the superintendent had just got done speaking to them the mayor was supposed to originally be at that roll call they told the members the the exempt members there that they did not want the mayor there and she was not allowed to come and speak to them thank you thank you thank you for being with us tonight this is a heartbreak hey sean hannity here hey click here to subscribe to fox news youtube page and catch our hottest interviews and most compelling analysis you will not get it anywhere else

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Length: 3min 16sec (196 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 09 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/earnedit68]

Weird. They are out there enforcing the city's unconstitutional gun laws.

Now they have a problem with her? Typical of police to stomp on the citizens rights and then claim they're victims.