Friday, June 5, 2020

"we’ve got to have national leadership that is calling for calm and making sure that we’re addressing the concerns of the legitimate peaceful protesters."

 6-5-20  Chicago Mayor 
Lori Lightfoot also said she wants cops who are hiding their badge numbers to be fired.   https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-george-floyd-chicago-protests-20200605-5xlqiyxfzfhfhcajakmjaritfq-story.html
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   6-5-20
  IL Gov. Pritzker’s criticism of Trump during Monday’s phone call followed nearly an hour of remarks by Trump and 10 other governors, both Democrat and Republican….Pritzker was the only governor who focused directly on the White House response to Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police. Trump had taken to social media to say “when the looting starts, the shooting starts” and warning that the federal government “will step in and do what has to be done and that includes using the unlimited power of our military.”
  “I wanted to take this moment, I can’t let it pass, to speak up and say that I’ve been extraordinarily concerned with the rhetoric that’s been used by you.  It’s been inflammatory and it’s not OK for that officer to choke George Floyd to death.  But we have to call for calm,” Pritzker told Trump, referring to former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin, who has been charged with second-degree murder.
  “We have to have police reform called for.  We’ve called out our National Guard and our state police, but the rhetoric that’s coming out of the White House is making it worse,” Pritzker said.  “And I need to say that people are feeling real pain out here and that we’ve got to have national leadership that is calling for calm and making sure that we’re addressing the concerns of the legitimate peaceful protesters.  That will help us bring order.”
  Pritzker can get Trump’s attention because the president knows the Illinois governor, with a net worth estimated at $3.4 billion by Forbes, is worth more than he is, said David Yepsen, a former director at the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.     https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-jb-pritzker-donald-trump-20200605-j2dtl5cpurfgtfzarkhxci3kx4-story.html

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