I'm working really, really hard to shed a tear here

Lori Lightfoot says Chicago crime hurts her fellow blacks.

"… I know that there are people in my city that are wreaking havoc every day and need to be off the streets. That’s reality."

"What do we say to, not only the victims of crime, but the people who are terrified about crimes in their neighborhood, most of whom look like us. If we say, ‘yeah, the police department is spending all this time and resources to arrest, put a case on,’ and the judges and the prosecutors say, ‘you know what? We’re going to let you out on electronic monitoring to wreak havoc again.’"

Lightfoot asked if "somebody musters the courage to come forward and identify the person who just shot up their neighborhood, and then sees Pookie walking bold as day back on the street two days later, what does that say to them?"

It says to them that their mayor has abandoned them to the wolves, but they like it that way: “her people” just replaced Lightfoot with an even worse socialist who believes there are no bad boys, just children who never had access to a band aid with the right skin tone.

And at that same conference of black mayors, NYC’s Adams moaned that the illegal aliens he invited in and welcomed “have destroyed the city”. There are far more reasons for that destruction than 50,000 espaldas mojadas ( amounting to just 1% of all those who Adams’ fellow Democrats have ushered in nationwide), but again, who cares? NYC voters saw what De Blasio did to their city, and voted for more.