Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has been slowly letting the city in Illinois go downhill. She was lighthanded on rioters and looters during the Antifa BLM riots of 2020 and beyond. She has railed against Republicans who sent illegal immigrants to her city despite being pro-illegal immigrant.
She has overseen crime increases plaguing the city’s residents. Now, McDonald’s might even consider putting their money elsewhere due to crime and challenges in the city. Recently, a reporter spoke out against Lightfoot and had his credentials pulled. He is pushing back, however. Journalist William J. Kelly filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
He not only implicates Lightfoot but Chicago Police Department Superintendent David Brown for violating his first and fourteenth amendment rights. Kelly repeatedly questioned Lightfoot’s “failures in performance” and filed suit in late August.
Will he have a good enough lawyer and get a fair shake in court on her turf? That’s what will remain to be seen, assuming his accusations hold legal water in our opinion. Kelly said the case is a textbook case of violations of his rights, but that the textbook is “From Venezuela”.
Fox News reported in part:
The contributing reporter for the Daily Mail said he has used his platform to hold Lightfoot accountable for her “dismal performance” in office through honest reporting and pointed questions during press conferences. But with Lightfoot facing re-election and criticism mounting over her leadership, the mayor is doing everything in her power to keep him out of the room, he said.
“I believe that journalism is extremely important,” Kelly told Tucker Carlson. “I’ve had a media credential in Chicago for over 10 years. Emmy award-winning. Print, radio, TV, but Mayor Lightfoot is the least transparent mayor in our city’s history, and sadly, for better or for worse, the reason my questions were so effective, is because I was asking the questions that real Chicagoans wanted to hear. But they were hurting her re-election campaign so she canceled by media credential.”
In the suit, Kelly alleged that upon Lightfoot’s instruction, Brown “directed a police officer assigned to Lightfoot’s seventy officer strong security force to fabricate a report that Kelly had bumped into him on July 19, 2022. Brown then used this false report as a pretext to revoke Kelly’s press credentials on August 8, 2022.”
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