Chicago mayor tweets to refuse ‘Trump’s terrorizing troops’ as 14 residents are being shot in her city
July 22, 2020 | Tom Tillison
With violence spiraling out of control in Chicago, President Donald Trump will send federal agents to help counter the surge, and Mayor Lori Lightfoot took to Twitter to play politics.
“Under no circumstances will I allow Donald Trump’s troops to come to Chicago and terrorize our residents,†the Democratic mayor tweeted.
Lightfoot’s political grandstanding comes on a day when fourteen people were left wounded after a gun battle at a Chicago funeral home — during a service for a man gunned down last week.
“All we saw was bodies just laying everywhere. They were shot up everywhere,†said a resident near the funeral home, according to the Sun-Times. “We thought it was a war out here. It’s ridiculous all the shooting that’s going on out here, it really has to stop.â€
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