Dick Durbin experiences Chicago gun violence first-hand; Lightfoot urged to declare ‘public safety emergency'
Durbin's experience came a little more than two months after former U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer was attacked and robbed of her cellphone in California
By Dom Calicchio | Fox News
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said Friday that he recently became the latest Democrat to have a too-close-for-comfort experience with urban crime.
The 76-year-old senator’s ordeal last weekend prompted David Axelrod, a former top adviser to former President Barack Obama, to call on Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, a fellow Democrat, to declare a "public safety emergency" in America’s third-largest city.
"Last Saturday night," Durbin told reporters, "my wife and I went out to eat, downtown Chicago, with another couple – several couples – and we were driving home on Lake Shore Drive about 10 o’clock on Saturday night.
Suddenly, "I heard a popping sound," Durbin recalled, according to Chicago’s WBBM-TV. "I didn’t know what it was. The driver of the car said, ‘Those are gunshots.’ It turned out to be the car next to us.
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