From Breitbart:
Chicago Mayor Launches Police Raid to Shut Down Black Church’s Sunday Services
On Sunday, Chicago’s mayor, Lori Lightfoot, mounted a raid on a black South Side church for holding services in defiance of her coronavirus lockdown orders.
Lightfoot reportedly sent three marked squad cars and two unmarked cars full of officers to the Chicago Cornerstone Baptist Church in the South Side’s Woodlawn neighborhood. Woodlawn is just south of Hyde Park, the area in which the Obamas lived for a short time before Barack became president.
The pastor of the mostly black congregation, Courtney Lewis, reportedly shut and locked the doors and refused to allow the officers to gain entry to the building, Todd Starnes reported.
Pastor Lewis told Starnes that he felt like he was confronting “the Soviet-style KGB” as the officers pounded on his doors and demanded entry to shut the church down.
“Thankfully, our doors were locked as a normal safety precaution we take each service to protect our members from the escalating gun violence in Chicago,” Lewis said.
A sentry that is usually posted outside the sanctuary to monitor the street during service also reported seeing occupants of a dark car with tinted windows filming the incident through one opened window.
Glad that they refused entry - do not give them an inch. And, note that penultimate line: "“Thankfully, our doors were locked as a normal safety precaution we take each service to protect our members from the escalating gun violence in Chicago,” Lewis said."
What Mayor should be dealing with is this - from the Chicago Tribune:
Memorial Day weekend already deadliest in years with 36 shot, 9 killed in Chicago
Nine people already have been shot and killed in Chicago over Memorial Day weekend, making it the deadliest one since 2015.
The dead are among at least 36 people shot from Friday afternoon to Monday morning, according to data kept by the Tribune.
With a day to go in the long weekend, the number of shootings is approaching 2019′s total despite a coronavirus stay-at-home order, Saturday’s severe storms and added police patrols.
The year is not even half over and we have these numbers:
-
- Year to Date
- Shot & Killed: 186
- Shot & Wounded: 838
- Total Shot: 1024
- Total Homicides: 206
And this despite some of the most stringent and draconian gun laws in the nation. Talk about being a shithole city. Having Pritzker for governor does not help.
Leave a comment