Better Late than Never

Four days later - way to be timely Dean:

• An activist’s declaration at last Friday’s Chicago Teachers Union rally — “f— the police, and everybody f— with ‘em” has drawn the ire of Chicago police and a sound Twitter scolding for union president Karen Lewis.
  
  And now the Fraternal Order of Police is asking Lewis to condemn the insult tossed out at the end of the CTU-organized rally outside the Thompson Center that has upset FOP members and their families — many of which include Chicago Public School teachers. They took to Twitter and to peppering a popular Chicago police blog with angry comments.

Karen knows she's pretty much lost this round against Rahm - public opinion isn't behind the one-day strike, her union is fracturing as more and more teachers see this overreach as a failure, not to mention the disgust by a large percentage of her membership to the types of organizations she's aligned the union with. For this reason, we don't expect any sort of meaningful apology.

There might be something in a few days or weeks after the hubbub has died down. But it'll be insincere - if she meant it, she would have said something the evening after or day after these statements were made on a stage she paid for, at a protest she organized, under the banner she marched beneath.