Getting Crowded Under the Bus

We can't stop laughing - Groot took Brownie, and just tossed him under the bus - and he hasn't even been here a month yet (Tribune story):

• Mayor Lori Lightfoot publicly scolded her new police superintendent Tuesday for not coming up with a good enough strategy to contain violence over the Memorial Day weekend, the deadliest in five years, though she acknowledged the department is facing its greatest challenge in decades.
  
  “While I know that there was a lot of energy and coordination among a variety of groups, what I said to the superintendent this morning is this was a fail,” Lightfoot said. “And whatever the strategy is, it didn’t work … This weekend’s violence was out of control.”
  
  At least 10 people were shot to death and at least 40 others were wounded by gunfire over the long weekend, despite a statewide stay-at-home order and a plan by Superintendent David Brown to step up patrols and better coordinate their deployment across the city.

Chump the Wrapper chimed in with Groot:

• Yo I seen HUNDREDS of ppl at millennium park and and pics of even more at the parks on the north side. Outside, no masks, no social distancing, enjoying themselves. Please stop sending large groups of militarized police into our neighborhoods exclusively

Of course, Chump has to resort to lies to make his point. Most people were wearing masks, most were social distancing, and they were enjoying themselves without drinking on the public way, blasting loud music, decidedly lacking in gunfire and openly brandishing of weapons. Those factors alone would mean less police presence.

In the meantime, guess whose fault all the mayhem was? If you answered "the community," slap yourself with a cocobolo nightstick.

It was The Police of course!!! (Sun Times story)

• In her afternoon news conference, Lightfoot blamed disgruntled cops upset about cuts in police overtime for spreading a false rumor that there were 1,000 fewer police officers on the street. But she also contradicted Brown, saying “In fact, there were more officers on the street this weekend” than in prior years.

False rumor? Really? More than prior years? Perhaps Groot would care to explain this from our City Hall spies:

• After a meeting at City Hall two weeks ago to date, Brown calls West and Riccio to his office. He demands a cost-benefit-analysis of manpower vs. shootings v. OT because LL has given him marching orders to curb ALL overtime. Hence this weekends bloodbath.

Hey Brownie, it's not to late to be your own man. Reclaim your balls, pack your bags, and leave town while burning every bridge behind you by revealing exactly how Groot is running the Department, leaving incompetent lackeys in place, restricting your ability to make actual changes and demote the morons who have cheated their way to the top spots.