Thursday, August 28, 2025

Why Hire This?

This certainly looks like some quid pro quo of some sort:

  • A civil rights attorney with a history of suing the city over alleged police misconduct has been chosen to serve as Mayor Brandon Johnson’s director of strategy, a move that one pro-police City Council member called a “serious conflict of interest.”

    Sheila Bedi is a clinical professor of law at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and director of the Community Justice and Civil Rights Clinic. The clinic describes itself as providing “students with opportunities to work within social-justice movements on legal and policy strategies aimed at redressing over-policing and mass imprisonment.”

    It was in that role that Bedi drew the attention of a congressional committee for representing a pro-Palestinian group that shut down the road leading to O’Hare Airport last year to protest Israel’s role in the war in Gaza. 

    [...] Bedi was also the attorney who represented activist Miracle Boyd and persuaded the city to compensate Boyd with a $280,000 settlement for being roughed up and having her front tooth knocked out by a Chicago police officer during a 2020 protest at the Christopher Columbus statue in Grant Park. That statue has since been removed from its pedestal.

    And Bedi served on the legal team for the family of Dexter Reed, who was shot to death by police officers in 2024 after Reed shot and wounded one of them during a traffic stop. A $1.25 million proposed settlement that would have compensated the Reed family stalled in the Council’s Finance Committee amid opposition from pro-police Council members.

    Ald. Matt O’Shea (19th), one of the police union’s staunchest Council supporters, called Bedi’s appointment a “very serious conflict of interest because of her history” of representing activists in legal action against the city.

She can certainly do more damage to city taxpayers and city finances as an insider, that's for certain, pushing for settlements without trials and opening the already-empty accounts to further depredation. 

Just another dumb move by Conehead who is determined to break the city finances for his political masters over at the CTU. 

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39 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Totally F'd up.
Par for the course with Conehead......

8/28/2025 12:19:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

You want to know how she feels about the police? CWB found a law article she write about defunding the police.
https://law.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Bedi_Limiting-Police-Presence-Power_Revised-3.21.22-1.pdf

8/28/2025 12:24:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

O'Shea....mad cause he didn't get his cut of the action....

8/28/2025 12:29:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

They will rig anything they can.

Anything.

8/28/2025 12:43:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Quid pro quo? She's been sending $100 per month to BJ's re-election campaign fund for several years.

https://cwbchicago.com/2025/08/mayors-latest-hire-a-defund-advocate-says-police-harm-black-and-brown-communities-with-impunity.html

8/28/2025 12:50:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"She can certainly do more damage to city taxpayers and city finances as an insider..."

That's clearly the motivation here. That's how communists reward each other - with YOUR MONEY. They believe they're ENTITLED to it. If we cut off the flow of cash to these people, we end A LOT of our problems with them.

8/28/2025 01:08:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

A question for the HR types-
Wouldn’t this be a
Conflict of Interest?

8/28/2025 02:23:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Money laundering through patronage. Business as usual in Chicago. City broke but continuing to create more six-figure fake jobs.

8/28/2025 04:34:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Bankrupt the city already.
Literally no smart person should own property in Chicago due to the tax consequences.

8/28/2025 05:33:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

They are taking the whole anti policing and incarceration thing all the way. Conehead sure doesn't seem worried about reelection which means he has a plan. It's time for serious push back by the voters before Chicago descends into madness.

8/28/2025 06:38:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Reed and Boyd say no more

8/28/2025 06:56:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Lol. The fox guarding the hen house. Just how far can Johnson push his woke crap

8/28/2025 06:59:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Out went Andrea Kersten. In comes Sheila Bedi. Yep, that makes sense.

8/28/2025 07:00:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

She’s like a hemorrhoid, she just won’t go away.

8/28/2025 07:08:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Only hired as a puppet to do his dirty work and abide to HIS rules.

8/28/2025 07:16:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Assuming they're qualified to answer

8/28/2025 07:31:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Please explain again, why anyone still works for CPD?

8/28/2025 07:49:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

He knows he will never get elected again. He's breaking this on purpose.

8/28/2025 07:56:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Another racist pick. When will the liberals and split the vote people in this city finally wake up?

8/28/2025 07:57:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The werewolf is guarding the hen house

8/28/2025 08:36:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Is she in good standing with the democrat controlled Bar Association?

8/28/2025 08:39:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

How much time does she have to make to get cut in on the city pension plan? Two years is my guess...which explains most of Coneheads appointees. Maybe some intrepid Chicago " news" reporter can look into how much these shitbags/ griftees are going to cost this broke ass city in pensions. But then again...probably not. We got plenty of money...

8/28/2025 08:44:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Bedi is on a committee overseeing implementation of Consent Decree criminal justice oppression initiatives. Did you know she is a clinical professor of law at the Northwestern pritzker School of Law at Northwestern University and director of the of Community Justice and Civil Rights clinic? The same university that was sued for antisemitism by students at the Pritzker-Empire funded campus. Bedi be that social justice warrior and clean up your own dirty as shit campus and squeal at the top of your lungs, "Hate has no home here". Shame on you Bedi for your silence on hate crimes, hateful rhetoric and antiemetic harassment on your campus. Jewish students had to resort to one of your moneymaking legal strategies bringing forth civil rights violation lawsuits to seek civil redress and relief at your affiliated campus.

8/28/2025 09:27:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

All of these people remind me of the little bugs that fly up when I mow the lawn. They try to stay two inches in front of my eyeball, and will not go away. Annoying for the sake of being annoying.

8/28/2025 09:32:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The insanity is limitless.

8/28/2025 09:44:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The Shitcago way

8/28/2025 09:49:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

we can put her on the 5th floor with the fat lazy Lt that does nothing. She couldn't cut it on the street, now dana oMalley is hiding her inside, she is a medical abuser waiting to happen.

8/28/2025 10:26:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Just another WTF moment by a city fool that has had hundreds of WTF moments. Good lord- when is Coneheads term up?

8/28/2025 10:33:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

How many days left before he is voted out. We should have a countdown on the blog.

8/28/2025 12:06:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Maybe it's his sidepiece you were on about a year back....

8/28/2025 12:41:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

His plan all along was to make sure CTU was taken care of. When he leaves here with a full pension he'll just get a job with CTU.

8/28/2025 01:13:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Just another bad decision by a really bad mayor...the worst ever!

8/28/2025 02:07:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Would this be the Greek lt or the other one?

8/28/2025 02:08:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I can't see him running for reelection. If he does, it will prove that he is completely out of touch with reality. Who would donate to this fool's campaign? He will be broke after buying up a few billboards and radio spots.

8/28/2025 02:10:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Did Larry pick Talley or not? At the awards ceremony he stated, "I and I alone picked Talley."

8/28/2025 02:11:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Question, why are opsa polices not published like the police department's directives?

8/28/2025 02:12:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Remember in April 2024 when protestors shut down I-190 with an anti Israel protest. Fifty-four arrests. Guess who represented them. None other than Social Justice lawyer Shelia Bedi. Have you heard that name before? Attorney Shelia Bedi was subpoenaed by Congress to address public funding to Northwestern University which was diverted to her Community Justice and Civil Rights Clinic for "legal" progressive left wing subversive political activities. And now a close confident of Let go Brandon. Remember mayor when you hang with progressive extremists dogs, your gonna get fleas.

https://freebeacon.com/campus/northwestern-law-school-clinic-funds-legal-defense-of-anti-israel-activists-who-shut-down-chicago-airport/

https://nlgchicago.org/2025/04/03/statement-in-support-of-nlg-members-sheila-bedi-rifqa-falaneh/

8/28/2025 02:32:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Bottom line. This Shelia Bedi is no friend of law enforcement nor an orderly society. She is clearly a radical progressive with boiler plate university level Marxist indoctrination.

8/28/2025 02:50:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The loser Andrea Kersten is being replaced by another loser Sheila Bedi. Conehead calls this "progressive progress". Most citizens consider this madness. Most Communists, Socialists, Democrats and the media consider this another nail in CPD's coffin and in the coffin of the citizens of broken city. It's the Chicago Way.

8/28/2025 03:59:00 PM  

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