Who the F#$% Was This?

Inside info of the political maneuvering that took place behind the scenes, trying to get Conehead to the funeral of Officer Huesca, including some truly scumbag behavior by Special Activities Section and an unnamed Spanish speaking exempt member:

• Fraternal Order of Police President John Catanzara is lifting the curtain on the backstage maneuvers culminating in Mayor Brandon Johnson and Gov. J.B. Pritzker being told to stay away from the funeral of slain Chicago Police Officer Luis Huesca.

  The back-and-forth, which only intensified the grieving family’s anguish, did not start and end with Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza delivering the stay-away message directly to the mayor Sunday night.

There was a conference call in which Huesca's sister threatened to make a scene and toss the mayor out herself. At this point, the true scumbaggery commenced:

• Catanzara “thought everything was squared away” until midday Sunday, when the Huesca family, gathered for the wake, texted a question: “Is the mayor really coming?” He rushed to the funeral home, where CPD personnel told him they had talked to the family, and “they understand that the mayor is mandatory to be here,” Catanzara said.

  “I said, ‘You’re lying to the family. There is nothing mandatory about the mayor’s attendance, and shame on you for even trying to tell the family that this is the only option they have.’”

  A flurry of conversations ensued, one including CPD Supt. Larry Snelling on speakerphone with other police brass, one of whom told Huesca’s mother, in Spanish, it was “mandatory that the mayor had to show up.”

  “ At one point, there was an implication that the honors funeral is tied to the mayor’s attendance. That was the guilt trip that we’re laying on this family,” Catanzara said.

We'd certainly like to have that exempt's name so we can properly denounce him and let everyone know what a dick he actually is....though everyone probably knows it already.

Here's the deal - once Larritorious declared it a "Line of Duty Death," the Honors Funeral is a given. Period. No "take backsies" or other such bullshit. You declared it. 

If Larritorious made this declaration at the behest of politicians for the sole reason that Conehead and Fata$$ could have a photo opportunity, then Larritorious needs to be demoted, fired and drummed out of the Department. He would have made a mockery of every other Line of Duty death AND cheapened the death of a good and decent copper who just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Also, Catanzara is correct. There is zero "mandatory" appearance for anyone to appear. Not in Law, not in Ordinance, not in policy. And for some scumbag exempt to try to guilt the bereaved family into acquiescing so that some asshole politician can pretend to be something that everyone knows his entire first year of office was spent portraying the entire Department as the enemy, as racist, as something needed to be reined-in, then that exempt needs to be identified, demoted and called out as an utter tool.

And everyone at Special Activities Section needs to be tossed back to a District for the rest of their careers, blacklisted from ever being in a phone call unit, and reminded every day that they're fucking idiots, probably just like the exempt that brought them downtown in the first place.