It really does a disservice to the moment that we’re in,” she said. And that’s offensive, frankly, that you would ask me that question. The mayor made no effort to hide her anger when asked Wednesday why she ignored the family’s wishes. Officers gathered for French and her wounded partner turned their backs on the mayor as she approached. Shortly after, Lightfoot walked out into the hallway and suffered another indignity. But Lightfoot ignored his wishes and got a tongue-lashing from the father. The mayor was told repeatedly that the wounded officer’s father, a retired Chicago police officer himself, didn’t want her on the floor of the University of Chicago Medical Center where his son was being treated in the intensive care unit. Lightfoot is facing her own political backlash after the Saturday night traffic stop in West Englewood that left French dead and her partner fighting for his life after being shot by one of the men in the stopped car.
Eric Carter deserves our respect and our thanks for his service - both as a Marine and now, as a police officer for many, many years.” “It’s really hard when the media becomes ferocious in propagating a story that’s just not true. He did his job and came up through the ranks and worked his tail off and, now he’s the first deputy,” she said. “What people don’t like is that he wasn’t part of the friends-and-family program. Lightfoot stood firmly behind the first deputy, calling him an “incredible public servant” and a “dedicated veteran” who does not deserve to be vilified. Go ahead and get the vehicle inside,” Carter is heard saying on a recording. On the police scanner, Carter’s voice is heard impatiently declaring: “We don’t have 20 minutes for this s-.” He demanded the Chicago Fire Department ambulance bearing French’s body be taken directly into the medical examiner’s office, skipping the Emerald Society’s traditional playing of bagpipes. The Chicago Sun-Times reported this week that Chicago police officers who gathered at the medical examiner’s office on Saturday night to give their colleague a final send-off are furious at Carter. At no time did personnel from the Medical Examiner’s Office try to impede officers or bagpipers,” the office said.
“First-responders have always gathered in the office parking lot and dock to pay respects to fallen police officers and firefighters.
The Cook County medical examiner’s office said Wednesday that rules for processions haven’t changed since the pandemic began. Slain Chicago cop Ella French’s mom: ‘It breaks my heart, but she died doing what she was called to do’
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