Good Samaritan who saved couple in Chicago weekend chaos bashes Lightfoot
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The good Samaritan who saved a couple being attacked during the chaos of Chicago’s weekend “Teen Takeover” blasted lame-duck Mayor Lori Lightfoot for “sugarcoating” the mayhem.
Hundreds of young people flooded the streets of Chicago Saturday for the social media-organized “Teen Takeover,” resulting in a breakdown of civility.
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The crowd broke windows, battered and torched vehicles, broke out in fights, fired guns, and beat bystanders.
In the wake of the chaos, Lightfoot criticized journalists who described the events of the weekend as “mayhem.”
“The vast majority of the young people who came downtown came downtown because it was a great … opportunity to enjoy the city,” she told one reporter who characterized it as such. “There are a few that came with different intentions. They have and they will be dealt with, but I’m not gonna use your language, which I think is wrong to say that it is mayhem.”
Lenora Dennis, the good Samaritan who saved a couple being beaten by the crowd, lambasted Lightfoot’s defense of what many are calling a riot.
“I’m sorry, Lightfoot. I voted for you … but I can’t be involved in any level of sugarcoating what I saw,” Dennis shared with Fox News’s Garrett Tenney. “That was mayhem.”
Dennis witnessed Ashley Knutson and Devante Garrison-Johnson being brutally attacked and feared they might be killed, she said.
“I felt like if I did not intervene, that young man would have gotten killed right there,” according to Dennis. “It was just something that I had to do because I couldn’t accept that.”
Chicago’s leaders, police, and citizens must prevent future crisis events like the “war scene” that broke out Saturday, she said.
“It was very frenetic,” Dennis said. “It was surreal.”
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Leaders like Lightfoot are making the city’s youth think activities like those that took place during the “Teen Takeover” are acceptable, she added, and that has to stop.
“They’re getting indoctrinated to do this kind of crazy stuff,” according to Dennis.