Chicago: Lightfoot is “concerned” about the media, but not about the CPD chief whose car was swept up in a drug bust with an infamous police informant – IOTW Report

Chicago: Lightfoot is “concerned” about the media, but not about the CPD chief whose car was swept up in a drug bust with an infamous police informant

CWB Chicago:

On Wednesday afternoon, Mayor Lori Lightfoot finally addressed the story everyone’s been talking about: The confidential police informant who sent police on the ill-fated, botched raid of Anjanette Young’s home was arrested this month after he allegedly threw $6,300 worth of heroin from a car owned by CPD’s chief of internal affairs.

The mayor said she was concerned. But not about Chief Yolanda Talley and not that a six-time convicted drug felon whose lousy information led to a $2.9 million settlement was allegedly in the chief’s car with a stash of heroin. Talley’s niece, the reported informant’s girlfriend, was driving the chief’s car at the time of the incident. The niece was not arrested, and Talley was not in the vehicle.

“I’m concerned,” Lightfoot said, “about some of the coverage that I’ve seen that seems to intimate that Chief Talley had some involvement in what happened. I’ve seen zero evidence to substantiate that.”

“I would urge caution in reporting on this,” the mayor continued. “I have no reason to believe that [Talley] had any involvement whatsoever in this matter.”

Lightfoot expressed her concerns about the media less than 30 seconds after giving a lengthy dissertation about her personal knowledge about the “ingenious” ways gangs operate. more here

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