Chicago's Top Cop Calls Gun Owners "Corrupt" For Lobbying Their Representatives
Garry McCarthy once used his badge to try to get a relative out of a traffic ticket
Facing a surging homicide rate and several headline-grabbing murders, Chicago's top cop is taking aim at lobbyists who he says prevent politicians from implementing more gun control measures.
Appearing on a local Windy City Sunday morning talk show on the radio station WLSAM, Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said special interests that lobby politicians to influence their opinion on gun control are the real problem.
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What special interests does he prefer in his corrupt government?
That's only the tip of the idiocy that he spouted.
http://www.prnewswire.com/news.....88711.html
Ah, yeah. I bet he appeared in uniform too.
Has anything good ever come from Chicago? Can we please just ignore this city, kick it out of Illinois and the U.S. completely? It already operates very similarly to the Vatican except boundlessly more corrupt and rotten.
The media needs to strike against reporting on anything from Chicago as it only serves to proliferate their doublespeak, corrupt core.