Two Defund-the-Police Democrat Politicians Get Carjacked

Quick, someone scramble the Mental Health Professionals!

First, Illinois State Senator Kimberly Lightford was carjacked at gunpoint in her suburban neighborhood. Gunshots were fired.

Illinois Senate Majority Leader Kimberly Lightford revealed Thursday that her husband fired shots at carjackers after a Mercedes SUV they were in was seized from them at gunpoint in the western suburbs.

Lightford and her husband Eric McKennie were in the Mercedes dropping off a friend Tuesday night in Broadview when three masked men in a Dodge Durango boxed in the SUV, police said.

"I begged them not to shoot my husband, not to shoot me," Lightford told reporters Thursday morning at a Christmas present giveaway for children in Proviso Township. "They took everything off me that I had of value."

Lightford said her husband gave the carjackers the keys to the car.

"They had separated me and my husband," she said on WGN-TV. "After they got the guns off of us, my husband told me to run. I ran, reluctantly, because I didn't want to leave him there. And it was a scary run because now shots are being fired. I thought for sure they were going to shoot me."

Her husband has a concealed carry permit. I bet she'd deny you the right to have one, though.

Just hours later, another leftwing democrat, US Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon, was carjacked at gunpoint in Philadelphia.

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner has promised to vigorously seek culpability when these individuals are apprehended by police. He stated that he is grateful that Congresswoman Scanlan is safe and was not physically assaulted. According to CBS Philly, he claims that he is in communication with law enforcement, which is working diligently to find the people responsible for this crime and get them off the streets. He said that based on the evidence they have at this time, it appears that two individuals were engaged in this carjack. He also stated that armed robberies are among the most serious crimes because of the danger they represent to victims and the dread they instil in communities.

Oh, Krasner will actually prosecute, huh? Because this affected one of his political cronies?

Both of these women have been "staunch supporters" of "police reforms," aka "Defund the Police."

Scanlon wants to replace police with mental health specialists.

Both Scanlon and Lightford have been staunch supporters of police reforms in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis in May 2020.

"We have seen too many lives taken and communities devastated by police brutality and racial profiling," Scanlon tweeted shortly after Floyd's death. "Action is long overdue. @HouseDemocrats are fighting for REAL reform in our country's police departments. #JusticeInPolicing."

Scanlon is one of 125 co-sponsors of the Mental Health Justice Act, which aimed to place some police officers as first responders with mental health specialists. All of the bill's sponsors are Democrats. The bill's text says its purpose is "To authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants to States and political subdivisions of States to hire, employ, train, and dispatch mental health professionals to respond in lieu of law enforcement officers in emergencies involving one or more persons with a mental illness or an intellectual or developmental disability, and for other purposes."

Kimberly Lightford voted to defund the Chicago police:

Lightford is also a vocal advocate of defunding the police who proposed slashing the Chicago Police Department's budget by $80 million last year.

Both harpies were heard wailing "O, whatever have I done to deserve this!"

Possibly Divine mocking laughter was reported to be heard in the foothills.

posted by Ace at 05:46 PM

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