1. Lori Lightfoot

Lori Lightfoot made history in 2019 when she became Chicago’s first Black female mayor and first lesbian mayor. Since taking office, she’s been a powerful voice for the disenfranchised, standing up to everyone from homophobic police officers to ignorant city council members to Donald Trump himself.
Lightfoot began her career in city government in 2002 when she was appointed chief administrator of the Chicago Police Department Office of Professional Standards, a police oversight committee.
In 2010 she was named president of the Chicago Police Board, where she made recommendations about disciplinary action in police misconduct cases. A year later, she was named chair of a special Police Accountability Task Force, where she criticized the police union’s “code of silence” and advocated for police reform. And this, remember, was a decade before police violence became a dominant issue in American politics.
In May 2018, Lightfoot announced a long-shot candidacy for Mayor of Chicago, her first-ever run for public office. After a dramatic campaign that included a runoff election, she won more than 73% of the vote and all 50 wards of the city.
In recent weeks, Lightfoot has emerged as one of the loudest national voices speaking out against systemic racism and calling for police reform in the wake of George Floyd‘s murder and the protests around the country.
Speaking at a City Council meeting earlier this year, Lightfoot announced:
When I was coming out in my 20s, similarly I was worried about how I would be perceived, and I let people say terrible things about gays and lesbians in my presence and I was silent. I will be silent no more on any issue. When people say and do things that are offensive and racist, I feel I have an obligation to speak, and so I am.
Neoprene
Fun fact about Lori. She has 360 degree vision like a Chameleon. Don’t even THINK about trying to sneak up on her!
jennifer.white530
Too bad Lori Lightfoot cannot do anything to stop the black on black murders in Chicago. Would be nice if ALL Black Lives Mattered.
QNetter
What about the white-on-white murders? Fun fact: most people who are murdered are murdered by people they know, and next most common, people in their communities. Given the fact that the US is still strongly segregated, X-on-X murders is typical. As is your whataboutism.
Manray
You shallow stupid woman. Is Lori supposed to personally disarm them? Shut up, She’s mayor of Chicago and you’re some tired shallow lesbian who is a nobody. Loser.
Hdtex
Candidate Trump promised he would solve the crime problem in his first 30 days. WHAT HAPPENED???
Are you this stupid IRL?
jennifer.white530
94% of African American murders in the USA are at the hands of other blacks. These lives do not matter to the Black Lives Matter movement because it does not fit the Narrative of the Democratic party.
Kangol2
Liar. Black politicians, community activists and regular people decry the senseless murders of Black people by other Black people. Look it up before you spout more racist claptrap. Now, what about white on white murders, like that deranged monster whose two children were chopped up into pieces. Did you speak out about that? About the psychos who go on murderous rampages, like the one in Las Vegas, slaughtering countless people? Or the one who killed all those people in the Jewish synagogue? Do you speak out about white on white crime, including the massacres?
Hdtex
Sadly, Jennifer shows what a steaming pile of pig feces she really is.
Manray
Dumb republicam idiot. Shut up. You sound like a low IQ asshole.
jennifer.white530
Kangol2, you are clueless. We are talking about Black Lives Matter and how only selected black lives are allowed to be discussed. DO NOT try to change the subject about mass shootings which is a totally different problem in America. You should moved to South Chicago and keep voting Democrat if you think their policies are the best!.
GayEGO
Congratulations to Mayor Lori Lightfoot. We have come a long way baby! I was a teenager when Boise Idaho sent professors to prison just for the idea they were gay. A DVD was created called “The Fall of ’55” that explains what happened, and Boise is embarrassed about it.
Hdtex
Fun fact: “jennifer.white530” is a racist, homophobic, steaming sack of human garbage. Ban this puss oozing gash from Queerty.