Father of badly wounded Chicago police officer slams Lightfoot, she ‘tied the hands of the police’

The father of a Chicago police officer who suffered serious injuries in a shootout with suspects earlier this month that resulted in the death of Officer Ella French called out Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Wednesday and said policy changes at the department gave bad guys in the city the upper hand against law enforcement.

"They didn’t do that when I was on the job," he told the paper. "They let us be police. There wasn’t a day that I didn’t draw my weapon, have it behind my leg or behind my thigh." He told the paper that he did not want Lightfoot to visit his son in the hospital because his son was "no fan" to "put it mildly."