Only 16 Chicago police officers are on no-pay status for defying the city’s vaccine mandate, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Tuesday, dismissing the possibility that mass firings will be needed in the middle off an unrelenting wave of violent crime.
"As we sit here today, my understanding from the police department is that there are only 16 people that are in no-pay status arising from disciplinary issues related to the vaccine mandate," Lightfoot said.
"I’m not gonna to be involved in political charades and stunts. … I’m just not. … People are sick and tired of gamesmanship played out just because somebody wants to get media attention," said Lightfoot, who will be on a previously scheduled trip to Miami for both city business and political fundraising.
Lightfoot branded as "fundamentally false" the claim by Fraternal Order of Police President John Catanzara that the city was punishing officers by playing politics with exemptions. Catanzara, she noted, encouraged his members to "apply for something called ‘conscientious objection,’ which is not something that’s recognized in the law." He also urged them to file on a different form than the city provides — a form that did not include "all of the data points" required by the city’s Department of Human Resources.
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