Mayor Lightfoot Says Leadership at the Fraternal Order of Police Are Trying to ‘Induce an Insurrection’ Against Vaccine Mandates

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LIGHTFOOT: "So, you asked a question of why the lawsuit. Because we believe that the FOP leadership is trying to foment an illegal work stop, a strike. Pure and simple. We've laid that out in the materials, and we’re not just — we’re not having that. The contract is clear and it's been known for a long time. The police unions are not authorized to strike. It’s in their collective bargaining agreement and it’s a matter of state law. What we’ve seen from the Fraternal Order of Police, and particularly the leadership, is a lot of misinformation. A lot of half-truths, and frankly, flat-out lies in order to induce an insurrection. And we’re not having that. And so, we want to make it very, very clear that the law is on our side, we feel very confident about it. And what he said, even after — what I heard that he said even after the lawsuit was filed, and we notified them, is urging members of the department to ignore their chain of command. And let me be very clear about this: John Catanzara has destroyed his police career, destroyed it.”