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Dems ‘feasting like royalty’ in fortified castle behind cops and two walls: Fmr. police chief calls out DNC

August 21, 2024 | | Print Article

The Democrat National Convention’s “joy” theme is contradicted by the dark, gloomy reality of Chicago, according to a former local police chief.

Try as they might to portray a world of “joy” and exuberance, Democrats are ignoring the reality on the ground right around them, former Chicago Police Chief of Detectives Gene Roy told Fox News.

For example, several weeks prior, a 7-year-old died a few blocks away from the DNC after being hit by a stray bullet fired by a known, repeat teen criminal who’d been freely roaming the streets.

“That is a sign of all that’s wrong in Chicago right now,” Roy said. “The Juvenile Probation Department, which reports directly to the chief judge of the Cook County Court system, was aware of the fact that the offender had broken the terms of his home confinement, but took no action.”

“And again, this hoopla [at the DNC] is going on. This grand party is going on. The reality of life is three blocks away,” he added.

Speaking of the “grand party,” Roy was particularly perturbed by the “window dressing” Democrats like far-left Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson have applied to cover up the city’s problems.

The optics of the convention, Roy added, reminded him of medieval royalty feasting in the castle as the commoners outside suffer.

“I find the whole DNC convention here as an example of the elitism of the Democratic Party,”  he said. “The politicians are inside a heavily fortified building, almost like a castle. They’re feasting on the best of food and liquor while protected by hundreds of armed police officers and two separate fences.”

“When I think about it, it reminds me of a king and his court living the high life in a castle in Europe protected by an army while a moat, the two separate perimeters, and fences, isolates the castle and the powerful from the reality of life outside,” he added.

Outside of the DNC, rabid pro-Hamas demonstrators have been protesting and, in some cases, rioting, all while hassling the police and demanding that they leave them alone and go home.

But the cops can’t go home, Roy told Fox News, because their days off have been canceled and working hours extended because of the DNC.

“They’re working a minimum of 12 hours, and that’s not including time to and from work,” he said. “They’re struggling to maintain their households, their families.”

“Is this the way we want to treat our officers? Do we want officers who are sleep-deprived, burnt out, confronting protesters in a volatile situation?” he added.

According to reports, the demonstrators managed to kick their way through a fence Monday but were pushed back afterward.

“Demonstrators breached a portion of anti-scale fencing along the Democratic National Convention’s outer perimeter near the United Center on Aug. 19,” the DNC Public Safety Joint Information Center said in a statement.

“Another standoff at Union Park nearby ended after police told protesters to remove a couple of tents they set up. Officers were holding signs that read ‘You are being ordered to disperse by the Chicago Police Department,'” according to Fox News.

Johnson, Chicago’s mayor, is an avidly anti-police Democrat, though just for the DNC, he decided to make an exception.

Indeed, all this comes months after he canceled a contract with a company that had been helping police fight crime.

The company, SoundThinking, operates ShotSpotter, a savvy technology that alerts police to nearby gunfire.

Despite the technology’s usefulness, pro-criminal leftists complained that it somehow had a disproportionate effect on black communities, and so Johnson promised while campaigning for mayor that he’d ax it.

But instead of outright axing it, he eventually decided to extend the contract until right after the DNC.

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