A new Chicago Police Department memo threatens those who do not comply with Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s COVID-19 vaccination policy with a disciplinary investigation that could result in the termination of officers who refuse to get the vaccine — but the agency’s largest police union, the Fraternal Order of Police, in its own memo to officers maintains the order is “invalid.”
The police memo, sent Sunday night by a member of Superintendent David Brown’s office staff, also threatens officers who might choose to retire rather than get the vaccine. It says: “sworn members who retire while under disciplinary investigations may be denied retirement credentials.”
The FOP, in response, sent a document to its members that provides language an officer can use should they be asked to go to Internal Affairs and given a direct order to report their vaccination status through the city portal, according to multiple law enforcement sources.
“Complying with this INVALID order and the violation of MY Bargaining, Constitutional and Civil Rights has furthermore caused me severe anxiety while challenging both my religious and moral beliefs. I am in fact complying with this because I am being forced to do so under complete duress and threats of termination,” the document reads.
The union told members who receive a direct order from a supervisor to have that supervisor add their name to the FOP-provided document and advised members to keep a copy for themselves and send another to the union. According to a law enforcement source, the union also is urging members to turn on their body cameras and record the encounters, a call Chicago police union president John Catanzara has made before.
The memo comes in the wake of a judge’s ruling Friday night, which created a temporary restraining order against Catanzara, prohibiting him from making public statements that encourage members not to report their COVID-19 vaccine status to the city.
The restraining order is in place until Oct. 25, when another court session is scheduled. Both sides have filed dueling lawsuits and accuse each other of illegally risking the safety of the city over the issue.
Lightfoot announced in August that each of the city’s more than 30,000 workers must be fully vaccinated against the coronavirus by Oct. 15, following numerous cities across the U.S. As the deadline approached, Lightfoot pressured city workers with unspecified “consequences” if they did not meet the vaccination cutoff.
After the back-and-forth with the police union, Lightfoot agreed Oct. 8 to allow city workers to remain unvaccinated until the end of the year — if they submit to twice-weekly testing at their own expense.
But Lightfoot then drew a line in the sand, saying all city workers must fill out the city portal form reporting their status, regardless of vaccination status, or be placed on a no-pay status.
Catanzara previously posted a video urging about 10,000 active officers to defy Lightfoot’s vaccination reporting requirement and prepare to be sent home without pay.
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And the political game continues. When will they the government admit that the vaccine is not the end all and that fear is driving those that took it. Then want you to take it. If the vaccine is so great then those that took it have nothing to fear.
This is about control nothing else!
I look forward to the day, EVERYONE RESISTS getting these damnable shots.
Look at the VARES data and remember it’s under reported up to 10x. Scary ****!
More like 50x underreported..!
EVERYBODY vaxxed or not should not give their personal status and should in unison object against the mandates and if necessary STRIKE. That’seems the only way WE can overcome this tyranny=== a FUNDAMENTAL order forcing you to subject YOUR BODY (THE greatest symbol of personal property) to their demands. If WE let this happen ANYTHING goes afterwards because nothing is as sacred as your own body.
WE all SHOULD do a lot more than just say hell no to this mandate.
are they able to trace us some way with the injection besides the passport so like nazi germany and other countries that reference “ism” socialism.fascism,communism,etc.
Lightfoot (Admiral Ackbar from Star Wars) calls it an insurrection. I say it’s Mutual Combat going on how she has been attacking the Police Department since taking office..
Do not “bite” on the distraction bait but fight the end game. The ultimate goal is to undercut local law enforcement (loyal to the people) then instituting a federal police force (loyal to Big Brother alone). Thus every presidential order is instantly enforced nationwide; eliminating governors, mayors, state police, sheriff’s, and police chiefs.
Couple this with gun confiscation and the dictatorship is absolute.
AND any cops who are OK WITH THAT< are not worthy of keeping their badges.. OR OUR respect.
The most likely people to be super spreaders of covid & other disease are the homeless / drug addicts, the incarcerated & the illegal alien populations.
Why aren’t these populations mandated / forced to be vaxed & masked?
Oh, right, they don’t give a flip what Dem govt mandates since they don’t have to work – they are supported by committing crimes &/or from some type of taxpayer funding.
Vax & mask mandates seem only to apply for working class people who are also being forced to pay excessive salaries & benefits for the Dem Party run govt whose agenda is obviously to persecute, penalize & bankrupt anyone who opposes Dem Party govt tyranny.
Tucker Carlson reports that govt stats show that Covid vax in first 4 months resulted in more deaths than all other vaccines combined over a 15 year period.
If the covid vax is proven safe as other vaccines then manufacturers should not have immunity. The flu vax is voluntary & the covid vax should be too. .
NO Pharma company, should EVER be given immunity…. period!