The original draft of this email was sent to Washington Post higher education reporter Lauren Lumpkin who wrote this morning about a 31-year-old University of Maryland graduate student recently murdered during a visit to the “Deadly City,” formerly known as the “Windy City,” aka Crazy Lori Lightfoot’s Chicago, Ill. The email was copied to Mayor Lightfoot, D.C.’s Mayor Muriel Bowser, Police Chief Robert Contee III, Attorney General Karl Racine and Lightfoot-like soft-on-crime D.C. Council members, Charles Allen, Brianne Nadeau and Trayon White Jr.
Dear Lauren,
Leaving aside the sad irony of a budding scholar-advocate for criminals of color being senselessly killed in a city now overrun by criminals of color, why in the world did the presumably bright Anat Kimchi choose to visit hyper-murderous Chicago in the first place [“U-Md. graduate student is fatally stabbed in Chicago,” B2, June 22]? Your reporting doesn’t say.
Of course, any American who’d visit the under-policed, violence-plagued and psychotically-mismanaged Second City for any reason these days foolishly takes as much risk with her life as young American Otto Warmbier took when he willingly traveled to North Korea in 2016.
A trip to Chicago is also akin to visiting China, Iran, Russia or D.C.’s Alabama Avenue SE. Nothing good can come from it. And until voters in the once simply Windy but now also quite Deadly City muster the sense to fire crazy Mayor Lori Lightfoot and turn their police loose on the fatherless and plainly emboldened-by-Democrats criminal class, no one who doesn’t have to set foot in Chicago should avoid doing so at all costs.
Darren McKinney, Washington, D.C.