'That was mayhem': Lenora Dennis who saved Chicago couple from being beaten slams Mayor Lori Lightfoot
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS: A good samaritan’s timely intervention may have saved a life from mob lynching in Chicago. However, she was utterly disappointed with the city’s outgoing Mayor Lori Lightfoot, after she alleged that the politicians tried to downplay the whole incident. A young couple was enjoying their day like many others on the last weekend of April 15, before an out-of-control mob ‘Teen Takeover’ latched on and started assaulting them.
“I’m sorry, Lightfoot. I voted for you… but I can’t be involved in any level of sugarcoating what I saw. That was 'mayhem,” Lenora Dennis told Fox News while commenting on the mayor’s earlier statement calling the incident not ‘mayhem.’ Lightfoot added that “The mass majority of the young people who came downtown, came downtown because there was great weather and it was an opportunity to enjoy the city. That’s absolutely, entirely appropriate.” The victims of the attack Knutson, 20, and Garrison-Johnson, 22, told Fox32, were shopping on North Wabash Avenue on Saturday night when the group targeted them.
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'They said they were going to kill us'
“DJ had my hand trying to lead me through the crowd of people and they pushed him, they pushed me, and as soon as they pushed me I told DJ, ‘They just shoved me,’” Knutson recalled. “And he was like, ‘Don’t shove her, who shoved her?’ And as soon as he said that, everything went crazy. They said they were going to kill us. They turned around and started fighting. I got pushed down to the ground and the whole group went to DJ and not to me.”
'Let's not demonize them'
The cellphone video recorded shows Knutson pleading for help and that’s when Dennis stepped in. “I felt like at that moment, I needed to take action. By the time [Garrison-Johnson] got up, he was bleeding from the mouth, his head, his eyes. He couldn’t make straight eye contact. It felt like he might have been concussed,” she told NBC Chicago. Both victims allege that police present at the scene chose not to do anything about it. Dennis said, “I literally went out in the street and held my hands up to a police car and asked them to stop and motioned them over to what was going on, and they just cut a path around me and just kept going, reports NY Post.
Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson in a statement appealed amid the current incident not to ‘demonize’ teens who turned violent, setting cars ablaze, damaging property, and clashing with cops.
