Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images WASHINGTON A day after Mayor Lori Lightfoot talked with President Joe Biden at O’Hare Airport about the extra resources he promised to combat crime in Chicago, the mayor said Thursday more federal help will come “relatively soon.”
Lightfoot also dismissed as false a report from a conservative news outlet that she asked Biden to send troops to Chicago, a story that seemed the peg for a Fox News reporter to ask White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki about it at the Thursday briefing.
Biden and Lightfoot met after a brutal July 4 weekend with 104 people shot and 19 of them killed. Hours before the tarmac huddle, two agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and a Chicago police officer were shot.
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