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Dolton Mayor Tiffany Henyard tried to make appointments to posts together with police chief that have been just lately blocked by a decide, and was mocked and ridiculed by residents throughout her brief go to to a trustee-called assembly final night time.
Henyard arrived an hour after the trustees assembly started and tried to present her report, however residents within the viewers stored shouting her down.
The mayor, clutching a microphone, stood up and commenced to speak, saying she had “come right here to put down the regulation” and exert her authority “as chief government” by naming Ronnie Burge Sr. as police chief, Michael Smith as village administrator and Angela Lockett as village lawyer.
However as Henyard tried to speak, a number of individuals within the crowd stood up with their backs to Henyard and others shouted at Henyard to sit down down. The mayor shortly left the assembly about seven minutes after arriving.
In response to a lawsuit filed by some village trustees, Cook dinner County Circuit Decide Thaddeus Wilson dominated Sept. 25 Henyard didn’t abide by correct process when she named Burge, Smith and Lockett.
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