Chicago,
IL – top aide to Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel was physically assaulted at a
downtown vigil by assailants who also made an antisemitic slur.
Vance
Henry, Emanuel’s deputy chief of staff, was punched, tackled and kicked on
Sunday evening at the event for two people who were shot and killed over the
weekend by Chicago police officers.
It
is believed the antisemitic remarks were directed at Emanuel, who is Jewish but
was not at the vigil. Henry is black. The newspaper did not say what the slur
was.
“What are you doing here, you should be
downtown doing something about this,” one of the assailants reportedly said.
The same man also said that “the police are killing us.”
Emanuel
reportedly was scheduled to return early from a family vacation to Cuba to deal
with the situation.
Bettie
Jones, 55, and Quintonio LeGrier, 19, were killed by officers responding to a
domestic disturbance call on Saturday.
