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Dolton ‘Dictator’ Mayor Tiffany Henyard ruthlessly jeered out of meeting in another surreal moment for Illinois village
Dolton “Dictator” Mayor Tiffany Henyard was ruthlessly jeered out of a municipal meeting she barged into minutes Monday night — marking another surreal moment for the beleaguered Illinois village.
The self-proclaimed “super mayor” arrived at the board meeting organized by sparring trustees an hour late — and when she tried to speak, the embattled pol was mocked, booed and shouted down, according to reports.
“I am the mayor of the village of Dolton,” Henyard said dramatically before a chorus of jeers rained down on her.
“Hold on, respect guys, respect,” she said as the commotion continued. “Let me make my statement or I’m gonna leave your illegal meeting.”
But attendees didn’t seem to care as they continued to shout at her after she rose to her feet, clutched the microphone on the table and delivered an ill-fated speech.
Some residents even turned their back to her, the Chicago Tribune reported.
She said she was there to make a trio of appointments to fill vacancies, but after seven futile minutes, she ended up leaving.
“Another thing I want you to understand about the board of trustees is they are all corrupt, every last one of them up here is corrupt,” she claimed, leading up to her exit.
As She left the room, the crowd let out sarcastic cheers.
Henyard, who is also supervisor of nearby Thornton Township, at first attended her own meeting at the village hall, but was forced to cancel it because only two other trustees showed, NBC Chicago reported.
“As you can see, the board did not show up, and these are the things residents are tired of,” she reportedly said at that meeting.
“They are tired of these games.”
Henyard cryptically posted on Facebook on Tuesday, “I need all my black sheep to stand with me.”
“You are not alone if God is for us then who can be against us,” she wrote.
Henyard has faced the wrath of Dolton residents — with some calling her a dictator — and some of her fellow elected officials over allegations she misused taxpayer funds and mismanaged other aspects of the village.
Subpoenas have been served in Dolton and Thornton Township as part of a federal probe.
A report undertaken by ex-Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot revealed this summer the village’s finances are in shambles due to increased spending.
Henyard wants to name a new police chief, village administrator and village attorney, but a Cook County judge determined last month Henyard didn’t follow protocol when she tried to make the proposed appointments after trustees opposed to Henyard filed a lawsuit, the Tribune reported.
The meeting where Henyard waltzed in late was held in a park district fieldhouse after an Illinois attorney general’s office ruled the village violated the state’s transparency laws by not giving residents a large enough venue to all attend, according to the newspaper.
On Tuesday, she filed a lawsuit calling on a judge to force the opposing trustees to hold meetings at the village hall, accusing them of illegally holding meetings at the fieldhouse, ABC 7 Chicago reported.
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Imagine your unofficial start to summer taking place in Key West, Florida. You’ve made the trip for the Memorial Day weekend from suburban Chicago, and you’ve got plans to enjoy some of the local establishments.
You have an evening of drinks planned on Saturday when all of a sudden those plans get derailed. Bar hopping was likely on the agenda, but there’s no chance doing so in a stolen police car was ever mentioned.
According to the Key West Police Department, John Mack, 38, of La Grange, Illinois, hopped into and took a patrol car from an officer working off-duty at Dante’s Key West Pool Bar & Restaurant.
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Mack then, allegedly, opened the door, got inside, and drove off, almost hitting two men. A security guard reportedly got the attention of the officer the patrol car belonged to and as other KWPD officers were responding to the bar, Mack drove the car around the parking lot.
An Illinois man was arrested in Key West after allegedly stealing a police car and taking it for a ride. (Getty)
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Police say they later found him nearby outside of the Boat House Bar & Grill. He had successfully, it would appear, drunkenly bar hopped in the stolen police car. While he claimed to have had only three to six Coronas, according to police, he failed the field sobriety test.
They then allege he resisted arrest, which caused him to sustain cuts from a fence. He refused a breathalyzer and wasn’t in possession of a valid driver’s license at the time of his arrest. He only had an Illinois ID card on him.
A Memorial Day Weekend trip to Key West for an Illinois man included an arrest after he allegedly stole a patrol car. (Getty)
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Mack, who is obviously innocent until proven guilty, was arrested on charges of DUI, burglary, grand theft, grand theft of law enforcement equipment, reckless driving, refusal to submit to DUI testing and resisting arrest without violence.
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