Dear Lori Lightfoot...

With all due respect, and I only use the term because you are an elected mayor.. What is wrong with you?

Her name is Ella French. You should know the name of every officer in your department. You definitely should know the name of an officer slain in the line of duty.

You are an attorney, a former Assistant US Attorney. As a federal prosecutor it was your job to protect victims not felons. If you entered public service to "serve the public" that includes the police officers on your force. They are not just employees they are citizens. You have already "suspended" the Freedom of Information Act. It doesn't take a police officer to do those. If you didn't have the staff you could have done those. Your time writing emails that read more like Diary of a Mad Black Woman then personnel emails "I need office time everyday!" 16 times, "Not just once a week or some days, everyday!” 10 times, "If this doesn’t change immediately, I will just start unilaterally canceling things every day" 5 times, and concluded the email by writing "Have I made myself clear, finally?!” 13 times .. a better solution figure out where the problem is and stop behaving like a 2 year old child, and you could have skipped it and that would have given you some extra time.

You should have stood before you police officers and said "Today we mourn the loss of one of our own. Today we as a department are poorer for the loss of Ella French. Today we grieve as a family, and tomorrow we will find justice. " You dishonor their badges.

Police reform is not about eliminating law enforcement, it is about getting rid of bad law enforcement and supporting your good officers. Police Unions protect the rights of the officers you have sparked a war on. Yes police brutality "demeans the badge" but it also demeans your office when you can not remember the name of a slain officer. Conducting your struggle on a high plane of dignity does not include swearing at fellow government officials, refusing to conduct interviews with the press because of skin color and forgetting Ella French's name. She may not have been on your radar but she had the right to be treated with respect, the right to be remembered and the right to be honored.

These thugs should not have a right to murder a police officer in cold blood. Yes they will get a trial, but there will be an absent witness, Ella French. She will never get to testify about what could only be the sheer terror she went through. She went to work that day to protect and serve. She upheld the mission of the Chicago Police Department “To serve our communities and protect the lives, rights, and property of all people in Chicago.” She was protecting the lives of her fellow officers, the citizens of the City of Chicago and she paid the ultimate price..her life. Their rights as members of the community stopped the moment that Officer French's died.

The core values of your department are Integrity "Integrity, the adherence to moral and ethical principles and the consistency of value-based actions, is our standard. We strive to earn the trust and respect of those whom we serve. We are of strong character, possessing the personal values and mental and emotional attributes that enable us to make ethical decisions and empathize with others. We do what is right because it is the right thing to do."

Courage "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather its mastery. We will remain courageous in our actions. We recognize that there are two types of courage, physical and moral. Physical courage is recognizing danger to oneself or to others, but persisting in our duty regardless. Moral courage is the adherence to principle, integrity, and dedication no matter how easy it may be to do otherwise. It is putting character ahead of expediency; putting what is right ahead of what may be popular."

Dedication "As police officers, we are charged to serve and protect all people of the City of Chicago, to preserve order, and to uphold the law. However, our calling extends above and beyond the obligations of professionalism or the law. Dedication means that we are driven by a sense of personal duty to our work and the Department’s Vision, Mission Statement, and other Core Values. We demonstrate our dedication by striving to give our best effort in every interaction and task, no matter how small. Every day, we seek creative and effective solutions to public safety and aspire to be a symbol for excellence in the policing profession."

Respect "Respect means that we treat each other and the communities we serve as we would like to be treated: with compassion and dignity. Within the Department, we strive to ensure all members are supported and empowered, regardless of rank or position. Outside of the Department, we strive to partner with the communities we serve through transparency, accountability, and building mutual trust. We recognize that the respect we owe to our communities is not conditional, and we recognize that respect as a value must permeate every police action we undertake.

The Department and all members will act in a unified manner to uphold these Core Values.

Mayor Lightfoot, you failed your department. You can not say your behavior as mayor upholds the values of your police department.

Your officers don't have the luxury to keep people away from their homes, or refuse to speak the press because of their color. They pay their own salaries, they kiss their family goodbye every day knowing they may never return. You are their leader. You expect more from your police officers than you do of yourself. You should be the one to say " I am the standard. My behavior is a model for my city and it's police officers." Not do as I say, not as I do. Mayor Lightfoot..This is Ella French.

To Ella French's biological family- Mayor Lightfoot may not know your daughter's name. But I do. She has the same name as my cat, Ella who was taken away from me over two years ago, by Officers Diamond Newton and R. Montgomery of the Pooler Police Department, and left a woman who had been raped, and been a victim of domestic violence by one of their officers stranded in a car. For over two years. their police Chief Ashley Brown has turned a blind eye to even this one event to protect his officers who have taken evidence I was raped and withheld it from the victim, and from law enforcement in the jurisdiction where it happened whose Mayor John Ernst has attacked me for trying to protect any other woman from being ignored when she reported she was raped. I was a juvenile probation officer, fighting an entire county alone to to protect the rights of these officers to file a grievance about working conditions. I was on my way to law school to become a lawyer to continue that fight so that none of them had to go through what I had. For your daughter, I will continue to hold on to that dream. For your family, I will rise above everything they have done to cover up, what their officers did to me and hold her as the standard the why I will still hold that dream despite having been failed by every officer I trusted in Georgia. My adopted father, was a police officer in New York, he took me under his wing because my father didn't care about me and still doesn't. I was your daughter as a probation officer. I will make it my mission to defend police officers like your daughter. Her legacy will never die, it will never be forgotten.

To her Blue Family- Stand tall in the absence of the leadership you deserve. Stand tall in that you have each other. Stand tall in her memory and her legacy. Stand tall that you understand your department's core values. Know the world has your back. We will not let her death go unnoticed or forgotten. We will remember her name in the absence of a mayor who can not.