Lightfoot uses wounding of police officer to sound the alarm — again — about post-pandemic surge in domestic violence

Mayor Lori Lightfoot speaks Friday outside Stroger Hospital, where an office was brought after being shot multiple times while responding to a domestic violence call earlier that morning in the University Village neighborhood. (Brian Rich/Sun-Times)

The post-pandemic surge in domestic violence reports has been perilous for the victims and their children, but also for the Chicago Police officers who respond to those dreaded calls.

Friday’s shooting of an officer responding to one such call in the University Village neighborhood was just another example of the crisis, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said.