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Dolton Mayor Tiffany Henyard tried to make appointments to posts including police chief that were recently blocked by a judge, and was mocked and ridiculed by residents during her short visit to a trustee-called meeting last night.
Henyard arrived an hour after the trustees meeting began and tried to give her report, but residents in the audience kept shouting her down.
The mayor, clutching a microphone, stood up and began to talk, saying she had “come here to lay down the law” and exert her authority “as chief executive” by naming Ronnie Burge Sr. as police chief, Michael Smith as village administrator and Angela Lockett as village attorney.
But as Henyard tried to talk, several people in the crowd stood up with their backs to Henyard and others shouted at Henyard to sit down. The mayor quickly left the meeting about seven minutes after arriving.
In response to a lawsuit filed by some village trustees, Cook County Circuit Judge Thaddeus Wilson ruled Sept. 25 Henyard didn’t abide by proper procedure when she named Burge, Smith and Lockett.
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