‘DEEPLY OFFENSIVE’

Chicago Mayor Blasts Union’s ‘Scooby-Doo’ Tweet as Racist

The teachers’ union says the meme, which portrayed Mayor Lori Lightfoot as cop in disguise, was a commentary on her policies.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot slammed the city’s teachers union for a tweeted meme that depicted characters from Scooby-Doo unmasking a police officer to reveal her under the disguise. The Chicago Teachers Union said the cartoon was a commentary on Lightfoot’s opposition to defunding the police and removing them from schools, and making Juneteenth a paid holiday. Lightfoot said it crossed a line. “Let me say this: If that kind of tweet, which is clearly racist, had been put forward by a right-wing group, we would rightly be denouncing them,” she told reporters, according to the Chicago Tribune. “It’s certainly disappointing when a group that professes to be educators, people who are in our classrooms, teaching our young people, would engage in these kinds of really deeply offensive and disappointing tactics.”