Thu Oct 21, 2021 – 11:18 am EDT
CHICAGO (LifeSiteNews) — 21 Chicago police officers have been placed on “no pay status” after refusing to disclose whether they have received an experimental COVID shot, department Superintendent David Brown said at a Tuesday press conference.
Chicago’s Democrat Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced a citywide vaccine reporting mandate for all public sector workers on August 25, requiring all city employees and volunteers to submit their COVID jab status before October 15.
Lightfoot has taken a hardline stance, placing any city employees who refuse to enter their details into the system onto unpaid leave. The order also forces un-jabbed individuals who have submitted their status to agree to weekly testing for the virus, or also face being placed on unpaid leave.
Superintendent Brown defended Lightfoot’s order in his Tuesday briefing, saying that the virus, which has a survival rate of over 99.5 percent for people under 60 years old, is “no different than the gunfire we take as cops” and that to refuse the jab goes “against our oath” to protect the public.
Brown noted that, as things stand, 67.69 percent of the city’s 12,770 police department employees have uploaded
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