African-American aldermen accuse McCarthy of insulting black community

African-American aldermen on Monday lashed out at fired Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy for suggesting that middle-class blacks have fled Chicago, leaving "trigger-pullers" behind on the South and West Sides.

Alderman Roderick Sawyer (6th), chairman of the City Council's Black Caucus, condemned McCarthy's sweeping characterization as "off-putting, disrespectful to black people" and bordering on racist.

"I guess that includes me, too. I was born and raised on the South Side and still live there - happily. That also includes my neighbors and friends, who are teachers and CTA bus drivers and engineers and doctors. We all live on the South Side and West Side. We're not 'trigger-pullers,' as he so callously described it," Sawyer said.

McCarthy refused to respond to the aldermanic blast.

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