Parking Tickets Issued During Fallen Marine’s Procession Now Voided

March 10, 2012 4:49 PM

Marine Cpl. Conner Lowry was killed in Afghanistan. (courtesy family)

Reporting Mike Krauser

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CHICAGO (WBBM) - City Hall is apologizing. Parking tickets issued during Friday’s funeral procession for a Marine from Beverly have been voided.

People started expressing their outrage on Facebook soon after the funeral procession. One wrote, “Cash grabbing Chicago at its best.” Another post said, “Talk about disrespect.”

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The tickets were issued to people who pulled over and got out of their cars to pay tribute as the procession of fallen U.S. Marine Cpl. Conner Lowry passed.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel was not pleased. Parking enforcement aides were ordered to immediately stop writing tickets.

It is unclear how many cars were ticketed before City Hall got involved, but the Revenue Department said all tickets issued in the vicinity during the time of the procession have been voided.

Marine Cpl. Lowry was killed on Thursday of last week while conducting combat operations in Helmand province, the U.S. Department of Defense said.

Bob

Be sure to check the “cityofchicago” website, “pay tickets” in a few days to be SURE that they were dropped.

Rob

What you don’t trust the Godfather?
A. Levy

Not only the most corrupt city in the nation, but obviously, also the dumbest.

brianjmcmanus

Let’s not lose sight at the the real reason people came to honor this great kid.
Mayor Emanuel has done an extraordinary job in taking back the City of Chicago but the tribute goes to Marine Corporeal Lowry and his family. Please don’t desecrate this with obscene comments and disparaging remarks.
Prayers and peace to the Lowry family. The Mayor did his job and diffused this
immediately.

Just axin

Brian- you must work for Rahm to think he’s done an amazing job “taking back the city”.

leprechaun for a day

True dat.
JByrd42

I was thinking the same thing. Someones looking for a raise.
Tom Menino

No kiddnig. Chicago is like Mogadishu, Somalia these days. We NEVER go downtown anymore. Kill Whitey is the new city motto.
BreakingNews

Honestly, much of the news is made up after the coup and cover up. Unelected officials took over Washington and the media. They think you can’t handle the truth. Fact of the matter is we have no democracy, president, and freedom of press is an illusion.

Our next election is shaping up to be as big of a sham as the last. Do you know why Sarah Palin’s bus tour was really canceled? Do you know why she stayed 30 miles away from the second debate and chose the death of Steve Jobs to announce that she’s not running? Know what leaked out? Sarah Palin and Cain aren’t in the race for the same reason, the truth leaked out. Search PalinsDirtyLittleSecret for the biggest cover up in history
Off Duty

BreakingNews……You are clearly out of your mind. You need help.
jschmidt

now continue the thought- taking back the city from the other Democrats that really hosed it.

Army Vet,VN

Hey Brianjmcmanus,will you be out there when the next fallen soldier comes home I don’t think so,so keep your trap shut.
JustAGuy

People may dump on me but Mayor Emanuel appears to be trying to do the right thing.

Now don’t get me wrong, I know about Rahm “dead-fish” Emanuel, and I’m not being deceived. I know what kind of slime he has been. But it appears he’s trying to make a name for himself by fixing all that is wrong with Chicago.

I especially enjoy how he got the Teacher’s Union Boss all worked up. Whenever you can pi$$-off a union boss, you’re doing something right!

shredder

You meant to say “I especially enjoy how he got the Teacher’s Union Boss all “wee-wee’d” up, didn’t you?
JustAGuy

That too. You should catch a video of her. She’s a real butt-hole! Exactly what you’d expect from a Union Boss.
Liberalville

Smoke n mirrors, dude….WWF has nothing on this dying corrupt ghetto city.

Joe Bite-me

Is this a textbook def. of “paying respect to the Godfather”?
woodNfish

Tell me brianjmcmanus, is it hard to type while giving a BJ to the fascist ballarina, Rahm?
FrankR

Just curious Mr Mc anus, have you cashed your welfare check yet…AND, do you budget your allotment of food stamp benefits so that they will last the entire month?!!!

kennith

Blood suckers

JC

These cops have no human compassion for the fallen, then they wonder why we hate them so. Not one cop stopped and said “this isn’t right”. Not one cop intended to be anything other than a sadistic @ss hole until the social and print media got wind of it. These animals are who you pay with your extorted taxdollars.

jschmidt

I’m not from Chicago so was it the police or traffic enforcement agents who are often separate from the police and less sensitive?
Not a Cop

Again JC you have no idea that it WASN”T the cops ticketing the vehicles, it was a Revenue Agent from the Department of Revenue which has Nothing to do with the police. The police tried to stop him from writing tickets and he refused. Many cops in the area including the commander tried to stop this agent but were rebuffed until downtown got a call and knew the the stuff was gonna hit the fan. You call the cops names but have no idea what happened.

Army Vet,VN

What I have seen here is a big political clout and connection in this whole story,sadly to say.

Bronzo

What do you know Army Vet, VN!!! I live right there and attended this young man’s wake and funeral . His mother is a life long friend of mine.. why don’t you keep your trap shut!! the mayor did the right thing our entire community turned out tho honor this fallen Marine…I wish you would come out here and try and show any dissrespect to him or anybody else form our neighborhood. ..rest assured you would be dealt with swiftly and severely.

Sickened

If there wouldn’t have been enough outrage, those tickets would be getting collected to help pay raises and lavish pensions of city workers. The city could really give a rat’s butt who the funeral was for. Remember Chicago doesn’t support the constitution and continually spend millions of our tax dollars fighting it so why would they care if a fallen solder was being honored?

Army Vet,VN

I happen to follow the funeral procession from Midway Airport alway to Brother Rice HS on the internet,and I was amazed not counting all the police personal to all the Chicago Fire Dept personal and equipment that were all over the streets as the procession carried on,I found that kind of political that the fallen soldier was not a city or fire dept employee,its ashame others don;t get that kind of welcome back home from the war whether its survival or death.

Jim

This is the problem with big government. Sometimes the bureaucrats do something so egregious that it gets overturned. Anyone with a lick of sense would have done the right thing and not even thought about ticketing those people. Along comes your average moron government bureaucrat though and out goes the common sense. Well what happens to the rest of us pawns who aren’t fallen marines. We are crushed by asinine government regulations, destroying businesses and that is why our economy is currently in a state of devastation. Moronic government micromanagement and we vote for more of it every year. Vote everyone of these idiots out next week.
Jeff

The person that wrote the tickets should be fired. It’s pretty easy to spot a funeral procession and there should have been some compassion here.
Reality Sandwich

The cop(s) who wrote the tickets should be forced to go to everyone who got a ticket and personally apologize.

FTC

It was a Department of Revenue meter “agent” who wrote the tickets. The police tried to get him to stop but no one in Chicago listens to them anymore.

51Phantom

Yes, the motto of the Police is ‘To serve and Protect’ The motto of the meter agents is ‘To serve and Collect’.

Pullerdog

May Cpl. Lowry rest in eternal peace and may his devotion to the Nation be ever remembered.
sid

No fan of the mayor , but he reacted well, whether politically or morally it’s all the same.
Rest in Peace Corporal Lowry.
After all isn’t what this should really be about?
Have a nice day.

LTCB

Agree with you Sid. This is one young person too many but, when you enter a war, this happens. We should always be honoring those who paid the ultimate sacrifice for our freedoms. I was a Marine. I know the oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Semper Fi LCPL Lowry.

Norbert G. Ginsel

You make me wonder. Is there ever a Marine living who boasts that he WAS a Marine? I don/t know of one. my friend!

Long Way from Home

It would seem that the odds of a “Bubba” north of the Mason Dixion Line would be far from remove. There seems to be a point to cause re-action or Shock Value to the moment. Cpl. Lowry serve his country, most famiolies do not send their kids off to war, regardiless of the need. So for one moment in time thank this man for not having your kid go off to war. After that you can go back to Starbucks, check your texts while driving and remain clueiless of the world, that is until it is your turn to interact with a terrorist. Good Luck
poorhardworker

I wonder if the “ticket quota” system is still in effect there? Used to be.
Marine Squad Leader

BUBBA, DIRK, et. al: Ears Open…Eyeballs Click…As Marines, we fight (and willingly die) for the Marine on our left and right; the political decisions that put us ‘in the fight’ are immaterial. Further, you are absolutely off-the-mark; we ARE fighting for the freedom of our country over here. We hear it every day from the mouths of our enemies and ‘allies’ [the Afghan National Army-ANA]; we friggin’ keep these humps destabilized, demoralized and on their heels by keeping them on the run and killing them when they slow down. Why do you think they resort to IED’s and rocket attacks? Because they fear contact with Marines, son! So, head to Parris Island and pick up a rifle or shut your sucks!

davec

“we friggin’ keep these humps destabilized, demoralized and on their heels by keeping them on the run and killing them when they slow down. Why do you think they resort to IED’s and rocket attacks?”

OVER THERE

Last I checked, and IM HERE, they are not our enemy HERE.

They have rockets and IEDs that can fly 25,000 miles to America?

“They” died in the planes on 9-11.

You ARE NOT there fighting for the US, you are there for the UNITED NATIONS.

Name for us the last time ANYONE attacked the US with a significant threat.

Korea? They attacked us on _____________ 19___
North Viet Nam?_______________________
Iraq____________________
Assghanistan_____________ (cite the date of the last Afghani attack on the US PROPER. (CORPORATE interests dont count)

I could prove that, but your agenda, and refusal to acknowledge FACT, makes it a waste of time.

I hope you make it back alive with Obama the anti War President at the helm.

Bob

your an idiot there called allies we dont go unless they ask or stupid oboma side steps the constituion

Bobbtoday

Reason number 342 to not visit Chicago. California leads with 627.
Keltin

This shows that the rank and file are dutifully following the lead of their head – Rahm and Obama – they know these two don’t really like the military, so they didn’t think it would hurt to give these people tickets – and then the political firestorm!
Born in mombasa

All you folks that live in Chicago ,I think many of you have gotten so used to it you don’t know any better. You’ve got one life and you lived it in Chicago. Ever been to San Diego? Don’t go ,you’ll go back to Chicago so dran depressed.

stuck in crook county

I’ve been to California son, nice place to visit, but I wouldn’t want to live there. We’ve got corrupt politicians? Yeah, Chicagoans have always put up with it as long as the streets get plowed and the garbage gets picked up on time. It’s the Democrat machine here, as long as they’re cutting the checks for their supporters, they aren’t going anywhere.

bob

face it, ticketing is the main function of cops. they are there merely as a means to get (aka: steal) more money from the citizenry.

Out of the Frey

The Dpepartment of Revenue was writing tickets NOT the police. Revenue agents like this area because citizens don’t attack them like they do in other neighborhoods.

MajorDomo2012

My truck was ticketed by a City of Chicago Revenue Department employee for parking on a city residential street despite an out-of-sate Marine Corps license plate and Permanent Disability Placard.
My deepest and sincere condolences to Cpl Lowery’s family.
At least his memory was honored during Sunday’s St. Patrick’s Day parade.
I am ashamed to say that I was born and raised here.
MajorDomo2012

My truck was ticketed by a City of Chicago Revenue Department employee for parking on a city residential street despite an out-of-sate Marine Corps license plate and Permanent Disability Placard.
My deepest and sincere condolences to Cpl Lowery’s family.
At least his memory was honored during Sunday’s St. Patrick’s Day parade.
Jeronimo Dan

No problem, this is the city our President and THUG calls home, so their all schooled to have no dignity, or honor.
David Moore

I know what I would do with those tickets!
and Paying them is not an option!!!
Onu

They thought you useful idiots in Chicago wouldn’t care if they targeted military families for a shake down.
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George Johnson

Well, this is what happens when the “mayor” goes out there and tells the police to write as many tickets as possible to make up for “lost revenue”. But the police are not the brightest bulbs in the string. So they’re trying to do what they were told to do, but just weren’t using the common sense. The ‘mayor” get busted, and has to come out all angry. But at the police for making him LOOK BAD, not for what they actually did.
They’re STILL writing as many tickets as possible to make money. That is a GIVEN!!!

FTC

It was a Department of Revenue meter “agent” who wrote the tickets. The police tried to get him to stop but no one in Chicago listens to them anymore.

walter12

Many a middle class man and woman have left Chicago, never to return. Today’s Chicago is a cesspool of communists, union thugs, criminals, dopers, deadbeats, black and Mexican youth gangs, illega Mexicans, welfare set, and on and on. Only a fool or a madman would voluntarily live there nowadays.