Residents of Dolton and Thornton Township called the state elected officials on Friday, including the village JB Pritjkar and Attorney General Quame Raul, to remove Tiffany Henyard from their posts as the village mayor and township supervisor.
The demand was followed by a thornton township meeting in which Henyard was involved in a dispute with residents, although it is not clear that the Governor or Raul had the right to remove an elected officer from the office.
Henyard faces a challenge in his dialect for a second term as the mayor of Dolton, and it appears to be the only option for securing a full -time as the township supervisor does not be slaughtered for primary on February 25. After it will be through a right-in campaign.
After community activist Jedidyah Brown called Henyard an explain, anarchy erupted during the period of public comment near the end of the two -hour township of Tuesday.
After Brown’s comments, the brown went towards the table, dislikes Henyard, both individually and politically, where the supervisor and other township officials were seated before moving backwards of the building, where the fight then broke down Went.
Henyard was seen running into a scuffle between the defenders of his administration and those who supported the brown.
Dolton resident Mary Avent said during a zoom session on Friday, in which some 300 people participated, that he was saddened by what he happened.
“We have gone through enough, this is definitely what we don’t need,” Avent said.
Another resident, Thalama Price said that he was very sad about what happened in the township, it was very terrible. ”
“There is nothing that has never happened in the township,” he said. “We have been suffering for so long.”
Another resident, Jennifer Roberts said that “what happened on Tuesday wants to cry me, we are just tired.”
“We are tired of Tiffany and what his administration is doing,” Roberts said.
According to the Sabponus, Henyard is subject to federal investigation for his jobs as mayor and township supervisor, as well as any connection with Thornan Township High School District 205.