To open his show Monday afternoon, 670 host Laurence Holmes addressed the situation.
"I'm incredibly disappointed and disheartened by what happened this morning," Holmes said. "Because along with the big-box businesses that in likelihood will be made whole, (despite) their protest this morning on the news saying that's not the case -- they'll likely be made whole. There are still people who work in those buildings that are part of the collective 'we,' that aren't part of the 1% or the 2%. There are people that work at the Apple store, people who are like you and me and don't have billions of dollars or millions of dollars. They just wanted to go to work today, and they don't have it ... Those people also deserve to have their lives and their safety be at the forefront of any conversation that we have about these things. Reconciling all of it is the challenge that is in front of us."
Holmes also called on Lightfoot and Police Supt. David Brown to display better leadership.
"I will tell you that I don't think the leadership that we have in place in this city in particular is equipped for it," Holmes said. "And I've been pretty clear about that, whether you follow me on Twitter or listen to this radio show. And I thought another example of that lack of leadership was the press conference that happened today, where there were accusations being made by the police superintendent and by the mayor that when then challenged on those accusations by the press, then it was, 'Don't bait us.' It's a very threatening tone that seems to go on with this superintendent and this mayor frequently.
"They talk a lot about accountability, but when they are put to being accountable to the public through the press, it is often a different set of rules for them. That doesn't justify what happened this morning. It's just another factor in trying to fix some of those issues. The people that we need to be in charge need to have a plan. They need to be able to articulate that plan and they need to be able to defend their articulation of that plan without doing this kind of Yosemite Sam kind of stuff that the superintendent and the mayor seem hell-bent on doing whenever they are questioned. It's incredibly disappointing and increasingly unnerving that that is their response to legitimate questions about how this city and how society work.
"The answers are so difficult and the work is so hard. We have to, if we do love it, we have to commit to doing that hard work and sometimes asking really hard questions about why this keeps happening. And I don't mean just looting. The violence we see in the communities that are probably going to be affected the most by it.
"We need leaders that are honestly more accountable. And by accountability, I’m not saying that anybody needs to lose their job, although I have some thoughts. But for once, maybe tone is important in conversation. And when you are asked hard questions, it’s OK to say ‘I don’t know’ … instead of reflexively cracking back and thinking the way to the solution is for you to kind of jack-boot your way through this."
Holmes also spoke to the bigger-picture issues.
"If we spent all of this time getting to this point, if we allow for all of the things that have affected us as a republic generationally to get us here, then how long do you think it's going to be before we can fix it?" Holmes said.
Listen to Holmes' full segment below: