CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- Incendiary remarks by the head of Chicago’s police union have prompted a Jewish-American organization to demand a retraction.
Fraternal Order of Police President John Catanzara spoke to Sun-Times about Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s vaccine mandate for all city employees. He likened the mandate to the Nazis forcing Jews into gas chambers. His f-bomb-laden remarks included him saying ““We’re in America...We don’t want to be forced to do anything. Period. This ain’t Nazi f***ing Germany, [where they say], ‘Step into the f***ing showers. The pills won’t hurt you.’"
Catanzara said thousands of police would rather be ordered to stay home without pay than be forced to get a vaccine.
The American-Jewish Committee is calling on Catanzara to retract his comments and avoid incendiary references, which the group calls offensive and a categorically false comparison.
"President Catanzara’s offensive and categorically false comparison is an insult to every Holocaust survivor and to the memory of the millions of lives lost during one of the darkest periods in human history," said AJC Chicago Director Sarah van Loon, in a statement.
According to the Sun-Times, the Anti-Defamation League also called for an apology from Catanzara following his comments.
“The comparison of mandatory vaccinations to Nazi Germany and the Holocaust is factually incorrect and deeply offensive to the millions of innocent people killed at the hands of the Nazis,” the group tweeted.
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