Lori Lightfoot: “The other thing that we are really avoiding doing is shaming people in communities for not being vaccinated.”

Look, every mayor's going to tell you that they need more resources. What we've seen that's been successful is the things that I talked about before, but we've also I think done a lot with diversion at the police station.

I get that people are scared. This Omicron surge is real. And we're doing everything that we can across our city to mitigate it.

We've got to make sure that we use every tool in our toolkit. And it's -- soft power is more, much more effective than the hard power of law enforcement for this particular problem.

It's disgusting. There are kids waking up today in California with this news thinking that their governor hates them, and rightly so.