Good Samaritan who rescued couple beaten by Chicago 'Teen Takeover' mob rips mayor, says cops refused to help — and makes even more disturbing claim

A good Samaritan who rescued a couple beaten by a Chicago "Teen Takeover" mob Saturday night ripped Mayor Lori Lightfoot over her description of the chaos, said police riding by refused to help — and claimed a desk sergeant told her the lawlessness on the streets "was going to keep happening" because of Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson's recent victory.

What are the details?

Hundreds of teens flooded the streets, smashing and setting cars on fire and perpetrating several physical attacks; two teenagers also were shot.

Yet Lightfoot on Monday responded to a reporter's question about the weekend's lawlessness by saying, “I’m not going to use your language, which I think is wrong, to say it was ‘mayhem,'" WGN-TV reported.

Lenora Dennis, who helped the couple beaten by the mob, wasn't buying the mayor's rhetoric.

"I’m sorry, Lightfoot. I voted for you … but I can’t be involved in any level of sugarcoating what I saw," Dennis told Fox News' Garrett Tenney, the cable network reported. "That was mayhem."

How did Dennis help the victims?

A viral video shows 20-year-old Ashley Knutson and 22-year-old Devante Garrison-Johnson getting beaten by the mob.

Image source: Fox News video screenshot, composite

"They said they were going to kill us," she told WFLD-TV.

The victims said "a group of unknown offenders approached" them and "struck the victims several times before taking their personal property and fleeing in an unknown direction," WSB-TV reported, citing police.

Garrison-Johnson told Fox News he suffered multiple injuries to his body and face, and the couple added that their phones — and even their shoes — were stolen.

Police added that the victims were hospitalized with "minor injuries" and that "no one is in custody at this time. Area Three detectives are investigating," the station noted.

But things could have gone farther south had it not been for Dennis.

Knutson and Garrison-Johnson told Fox News that Dennis ran up to the mob, screaming for them to stop, pulled the victims from the crowd, and drove them to the police station.

At the station, a police official made a shocking declaration, Dennis said.

"I got told by the desk sergeant that this was going to happen, it was gonna keep happening because Brandon Johnson got elected," she said in an WLFD video report. "That floored me."

Johnson — a progressive Democrat — responded to the weekend's violence by saying it's "not constructive to demonize youth who have otherwise been starved of opportunities in their own communities," WMAQ-TV reported.

Dennis: Police on street wouldn't help

Dennis also told WFLD that police driving by where the attack occurred refused to help.

"I literally went out in the street and held my hands up to a police car and asked them to stop and motioned them over to what was going on, and they just cut a path around me and just kept going," she told the station.

An internal investigation is under way, police told WFLD.

Dennis also warned parents to monitor their kids' social media use and said that "they’re getting indoctrinated to do this kind of crazy stuff," the station added. Indeed, police previously said social media posts encouraged teens to fight in the downtown area.

"It felt like they felt invincible, like 'we can do this unchecked,'" Dennis told WFLD of the teen mob that attacked the couple. "And that can’t be the thing that happens in Chicago. That can’t happen anywhere. That’s anarchy."

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