We, the citizens of Joliet Illinois stand beside our Mayor, Bob O'Dekirk.  On 5-31-2020, our great city was under siege by looters, rioters and arsonists who were attempting to interfere with peaceful protesters and our first responders that were working to protect our city from being destroyed.

It is the Mayor and City Officials responsibility to do whatever they can in times of crisis and disruption.  We are in a state of emergency and crisis as we continue to be under a curfew due to the lawlessness and behavior of these people.

Mayor O'Dekirk has been falsely accused of wrong doing.  When in fact, our good Mayor was physically attacked by a rioter and as the Mayor tried to diffuse the situation, a second rioter jumped on him, knocking him to the ground, punching him in the face and smashing the Mayors face into the pavement.

Bob was the first and only Mayor to create diversity and community relations in our City Council to support the minority community.

Our Mayor has always respected and worked with minorities and he expanded the number of minority members on the Police & Fire Commission.

Bob is a highly decorated police officer, nominated 4 times for Officer of the Year and in 1995 was the recipient of the Martin S. Murrin Labor Award. Bob was an elected officer on our local Fraternal Order of Police Executive Board.

We are appalled that a handful of people are unjustly calling for our Mayor to resign due to their own political ambitions.

PLEASE SIGN OUR PETITION IN SUPPORT OF MAYOR O'DEKIRK...THANK YOU

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