Township meeting with controversial Dolton Mayor Tiffany Henyard spirals out of control, police called

A gathering successful Thornton Township devolved into chaos implicit the scandal-ridden Dolton, Illinois politician Tiffany Henyard Tuesday night.

According to CBS News Chicago, the gathering was primitively meant to code the Thornton Township Board presently operating without a fiscal budget, starring trustees to request Henyard, who besides serves arsenic Thornton Township Supervisor, beryllium much unfastened astir her lavish spending habits.

Though erstwhile Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot antecedently investigated Henyard for her spending habits successful the Village of Dolton, determination has been nary probe into her spending habits regarding Thornton Township. 

"Lori Lightfoot did specified a large occupation successful Dolton," Thornton Township Trustee Carmen Carlisle said astatine the meeting. "I would invited her to travel and bash the aforesaid happening present astatine Thornton Township."

Tiffany Henyard, politician of Dolton, Illinois, has travel nether occurrence for her excessive spending. (Fox 32)

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Henyard accused the committee of trustees of attacking her, insisting that the township was successful a shortage anterior to her word arsenic politician and supervisor.

"This is what I mean astir my board," Henyard said. "It's a batch of hate, jealousy, and envy amongst them towards their supervisor."

The committee continued to impeach her of out-of-control spending, which led to an aggravated backmost and distant betwixt Henyard and Carlisle.

"I americium the person for Thornton Township. I americium the supervisor of Thornton Township," Henyard said, "And I'm going to marque definite you each springiness maine my respect and halt playing these games each clip you travel to the meeting."

"Respect is earned. It is not demanded," Carlisle said.

The gathering got much heated arsenic Henyard and Carlisle accused each different of being liars, according to footage from ABC7 Chicago.

"She lies each the time," Henyard said.

"No, you prevarication each the time," Carlisle responded, with a fewer radical cheering astatine her comment.

Mayor Tiffany Henyard seemed confrontational with the Dolton residents she was elected to correspond during a contentious committee gathering connected Aug. 5, 2024. (FOX 32 Chicago)

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CBS News Chicago aboriginal reported constabulary were called aft idiosyncratic referred to Henyard arsenic an animal. Fox News Digital reached retired to the mayor’s bureau for a comment.

Police person been called to interruption up the chaos successful Dolton municipality hallway meetings aggregate times implicit the past year. In April, constabulary were forced to unopen down a gathering owed to information concerns pursuing contentious exchanges betwixt Henyard and residents. 

In June, constabulary officers broke up a scuffle betwixt supporters and opponents of Henyard earlier it turned violent.

In May, Lightfoot’s probe into the town’s fiscal concern revealed successful a preliminary study that Dolton's wide money equilibrium was $5.61 cardinal successful 2022, but by May 2024 the equilibrium had dropped to a shortage of $3.65 million.

Tiffany Henyard, a person who has been embroiled successful galore controversies, had yet different contentious gathering with her constituents this week. (Screencap courtesy of video from Fox32)

Meanwhile, Henyard has travel nether occurrence for extravagant spending connected the taxpayer's dime. Most recently, she spent astir $85,000 to propulsion a enactment that featured R&B vocalist Keke Wyatt and rapper J. Holiday past month.

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Fox News' Louis Casiano contributed to this report.