A video shows Tiffany Henyard, the Democrat mayor of Dolton, Illinois, jumping into a chaotic brawl between her boyfriend and an activist who described her as a “b-tch” during a town board meeting on Tuesday.
According to Fox News, the brawl occurred on Tuesday during a Thornton Township Board of Trustees meeting after activist Jedidiah Brown criticized the mayor’s leadership. Speaking out against the mayor, who has been involved in multiple scandals, Brown pointed to the recent investigation by former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot.
Lightfoot found that the Village of Dolton had hundreds of thousands of dollars missing from American Rescue Plan funds and that the city’s credit card spending increased to $779,638 in 2023 with limited tracking, according to Fox News.
“You’ve been a half-a-s mayor. But if you wanted to get up here and earn some respect, then you should have been able to respond to Lori Lightfoot’s report about credit cards,” Brown said. “You want to talk about them not coming to work, but we’ve been hearing what you’ve been doing while you’ve been at work.”
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Brown later concluded his comments, saying, “You gone, b-tch.”
Shortly after Brown’s comments, a fight broke out between Brown and Henyard’s boyfriend, Kamal Woods. The video shows multiple other people joining the brawl, including Henyard, who had been seated on the other side of the room, according to Fox News.
In a statement to WMAQ-TV, Meghan Dudek, a witness of Tuesday’s brawl, said, “I have never seen a politician jump in and fight like that – it was scary and horrible – it is an embarrassment.”
Gerald Williams, who also witnessed the fight, said, “It should have never come to blows, and Tiffany should have never got involved. “She jumped in. She hit her head on the table, so I don’t know. She might be injured.”
According to CBS News, witnesses claimed that while it was not clear whether Henyard was attempting to join the fight or break up the fight, she was thrown to the floor and lost a shoe during the brawl. Additionally, some social media users reported that Henyard’s wig “was seen flying across the room” during the fight.
Following the major brawl at Tuesday’s board meeting, Beau B. Brindley, Henyard’s attorney, released a statement, saying, “In the face of endless false accusations and outright lies about Mayor Henyard that are being trafficked on social media by her political enemies, it is unsurprising that violence erupted. In the social media age, unchecked falsehoods lead to misplaced tension and aggression. This episode shows that the campaign of false information about the mayor puts her and others in danger.”