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Ex-Obama advisor mocked after questioning Chicago's response to unconscious man: 'Own a mirror?'

David Axelrod, a Democratic political consultant and strategist, received backlash online for noting that emergency services in Chicago had declined to assist a seemingly homeless man outside the Art Institute of Chicago."An elderly man, probably homeless, was sprawled unconscious on the museum's front stone steps in the midst of a heat emergency. I called 911, and the operator said, ‘Well, is he ASKING for help?’ When I said no, she said, ‘Well, I'm not going to send anyone.’ So the man remained, passed out in the blazing noon sun. I guess that's how the City of Chicago deals with such situat...