Outrage as McDonald’s CEO appears to blame parents of slain Chicago children

Chris Kempczinski said his comments about fatally shot children in text to Chicago mayor lacked empathy and compassion'

McDonald's chief executive, Chris Kempczinski, has sparked outrage after the emergence of a text exchange with the Chicago mayor, Lori Lightfoot, in which he appears to blame two Chicago parents whose children were fatally shot.

In the newly publicized texts between Kempczinski and Lightfoot from April, Kempczinski blamed the parents of 13-year-old Adam Toledo and seven-year-old Jaslyn Adams for their deaths.