Overview

• Rodriguez-Sanchez’s attorneys delivered a cease-and-desist letter demanding Lopez remove social media posts that falsely tie her political organization to Elias Rodriguez.
• She says the misinformation prompted a surge of hate mail and caused her former chief of staff to be misidentified as the alleged gunman.
• Lopez has refused to retract the posts or apologize, invoking his “moral clarity” and insisting he’s defending the Jewish community from “anti-Zionist” sentiment.
• Elias Rodriguez, a 31-year-old Chicago resident, is charged with federal and local murder counts in the May 21 slayings of two Israeli embassy staffers in Washington.
• The dispute underscores deepening City Council divisions over Israel-Palestine issues and raises broader questions about accountability for political misinformation.