CHICAGO (WLS) -- Mayor Lori Lightfoot has signaled that she's ready to move on after making a remark about a police union official that was caught on a hot mic.
At Wednesday's City Council meeting, a hot mic captured Lightfoot calling the first-vice president of Chicago's Fraternal Order of Police a "F-O-P clown."
Patrick Murray was disputing the recent firing of four officers over the Laquan McDonald investigation.
"I am sorry that I said it out loud," Lightfoot stated on Wednesday.
The mayor tried to put the issue to rest again Friday.
"There's no more to say about that. I said what I said the other day. Something I shouldn't have said out loud. And I think we've got bigger fish to fry," Lightfoot said.
But hours later, the police union sent a letter to the city's aldermen, calling on them to "show the proper respect to Chicago's finest by asking the Mayor to formally apologize so that we may move forward."
ABC 7 has reached out to the mayor's office for a response.