Tiffany Henyard, the mayor of a small Illinois town, has always exuded a certain kind of swagger while in office.
But citizens now accuse the Thornton Township Supervisor and Dolton Mayor of crossing the line from looking like a gangster to acting like one.
“People look at politics like a joke, it’s like a mockery right now because of all this stuff,” Village of Dolton Trustee Kiana Belcher said at a public meeting. “She comes to board meetings dressed like Nino Brown.”
“During official meetings, Tiffany Henyard is seen dressed as the movie gangster Nino Brown from ‘New Jack City’,” reported Unlimited Ls on X.
“She even brought a DJ to play Rihanna’s ‘B***h Better Have My Money’,” the account noted. “One resident, Lawrence Gardner, claimed she forced the closure of his trucking business after he refused to renew a $3,500 contribution to her political fund.”
“I made the payment,” he said. “Then every year she started coming and required the same thing, and we had a problem about that.”
Gardner said that his failure to give out additional cash resulted in fraudulent claims of alcohol sales and the termination of his company license.
“What is she, Nino Brown?”