Bob Fioretti thinks Rahm Emanuel is as bad as a snitch.

Fioretti, one of four opponents challenging Rahm Emanuel for the city’s top post, attacked the mayor for not prosecuting thieves who beat up Emanuel’s son and stole his cell phone – just yards from the mayor’s residence.

After an appearance at the City Club of Chicago, Fioretti told the media “It sends the wrong signal,” according to the Sun Times.

“This mayor, where has he been? I mean for God sakes, you’ve got a CVS that gets a burglary a couple blocks down. You’ve got your own family member, and you don’t want to prosecute charges? What did we just send a signal about? What did we just do by doing that? When your kid gets a tooth almost knocked out? When your kid is out, just maybe whatever he was doing at 10 o’clock at night on the phone and had to leave the house,” Fioretti added.

“What message does that send to every community about let’s not snitch, when they’re saying you gotta take an active role in our communities. Mr. Mayor, you failed us again.”

He even went so far as to imply the real story is not being told about the incident.

“Now, let’s see. You’re on your way for a vacation. Your kid leaves the house whatever time it was to make a phone call to talk to his college counselor, and then he gets attacked? And then, with all the resources that you have around the house more than any other citizen, to make your block a safe block.

“And he gets attacked, gets a tooth pretty well injured. I don’t know how quick they got to the dentist before they boarded that plane,” Fioretti said after his City Club speech.

“And then you catch the people and then you say: ‘Well, we’re not going to prosecute it.’ 
Isn’t that the same thing that we hear the folks in: ‘let’s make sure you start telling about what crime is happening, who committed the crime?’ What did they do? They left. It sends the wrong signal.”

Emanuel’s campaign bristled at Fioretti’s suggestion.

“It’s sad that Bob Fioretti’s campaign has come to this, and it doesn’t warrant a response,” reads a statement from Emanuel’s campaign, according to the paper.

NBC Chicago reports Fioretti is trailing the pack with the support of 7.5% of voters.