Mayor Brandon Johnson says Chicago will ‘rise up’ if Trump brings in National Guard to crack down on crime

The Post Millennial

“…the people of this city are accustomed to rising up against tyranny…”

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson had harsh words for President Donald Trump over the weekend, saying that should Trump bring in the National Guard to help crack down on crime, the people of Chicago would “rise up.” Trump had said that Chicago would be the next city that the federal government could tackle for enhanced law enforcement, which also drew rebuke from Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, who called it a “manufactured crisis.”

Trump spoke against Pritzker on Monday, calling the governor a “slob.” He said that Chicago is “a killing field right now” and that the leadership in the city and state doesn’t “acknowledge it.”

“The city of Chicago does not need a military-occupied state. That’s not who we are,” Johnson said when asked what his reaction would be to Trump taking a federal approach to law enforcement in the city. Trump had previously brought National Guard troops into LA to back up Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials who were getting attacked for doing their jobs.

“And I commend the work of Mayor Bass, my colleague and, you know, all the folks in Los Angeles who stood up and fought, you know, against this, you know, authoritarianism. Here’s the bottom line,” Johnson went on, “they don’t have police power. There’s nothing they can do.”

“You know, these are federal troops. They do not go through the training that our police officers go through. So they cannot even enact police authority.”

“But the President has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to what, arrest nine people in DC? You know, that is, clearly he’s demonstrated that he doesn’t have a level of consciousness to understand what it takes to run cities, not to mention an entire country.” There have been hundreds of arrests and after 10 days, no homicides for the first time in years.

“And so, you know, look, we’re going to remain firm. We’ll take legal action, but the people of this city are accustomed to rising up against tyranny, and if that’s necessary, I believe that the people of Chicago will stand firm alongside of me as I work every single day to protect the people of this city,” Johnson threatened.

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