Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) rebuked President Donald Trump’s potential deployment of the National Guard to the Windy City, telling the crowd on Monday that the city’s leaders will “protect” the “humanity” of its residents.
By Filip Timotija for Border Report
“No federal troops in the city of Chicago. No militarized force in the city of Chicago,” Johnson said during the “Workers Over Billionaires” protest. “We’re going to defend our democracy in the city of Chicago. We’re going to protect the humanity of every single person in the city of Chicago.”
“There are some people [who] believe that we don’t have the power to beat authoritarianism,” he continued. “But I am also a history teacher as well. We have stood up for the interests of workers before and we will do it again.”
Johnson’s clash with the administration comes just days after the mayor signed a sweeping executive order outlining how the city would respond in the case the president deploys the National Guard in hopes of lowering the crime rate in the country’s third-largest city.
The order reaffirmed that the Chicago Police Department (CPD) will “remain a locally controlled law enforcement agency” and urged Trump to “stand down” from sending in the National Guard troops.
After deploying soldiers to help patrol Washington, D.C., Trump signaled recently that Chicago, which has long struggled with gun violence, could be the next in line.
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