Chicago’s Labor Day weekend massacre left eight folks lifeless and scores wounded – whereas left-wing Mayor Brandon Johnson continued to rail towards President Trump’s proposed Nationwide Guard deployment to deal with town’s crime.
At the very least 58 folks have been shot throughout town, with gunfire erupting in at the very least 32 completely different shootings all through the vacation weekend, WLS reported.
One neighborhood noticed two mass shootings inside 48 hours – with seven folks being injured in a drive-by capturing Saturday night time, and 5 extra being wounded blocks away Monday.
A 17-year-old was critically damage within the Monday capturing, however is anticipated to outlive.
Regardless of the violence, Johnson doubled down on his resistance to federal troops being dispatched to handle town’s crime in a fiery Labor Day speech.
“No federal troops within the metropolis of Chicago. No militarized drive within the metropolis of Chicago” Johnson declared Monday.
“We’re going to defend our democracy within the metropolis of Chicago,” he added, based on the Chicago Tribune “We’re going to guard the humanity of each single particular person within the metropolis of Chicago.”
And simply days earlier, on Saturday Johnson signed an govt order supposed to withstand Trump’s attainable deployment by reaffirming town’s management of the Chicago Police Division.
He additionally directed metropolis officers to submit common Freedom of Info Act requests on the Division of Homeland Safety’s actions associated to town.
Johnson and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker have positioned themselves as two of the loudest voices opposing President Trump’s plan to make use of federal troops and brokers to crack down on crime in Democrat-controlled cities.
They are saying they’ve obtained no communication from the White Home about its plans, however Trump has insisted it’s going to occur if town doesn’t get its crime underneath management.
