Mayor Brandon Johnson didn’t maintain again Wednesday when he stopped by the WBEZ studio for one more spherical of “Ask the Mayor” with Sasha-Ann Simons on her new morning present “Within the Loop.”
“The president is unstable. We all know that,” Johnson mentioned. “He’s a double-minded man, and he’s additionally very simple-minded. And it’s completely not the primary time that Trump has referred to as for a Black man to be arrested.”
That was a reference to President Donald Trump’s name on his social community Reality Social earlier that morning to jail Johnson and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker for “failing to guard ICE,” the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement brokers who’ve patrolled Chicago in latest weeks.
The mayor referred to as this second “unprecedented” various occasions as callers from Rogers Park to Oak Park to Little Village pressed him for readability on what Johnson can do and is doing to guard Chicagoans from federal companies working within the metropolis, together with the Nationwide Guard, the Border Patrol and the FBI.
“What the president is doing is totally unlawful, unconstitutional and harmful,” Johnson instructed Simons, including, “We’ve by no means had a mayor need to take care of a president declaring struggle on his metropolis.”
The mayor praised Chicago’s immigrant and Latino communities, in addition to the fast response groups who’ve confirmed as much as shield their neighbors. “As a lot as I do know there’s a degree of worry and anxiousness that exists, there are people who find themselves pushing past their fears and displaying up in among the most brave methods,” Johnson mentioned.
Most of all, the mayor referred to as for Chicagoans to “set the usual for what resistance appears like.”
“It’s going to take all of us, and I’m utilizing each single device that’s obtainable to me,” Johnson mentioned. “And right here’s the arduous actuality: We don’t know what our limits are simply but, and I’m going to check the boundaries as a lot as I presumably can to do the whole lot in my energy to defend the folks of this metropolis.”
Final month, Johnson answered questions that ranged from CTA funding and Trump’s then-threatened “Operation Halfway Blitz” to issues round electrical bikes and scooters.
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