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Newly-Elected Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Said Black People Should Not Face 'State-Sponsored Policing'
Information Liberation ^ | Apr. 05, 2023 | Chris Menahan

Posted on 04/05/2023 8:48:18 AM PDT by Red Badger

Chicago's new Mayor-Elect Brandon Johnson told a group organizing for a "police-free future" that black people should be removed from "state-sponsored policing" as a way to fight "white supremacy."

During the George Floyd riots in the summer of 2020, Johnson came out in support of the "defund the police" movement and spoke on a panel titled "We Don't Call Police: A Town Hall on a Police-Free Future" in which he praised organizers for pushing "an agenda that actually can transform people's lives," the Chicago Tribune reports.

"And part of it is removing ourselves away from this, you know, state-sponsored policing," he said, "but also the tools that have been placed against Black folks that have been used violently, whether it's policing, or administering standardized tests, or ... around how white supremacy finds its way in every facet of our lives, that we have to fight and resist that."

Johnson also defended looting during the Floyd riots, stating that "what we're seeing obviously is an outbreak of incredible frustration and anguish" that's tied to "a failed racist system," Wirepoints reports: Johnson was asked by a WGN-TV interviewer at [the time widespread looting was taking place], "Do you worry about stores leaving Chicago and the county because they don't think it's safe?"

Johnson bristled at the concern. He replied, "these companies have insurance and assurance." He also said, "you can't take a certain level of urgency to protect capital and the wealthy and not have that same tenacity to provide relief for families that have been devastated through structural racism for generations."

Johnson amplified the point, saying, "We have to redirect dollars away from a failed racist system and move it into the hands of people who really are trying their very best to survive day-to-day. And if we can't do that as a government, we are failing to meet the moment…To continue to criminalize people, and to chastise folks for being poor, it's tired and it's old. We actually need a new direction that really calls for massive investments in neighborhoods." Johnson also claimed in a debate that standardized tests have "roots in eugenics to prove the inferiority of Black people."

He later distanced himself from the "defund the police" movement, stating: "With all due respect, I get how they are trying to paint a brother. I get it. But I'm not going to be subject to a hashtag that no one can define."

Johnson also said just weeks ago he never said "defund the police" -- despite stating during a debate that defunding police is not "a slogan, it's an actual real political goal."

Johnson defeated pro-police former Chicago Public Schools CEO Paul Vallas with 51.42% of the vote versus Vallas' 48.58% in Tuesday's election.

Though Lori Lightfoot was voted out as a result of "widespread dissatisfaction from voters over her handling of crime and policing in the nation's third-largest city," voters replaced her with someone who is even more radical.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Society
KEYWORDS: anarchotyranny; bidenvoters; blackracism; brandonjohnson; chicago; crime; dystopia; gentrification; illinois; racism; racist; reparations
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To: BBQToadRibs2

21 posted on 04/05/2023 8:54:16 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Red Badger

Read his remarks closely.

He’s arguing for separation. He’s a black nationalist.

The post 1964 way of living is crumbling.


22 posted on 04/05/2023 8:55:46 AM PDT by Jim Noble (You have sat too long for any good you have been doing)
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To: dfwgator

They voted out Adolph and Ernst walks in.


23 posted on 04/05/2023 8:56:20 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: Red Badger
how white supremacy finds its way in every facet of our lives

Apparently, this twerp thinks that White People really are supreme.

Instead of bitching about it, he should encourage black people to do better ... maybe learn from what those supposedly "supreme" White People are doing.

24 posted on 04/05/2023 8:56:48 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Larry Lucido

Or I would say, they got rid of The Kaiser, and got Hitler.


25 posted on 04/05/2023 8:57:18 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Red Badger

This guy is so dumb and clueless he thinks businesses will return or remain in the city after he defunds the police. They have insurance for that, right? Chicago will become a crime-free utopia, right?

His soon before those who are left beg for the good old days of Lori Lightfoot?


26 posted on 04/05/2023 8:57:45 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (What did Socialists use before Candles?..... Electricity)
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To: lula

Let the boys get jiggy and become African African “American”
This meets half of the BHO agenda

Now we can have a bunch of failed nation states right here in the US!


27 posted on 04/05/2023 8:57:53 AM PDT by himno hero (had'nff)
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To: dfwgator

They replaced Hitler with Stalin.


28 posted on 04/05/2023 8:58:15 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Red Badger

Looks like Chicago voted to be all in til the bitter end. Lake County will continue to grow.


29 posted on 04/05/2023 8:58:35 AM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment
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To: ConservativeInPA

Wakanda on the lake.


30 posted on 04/05/2023 8:58:58 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Red Badger

Chicago should just change its name to Mogadishu, or Kabul, Illinois.

Liberals have been accusing “Right Wing Gun Nuts” for years of wanting to create the “Wild West”, when it’s their (liberal) policies that are creating exactly that.


31 posted on 04/05/2023 8:58:59 AM PDT by telescope115 (My feet are on the ground, and my head is in the stars. A Man, and proud of it!)
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To: Red Badger

He’s going to give them even more immunity from prosecution for their crimes. Chicago is already hell. It will get even worse.

He’s obviously OK with them turning on Whitey.


32 posted on 04/05/2023 8:59:02 AM PDT by I want the USA back (No one is assigned sex at birth. One's sex is noted and recorded. My pronouns Haha, hehe, hoho, hoo )
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To: Red Badger

There will be policing, whether by the state or by individuals. And vigilantes do not operate prisons.


33 posted on 04/05/2023 8:59:06 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Red Badger

Yeah, go ahead black people, buy into your own self-destruction.

Go ahead, be the most ignorant, most violent, most government dependent, most useless people in the USA and the world.

All you’ll be able to do is deal drugs, kill other blacks, bury your relatives, make ugly art and suck on the teat of government dependency, as long as that lasts for you in your cesspools.


34 posted on 04/05/2023 8:59:12 AM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: NorthMountain

Or they replaced Trotsky with Stalin.


35 posted on 04/05/2023 8:59:25 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Red Badger

Conservative, law-abiding, smart people in Chicago (of all races) should heed Scott Adams.


36 posted on 04/05/2023 8:59:44 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone els)
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To: Red Badger

Another racist mayor.

Lucky Chicago.


37 posted on 04/05/2023 9:00:00 AM PDT by Allegra
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To: Red Badger

Chicongo.


38 posted on 04/05/2023 9:00:10 AM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope. )
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To: Red Badger

Black voters will never vote for a pro police white guy


39 posted on 04/05/2023 9:00:19 AM PDT by 38special (I should've said something earlier)
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To: telescope115

Liberals have been accusing “Right Wing Gun Nuts” for years of wanting to create the “Wild West”, when it’s their (liberal) policies that are creating exactly that.

We need some Kool Moe Dee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auhwI00iKWg


40 posted on 04/05/2023 9:01:03 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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