Posted on 06/11/2025 8:38:44 PM PDT by PBRCat
Mayor Brandon Johnson urged Chicagoans to “rise up in this moment” against President Donald Trump’s mass deportation effort, even as he acknowledged Wednesday that the deployment of the military to help carry out immigration raids in Los Angeles could happen here.
Johnson refused to say precisely what he would do if mass demonstrations in Chicago — perhaps as soon as Saturday’s “No Kings Day of Defiance” protests — provoke an L.A.-style federal response.
The mayor would only say that he is concerned enough to have spoken directly with Gov. JB Pritzker and Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle about the possibility that Trump might activate the Illinois National Guard to protect U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents making arrests.
“This is a necessary fight for all of us to be able to push back. Whether we use the courts or whether we continue to protest and raise our voices, dissent matters in this moment,” the mayor said at his weekly City Hall news conference.
“It’s a war on our culture. It’s a war on our democracy. It’s a war on our humanity. I am counting on all of Chicago to resist in this moment because, whatever particular vulnerable group is being targeted today, another group will be next. … None of us are immune from this disease.”
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Aren’t there laws against this sort of thing?
Sounds insurrectiony.
Sounds like he’s inciting a riot.
Thats a crime.
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What a testament to the caliber of Chicago voters.
“Rise up…” is incitement.
Detain this Mayor for questioning by Feds, right now, keep him locked up through the weekend.
The Communist Revolution has begun.
NO SURPRISE. THEY MADE THAT CLEAR WHEN THEY SUPPORTED “SANCTUARY CITIES”
Yep. Here we go.
Again an elected official openly calling for lawlessness and anarchy against a sitting President.
“ “rise up in this moment”
INSURRECTION!!!!!!!!!
There used to be. That is to say at one time there was...
The ads really do write themselves.
The Dem party, representing ILLEGAL ALIENS and other CRIMINALS!!!
Endless threats of violence.
“...Johnson stands as one of the least popular mayors in the country. His most recent polling shows that he has a disastrous approval rating of 6.6 percent. The same survey noted that only 8.2 percent of respondents said they would vote for Johnson if an election for mayor were held today....”
Mayor Johnson urges Chicagoans to ‘rise up’ in defiance of Trump immigration raids - Kill our cops, burn our city!
The Chicago cops should arrest the GD mayor!
Without illegals the dem party would cease to exist you all have to understand this is about their very survival
“It’s a war on our culture.”
“Your culture” is marxist anti-American hate, Brandon Boy.
” It’s a war on our democracy.”
“Your” democracy is that of a “democratic” people’s republic, commie filth.
“It’s a war on our humanity”
What would you know about humanity, you subhuman baboon.
“I am counting on all of Chicago to resist in this moment because, whatever particular vulnerable group is being targeted today, another group will be next.”
ROFL! You would line up and shoot all Jews, all Christians, all conservatives, if only you could, Brandon Boy!
“None of us are immune from this disease.”
Your disease is progressive mental illness — and righteous sound-mind conservativism is OUR immunity against YOUR insanity, douchebag.
Now GFY, Brandon Boy.
7% approval Brandon going against what the vast majority ofhis c black voters want. They want illegals gone
Johnson needs to be locked down at ‘Gitmo as an insurectionista
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