In yet another stunning incident of high-profile, elected Democrats seemingly calling for political violence meant to disrupt and delay the implementation of President Donald Trump’s agenda, particularly as regards arresting and deporting illegal aliens, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson called on leftists to “rise up” against ICE.
As background, Mayor Brandon Johnson’s comments came as America braced for the beginning of the “No Kings” protests planned across cities in America on Saturday, June 14, with leftists insisting that the president is trying to be a “king” in how he demands policies. Further, those protests are coming alongside the violent riots in LA as various groups of rioters fight with the police, Guardsmen, and Marines while setting the city alight.
So, it was in the context of that violence that Mayor Johnson was egging on similar sorts of public protests turned violent against ICE officers, who have deployed to major cities like Chicago in an attempt to arrest and deport as many of the illegal aliens as possible, which is what triggered the LA riots.
In any case, Mayor Johnson said that “dissent matters” and those upset with the president need to be willing to “fight back” and “push back” against President Trump. He said, as was reported by the Chicago Sun Times, “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.”
Continuing, the woke mayor railed against the National Guard and Marine Corps crackdown on the rioters, and the ICE raids on illegals generally, saying that those actions are the targeting of a “vulnerable group” and so Chicagoans need to “resist” the federal agents.
Making that demand, he said, “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.”
Further, Johnson reportedly said that the crackdown on riots in LA is about Trump trying to become a tyrant, claiming, “What we have seen in Los Angeles is really not about immigration. This is not about policy. It’s about power. We have a tyrant in the White House who has a complete disregard for our Constitution and the dismissing of our democracy.”
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Continuing, he compared President Trump to former Democrat presidential candidate George Wallace, claiming, “This is a terrible moment in our nation’s history. … He continues to show how low he will stoop. … It is sick and demented. I didn’t know you could look worse than George Wallace.”
Also chiming in during that crazy press conference was Johnson’s chief of staff, Cristina Pacione-Zayas, who bizarrely claimed that ICE would be using “mini-tanks” against protesters. Zayas said, “There will be tactical teams. There will be mini-tanks. There will be other tools that they use in which they plan to do raids, as we saw in Los Angeles. That information is actually pretty public. It has been out there and, in fact, on official channels.”
Watch Brandon Johnson get called out for his rhetoric here: