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(TJV) Brandon Johnson, the newly elected mayor of Chicago, has stated that in order to combat “white supremacy,” black people should no longer be subject to criminal prosecution and be taken out of “state-sponsored policing.”
The newly elected mayor squeaked out a victory against more “normal” Democrat Paul Vallas, and appears to be more radical, more leftist and more racist than the current Mayor Lightfoot, who was voted out.
Sadly, the new leadership has no issue with crime and literally supports the looting of local business in the name of social justice.
During the George Floyd riots in the summer of 2020, Johnson was an ardent supporter 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 activists 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.”
Chicago, may indeed,under the dangerous Marxist ideology espoused by the newly minted Mayor, finally collapse.
In 2020, as the Cook County Commissioner Johnson showed support by excusing the looting of local stores, during the BLM insurrection of 2020.
Johnson was asked by a WGN-TV interviewer at [the time widespread looting was taking place in 2020], “Do you worry about stores leaving Chicago and the county because they don’t think it’s safe?”
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 defeated pro-police former Chicago Public Schools CEO Paul Vallas with 51.42% of the vote versus Vallas’ 48.58% in Tuesday’s election. Main-stream media has reported that Chicago voters turned sour on former Mayot Lighfoot because of “widespread dissatisfaction from voters over her handling of crime and policing”.
The voters appear to have have been “disatisfied” because the crime rate is not high enough, and voted in a Mayor that will guarantee more mayhem, lawlessness, and death and destruction with his far left, deadly ideology.
