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.”
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.”
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.
So
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Another rigged election?
I just wonder if he won, fair and square? Nothing would surprise me with Chicago politicians. Well, when the city crashes and burns in 6 months maybe those people will learn to vote for a conservative or moderate Democrat!
Or even a common sense Republican? Democrat after Democrat so-called “leadership” have failed to make the city safer and a place where people would want to visit. After watching the rioting and looting over the past 6 or 7 years, I’ll never visit there.
conservative and moderate democrat never. The cool aid has burnt their brains
That will never happen..between the Conservatives leaving the city, the dumbing down of the rest, and then the election corruption, Chicago is done.
We had hopes for the people of Chicago but this guy is worse the Lightfoot! So sad, nothing has changed. I pray for the people of Chicago.
Another radical useless black, how does Chicago think that putting in the same leadership to run the second most dangerous city in the country is going to fix anything, is totally stupid.
The Democrat voters are stupid
Stockholm syndrome
Just go and loot his house and watch just how quick he will want the criminals dealt with. If they are anything but black he will charge but will turn his head if black.
This is the type of man and mentality that is destroying this country and leading to another civil war.
GREAT POINT
Standardized tests ? So if one applicant fails the test it is the fault of the other applicant passing the test ?
It their twisted, liberal world, yes…
Congratulations Chicago voters,you now will have a free for all city witrh a Racisxt mayor again.Timed to cancel Chicago as a tourist spot.
Chicago got rid of one piece of garbage, now they’ve got another one.
Yet another retarded negro unfit for the job. Minority hires are cancer.
If these criminals can be allowed to commit crimes with no fear then the businesses cannot be charged if they put these criminals down like the bad dogs they choose to emulate. Armed security guards must be allowed.
It’s hilarious how he simply said “they have insurance.” After a short time, insurance companies will no longer insure businesses there. This guy is not thinking too deeply. How long will people continue living in such a crappy city? Those who can leave will do so. Hell, the neighborhood around Obama’s future presidential library is already pricing everyday hard-working black people out of their apartments. Maybe another Mrs. O’Leary’s cow fire will happen again?
They already are. They are also free to kill and rape.
Welcome to the new world order.
From bad to worse. Chicago just dug their own grave.
Dig a hole!
This new mayor will be as bad as the old mayor. He’s full of crazy ideas that will further the decline of that once great city.
RECALL THIS IDIOT
Imprison him. Recall is to kind.
Too bad he’s in Chicago and they would NEVER do that there.
150 years and they still can’t get it right. It’s not white supremacy that’s the problem, it’s black entitlement and black supremacy. Blacks tell me to be educated is to be white! Really????????? White does not = racism except at the black dinner discussion tables.
New Mayor and New INCOMPETENCE! Oh boy another mensa society graduate LOL
WTF more censoring. FU
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oh come on envolve did I offend you??
Guess George SOROS bought you too
better change the name of your site to NOT VOLVE
LOL what a FKG JOKE
SNOWFLAKES working for ENVOLVE LOL
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fake news at ENVOLVE
What an idiot.
Good luck, citizens of Chicago, time to move elsewhere!!!!!!
This guy is a member of the original racist political party in the USA, the Democratic Party.
Bring back the Plantations!
Now!
this is what the people voted for, so I don’t feel sorry for any of them. Maybe someone should notice how many white looters there were, and they might understand why so many blacks were in jail or arrested.
This filthy criminal should be arrested for inciting criminal activity. If I were a leader, things would be very different.
If stupid could fly, Brandon Johnson would be a jet.
Scott Adams was right. And these fools are blind while Biden sends hundreds of billions to Ukraine.
Then homeowners and business owners should be free to shoot and kill anyone looting and breaking into their homes and businesses.
Let them be freE to loot.Let the owners BE free to shoot looters on sight. That will solve the looting problem QUICKLY.
I mean, WHO elects these bozos anyway?
I agree with him in one sentiment. Don’t bother calling the police. Stock up on ammunition, make molotovs and find ways to barricade homes and private owned stores. They wanna loot? Let them decide if they are willing to die for it. They will cry and ask you why you value your property over their lives, truth is they are the ones that value your private property over their own lives.
I can see copies of “Improvised Munitions and Booby Traps” courtesy of the U.S. Army will top the Amazon bestseller list next week…
Might also consider “Free to protect your property with deadly force without fear of criminal prosecution” while you are defunding the Police.
Johnson also claimed in a debate that standardized tests have “roots in eugenics to prove the inferiority of Black people.”
Of the three major groups that exist in the USA, caucasian, negro, and mongol (AKA White, Black, Oriental), what he’s claiming is the white people designed the standardized tests to disadvantage negroes. What he, and others like him, ignore is that the mongol is who scores highest on these tests. So apparently “white” people are able to design tests that other whites do better on than blacks, but for some reason don’t design them so that whites also do better than orientals. I don’t know if this is the case for all standardized tests, but I do know it is true for IQ tests.
Envolve sources that statement from wirepoints.org, who in turn sources it from a video interview in 2020 with WGN News about defunding the police when he was still the county commissioner.
https://youtu.be/VadFYX0xSo4
What he appears to have actually said is that looting is a symptom of poverty, and that the usual response of increasing police presence is a bandaid solution. Chicago (according to Johnson at the time of the interview at least) was spending 5 million dollars per day on policing, and he suggested some of that money could be better used to aid the poorer communities producing looters to make them feel financially secure enough that looting would no longer be an attractive proposition.
Less stick and more carrot, basically. This is exactly the kind of fake news Trump hates.
Who cares? They cook this crap, let ’em eat it.
It sounds like Chicago is destined to be reduced to a third-world hole.
Your family home first, Brandon. If looting is ok for businesses, it’s OK for your family.
It sounds very much as if, having elected Johnson its mayor, Chicago has declared its secession…from the human race.
By condoning the actions of animals, he guarantees the outflow of jobs, business and capital needed to ensure his Marxist plans. Simply put, they went from one failure of a Mayor to a larger one, and innocent lives will be lost at a higher level….but that’s history, not my personal opinion.
With this bucked tooth buffoon Chicago will be a shuttered mess by the time the demoncrats convenient rolls around
He’s a terrible mayor if he doesn’t understand that when stores are looted over and over again they close because there is no profit. I’ve watched that happen in Los Angeles.