Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson sharply criticized President Donald Trump over the weekend, warning that if the administration deploys the National Guard to the city as part of a crime crackdown, the people of the city will “rise up.”
Trump indicated over the weekend that Chicago could be the next city targeted for enhanced federal law enforcement measures, a proposal that also drew pushback from Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, who dismissed it as a “manufactured crisis.”
“The city of Chicago does not need a military-occupied state. That’s not who we are,” Johnson said in response to a question regarding his feelings about National Guard troops and federal agents being sent to the city.
