Chicago’s Labor Day weekend bloodbath left eight people dead and scores wounded – while left-wing Mayor Brandon Johnson continued to rail against President Trump’s proposed National Guard deployment to tackle the city’s crime.
At least 58 people were shot across the city, with gunfire erupting in at least 32 different shootings throughout the holiday weekend, WLS reported.
One neighborhood saw two mass shootings within 48 hours – with seven people being injured in a drive-by shooting Saturday night, and five more being wounded blocks away Monday.
A 17-year-old was critically hurt in the Monday shooting, but is expected to survive.
Despite the violence, Johnson doubled down on his resistance to federal troops being dispatched to address the city’s crime in a fiery Labor Day speech.
“No federal troops in the city of Chicago. No militarized force in the city of Chicago” Johnson declared Monday.
“We’re going to defend our democracy in the city of Chicago,” he added, according to the Chicago Tribune “We’re going to protect the humanity of every single person in the city of Chicago.”
And just days earlier, on Saturday Johnson signed an executive order intended to resist Trump’s possible deployment by reaffirming the city’s control of the Chicago Police Department.
He also directed city officials to submit regular Freedom of Information Act requests on the Department of Homeland Security’s actions related to the city.
Johnson and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker have positioned themselves as two of the loudest voices opposing President Trump’s plan to use federal troops and agents to crack down on crime in Democrat-controlled cities.
They say they’ve received no communication from the White House about its plans, but Trump has insisted it will happen if the city doesn’t get its crime under control.
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