Chicago Mayor Johnson's Latest 'Yes, He Really Said That' Comments On Crime
BY TYLER DURDEN
WEDNESDAY, JUN 07, 2023 - 04:20 PM
Authored by Mark Glennon via Wirepoints.org,
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson outdid himself yesterday.
Earlier, a Wall Street Journal editorial said, about his empty comments on Chicago violence over Labor Day weekend:
“Yes, he actually said that, which goes a long way to explaining why gunmen patrol the streets with impunity.”
But Tuesday, about last weekend’s number of shootings - the worst in ten years for the first week in June - Johnson said it’s the critics of Chicago’s violence who are wrong, saying, “What I find disingenuous is, where were these individuals when schools were being shut down and closed? Did they have a critique then?”
Are you kidding, Mayor Johnson?
It was your Chicago Teachers Union, where you worked and that played a major role electing you, that was behind Chicago’s indefensible, catastrophically long shutdown of its schools ostensibly because of Covid. That shutdown lasted long after even the Center for Disease Control and left-leaning press said it was safe to open schools. Critics sure did “have a critique then,” including Wirepoints, among many others. We wrote often to reason, shame, insult, and beg obsequiously to get schools open, but your CTU fought relentlessly against opening.
Maybe Johnson was referring not to the Covid closing but to the shutdown of empty schools ten years ago.
Regardless, the point remains the same. And still today, nearly a third of CPS’ 478 traditional schools are less than 50 percent full. Further consolidation is needed and that certainly shouldn’t justify more killing.
Johnson was just getting started. He went on to give a speech criticizing the media for its coverage of Chicago violence, though he didn’t name names.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/chicago-mayor-johnsons-latest-yes-he-really-said-comments-crime
