Chicago Mayor quotes MLK to argue law enforcement is a ‘sickness that has not led to safe communities’

Democratic Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson gave a fiery news conference where he condemned President Donald Trump’s crackdown on crime. At one point, he said, “Jails and incarceration and law enforcement is a sickness that has not led to safe communities.”

During the news conference Tuesday, Johnson was asked about Trump’s suggestion he might send the National Guard to Chicago. Trump’s model of using anti-crime crackdowns was touted as a success by Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser, who had initially expressed concern…

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