Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is looking for reparations as a strategy to cut back violent crime. Is he suggesting that solely black folks commit violent crimes? It’s a very good factor he isn’t a Republican or some folks would possibly say that he was a racist for saying that.
This raises different apparent questions. Is Brandon suggesting that we should always pay criminals to not commit crimes? None of it is smart.
Additionally, isn’t the town going broke because of the inflow of unlawful border crossers. Johnson simply tapped millions in COVID funds to cope with that drawback.
FOX News experiences:
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson requires reparations funding to scale back violent crime
Democratic Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson insisted to CNN that funding for reparations in his new price range will assist get to the basis of the town’s document violent crime epidemic.
Whereas chatting with community anchor Poppy Harlow on “CNN This Morning” Wednesday, Johnson acknowledged the excessive crime price in Chicago and declared that the “full drive of presidency” is required to resolve it, together with the town throwing $500,000 at reparations applications.
Harlow prompted his reply by citing Chicago Police Division statistics revealing that though “the homicide price is down from 2022,” “all different types of violent crime, Mr. Mayor, are up from a 12 months in the past, up 17% general.”…
He then spoke about metropolis funds being diverted to offering reparations for its African American group. “I’ve added a half 1,000,000 {dollars} for restoration and reparations to handle, once more, the cycle of violence, which appears to be like like faculty closings, closing of psychological well being amenities, of which I’ve invested in now. We’re going to open up two psychological well being clinics that had been closed from two earlier administrations in the past.”
Watch beneath:
NEW: Socialist Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is looking for reparations funding for black Chicagoans to scale back violent crime.
Johnson often is the dumbest mayor in American historical past.
Throughout an interview with CNN, Johnson stated that metropolis funds have to be diverted to reparation applications… pic.twitter.com/SMdTUYJ8Ea
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) December 30, 2023
Johnson’s focus is in all of the improper locations. It’s wonderful that Chicago succeeded in electing somebody even worse than Lori Lightfoot.