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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson can’t be relied on for many things, mainly on the issues of public safety and sensible tax policy. What he can be relied on is always playing the race card and blaming the poor outcome of Democrat policies on President Donald Trump.
This past week was no different in his response to disturbing crimes in Chicago that have made national headlines for all the wrong reasons.
The first is the case of Lawrence Reed, a 50-year-old man who is being hit with terrorism charges at the federal level after he allegedly set a random woman on fire on the city’s CTA Blue Line. To say Reed is no stranger to local law enforcement is a gross understatement.
According to CWBChicago [ [link removed] ], at the time of the attack, Reed was on pretrial release for allegedly knocking a psychiatric ward social worker unconscious in August. The judge in that case ruled he was too dangerous to be sent back to the psychiatric ward, so she instead released him back into the public with an ankle monitor.
Reed went on to allegedly set a 26-year-old passenger on fire, sending her to the hospital in serious condition. Reed is reported as saying, [ [link removed] ] “Burn b****!” and “Burn alive b****!”
Not only that, but Reed has 53 criminal cases filed against him in Cook County since 1993, including nine felonies. Out of those many cases, he only went to jail twice.
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This suspect is the posterboy for how progressive criminal “justice” policies are anything but and lead to innocent people getting harmed in the process.
What did Mayor Johnson have to say about this? [ [link removed] ]
“What I can say is that as awful and as horrific as this tragedy is, this is an isolated incident as we continue to invest more in our public transportation system. We want people to feel safe…”
Remember, if a gang member commits a mass shooting with a gun he is not legally allowed to have, law-abiding citizens have to curtail their Second Amendment rights in order to “save one life.” But if the very definition of a career criminal sets a woman on fire on public transportation, whatever, it’s not like it happens all the time! (Looking at you, New York City.)
The most recent mass shooting that took place in Chicago occurred on Friday night, where yet another “teen” takeover resulted in mass chaos with two shootings. Seven teenagers ranging in age from 13 to 17 were shot in the first incident and one teenager was killed in the second shooting.
“It is quite frankly frustrating, and quite upsetting when this type of violence takes place because it does engender and evoke fear,” Johnson in the aftermath. “So we will have a strong police presence. We’ll have stronger control over how traffic flows.”
While this response is better than the CTA arson attack, [ [link removed] ] it is one that Johnson has said before. Temporary changes are made, with shows of force from the police, nothing happens, and then things go back to “normal.” No calls for actual measures that would deter young people from using their illegally owned firearms or going wild in planned gatherings.
Remember that Johnson went all out to stop President Donald Trump from deploying the National Guard to help local police crackdown on crime. There was no problem, he and the Democratic governor said.
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