Illinois Governor JB Pritzker publicly rejected plans to deploy federal forces and the National Guard to Chicago, calling the action unprecedented, unwarranted, unconstitutional, and un-American. Pritzker said neither he nor Chicago officials requested federal intervention and that they learned of the plan through media reports. Pritzker argued there is no emergency or insurrection in Chicago that justifies armed military intervention and highlighted dropping crime statistics. He accused the administration of targeting blue cities for political intimidation and warned that the move could lay groundwork to militarize cities and undermine democratic processes.
This is not about fighting crime, Pritzker argued. This is about Donald Trump searching for any justification to deploy the military in a blue city, in a blue state, to try and intimidate his political rivals. This is about the president of the United States and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.
There is no emergency in Chicago that calls for armed military intervention. There is no insurrection. Deploying the military in an American city to invade our streets and neighborhoods and disrupt the lives of everyday people is an extraordinary action, and it should require extraordinary justification, he said, urging reporters to talk to local residents, citing statistics about dropping crime rates, including violent crimes.
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