President Donald Trump on Wednesday referred to as for Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson to be jailed—ratcheting up his retribution marketing campaign in opposition to his perceived enemies.
“Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also!” Trump wrote in a publish on Reality Social.
Trump made the remark as Nationwide Guard troops from Texas are getting ready to deploy onto the streets of Chicago to protect Immigration and Customs Enforcement brokers from protesters demonstrating in opposition to the brokers’ violent habits towards metropolis residents.
Pritzker rapidly responded to Trump’s name for his arrest, saying he “will not back down.”
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker speaks in Chicago on Aug. 25.
“What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?” Pritzker mentioned in a publish on Bluesky. “His masked agents already are grabbing people off the street. Separating children from their parents. Creating fear. Taking people for ‘how they look.’ Making people feel they need to carry citizenship papers. Invading our state with military troops. Sending in war helicopters in the middle of the night. Arresting elected officials asking questions. We must all stand up and speak out.”
Provided that Trump has gotten yes-men in his corrupt administration to indict no less than one among his enemies—former FBI Director James Comey—Democrats say everybody ought to take Trump’s demand to imprison Pritzker and Johnson severely.
“Trump said this stuff all the time in the first term and people blew it off because [the Department of Justice] ignored him. But with the Comey indictment and other investigations into his enemies list this term, [we] have to take these threats deadly seriously,” Matthew Miller, who served within the Division of Justice below former President Barack Obama, wrote in a publish on X on Wednesday, the day Comey is anticipated in federal court docket. “He means it, and so does the forms.”
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson speaks in Chicago on Sept. 5.
In the meantime, all of the proof on the bottom exhibits that it is Pritzker and Johnson, not Trump and ICE, who’re making an attempt to guard Illinois residents from hazard. Trump’s ICE goons have been violent towards peaceable protesters and different residents of the town.
A number of cases of ICE’s horrific habits have been caught on video.
For instance, ICE was caught on digital camera assaulting Democratic congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh, who was peacefully protesting at a close-by ICE facility.
One video exhibits federal brokers throwing tear gasoline in a busy neighborhood, close to a grocery retailer and an elementary college. And one other latest video exhibits masked federal officers taking pictures a praying priest within the head with a pepper ball.
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The video of this incident is simply as unhealthy because it sounds. The priest is standing there, not doing something remotely unlawful, and with out warning a masked DHS agent on the roof shoots him within the high of his head with a pepper ball. https://t.co/uSerg1H5oX pic.twitter.com/UvP3bZ7yJn
— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@ReichlinMelnick) October 8, 2025
Johnson and Pritzker have each condemned the Trump administration’s violence towards Illinois residents, and even filed a lawsuit to attempt to cease Trump from inflaming tensions extra by sending within the Nationwide Guard.
“ICE’s abusive tactics have no place in our city, and our elected officials will continue to stand with residents against this attempt to stoke fear and intimidation,” Johnson wrote in a publish on X earlier this month.
Federal brokers have been so violent {that a} group of journalists and others filed swimsuit on Tuesday in opposition to the Trump administration, saying that federal officers’ violent habits in Chicago is an try and silence them by means of worry, in opposition to their First Modification rights.
From the criticism:
There is no such thing as a reputable regulation enforcement objective for these actions. The protesters don’t take actions that threaten the federal officers. The federal officers’ brutality just isn’t a response to the violation of any beforehand given order to disperse or to desist. Quite, the brutality described within the prior paragraphs is deployed solely to silence dissent, to intimidate, and to instill worry.
In the meantime, Trump and the bloodthirsty dopes in his administration have claimed that ICE brokers are the precise victims.
“Enough is enough. The Department ofJustice will stand strong when federal law enforcement officers are attacked or threatened for doing their sworn duty on behalf of the United States government,” Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem wrote in a Sept. 29 memo wherein she mentioned she approved federal officers to “suppress all unlawful rioting and arrest every person suspected of threatening or assaulting a federal law enforcement officer or interfering with federal law enforcement operations.”
But even a grand jury—which just about by no means fails to return indictments when prosecutors search them—refused to indict two protesters Noem accused of assaulting ICE officers.
It’s the most recent grand jury to refuse to indict folks whom the Trump administration has accused of assaulting federal regulation enforcement officers.
As Trump acts increasingly more lawless, we’ve to hope the authorized system continues to carry in opposition to his assaults on Individuals’ primary freedoms.
