Chicago Alderman Ray Lopez has criticized Illinois Governor JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson for not working with former President Donald Trump and his administration to address public safety concerns in the city. Appearing on NewsNation, Lopez referenced recent shootings and murders in Chicago and questioned how many victims the city is willing to tolerate.
Lopez urged both leaders to cooperate with Trump, stating, “We should be working to make sure that we are in coordination with each other. There’s nothing stopping the mayor of the city of Chicago, the governor of the state of Illinois, from picking up the phone and reaching out to the President of the United States and saying, ‘What can we do to be on the same page?’”
He continued by emphasizing a focus on reducing violence: “We should all be looking to continuously decrease the number of victims in our city and in our state, and instead we’re getting into this tit-for-tat social media back and forth nonsense, which is only putting the people of Chicago and the people of Illinois in the middle, in the crosshairs of criminals who are going to use this time to exploit and go crazy as we’re continuing to see this weekend where we’ve had multiple mass shootings.”
A video clip from Lopez’s appearance circulated on social media following his remarks.
