Spot on as usual from Kass. BTW, Johnson is our mayor plucked from obscurity by Toni Preckwinkle Cook Cty Board Boss who's the real Mayor of this City.
Chicago Mayor Panics, Runs From Reporters Asking About Slain Cop’s Funeral
By John Kass
May 3, 2024
Mayor Brandon Johnson had another one of his panic attacks Thursday, running away from reporters like NBC Chicago’s Mary Ann Ahern, who just wanted to ask him–among other things– about his administration pressuring the family of slain Chicago Police officer Luis Huesca, to let Johnson attend his funeral.
Johnson ultimately did not attend, even though he and other officials spilled their petulant, childish drama over the somber event. To watch him succumb to his panic attacks over questions about the funeral I leave this link:
“Why do you have to run from us Mr. Mayor?” asked Ahern.
But Ahern knows the answer. He’s a snowflake, a grape who can’t take the pressure of leadership. And there are just about 100 days until the hard left tear up the Democratic National Convention. What a party it will be.
According to reporting by Fran Spielman of the Sun Times, Johnson’s team tried to push the mourning Huesca family into inviting him to the funeral of the slain officer. I’ve never seen anything so despicable in Chicago politics and most of you know I’ve seen a lot.
If there’s anything lower than that, it’s running away like a whipped dog when you get caught.
He has a coward’s built-in excuse though, he might say Huesca’s mother didn’t understand the bad Spanish of his police officials and aides who initially tried to intimidate her by insisting he had to attend her son’s funeral, that it was mandatory. That it was all lost in translation. He’s craven enough, with his panic attacks, to try it. And he’ll always play the race card if it doesn’t work.
“At one point, there was an implication that the honors funeral is tied to the mayor’s attendance,” the Sun Times quoted John Catanzara, the president of the Fraternal Order of Police. “That was the guilt trip that we’re laying on this family.”
When it comes to City Hall political intrigue, I read Fran Spielman. For Chicago politics, I don’t read the other paper, that Soros-friendly rag that stabbed me in the back and carried water for Mayor Panic Attacks all through his campaign.
And Johnson? He didn’t feel like answering reporters. So he ran away.
Johnson is a complete embarrassment to his city, the police force and the people he pretends to represent. The real powers behind his throne are CTU boss Stacy Davis Gates, now a Hoosier neighbor of mine, and Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, supreme judge picker and chair of the Cook County Democratic Party. Packs of reporters don’t surround them, though they should.
Gates and Boss Toni should push him around in a stroller when things get tough. They will get tough in August at the convention. The Jacobin Left, of which Johnson is a part, have a nasty habit of eating their own. And then the world will see the weakness of this mayor displayed.
Years ago, when I was just starting out writing news columns, Chicago Police Officer Michael Ceriale was assassinated by a Gangster Disciple lookout during a drug deal at the Robert Taylor Homes projects. The young rookie officer was hit in the stomach. It took him a long week to die. It was horrible and the city was horrified.
Chicago’s Mayor Richard M. Daley wanted to go to the funeral. But he knew that police officers and some close to Ceriale’s family did not want him there. He went anyway. Because leadership demanded it. He delivered a stunningly emotional address in the beautiful and old Ukrainian Catholic Church.
I remember there were thousands of people in the street, and the church was full.
The only sound was that of the church bell tolling. That bell tolled every 10 seconds. It tolled for hours. When it tolled the finality of it all cut through your heart.
“The death of a young person is heartbreaking for a mother and father,” the mayor began, challenging everyone never to forget the young officer. Then his face changed and he tried to rush through his short speech before he was overcome. He didn’t succeed.
Daley looked at the mother, then turned away. Daley understood the Ceriale family’s hideous and unremitting pain that is carried by parents who bury a child. In 1981, Daley’s own son Kevin, then not yet 3, died from spina bifida.
“Less than two years ago, he stood at Navy Pier,” Daley said about Ceriale, tears coming, his voice breaking, remembering the ceremony of the young officer being sworn in. “He raised his right hand, he stood by that motto: We Serve and Protect. He was taken from us. “Blessed are the peacemakers for they will be called sons of God.”
I’m not lionizing him. Daley wasn’t stand up. He was weak in many ways. He backed down when it came to standing up to the Outfit’s unofficial Chicago chief of police, the late Chief of Detectives Bill Hanhardt, or acknowledging his administration’s role in the Hired Truck scandal that enriched Bridgeport trucking bosses he knew.
But Daley was not a de-funder of police like the current mayor BLM Johnson. He didn’t hate cops or suck up to the cop haters. And he was not a proponent of pro-criminal legislation like Gov. J.B Pritzker’s “Safe-T Act.”
Daley, for all his many faults, was law-and-order just like his father, the real Mayor Daley. And both men would have been horrified over what Pritzker, Johnson and Toni Preckwinkle have done to Chicago and Illinois with their so-called criminal injustice policies. These are Democrat policies that benefit repeat violent offenders like Octavious Crocket and Bruce Diamond. These are the policies that kill cities by first removing their will to live.
When Daley was mayor, the newspapers would chase crime stories and put heat on prosecutors who failed the public. But now the papers don’t even bother, and they fear runing mug shots so readers and taxpayers (victims) can see for themselves.
The pro-criminal political class loves the modern media’s indifference. But we can thank the reporters and staff of CWB Chicago who care about informing the people about crime. Think about supporting CWB Chicago.
Every day it seems, another story of outrage at violent predators released by Preckwinkle approved liberal judges or her handpicked George Soros funded prosecutor, the outgoing State’s Attorney Kim Foxx.
“Our family feels so frustrated and furious that our brother is not here,” Lily O’Brien said in a video posted by the FOP before the funeral. “He had somebody else that murdered him [who] is running around, and he’s still free. The anger that we feel with how violent that Chicago has turned. How this is now the status quo. How this is normalized. This week, it’s my brother. Next week, it’s your brother or somebody else’s son or somebody else’s mother.”
“Sad that this will probably be somebody else’s story, in a week, tomorrow because nothing has changed here. Chicagto needs to step up and will the people who make these policies that allow three four five chances to people who have made so many mistakes and they turn around and murder innocent people and it feels like the bad people are protected more than the people who put their lives at risk to make sure that we’re safe And nobody wants to talk about that nobody wants to step up and say that these people who make these policies work for you, you don’t work for them, not ok…”
But voters have re-elected those who release the predators. So they’ve demonstrated that what happened to Officer Huesca is ok with them, haven’t they? Of course they have. The evidence of the elections past are clear.
That was a question Dan Proft asked on his “Morning Answer” radio program, and I think Illinois voters, for all the weepy public sentimentality over Huesca’s murder, have loudly declared themselves.
Yes, it is sad to see a fine young police officer gunned down. Yes, it is depressing to see citizens so numb and so broken that they’d bare their throats to the barbarian holding the knife to their throats.
Proft gets it. He asks pointed questions. That’s why corrupt corporate media in Chicago go out of their way to attack him. He shows them up and makes them look like the fools they are. But in your heart you know he’s right.
Illinois voters re-elected Pritzker and Foxx and Preckwinkle. They elected Johnson. They re-elected Pritzker’s wingman, Illinois Atty Gen. Kwame Raul.
Officer Huesca’s sister beseeches the people to stand up for themselves, to stand up for the law, and they don’t stand up.
Not even to save themselves. Perhaps they’ve been beaten so long and hard by Illinois politics that they’ve given up. They just curl up. But they keep voting left wing Democrat. There were once centrist Democrats like the Daleys, but they’re gone. There are no centrist Democrats in Illinois. The hard left has devoured them too. What’s left is the billionaire dough-boy as governor, and all his servants hoping to shine at the Democrat convention.
But as that convention approaches, as Johnson and corporate Chicago panics, every day you can find another indictment of the destructive politics of the hard left that runs things now.
The woke papers avoid using mug shots for alleged killers. They most often picture the killers as innocents at graduations, with cap and gown, as if those images were crafted by defense attorneys offering only innocence, not victims screaming, not the blood, not the young police officers shot. And not the mourning families of Chicago Police officers being subjected to cheap pressure politics to make the moron of a mayor look good.
He doesn’t look so good now, does he?
And the alleged cop killer, who will draw all the “no justice no peace” left wing flies as if he were a large chunk of liver sausage on a hot August day? He’ll become the left’s victim, as most cop killers become media victims, to perpetuate the lie that law enforcement is a racist enterprise of “white supremacists.”
Police officers come in all colors, black and brown and pink and white. But it isn’t skin color that binds them. What binds them is behavior. What binds them is right and wrong. What bind them is their belief in doing right and protecting society.
I’d rather picture Xavier Tate realistically, not in a cap and gown, not in some kid’s baseball uniform, but the way police and the FBI pictured him from his previous crimes. He worked years to get there, all his life actually, as the Pritzker-Preckwinkle-Foxx-Johnson supported Democrat “Criminal Justice” system turned Tate into the man he was just a few days ag0:
A most wanted man.
