You would think that a man in charge of a city that sees multiple shootings every week would know better than to even bring up this topic, but that apparently didn’t occur to Johnson.
People on social media quickly reminded him.
FOX News reports:
Chicago mayor calls for Gaza cease-fire, but social media reminds him of violence gripping his own city
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson was lampooned Thursday after calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war when many pointed out that his own city could use one.
Chicago has become infamous for its crime crisis. Fox News analyst Gianno Caldwell, who lost his 18-year-old brother to a 2022 shooting incident in Chicago, has called his hometown an "active war zone."
Johnson has joined other progressives in calling for a cease-fire in Gaza, saying "the killings need to stop," but his remarks didn’t go over well with conservatives when Chicago PBS reporter Heather Cherone shared them on social media.