J.B. Pritzker on Deployed Troops in Chicago: ‘They Need to Get the Heck Out’

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TAPPER: “Joining us now to discuss Illinois governor jb pritzker, governor pritzker, what‘s your response to secretary noem? And as a practical matter, since you oppose this troop deployment, is there anything you can do?”

PRITZKER: “Well, good morning, Jake. And let me just say that the secretary doesn‘t know what she‘s talking about. She frankly says that people are clapping. They‘re not. They‘re booing her on the street and they‘re booing ice. And cbp. They‘re marching, cbp marching on a beautiful Sunday in, Michigan avenue in downtown Chicago. The neighborhoods where instead of going after the bad guys, they‘re just picking up people who are brown and black and then checking their credentials. Are you a U.S. Citizen? I don‘t know about you, but I don‘t carry around papers that say I‘m a U.S. Citizen. So you can imagine people are getting detained. They‘re getting arrested. U.S. Citizens. And they did this, of course, when they raided a building in the middle of the night in south shore, 130 people that were emptied out of this building. They were going after a few gang members, and instead they broke windows. They broke down doors, they ransacked the place, and there were people that were held. I mean, elderly people and children zip tied, elderly people held for three hours at a time. They are the ones that are making it a war zone. They need to get out of Chicago if they‘re not going to focus on the worst of the worst, which is what the president said they were going to do, they need to get the heck out.”