{"id":1916121,"date":"2023-04-18T05:26:58","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T09:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chicago-mayor-elect-blames-weekend-violence-on-lack-of-spaces-for-youth\/"},"modified":"2023-04-18T05:28:46","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T09:28:46","slug":"chicago-mayor-elect-blames-weekend-violence-on-lack-of-spaces-for-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chicago-mayor-elect-blames-weekend-violence-on-lack-of-spaces-for-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Mayor-Elect Blames Weekend Violence on Lack of &#8216;Spaces&#8217; for Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchicago-mayor-elect-blames-weekend-violence-on-lack-of-spaces-for-youth%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1916121&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<figure><figcaption> \t\t\t\tChicago mayor-elect Brandon Johnson (D.) \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>Chicago&#8217;s Democratic mayor-elect Brandon Johnson excused the actions of hundreds of juveniles who smashed windows, beat bystanders, and fired weapons Saturday night, saying the city needs &#8220;spaces for youth to gather safely&#8221; and that the perpetrators have been &#8220;starved for opportunity.&#8221;<\/span>\t<\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;In no way do I condone the destructive activity we saw in the Loop and lakefront this weekend. It is unacceptable and has no place in our city,&#8221; Johnson said Sunday. &#8220;However, it is not constructive to demonize youth who have otherwise been starved of opportunities in their own communities.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Nine adults and six teens were <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/news\/hundreds-of-teenagers-flood-into-downtown-chicago-smashing-car-windows-and-prompting-police-response\"><span>arrested<\/span><\/a><span> after the events on Saturday, which resulted in two people shot and others beaten.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The event, which was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/news\/hundreds-of-teenagers-flood-into-downtown-chicago-smashing-car-windows-and-prompting-police-response\"><span>deemed<\/span><\/a><span> so unsafe by the city that media outlets were told to leave, was advertised on social media for teenagers. A 16- and 17-year old were <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/chicago-mayor-condemns-teen-takeover-chaos-not-constructive-demonize-youth\"><span>shot<\/span><\/a><span> and are in &#8220;fair condition.&#8221; One woman said her husband was beaten by teenagers who jumped on their car and smashed windows.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The response is further evidence of Johnson\u2019s soft-on-crime policies. A <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/meet-the-defund-the-police-advocate-chicago-just-elected-to-deal-with-its-crime-spike\/\"><span>supporter<\/span><\/a><span> of the &#8220;Defund the Police&#8221; movement, Johnson was the only candidate who opposed filling the 1,600 vacancies in the Chicago Police Department. <\/span><span>He said in 2019 that the city <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/meet-the-defund-the-police-advocate-chicago-just-elected-to-deal-with-its-crime-spike\/\"><span>should<\/span><\/a><span> &#8220;go to neighborhoods and provide supports to community, not just with law enforcement.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Chicago&#8217;s <\/span><span>homicide rate has skyrocketed nearly 40 percent since current mayor Lori Lightfoot (D.) took office in 2019, watchdog Wirepoints <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/wirepoints.org\/lori-lightfoot-gets-the-boot-in-murder-capital-chicago-what-does-that-mean-for-mayors-of-other-homicide-hot-spots-wirepoints\/\"><span>reported<\/span><\/a><span>. A George Soros-backed prosecutor is also <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/chicagos-reform-minded-da-lets-gunman-off-easy-after-killing-a-man-and-wounding-a-bystander\/\"><span>refusing<\/span><\/a><span> to bring charges against violent criminals, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/democrats-to-host-convention-in-crime-ridden-chicago\/\"><span>resulting<\/span><\/a><span> in a <\/span><span>27 percent decrease in convictions and a 54 percent jump in dismissed cases<\/span><span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Walmart last week <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/walmart-shutters-four-chicago-stores-on-the-same-day-democrats-select-it-as-dnc-host-city\/\"><span>announced<\/span><\/a><span> the closure of four Chicago stores, affecting hundreds of workers and tens of thousands of residents who already face difficulty in obtaining food. The company said revenue losses &#8220;<\/span><span>nearly doubled in just the last five years&#8221; and that collectively the city\u2019s Walmarts have not been profitable in the last 17 years.\u00a0<\/span>\t<\/p>\n<p><span>Yet the crime-ridden city will be the <\/span><span>site<\/span><span> of next year\u2019s Democratic National Convention, where President Joe Biden is expected to take the nomination and outline his agenda for the country. Democrats <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/democrats-to-host-convention-in-crime-ridden-chicago\/\"><span>did not mention<\/span><\/a><span> the city\u2019s violence and unruliness in their announcement of the choice, instead focusing on unions and pro-abortion policies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Illinois <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.illinoispolicy.org\/survey-illinois-2nd-in-u-s-for-residents-leaving\/\"><span>ranks<\/span><\/a><span> second in the nation for most residents leaving, with one resident leaving the state <\/span><span>every<\/span><span> 3 minutes and 43 seconds.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago mayor-elect Brandon Johnson (D.) \/ Getty Images Chicago&#8217;s Democratic mayor-elect Brandon Johnson excused the actions of hundreds of juveniles who smashed windows, beat bystanders, and fired weapons Saturday night, saying the city needs &#8220;spaces for youth to gather safely&#8221; and that the perpetrators have been &#8220;starved for opportunity.&#8221; &#8220;In no way do I condone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1613,"featured_media":1916122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[5692,4387,7557,24193,9624,3699,6665,5513],"class_list":["post-1916121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-blames","tag-chicago","tag-lack","tag-mayor-elect","tag-spaces","tag-violence","tag-weekend","tag-youth"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1916121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1916122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1916121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1916121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1916121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}