Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson’s newly appointed chief of staff says he has already made strategic and logistical changes to ensure there is no repeat of the downtown mayhem that Chicago saw earlier this month.
On Friday, Hopkins said one of the strategy changes is to use “violence interrupters” downtown.
“It kind of made me feel like the keys to the city were being handed over to this mob,” Lenora Dennis told the Sun-Times days after helping the couple to safety. “I don’t want to demonize the kids, but at the same time there has to be a level of accountability for the things that they were doing.” “There’s a lot of hardworking, dedicated people in the Chicago Police Department. And there could be reasons that may have looked like that may have happened,” he said.
“I look forward to the DNC coming to the city of Chicago. I look forward to being part of the planning process and making sure that the delegates are safe, the people who attend the event are safe and keeping our citizens safe,” he said. “We are certainly aware of the major event and Chicago being front and center and the challenges that come with it.”
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