Pritzker’s Little Village Video Backfires as Ex-Top Cop Calls It Out
Chicago and other blue-run cities are suddenly watching federal ICE teams show up, and the establishment reflex is to downplay the whole thing. Local leaders insist everything is calm while many residents welcome the boots on the ground. Gov. JB Pritzker tried to spin a strolling video into proof of his city’s safety and the internet made him pay for it.
Pritzker walked through Little Village and posted an Instagram clip about how comfortable he felt, “talking to small business owners, and patrons of those small businesses.” He capped the clip with a snide line aimed at Donald Trump: “no emergency, so Donald Trump understands, [there’s] no emergency to send troops in.” The message was supposed to be confidence; instead it read like a political performance edited to avoid inconvenient context.
It’s no wonder Chicago’s murder rate is 330% higher than the national average under JB Pritzker. His conduct is directly contributing to domestic terrorists attacking our brave law enforcement. He is going to get someone killed with this trash.
Former Chicago police superintendent Garry McCarthy didn’t let the clip slide and tore it apart on The Will Cain Show. McCarthy pointed to the very places where ICE has been active and said the numbers tell a different story than the governor’s posture. Once you look at the data, the stroll starts to look like a staged optics play.
“JB Pritzker today put out another video in Little Village talking about how safe he feels. Well, Little Village is primarily a Hispanic neighborhood here in Chicago. That district is down about 55% so far this year in murder.
Well, where do you think ICE has been working in Chicago since January?”
McCarthy also pointed out Pritzker’s almost predictable hypocrisy in the video and added, “If he doesn’t want the resources, he shouldn’t go to a place where they are succeeding right now. It’s really ironic. It just goes to show how little he knows about the city.”
Mainstream outlets pushed a narrative that many Black residents oppose federal help, but social media told a different story. Dozens of posts thanked ICE agents and National Guard troops for stepping into neighborhoods most felt were neglected. Those grassroots reactions undercut the official spin and amplified the sense that the governor was out of touch.
Do not forget that Pritzker seems to be posturing for higher office, and these public displays are part of that audition. He lobbed a sharp personal attack at Trump, saying
“This is a man (Trump) who’s suffering dementia. This is a man who has something stuck in his head.
He can’t get it out of his head. He doesn’t read.
He doesn’t know anything that’s up to date. It’s just something in the recesses of his brain that is effectuating to have him call out these cities.”
Trump fired back on social channels and, according to reports, even floated invoking the Insurrection Act to deal with city crime if local officials wouldn’t accept help. When asked if he had a message for Pritzker, Trump stated:
“I think he should beg for help because he’s running a bad operation. He’s letting people be killed in his city because he doesn’t want to deal with Chicago. I love Chicago.”
Chicago can be a great city again — and very quickly. I’d have Chicago cleaned out, the criminals removed — we would remove them. You know, in D.C., we took out 1,700 career criminals — hardline criminals — and that’s why it’s so good right now.
D.C. is setting records the other way; it’s never been so safe. Restaurants have never done better — they were closing, now they’re opening new ones.”
Before JB Pritzker makes any more videos of himself strolling through neighborhoods, he might want to check the crime stats and, if they are low, find out why.
