Brandon Johnson, who's seeking to become Chicago's next mayor, struggled this week to defend past comments he made that signaled support for the “defund the police” movement.
Former Chicago Public Schools CEO Paul Vallas, left, and Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson, right, will go head-to-head in a runoff election for Chicago mayor on April 4.
"And part of it is removing ourselves away from this, you know, state-sponsored policing," Johnson said at the time, according to the Tribune.on Block Club Chicago's The Ballot podcast that he is committed to"actually investing in a smart way." "The fact of the matter is that we are asking too much of law enforcement, and we also have a disconnect between law enforcement and communities which they have been assigned to. And so we have to fix that," he said.
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