Pete welcome back as Chicago PETE welcome back as Chicago recovers from last weeks, looting, city leaders, taking a stand against lawlessness, Chicago police cannot and will not tolerate looting in our city. Our strategy this weekend and beyond includes increased deployments in our retail corridors throughout the city PETE, a surge of an additional one thousand officers are expected to be deployed in Chicago this weekend to help combat potential unrest. Our next guest is from Chicago and is well aware of the troubles facing the city. Dionte Johnson is an advisory board member for black voices for Trump and joins us now. Dionte thanks for being here, are they finally taking the right approach in Chicago and will it work? Well, you know. Pete, finally, is the word. Finally, is the correct word im not sure you know they should have taken this step a long time ago when Theyit started happening Chicago

Antifa got involved. Hopefully this will work. This is the difference between proactive leadership and reactive leadership and Lori. Lightfoot has shown reactive leadership since day one- and this is not good. Its not good and our businesses are hurting tremendously PETE Dionte. Why have they been reactive, forty two people charged following looting in Chicago this week? Everybody saw images of the bridges coming up to prevent it from getting worse. Why did it take so long for them to get to this point? Well, you know I dont know Lori Lightfoot, just like I said she has been very reactive. I think it has been politically motivated. I think that you know at one time these were considered good protesters so because of that they dont want to look. They want to look like they were wrong, but our president, since all of this has began, has been saying law and order law and order law and order, and that is exactly what has to happen in Chicago. We have people who are not able

to go to work because these looters are looting their jobs, and so we have to think about all Americans and Lori Lori Lightfoot has to t about all Americans. She has to think about the business owners and she also has to think about the commerce in the city of Chicago PETE. You know the president ran in twenty. Sixteen talking about the forgotten men and women, do you feel like the black people, people of all background in Chicago who are shot or affected by this violence? Do they feel like they have been forgotten by their mayor by law enforcement thats not able to keep those communities safe? Well, you know, if you talk to the parents of the 3 year old, that was shot. If you talk to the parents of a 13 year old, thats shot, you know they do feel forgotten. They feel forgotten, because nothing is being done. Then, when the president of the United States offers to help, then he gets push back so thats why the president has been fighting for the forgotten community since he was elected, and that includes in Chicago that includes what he has done with operation legend. That includes what he has done

with opportunity zones, because it effects Chicago tremendously PETE Diante Johnson, I know have.