Governor J.B. Pritzker

Not to mention in the neighborhoods and scaring people, you know, throwing tear gas, all the rest of it.

And importantly, because I know people are now paying attention to it in Minnesota, but someone was killed here in Illinois.

Silvio, Silverio Villegas Gonzalez killed and he was just taking his kids, just had dropped them off at daycare.

um and and they killed him uh and he had done nothing ryan and the they said you know they lied about it uh in the aftermath of that uh and as they have about the killing in minnesota and uh it's not till you know you look at the video or you get the testimony of eyewitnesses that you find out complete lies coming from the department of homeland security

And they do it over and over again.

We had Marimar Martinez shot five times in her car.

They claimed that she had boxed them in and that she was aggressively going after them.

But you know what?

All the charges were dropped because it turns out

Complete BS.

So what I would say to the people of Minneapolis and Minnesota is they're following the playbook that we had to kind of invent and create in Chicago, and it's working.

And as long as you maintain the peaceful part of the peaceful protest,

it is hugely beneficial.

It does not give them an excuse to bring in troops.

If you're out there loud, blowing your whistles, walking on the sidewalk and videoing, very important, everybody pull out your phones because it's allowing us to keep them accountable.

We took them to court here and won over and over again as a result of the evidence that we were able to put together.

It's awful what's happening right now.

And of course, you know, just to remind you that the feds are supposed to be fighting to protect your civil rights, not to take them away.

And the Insurrection Act is designed only for circumstances where

Your rights can't be protected by, you know, local authorities or by whatever federal authorities are already there.