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🗓️ 3 May 2024
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0:00.0 | You may have seen Mayor Brandon Johnson running away in panic as Mayor panic |
0:06.7 | panic attacks avoids reporters who tried to ask him about the arrest in the death of |
0:12.4 | officer Louis Weska. If you haven't seen it, here it is. |
0:17.0 | Mr. Mayor, please wait. |
0:20.8 | Mr. Mayor, why do you have to run from us? |
0:25.0 | We just want to comment about the arrest last night in relation to Officer Westa. |
0:30.0 | Thank you. |
0:31.0 | Mr Mayor, why would you run from us? |
0:34.0 | He just ran. |
0:35.3 | What does that tell us? |
0:36.9 | It tells us that he's in panic, that he was caught trying to intimidate the family of a slain Chicago police officer to let him |
0:47.8 | into the funeral that they didn't want him to come into. They didn't want him to attend and yet he wanted to attend because he wanted to be in front of the |
0:57.2 | cameras. Well he was in front of the cameras when he ran away from reporters you could hear Marianne Ahern's voice. She was kind of spry and chasing |
1:06.8 | him. I could not chase him now on two old legs in a cane, but she was running after |
1:11.8 | him pretty good. What does that tell us about the mayor? We're going to ask Charles Lipsen of the University of Chicago as we talk about the reports of campus unrest, riots, anti-Jewish hate, and all the rest of it that you're seeing |
1:28.9 | as the colleges near you at the University of Illinois, at the University of Chicago, if |
1:35.0 | Northwestern University and others, UCLA, name it. And it's all going to be |
1:41.2 | primed to have a great convention in August with all these activists and paid agitators. |
1:49.0 | And Brandon Johnson can't handle it because he's having panic attacks. |
1:55.0 | Where are you as Mayor Johnson runs from responsibility and doesn't know what to say? |
2:01.0 | You're on the Chicago Way podcast with Charles Lipson, Jeff Carlin, and me John Cass on the Chicago |
2:09.1 | way podcast on WGM Plus. |
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