Chicago mayor defends council member who appeared at a pro-Palestinian rally where an American flag was burned – FOX News

Mayor Brandon Johnson harshly condemned the council's efforts to reprimand Alderman Byron Sigcho-Lopez, suggesting it would be "fascist" to censure him and accused some members of the council of being racist. "Under my administration, I fully expect that the City Council recognizes its responsibility, and that it will not move forward in the type of fascist forms of expression that have left too many of our countries in desperate peril," Johnson said. "If people are as petulant as someone who would be unwilling to engage with someone that they disagree with, we wouldn't be standing here today. Do you know how many conversations Black leaders have had to have with racists? It's multiple. There are people in the City Council who have stood with open racist white supremacist organizations."