Chicago mayor defends her decision to work with federal agents but says they can’t ‘play police’ when ‘they don’t know the first thing about our city’ – Business Insider

"The opportunity presented itself, under the management of the US attorney here," Lightfoot said of the offer to collaborate with federal agencies. "And I stress that because that's unlike what we saw in Portland, where the Trump administration parachuted in these additional federal agents, without consulting anybody locally and ignoring the local U.S. attorney, very different circumstance here in Chicago."

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