{"id":177077,"date":"2025-08-26T13:09:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T13:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/177077\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T13:09:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T13:09:12","slug":"chicago-gun-violence-survivors-advocates-speaking-out-against-trumps-plans-to-send-national-guard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/177077\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago gun violence survivors, advocates speaking out against Trump’s plans to send National Guard"},"content":{"rendered":"

Illinois, Chicago officials take issue with President Trump’s plan to send military <\/p>\n

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Illinois, Chicago officials take issue with President Trump’s plan to send military<\/p>\n

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Survivors of gun violence are pushing back against\u00a0President Trump’s plan to possibly send National Guard troops to Chicago<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Chicago gun violence prevention advocates plan to hold a meia conference in Federal Plaza around 10 a.m.<\/p>\n

The group says federal troops are not the answer to reducing crime in Chicago and calls the proposal “dangerous” and “misguided.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Survivors, those who have lived through the trauma of losing loved ones, know firsthand that over-policing our communities is not the answer,” organizers said in a written statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Illinois leaders say “Do not come to Chicago”<\/p>\n

Chicago and Illinois officials spoke out against Trump’s plans on Monday. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Gov. JB Pritzker was joined by 100 local and community leaders<\/a> \u2014 among them U.S. Sens. Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth (D-Illinois), Illinois Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton, Reps. Mike Quigley and Raja Krishnamorthi, Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul, Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias, and the Rev. Michael Pfleger. \u00a0<\/p>\n

“Mr. President, do not come to Chicago,” Pritzker said. “You are neither wanted here nor needed here.” \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Illinois, Chicago officials take issue with President Trump’s plan to send military Illinois, Chicago officials take issue with…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":177078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,69,4222,5386,1818],"class_list":{"0":"post-177077","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-gun-violence","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-illinois"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115095231910368760","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}