{"id":550268,"date":"2026-01-28T23:45:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T23:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/550268\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T23:45:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T23:45:20","slug":"mayor-brandon-johnson-tells-d-c-crowd-he-will-set-up-a-pathway-to-prosecute-bovino-chicago-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/550268\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Brandon Johnson tells D.C. crowd he will \u2018set up a pathway\u2019 to prosecute Bovino \u2013 Chicago Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON \u2014 At a speech just blocks from the White House Wednesday, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said he would prepare the city for the future prosecution of Border Patrol Cmdr. Greg Bovino for creating \u201cchaos\u201d during the Trump administration\u2019s surge of immigration agents in Chicago<\/a> last year.<\/p>\n

Bovino, who was the public face of Operation Midway Blitz<\/a>, became a symbol of the incursion that led to the detention of 4,500 people in the Chicago area. As one of the few unmasked agents in the operation, Bovino chided area Democratic elected officials, angered a federal judge for his over-the-top tactics and threw tear gas canisters at protesters while cameras recorded him.<\/p>\n

Bovino also became a fixture in the federal action in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area this month, before President Donald Trump sidelined him this week following the shooting deaths of two civilians at the hands of federal agents.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s unfortunate,\u201d Johnson said, \u201cthat it will take time for people to understand what a nasty individual he is.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhether it\u2019s litigation, whether it\u2019s press conferences or whether it\u2019s legislation, the next step that we\u2019re going to have to try \u2014 and I\u2019m committed to doing this \u2014 is how to set up a pathway for someone like Gregory Bovino to be prosecuted,\u201d the Democratic mayor said at a National Press Club luncheon.<\/p>\n

\u201cTheir behavior is hypocritical and contradictory to their rhetoric,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cHow do you call for law and order while at the same time literally ignoring the rule of law, creating more chaos than this country has seen in a generation? And so yes, prosecution has to be the next step for full accountability.\u201d<\/p>\n