![]() Russia has deployed a huge array of weapons in the four months of its ongoing military campaign in Ukraine, but some of the most controversial are incendiary weapons, including white phosphorus munitions. Johnson wins, adding to hundreds of vacancies already awaiting the next mayor.In a grainy, black and white video published Friday, a Russian jet swoops low over Snake Island in the Black Sea, recently vacated by Russian troops, and drops several bombs.Īccording to the Ukrainain military, the bombs contained white phosphorus. ![]() He predicted that 800 to 1,000 Chicago police officers would leave the force if Mr. Vallas, he made a point of posting a video pressing his chosen candidate to say he is not beholden to the police union. When Ja’Mal Green, a 27-year-old activist who tried and failed to make the mayoral runoff, surprised the city by endorsing Mr. Vallas has made a show of not taking money from the Fraternal Order of Police or accepting any formal organizing muscle. Catanzara is a presence like none other, so much so that Mr. Johnson’s union backers include service workers, nurses and government employees.īut Mr. So have union locals representing firefighters, ironworkers, elevator constructors, plumbers and electricians.īeyond the teachers unions, Mr. Vallas after its preferred candidate, Representative Jesús G. Local 150 of the International Union of Operating Engineers has backed Mr. In Chicago, unions stretch well beyond teachers and police, and organized labor - facing two starkly different candidates in a contest that has already sunk the incumbent mayor, Lori Lightfoot - is as divided as the city itself. ![]() Catanzara urged police officers in 2021 to defy the city’s vaccine mandate.) Johnson did not have to name names during a debate last Tuesday night when he accused his opponent of hanging out with people in the “extreme Republican Party who did not believe the pandemic was real.” (Mr. Trump, is a key to that strategy, Johnson campaign aides said. Catanzara, an outspoken supporter of former President Donald J. Vallas is some kind of secret Republican in a city dominated by Democrats. The broader aim is to convince Chicagoans that Mr. Rush said the police union “stands shoulder to shoulder with the Ku Klux Klan.” Vallas, a potential boost for the white candidate facing skepticism among some Black voters, elicited reminders from the Johnson campaign of an interview in Politico where Mr. It was a bunch of pissed-off people that feel an election was stolen, somehow, some way.” Catanzara made to a Chicago public radio reporter about the Capitol rioters, which included, “There was no arson, there was no burning of anything, there was no looting, there was very little destruction of property. And Johnson campaign workers are quick to link Mr. Catanzara’s Facebook post about Muslims has been a talking point in the multicultural quarters of this racially, ethnically and religiously diverse metropolis. Vallas’s public safety record: “Vallas is endorsed by the Fraternal Order of Police.” Johnson’s promises - “Brandon will train and promote 200 new detectives” - to a single aspect of Mr. One recent flier aimed at Latino neighborhoods compared Mr. Vallas’s tough-on-crime talk to the incendiary views of Mr. In a mayoral campaign that has revolved around the two candidates’ very different stances on policing and public safety, Mr. Vallas, and the Chicago Teachers Union, which backs the Cook County commissioner Brandon Johnson, a C.T.U. In a city where organized labor remains a powerful symbolic and organizational force, two unions have loomed over the race for Chicago mayor, which ends with a fiercely contested runoff election on April 4: Chicago’s Lodge 7 of the Fraternal Order of Police, which backs the more conservative Democrat in the race, Mr. But, he added, “I had my son killed by street violence. Rush said, thronged by supporters with Mr. “I have no patience for their leadership,” whom “I detest,” Mr. Vallas, the candidate endorsed by that police union? How could a man who just two and a half years ago called Chicago’s Fraternal Order of Police “the most rabid, racist body of criminal lawlessness by police in the land” stand behind Mr. Rush, the Black Panther turned congressman turned elder statesman of this city’s South Side, stood last week to endorse Paul Vallas for mayor, the first question he confronted featured his own words. Follow our live coverage of the 2023 Chicago mayoral runoff election.
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