(2 Sep 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Chicago – 02 September 2025
1. Officials arriving for the press briefing
2. SOUNDBITE (English) JB Pritzker, Illinois Governor:
"First, I want to address the President’s unhinged remarks a few minutes ago, begging me to call him. No, I will not call the President asking him to send troops to Chicago. I’ve made that clear already."
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) JB Pritzker, Illinois Governor:
"On Saturday, the head of the Illinois State Police received a phone call from CBP’s Chief Patrol Agent, Gregory Bovino, indicating that ICE would be deploying to Chicago. It’s the first outreach we have received from the Trump administration on this topic. Bovino was short on details and long on rhetoric. So in the absence of significant federal coordination, we’ve gathered information from unauthorized patriotic officials inside the government and from well-sourced reporters about Donald Trump’s plan, which is to deploy armed military personnel to the streets of Chicago. I’m aware that the President of the United States likes to go on television and beg me to call and ask him for troops. I find this extraordinarily strange, as Chicago does not want troops on our streets. I also have experience asking the President for assistance just to have the rug pulled out from underneath me when execution meets reality. I refuse to play a reality game show with Donald Trump again."
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) JB Pritzker, Illinois Governor:
"We know before anything has happened here that the Trump plan is to use any excuse to deploy armed military personnel to Chicago. If someone flings a sandwich at an ICE agent, Trump will try and go on TV and declare an emergency in Chicago. I’m imploring everyone: if and when that happens, do not take the bait."
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Mayor Brandon Johnson, (D) Chicago:
"None of this is about fighting crime or making Chicago safer. None of it. For Trump, it’s about testing his power and producing a political drama to cover up for his corruption."
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Mayor Brandon Johnson, (D) Chicago:
"We do not want or need military occupation in our city. We do not want or need militarized immigration enforcement in our city. We have been clear on that and we will continue to take every single measure that we can to protect our people from these threats."
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7. SOUNDBITE (English) Mayor Brandon Johnson, (D) Chicago:
"Instead of using militarized ICE agents to terrify our communities here in Chicago, instead of sending in Border Patrol to our city to detain mothers and fathers who have called Chicago their home for decades, working class people who pay their taxes and make our community stronger, they should direct those resources to taking down gun traffickers so that we can finally put a stop to the violence."
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8. SOUNDBITE (English) Mayor Brandon Johnson, (D) Chicago:
"And so our call to the president and to his fellow Republicans who want to weaponize the tragedy of gun violence, the Republicans who want to use the pain of families who have lost loved ones to shootings, and who want to use our city as a punching bag. Our response is that they should get their own house in order before they say anything about the city of Chicago."
9. Officials leaving after the press briefing
STORYLINE:
JB Pritzker, the Governor of Illinois told the press "Chicago does not want troops on our streets."
He also said: “I have an obligation. This isn’t a political thing.”
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