CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- The President of the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police is very critical of Mayor Brandon Johnson for his comments regarding a large group of teens who ransacked a convenience store in the South Loop.
The mayor took issue with the term “mob action.”
“We have to be very careful the way we use language to describe certain behavior," he stated. "There is history in this city to refer to children like baby Al Capone’s is not appropriate.”
FOP President John Catanzara begs to differ. “It was looting. It was mob action. It is in the ordinance Mr. Mayor, look it up," he said in a video posted on FOP's social media platforms.
Catanzara went on further to make his point.
"Nobody is renaming anybody little mini-Al Capones. But they certainly, in many cases, had the same, terrorizing effect that Al Capone had 100 years ago with these teen takeovers where they think they can do whatever they want with no repercussions, no parental supervision and no accountability, specifically apparently by the mayor’s office in City Hall, who wants to excuse all of this bad behavior, because Chicago has a past," he said.
"So that means, do whatever the hell you want, apparently.”
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