>> Good evening and thanks for joining us on the weekend review.

I'm Nick Lumber.

Chicago steps up police patrols in Jewish communities after a local man shoots 2 dead outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. We have grace.

>> But we're not surprised what happened and we are not going to back down.

>> The FBI descends on the Albany Park home of the accused shooter who reportedly shouted free Palestine as he was taken into custody.

My administration reflects the country reflects the city.

Is administration reflects the country club.

Mayor Johnson says Chicago won't be intimidated by a DOJ investigation into whether his administration hiring practices are racially biased.

Meantime, the vote on a controversial proposal allowing police to institute so-called snap curfews stalls.

>> When I reflected on the way that I could best and the one oil around the country.

decided to stay in the House of Representatives and leadership and to help the DEA trip as we seek to reclaim the majority.

Congresswoman Lauren Underwood decides not to join the race to replace Senator Durbin.

>> Advocates for priest abuse survivors say the new pope Leo must do more to tackle clergy, misconduct.

And the Sun Times apologizes for a massive AI misfire.

>> And now to our week in review panel.

Joining us are it's fun.

Dallas from the Chicago Sun-Times about out ready as from the Chicago Tribune.

Mariah willful from WBEZ and Mitchell arm and Trout.

Also from the Chicago Sun-Times.

Let's get right to it.

31 year-old Chicago man is in custody, accused of murdering 2 young Israeli embassy staffers in DC reportedly told police he did it for Palestine teams found Ellis.

We heard a bit from Congressman Brad Schneider.

What else have we heard from some local leaders?

>> Just horrific situation, obviously.

And just hearing the details of actual a criminal record of what happened is astounding to be targeted.

Just generally the political violence is not tolerated in any way person's from Chicago.

All park an FBI raid yesterday.

People are shocked.

And I think as Brett Snyder, who's part of the Jewish caucus, said, you they this is this cannot happen.

This has to stop right now.

And we heard from Governor Pritzker who apparently had himself had a Stafford there and didn't try to talk to staff for their very shaken up.

The did not want to offer anything else.

But just being there is so horrible situation there.

Understandably so.

>> You know, measurement route.

We mentioned this a little bit of what kinds of additional security measures are going into place it in parts of Chicago PD Superintendent Larry Snelling has said that there's basically stepping up patrols around.

>> All religious places of worship you know, it's it's going sting like a Obviously, we know sort of what it was.

Rodriguez's alleged intent was here.

But, you know, by all accounts like otherwise, and neighbors said they did kind of a normal scene in guy.

31 years old.

He medical Trade Association.

lot more details to come out here.

>> Yeah, it's you know, it's still such early days.

I mean, we've already seen some folks city council, you know, trying to to play off this Alderman Ray Lopez more.

I got some blowback for trying to, you know, associate this, you know, accused shooter with members of the progressive side of the council, Democratic Socialist, things like that.

But it just seems like at this point we know so little about this person.

Yeah, it's it's really important to not kind of jump to conclusions in these situations and stick to reading, you know, fact, checked journalism from local reporters, which we've we think we've done a great job given that this person was from out park.

And, you know, reporters were outside his home as the FBI descended upon it.

>> But the I forget exact name of the group, but Socialist group in Chicago that Ray Lopez associated this person with kind of came out and said, we, you condemn any efforts to tie the shooting to our group.

This person was a member or not even a member associated with our group in 2017.

And we don't know of any contact since.

Yeah, lot of how do you think, you know, an act of the sort of obvious apparent political violence?

>> You know, just turns up the heat on an already extremely for a conversation about Israel's war and Gaza.

How much more difficult does it make things right?

I mean, will we?

This brings back again the spotlight to Chicago, right?

We've been in the spotlight for many reasons.

Recently, the pope, which was perhaps positive.

Now, this is back to a negative and I think that it for for 3rd divides the movement from some of the folks that are generally trying to advocate for those that are suffering in Gaza right with the violence that perhaps most again, she mention, don't want to be associated with with the violent I don't think that that was necessary to prove a point or 2 continue proving the point of what they're trying to to do again for gossip.

Yeah, certainly a story people will be paying very close attention to and in the coming weeks and months.

>> I want to turn to Mayor Johnson, Mariah.

We a defiant mayor of pushing back against this DOJ investigation into his administration hiring practices.

How did this all get started?

Sure.

So this based on comments Johnson made at a church in Woodlawn over the weekend where >> he was.

It was really a conversation about economic opportunities for black residents and Johnson touted the, you know, top officials in his cabinet who are black and kind of went down a list naming each of the black top cabinet officials and kind of making the argument that.

>> When you, you know, open the door and give opportunities that have historically been afforded to minority communities in the history of the city of Chicago.

>> That, you it lifts all tides basically.

And so that that that's good for community that comes from a disadvantage or oppressed, you know, demographic in the city.

And so it's clear that the DOJ is closely watching Johnson's comments in there kind of crusade against dei policies across the country and in Chicago, particularly and they came out, you know, less than 24 hours later with a letter saying that, you know, where are investigating whether basically, you know, you've hired people solely because they're black.

And Johnson's response has of course, I have not, you know, and he kind of like touted some of the credentials of the top lock officials at a press conference later saying these are highly qualified people.

And and on top of that, I'm proud of the diversity of my cabinet and I'm not going to stop touting, you know, the diversity of my cabinet.

Despite this threat from the DOJ.

Yeah, I mean, he he pointed out as well that it's not just black elected officials that there be opportunity for, you know, Latino folks that their opportunities, you know, sort of a cross.

>> You know, across the racial and ethnic spectrum.

So seems like he is not going to take this attack.

Lying down is you have to imagine that interesting.

New York Times reporter Peter Baker compiled a list on Twitter of all the people in recent days, people or institutions that the Trump administration has charged investigated or threatened with an investigation.

New York Ag Letitia James, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, New Jersey congresswoman, the Monica Maciver, former VP Kamala Harris, former FBI Director James Comey.

Unnamed, quote, treasonous Biden aides, Bruce Springsteen, Beyonce, bono, Oprah Winfrey, the Kennedy Center and the city of Chicago.

So quite a list there.

Quite a range.

You images as the move here to sort of throw all these of investigations at the wall and see what sticks are some of these, particularly with like electives are with the city is more serious than silly.

Yeah.

I mean, what all those elective have in common.

I mean, these are Democratic leaders of very democratic states and cities who have opposed President Trump at every turn.

>> you know, this is kind of the Trump playbook dating back almost a decade now of.

>> Just sort of this barrage of legal efforts really just dominating the news cycle.

Every other day, every And, you know, 2 months ago we saw Brandon Johnson summoned to DC to testify before the House Oversight Committee about sanctuary policies.

Here.

>> He said that his second ministration would be a but retribution.

And it's exactly what we're seeing we're seeing with the law firms, law firms who are making deals with him what executive orders.

This is just part of an overall effort to kind of squash dei efforts.

The Justice Department's it's a huge effort.

If there's a big plan and I'm sure there's more going forward.

>> Let's stick with that.

You you had a profile of Attorney General Kwame Raoul that just came out and certainly Chicago and Illinois have been on the front lines of these attacks.

How different will things Illinois's fight back against the administration is going?

He says that we are winning.

We as and the Democrats who filing these lawsuits and amicus briefs.

There's been about 24 that he's been part of.

He's part of the birthright citizenship order.

He his part of one that one yesterday about the Department of Education.

So the AGs are kind of formulating which states will be leading on different ones.

But it's a big discussion.

Those meetings every week, which states should lead.

It's it is working to slow down these efforts.

It may not totally reversed things immediately, but these efforts by the Democratic a geezer that it is working and roll is sort of taking a leadership role among those 90's.

So he's got kind of a national profile, right?

was the chair of dei efforts.

So any time there's a lawsuit that was DUI, really, and he's in charge of that.

But sometimes you might see more Illinois leading effort to wait.

That's affecting the state.

He said he chooses things based on how it affects most people.

That's why California New York has led a lot because they have a lot more people in Illinois, but you should see more Illinois seat in the future as well.

Yeah.

And you have to imagine as he's talked about, this is a huge strain on his office's, you know, resources on employee times.

You have to imagine he's thinking carefully about more money.

Yes, all the time of the month for money in the state budget.

For more lawyers, he says that with a federal offense not cooperating in a lot of different departments.

The state agencies will have to kind of step up and he wants more money for more layers to support that and everybody wants more money.

And there's 3.2 billion dollar budget gap.

But that's not the point right now.

Turning back to city Council, Mariah older people used a parliamentary move to block a vote on that proposal that would expand police powers.

>> Allowing them to in-person imposed a curfew with just 30 minutes.

Notice what change?

What, what?

What the opposition there.

Yeah.

One of the key sponsor, one of the mains, 3 sponsors on the ordinance was Jason who dropped his support after a change that would have given that gives.

>> Police Superintendent Larry Snelling unilateral power to declare a curfew before he had to come to some sort of agreement with the mayor's office.

So that kind of gave civilian or, you know, mayor's office input into when and where to issue curfews more conservative members of the council said that they didn't think the mayor's office should have that power over curfew issuance.

That it's the superintendent's job to make those determinations and that he alone should be able to do it.

And that was enough for Jason Ervin to say, I think that this is I think he called it, you know, extraordinary power and give given to the police department beyond its current powers.

And that just he was comfortable with because of that Merrill input and then clearly didn't want to go so far without some sort of check on the superintendent issue.

These curfews.

And and, you know, this prom entry maneuver is pretty typical for an issue that has this sort of division.

It can only be used on an ordinance once and it delays it to the next council meeting.

But Jason Ervin kind of had this, this flex at the council meeting.

It only takes 2 aldermen to do this.

But at this meeting, he said me, Alderman Vasquez and 15 other of my colleagues are, you know, standing to different published this item, which kind of throws its future into question just because, you know, if there are 17 people, if they continue in opposition to this and vote against it, that leaves 33 proponents if they all come and vote, which is not enough to override veto.

And so it kind of puts the ball in Mayor Brandon Johnson scored if that's the course that we that actually happens come June City Council meeting.

Yeah, it'll be very interesting to see what happens.

And of course, but we still haven't resolved all these questions about the constitutionality of this measure.

A lot of folks have raised concerns about that.

>> Right.

I mean, we're talking about essentially rounding up teenagers who gather downtown a moment's notice.

really goes back to sort kind of a party that Brandon Johnson is after sized since he first ran for office about creating more opportunities just activities for kids to to have to, you know, avoid having just showing up downtown and causing a ruckus.

You know, he's also run into budget problems as far as creating more youth jobs to to address that.

But but, yeah, I mean, it's just sort of a another constitutional crisis.

We're heading there.

>> Well, speaking of policing issues louder this week marked the five-year anniversary of George Floyd's murder, mass protest and in Chicago and across the country.

Do you feel that there's the same sense of urgency around police reform around racial justice issues now as there was then, no, I I don't think so.

And I think that's in part a.

>> Because of Trump has somehow criminalize, you know, some of those efforts.

So many companies have moved away from actually embracing the the AI efforts.

And so I also think that because there are so many crisis right everywhere, people are no longer necessarily focus on that.

But more so on some of the more more urgent issues they're happening in our communities is speaking of mass protests.

Right back to you for money to get a piece this week about.

>> Prosecutions of Democratic National Convention protesters from last summer.

What did you find?

>> the vast majority of arrests were made charges were made by the city for municipal code violations.

So those are violations that don't carry any jail time.

They are the fences that you could ticket someone for and those the majority of them were disorderly conduct for breach of the peace or failing to this person.

A lot of those happened at the protest outside the Israeli consulate and what I found was that the city has lost every trial that they've gone to court for.

They have a negotiated plea deals with very little punishment, sometimes a $0 fine and no court supervision.

But there is this refusal on the city's part to drop these charges altogether.

And so it's forcing, you know, people who are arrested at the protest, which, you know, whether that was used as a tool to kind of disperse a protest.

police felt needed to be dispersed or not.

You know, that goal was achieved and now people are still, you know, going to court the spending resources to get officers to appear at court for cases that have kind of mirrored each other as a as a judge has ruled against the city.

The judge has criticized the city for being unprepared to bring these cases to trial.

Get it.

It called the city out for bringing these cases when the state decided to drop some charges.

You know, judge in his verdict said something along the lines of the state didn't bring these charges because the state is of the same mind of the court that there's not enough evidence to prove disorderly conduct.

And part of that's because of how arrests were made at this protest where, you know, someone might have been, you know, engaging in disorderly conduct or not.

And a police officer in their effort to disperse the protest would grab someone and kind of pull them back through a line of police officers and then the police officer at the end of the line was the one to arrest someone far removed from the actual action that someone was being removed for.

So that arresting officer had no idea what happened.

Didn't know how to charge someone.

And so the sometimes had had trouble getting an officer.

He even knew what happened to show up for court and believe that.

I mean, I was in a lot of those crowds around the DNC.

I'm sure you all were, too.

And it was a chaotic scene to say the least of some of the protests.

>> Well, Tina, this week we heard from Congresswoman Lauren Underwood who said she is not jumping in the race to replace Durbin.

What did she say about why she didn't want to She said on CNN in the middle of the day, don't think Illinois voters represent.

You're not we have been asking for people for weeks, months if she's planning to She was exploring a run.

I had groups at Lake of Health Care professionals contacting me saying we're ready as soon as she announces, we want to support her.

She had that has from her science nurse background.

I do think that she just understood that it was more valuable for her to be in the house and to help win these races next year that they absolutely need The Democrats have Sony's right to win it.

To flip the House and she is in a leadership position for the in the D Triple C so she felt about That was what she said, that it's more valuable for her.

also was risky.

And as we've seen all these people running for the Senate race is opening up these House seats in a district, the 9th district, the second district Open.

Now the 14th could be potentially.

These are all Democratic districts, but the shuffle is happening.

And she decided to stay in their shoes.

to want to keep Yeah, I mean, that sort of ups or seniority within the Illinois.

you're sat there, too.

And in the house.

So it's she's in a great position.

She's young.

She could do something like this in the future, but she decided not to just not yet well out of this week, we saw federal agents making arrested immigration courts around the U.S., including Hugh here in Chicago.

Who are they targeting?

>> So this is a move from the administration to target those that have been in the country for less than 2 years because that makes eligible for expedited removal under expedited removal.

That means that they could be deported pretty quickly and they don't necessarily have the right to see a judge before that.

So it obviously came as a surprise to many, many people at the court in Chicago were not aware that they were going to come out of their hearing, even if their case was not dismiss and that agents were going to be outside in the hallway, waiting for them.

So it definitely comes.

It is concerning to many attorneys because they we'll leave that everyone has to, right, right to to see a judge before that happens.

But, you know, a memo we got actually a a statement from DHS saying that they will target.

They are, in fact, are getting got here within the last 2 years to deport them as as possible.

But they they they also did mention that if they do have a credible fear, that then they will all be allowing them to continue their immigration case.

But some other immigration related news this week as well.

The Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration >> district in as well and migrants of their legal protections.

What have you heard from folks in that community?

Well, everyone is really concerned, Even now that that has been announced and they still don't know how or when they'll be deported or where they'll be deported, right?

If they choose not to leave.

So it's it's really frightening for many, many of them that had that pretty much stab lish themselves here.

they've got a job.

They've got family.

Some of them are even property owners at this point.

So I think all of the community is pretty concerned with what will happen next.

It is important to mention that only those that got a temporary protected status in 2023 and after all right, those are the ones are being pretty much.

Those are the ones are getting their TPS revoked.

People who got TPS in 2021, they can stay here until September 10.

Still not very much, right?

Not not a very long time.

So it's just part of the Trump administration's efforts to really reach that goal of mass deportations, which they haven't been able to achieve otherwise.

Yes, September will be here soon.

Right?

you know, your story featured the family who was I think the mom worth lot.

is work is she says assistant teacher because she has a degree from in education and in Venezuela.

The father is a night works in it for a company and their daughter is going to college pursuing an engineering degree.

So they they really don't know what will happen next if you know, they will get a letter saying your work permit is no longer active.

So a lot.

Lots of questions for the community.

Yeah.

And not exactly that.

The caricature that you see sometimes of folks requiring lots of public assistance, people re making their own What Mitch some some local advocates for clergy, abuse survivors.

They spoke out this week questioning Pope Leo's record in that What are they saying?

What are they looking for?

Right to formally Robert propose to do made of.

>> He led a in order of the augustinian section of the church.

I'm late 90's.

>> Where'd when he took that leadership position, essentially there was already an investigation against a priest in that order who've been accused of abusing a child there are a lot of advocates who came out this week who have basically criticized the now pope for not doing more to essentially remove this accused priest from the order he was actually placed in a monastery that was across the street from a school, which is sort the crux the concern here reporter.

No, I mean, the pope has not been accused of anything directly on toward, but also just goes to show how far, you know, this abuse crisis goes.

I mean, it's really you know, there's not really a leader, obviously who hasn't been touched by and I think you're going to see a lot of local reporters trying to find out more about that situation and how the now pope handle Difficult to get away from.

Yeah, something Pope Francis himself had to deal with as well.

I mean, many people are really excited right about having a Chicago pope.

And I feel like the excitement took over the happiness took over.

But now the real >> questions right that.

The questions that really concern the community it will start to come out.

And that's when you have some folks may be not so happy that he's Yeah, it's not like it's a political process where they're vetted by opposition in the press, in the in the lead-up.

This is something that happens after the conclave.

>> Well, speaking of things not being vetted.

We learned this week that The Sun Times ran thank you.

Thank you very I can't do that.

Sometimes ran a summer reading list section written by a freelancer for a 3rd party company.

It included fake ai-generated books to know what kind of reaction has there been in the NEWSROOM to that?

>> I think we were texting each other at first like just reporters.

And then we finally got management talking about kind of saying that this was not part of the editorial team.

This was a separate section of business and strategy team, but still a gigantic problem.

I think in general raises the problem of how AI will interact late in the NEWSROOM.

And it's not just this and I'm not defending the U.S.

I think this is this is a NASA and its it will be a lesson going forward in this specific article.

There were fake books as a Chicago author who said that he did this I just googling AI things like certain authors were real, but titles were not.

So it's just embarrassing situation that is in a separate section from the newspapers at the human reporters that are, you know, at this table, create.

And so it's I think it's a lesson I think other newsrooms have had problems with this to have been reading about Politico.

It's in their union contract actually to have a 60 day notice of one AI is being used in the NEWSROOM.

And I think that opens up a conversation for a lot of other union news rooms to try to see what they can do with So I I teach at upon at Northwestern and that was something that we added to the curriculum right-wing.

How do you?

>> Responsibly use So we're not gonna.

You know, pretend it doesn't exist or are assume that no one's using it.

It's it's really at the tip of your hand.

So let's just instead find a way to make sure that all of our reporters know how to properly use it, right?

Yeah.

And that it's not just being used nilly, but that it's something that an actual human you know, taking the lead.

I.

>> Well, for actual human sippy for me, you're a fantastic panel.

But unfortunately, that's about all the time we have for tonight.

So my thanks to Tina's Fund Ellis, Laura Rodriguez, alright, willful and Mitchell arm and Trout.

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>> Have a great weekend.

Okay.

Mitch is much as I would like to never, ever, ever talk about the new Bear Stadium.

Again, there's been a recent news that it seems like things are leaning toward Arlington Heights.

What's latest?

He says that's their main focus, which you know, that have been telegraphing 5 or 6 months now.

>> If you know, paying 197 million dollars for land to telegraph 4 years you know, they've got another 8 years on their lease at Soldier Field.

And I think we're going to keep on going back and on this until sounds like they've you know, there's a recently elected mayor in Arlington Heights have been having some conversations with him.

And where's that going?

You know, you've got Jim can all that of a new mayor there and carrying the ball forward like its predecessor.

This is the same.

>> They're really they're going for it, you and they feel pretty good about the way it's >> Obviously, Johnson to the past.

I mean, hey, can kind of if they don't have the very the Arlington Heights Bears?

I mean, Johnson really did put a lot of political capital into trying to keep them in custody.

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