Demand Grows for Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson to Fire Top Aide Who Called Police “F*cking Pigs”
Kennedy Bartley, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s Managing Deputy of External Relations.
Demand is growing for Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson to fire one of his top aides, Kennedy Bartley, who serves as the Mayor’s Managing Deputy of External Relations, for comments she made during a 2021 podcast interview.
On the podcast “This Is Your Afterlife with Dave Maher,” during a discussion of the killing of a young Black person in Colorado, Bartley called police “f***ing pigs.”
“If I die at the hands of the f***ing pigs, don’t name s**t after me. I don’t want legislation named after me. I would be honored if it got more folks to abolition,” Bartley said.
Bartley also accused police of “lynching Black folks every day.”
Although several aldermen have called for Bartley to be fired,
