Chicago Mayor Pulls Unbelievably Cruel Anti-ICE Stunt Mocking the Murder of Sheridan Gorman – RedState
It has been a few days since an Illinois Democrat has pulled a cheap political stunt that essentially mocks the murder last week of 18-year-old college student Sheridan Gorman, allegedly at the hands of an illegal alien, so Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson decided to step up and fill the void.
In an unbelievably cruel and tone-deaf maneuver, Johnson on Wednesday held a big press conference to gleefully unveil a new city snowplow that will be clearing city streets while bearing a sign reading, “Abolish ICE,” which is apparently the winning entry of a plow-naming contest.
“This name derives from our city’s legacy of standing up for justice, dignity, and the rights of all people, no matter where they come from,” Johnson said while stand in front a large salt dome. “I want to take this moment to reiterate that Chicago does not want ICE on our streets, in our airports, nor in our city. Chicago believes in abolishing ICE.”
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson just unveiled an “Abolish ICE” snow plow.
Less than a week after Sheridan Gorman was murdered in his city by an illegal alien. pic.twitter.com/C6teobdrUn
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) March 25, 2026
When a man in the crowd shouted that Mayor Johnson was celebrating the harm caused by violent illegals, the truth-speaker was instantly escorted out of the event by security. It’s a valid point the man was making, especially when you consider Johnson has had plenty to say about the deployment of ICE agents to local airports – he’s “closely monitoring” the situation – but has quite cowardly avoided commenting on the sanctuary-city policies that led to the cold-blooded murder of Sheridan Gorman.
As RedState previously reported, Sheridan was shot and killed last Thursday morning while walking with friends along the Chicago waterfront; they were apparently looking for a good spot from which to view the Northern Lights. Jose Medina-Medina, a 25-year-old illegal from Venezuela, was later arrested for the crime and charged with one felony count of first-degree murder, one felony count of attempted first-degree murder, three felony counts of aggravated assault/discharge of a firearm, and one felony count of aggravated unlawful possession of a weapon.
Medina-Medina entered the U.S. illegally in 2023, was released unsupervised into the country by the Biden administration, and was arrested for shoplifting later that year. Lax Democrat policies put him back on the street, where he was free to harm others.
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Putting aside the absurdity that Spring began the day after Sheridan was gunned down and snow plows likely won’t be needed for a while, what Johnson did in this public display was an unspeakably cruel and overtly partisan act that likely adds to the heavy burden of the Gorman family, who is still reeling from their heartbreaking, and entirely preventable, loss. Who does that kind of thing?
Democrats, that’s who. There’s a pattern forming here.
A Democrat Chicago alderwoman was on the receiving end of some well-earned wrath from the Gormans after she made a video saying Sheridan was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time and may have “startled” Medina-Medina. In other words, it’s Sheridan’s fault that she was gunned down by a mask-wearing illegal who was breaking all kinds of laws by being in the U.S. and possessing a gun.
And corpulent Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker decided he’d heap on even more scorn by posting a video of him walking along the Chicago waterfront, sweatily boasting how “absolutely gorgeous” his morning stroll was; he, of course, failed to show the well-armed security detail keeping him safe and making sure his stroll was gorgeous. Sheridan Gorman didn’t have that luxury.
In any decent political culture, a stunt like this would be unthinkable so soon after such a senseless murder. But Johnson isn’t interested in decency; he’s interested in proving his ideological credentials and pandering to his base, even if that means publicly gloating over an “Abolish ICE” sign while a grieving family is still living through the nightmare he and his party created.
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