Chicago Mayor Appoints Anti-Police Activist as Strategy Director

President Trump is talking about liberating Chicago from crime while its mayor is once again sending the message that he stands with the pro-crime and anti-police movement.

A civil rights attorney with a history of suing the city over alleged police misconduct has been chosen to serve as Mayor Brandon Johnson’s director of strategy, a move that one pro-police City Council member called a “serious conflict of interest.”

Sheila Bedi is a clinical professor of law at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and director of the Community Justice and Civil Rights Clinic and represented a pro-Palestinian group that shut down the road leading tto O’Hare Airport last year to protest Israel’s role in the war in Gaza.

And Bedi served on the legal team for the family of Dexter Reed, who was shot to death by police officers in 2024 after Reed shot and wounded one of them during a traffic stop. A $1.25 million proposed settlement that would have compensated the Reed family stalled in the Council’s Finance Committee amid opposition from pro-police Council members.

Bedi was not just ‘representing’ clients, she was cheering on the anti-Israel mobs on social media.

But then again that is Mayor Brandon Johnson’s position. It’s also his position on crime. Appointing Bedi as his strategy director means that in the face of Trump’s promises to liberate Chicago, Johnson is doubling down on pro-crime and making crime into his strategy.