#Chicago mayor says she won’t let Trump send feds after drive-by shooting

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot declared she wouldn’t allow President Trump to “terrorize” the city by deploying federal troops to crackdown on violence, even as at least 15 people were wounded in a drive-by shooting outside a funeral home in the Windy City.

“Under no circumstances will I allow Donald Trump’s troops to come to Chicago and terrorize our residents,” Lightfoot posted on Twitter Tuesday evening.

Around the same time, people inside a vehicle opened fire on attendees of a funeral on the city’s South Side, wounding 15 people, the Chicago Tribune reported.

The victims ranged in age from 21 to 65 years of age.

The vehicle crashed a few blocks away but the occupants fled, although police said they had nabbed a “person of interest.”

A couple of hours later, Lightfoot condemned the gunplay and asked people to come forward if they had info about the shooters.

“Too many guns are on our streets and in the hands of people who should never possess them,” Lightfoot wrote in another tweet. “These individuals will be held accountable. I ask that anyone with information on this incident please come forward or submit a tip anonymously at cpdtip.com.”

Trump dispatched federal officials to Portland to crackdown on protests there that damaged federal buildings and set ablaze a police union building.

He has also threatened to deploy more federal agents to Democrat-run cities – including Chicago and New York – unless local officials put an end to the violent protests.

Lightfoot, who said she would sue to stop Trump from sending the forces, later backed off slightly and suggested the president bolster existing federal agencies like the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Lightfoot said she sent a letter to Trump seeking collaboration on quashing the violence.

“There are some things the federal government is uniquely qualified to handle. We would welcome that,” she said in an interview Tuesday with MSNBC’s Joy Reid.

“What we do not welcome, and what we will not tolerate, and we will fight against is the deployment of unnamed federal special secret agents onto our streets to detain people without cause and effectively take away their civil rights and their civil liberties without due process.”