“After shooting deaths shot up 75% in Chicago, Governor Pritzker announced that he was dispatching 500 more National Guard troops to fight ‘the dark forces of racism’ in D.C.,” the Hercules and Andromeda star remarked to his 506k Twitter followers. “Around 150 people have been shot since Pritzker sent the troops to D.C. instead of Chicago.”
After shooting deaths shot up 75% in Chicago, Governor Pritzker announced that he was dispatching 500 more National Guard troops to fight “the dark forces of racism” in D.C.
Around 150 people have been shot since Pritzker sent the troops to D.C. instead of Chicago.
— Kevin Sorbo (@ksorbs) February 10, 2021
Meanwhile, violence has continued to erupt in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s Chicago (D), seeing at least 23 people shot — three fatally — over the last weekend alone.
This is far from the first time Sorbo has waded into political waters on social media. In December, Sorbo remarked, “Raise your hand if you’re more concerned about losing your Constitutional rights than you are about Covid.”
Raise your hand if you’re more concerned about losing your Constitutional rights than you are about Covid
— Kevin Sorbo (@ksorbs) December 29, 2020
The Hercules star also took a shot at White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Thursday, writing, “Imagine getting $183,000 a year to say ‘circle back’ 30+ times a day.”