"Trying to force your will to break the spirit of working people in order to have a conversation? That's terrorism. We're not going to negotiate with terrorists," Johnson said on Tuesday.

There’s a long history of Black political leaders talking to people who may not see us as first class,” Johnson

Trying to force your will to break the spirit of working people in order to have a conversation — that’s terrorism. And we’re not going to negotiate with terrorists,” Mayor Brandon Johnson told reporters at his weekly City Hall news conference.