Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) announced this week he was deploying yellow vest wearing “Peacekeepers” on the streets of Chicago in an effort to reduce violence in the city during Memorial Day weekend, “This weekend, Chicagoans should expect to see yellow-vested Peacekeepers on the streets. As part of the state’s anti-violence strategy with a community-focused approach, these outreach workers will help de-escalate and keep our neighborhoods safe.”

Well lets see how that worked out.

A man wearing a neon “Peacekeeper” vest was arrested for brutally beating and robbing a motorist Friday night in the Little Village neighborhood of Chicago. The beating was caught on police surveillance video. Officers caught the suspect while he was fleeing the scene and trying to take the “Peacekeeper” vest off. The suspect, Oscar Montes, was recently released from a twelve-year sentence on a gang-related shooting charge that was pled down from attempted murder.

…Oscar Montes, 31, was in a group of seven or eight people that pulled a man from a car and punched and kicked him on the ground in the 2300 block of South Washtenaw Avenue, Cook County prosecutors said in a Sunday bond hearing.

Montes took the man’s cellphone and struck him over the head with it, and another person stole the man’s wallet, prosecutors said.

The man’s face and ribs were fractured, and his eye was damaged to the point that he suffered partial blindness, prosecutors said.

I can't WAIT for this new strategy of giving felons police powers to unfold.

EDIT: I forgot the best part:

No one in court Sunday mentioned a peacekeepers vest or a connection to an anti-violence organization.