OS X security blocking brew installation of python

Running Darwin Home 18.5.0 Darwin Kernel Version 18.5.0: Mon Mar 11 20:40:32 PDT 2019; root:xnu-4903.251.3~3/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64 Trying to finish updating python... but failing to link it cause of the security on this platform. You can use brew link python to link this version. Home:~ localadmin$ brew link python Linking /usr/local/Cellar/python/3.7.3... Error: Permission denied @ dir_s_mkdir - /usr/local/Frameworks Home:~ localadmin$ sudo brew link python Password: Error: Running Homebrew as root is extremely dangerous and no longer supported. As Homebrew does not drop privileges on installation you would be giving all build scripts full access to your system. How do I get around this? Can I ask brew to tell me what it is trying to do here perhaps?