(11 Jun 2020) More than a dozen Chicago police officers and supervisors were captured on video "lounging" inside a congressional campaign office last month as people vandalized and stole from nearby businesses while protests and unrest spread across the city, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Thursday.
U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush, a Democrat whose districts includes much of the city's South Side and southern suburbs, said his staff first viewed the video and he brought it to Lightfoot on Wednesday.
The footage was taken on May 31 and early June 1, as police received widespread reports of vandalism, theft and arson in neighborhoods on the city's South and West sides, officials said.
Chicago, like other U.S. cities, saw large protests overshadowed by criminal activity in the days following George Floyd's death in custody after a white Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee into the black man's neck for several minutes.
Lightfoot said the department's Internal Affairs Division and the Civilian Office of Police Accountability are investigating.
Police Superintendent David Brown pledged that the officers involved will be disciplined because the department's integrity is at stake.
"Sleep during a riot?" he asked, incredulously. "What do you do on a regular shift when there's no riots?"
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