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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Chip Mitchell | WBEZ

Discipline eased for Chicago cops who lounged in Rep. Bobby Rush’s office during looting

U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush looks on June 11, 2020 as Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot condemns police officers caught on surveillance video lounging in the congressman’s campaign office during looting that devastated swaths of the city. (Ashlee Rezin / Chicago Sun-Times)

A few days after protests and looting engulfed Chicago following George Floyd’s killing by Minneapolis police in 2020, Mayor Lori Lightfoot held a news conference at City Hall with Police Superintendent David Brown and U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush.

They projected images from surveillance video showing uniformed police officers inside Rush’s campaign office on the South Side during the unrest.

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