A Pilsen man admitted Thursday that he set fire to a Chicago police vehicle downtown while wearing a Joker mask during the widespread rioting and looting in the city in May 2020.
The case against Timothy O’Donnell, 32, became among the most high-profile to result from the rioting and looting here in the wake of George Floyd’s murder by then-Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin. Its notoriety is due in large part to the jarring images — captured by the Sun-Times and others — of a man in a clown mask amid the chaos that day.
