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Chicago Investigating More than a Dozen Officers Found 'Lounging' During Protests
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1:02Now PlayingMore than a dozen Chicago police officers and supervisors were captured on video “lounging” inside a burgled congressional campaign office - and even appeared to be making popcorn and brewing coffee - as people vandalized and stole from nearby businesses as protests and unrest spread across the city, a visibly angry Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Thursday.
US Representative Bobby Rush, a Democrat whose district 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 US cities, saw large protests overshadowed by criminal activity in the days following George Floyd's death after a white Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee into his neck for several minutes.
Lightfoot, who described herself as “angry” and “disgusted” by the actions shown on video, said the department's Internal Affairs division and the Civilian Office of Police Accountability are investigating.
Lightfoot said the officers shown have not yet been identified.
Rush said the officers appeared to be relaxing inside the office that was broken into earlier in the day, still sounding like he could not believe what unfolded on the video.
Top leaders of the city's police department called the officers' actions indefensible, and Superintendent David Brown pledged that they will be disciplined because the department's integrity is at stake.
"If you sleep during a riot, what do you do during regular hours when there is no riot?" asked Brown during a news conference.
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