Illinois Playbook – Police Board votes to fire cop involved in controversial shooting of his friend.
POLITICO
June 21, 2021
Lightfoot said she can do nothing less than declare such an emergency after the pandemic forced Black and Latino residents to bear the brunt of the layoffs and deaths. “It exposed Chicago’s ugly underbelly — higher crime rates in neighborhoods of color triggered, in large part by disparate access to health care, healthy food options, jobs and economic opportunity,” writes Sun-Times Fran Spielman.
