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Chicago's Top Attorney Resigns Following Scandal Over Botched Police Raid

5:10am December 21, 2020

by Jaclyn Diaz

Chicago officials continue to deal with the fallout over the release of police body cam video showing a 2019 raid by city officers of a Black woman's house, which later proved to be the wrong address.

Demonstrators protest over the death of George Floyd in front of Trump Tower in Chicago on May 30.

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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot On Her City's Response Unrest Over Police Violence

2:07pm June 06, 2020

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Lori Lightfoot, mayor of the City of Chicago, about the recent protests around racial injustice in the United States.

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Mayor-elect Lori Lightfoot celebrates Tuesday during her election night party in Chicago.

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Chicago Mayor-Elect Lori Lightfoot Says City Has 'Fractured Relationship' With Police

3:03pm April 03, 2019

by Vanessa Romo

Lightfoot, the city's first black female mayor, told NPR that Chicago's police department has "left many people feeling like the police are an illegitimate occupying force."

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