Organized Raid Chicago Mayor Says Looting Was Planned Instructs Cops To Locate All Cars Downtown During Incident
Lightfoot told TIME during an interview Tuesday that the incident, which began Sunday and continued into the early hours of Monday, was not the result of peaceful demonstrators. Misinformation of a police shooting of a minor in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood had initially caused hundreds of people to flood downtown in protest, but Lightfoot said that the root of the encounter was the effect of an organized raid. “To be sure, there are people that did join in that were motivated by lots of different reasons, and certainly were motivated by social media posts encouraging people to come downtown,” Lightfoot told TIME....