Chicago police ficers took naps and made cfee and popcorn in a local congressman’s fice while protesters looted shops, according to ficials.
A few cops snuck away from the protests going on in the streets Chicago earlier this month, and headed into a local congressman’s fice to make cfee and popcorn and have a snooze, according to ficials. On Thursday (June 11th), The Chicago Tribune reported that at least eight Chicago PD ficers were hiding out in US Rep. Bobby Rush’s district fice at 54th Street and South Wentworth Avenue on June 1st while protests were in full swing outside. Rush, a Chicago congressman since 1963 and founding member the Illinois Black Panther Party, caught the ficers red-handed after he’d received a phone call indicating that his fice had been burglarized. He proceeded to review his security footage and was shocked by what he discovered.
“One was asleep on my couch in my campaign fice,” Rush noted at a press conference. “They even had the unmitigated gall to go and make cfee for themselves and to pop popcorn, my popcorn, in my microwave while looters were tearing apart businesses within sight and within their reach. They were in a mode relaxation and they did not care about what was happening to businesspeople, to this city. They didn’t care. They absolutely didn’t care.”
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Rush informed Mayor Lori Lightfoot the wild misconduct, which had her “enraged.” “That’s a personal embarrassment to me,” Lightfoot confessed, as she publicly apologized to Rush on Thursday. “I’m sorry that you and your staff even had to deal with this incredible indignity. Not one these ficers will be allowed to hide behind the badge and go on and act like nothing happened.” Lightfoot indicated that the Chicago PD’s Internal Affairs Division will be reviewing the incident while the state attorney general’s fice launches an investigation. She urged the guilty ficers to come forward and reveal themselves.