'Any officer who abuses their power or stands by and allows it to happen does not deserve to wear the badge, period,' Chicago Police Superintendent David O. Brown wrote on Thursday.
Police chiefs in Minneapolis and Chicago lamented the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in police custody. Anger over Floyd's death has inspired protests in the Minneapolis neighborhood where Floyd was killed and around the country this week.
At a Thursday news conference, Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo apologized to Floyd's family. Chicago Police Superintendent David O. Brown released a Thursday statement saying that what happened in Minneapolis made relations between police officers and citizens difficult across the country. The four officers involved in Floyd's death were fired by the Minneapolis Police Department, but Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey called Wednesday for the arresting officer in the case to be charged."If most people, particularly people of color, had done what a police officer did late Monday, they'd already be behind bars," Frey tweeted.reached out to the Hennepin County Attorney's office for comment but did not hear back in time for publication.
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