'It's one of the most disgraceful, disrespectful things that I've ever seen, and we are absolutely not going to tolerate it.' Lori Lightfoot says she was shocked by video showing 13 officers lounging in a congressman's office during protests and looting.
"It's one of the most disgraceful, disrespectful things that I've ever seen, and we are absolutely not going to tolerate it," Lightfoot told CNN's Anderson Cooper on Thursday night."We can be supportive of people who are doing their jobs the right way and still hold the bad ones accountable," she said."That's what has to happen.
Read MoreAt the time, protests were taking place in Chicago in the wake of the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Floyd died while in Minneapolis police custody a week earlier.One still image released by the mayor's office shows an officer appearing to sleep on an office couch.The Chicago Police Department tweeted Thursday it has launched an internal investigation into the incident, and Lightfoot said they are working to identify the officers involved.
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