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Chicago Mayor, Police ‘Monitoring’ Police-Involved Shooting In Kenosha, Urge Swift Action. Chicago Had 66 Shootings Last Weekend.

Emily Zanotti
Chicago Mayor, Police ‘Monitoring’ Police-Involved Shooting In Kenosha, Urge Swift Action. Chicago Had 66 Shootings Last Weekend.
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Chicago’s mayor, Lori Lightfoot, and its police superintendent, David Brown, weighed in on the police-involved shooting in Kenosha, Wisconsin, that sparked significant unrest overnight, noting that they are “monitoring” the situation and urging “civil and criminal authorities” in Kenosha to investigate the incident.

Meanwhile, Chicago suffered 66 individual shootings over the weekend, from Friday until Sunday evening — violence that took the lives of at least five people, per the Chicago Sun-Times.

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