CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- Mayor Lori Lightfoot said the shooting of an African-American jogger in Georgia should not be a sign that similar cases will appear in Chicago and elsewhere.
A father and son, who are white, are charged with murder after pursing, shooting, and killing 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery, a black man who was jogging through their Georgia neighborhood. Reportedly, they said, they thought the man wearing a face mask was a burglar.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot said no one should take the law into their own hands; and with so many people wearing masks because of the COVID-19 pandemic, she hopes police departments, especially, are training their officers well.
"We are going to be wearing masks in this country for a very long time," Lightfoot said, "and so, the fact that a black man was wearing a mask - that in and of it self should never be the criteria for assuming that somebody is engaging in specific criteria."
In Georgia, it took public release of a video of the shooting before charges were brought.