At least 42 people have been charged with felony criminal mischief for causing widespread looting and unrest in Chicago this week, according to County County Attorney Foam Kim Foxx on Thursday.
Foxx said in a statement that its office was “ready and willing” to investigate these allegations and accuse suspects “when appropriate.”
The charges include 28 for burglary and looting, six for gun possession, five for wasted battery as resistance to a police officer, and one each for theft and criminal damage to property, the bureau said. The most serious charge of looting was attempted murder.
CHICAGO’S LOOTING SPREE WAS ‘A PLANNED ATTACK,’ WITH LIGHT LIGHT SET
Yogi Dalal hugs his daughter Jigisha as his other daughter Kajal, left, bows her head at the family food and beverage store on Monday, August 10, 2020, after the family business was vandalized in Chicago. (AP Photo / Charles Rex Arbogast)
Latrell Allen, 20, was charged with attempted murder Monday after firing on officers, according to Chicago police.
The unrest that began late Sunday stemmed from a video posted on Facebook that falsely claimed that police shot and killed a 15-year-old boy, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
City officials had urged Foxx to hold more than 100 of those arrested accountable.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown pleaded guilty to Foxx earlier this week. Brown suggested that because there were so few serious charges during the previous looting in late May and early June, it caused more to do the same, Fox 32 Chicago reported.
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“Criminals took to the streets with the confidence that there would be no consequences for their actions and I, for one, refuse these cowardly actions to hold our city hostage,” Brown said after the shooting. “CPD will not stand up because our beautiful downtown becomes a place that people are afraid of.”
Foxx, however, denied claims that the police officer was cared for due to the lack of prosecution.
“The idea that people believe they are empowered in some way because people have not been prosecuted for plundering backwards after the onset of the unrest is simply not true. Those cases are now before the court, “Foxx said, according to the station.
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Her office on Thursday did not immediately release information about abuses related to the looting. In one case in which her office refused to consider criminal charges, detectives “agreed not to pay for a crime,” according to the release.
