money 100 arrested after mass looting breaks out in Chicago
Brown called the outbreak "pure criminality," and Mayor Lori Lightfoot sought to distance the incident from the "righteous uprising" in response to the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police on May 25.
"This was not an organized protest. Rather this was an incident of pure criminality," Brown told a news conference.
At least 13 officers were injured, and a security guard and a civilian were struck by gunfire, Brown said.
Social media images showed storefronts bashed in and people fleeing stores with arms full of goods, with much of the action taking place along Michigan Avenue, the upscale commercial district known as the Magnificent Mile.
People were drawn by a number of social media posts encouraging looting in central Chicago after tensions flared following the police shooting of a man with a gun, Brown said.
