Chicago, June 16 (RHC)-- A new report says Black people made up 75 percent of those arrested in Chicago for alleged violations of a curfew put in place following demonstrations over George Floyd’s death.
The Chicago Sun-Times analyzed police data from the first five days of the curfew imposed May 30 and lifted June 7. The racial disparity in Chicago, where Black people are about 30 percent of the population, drew criticism from the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois.
A Chicago police spokesman says the department’s curfew enforcement was “universal” regardless of race or neighborhood.
