Hey, it's Jason Mark. We're just a few weeks away from Chicago's municipal elections,

when city residents will vote for mayor and members of the city council. In almost every poll,

the top concern for Chicagoans right now is crime and policing. One of the reasons former

Mayor Rahm Emanuel didn't run for a third term is the fallout over the police shooting of Laquan McDonald.

Four years ago, current Mayor Lori Lightfoot won the mayor's race in part because of her past experience.

As a former prosecutor, she satisfied the tough on crime folks.

And as former president of the Chicago Police Board and chair of the Police Accountability Task Force,

she excited those seeking police and criminal justice reform.

But in May of 2020, protests and looting broke out in the wake of George Floyd's murder at the hands of police in Minneapolis,

and the mayor's response to the actions of some members of the Chicago

Police Department during that unrest caught the attention of many, including WBEZ reporter Patrick

Smith. And this particular incident happened at the brickyard mall on the northwest side.

And there's actually video. In it, you can see a large group of officers

swarming a little red car in the mall's parking lot, breaking out the windows with batons,

dragging people out of the car and throwing them to the ground. We should say there's some

dispute over what led up to the moments captured on camera, officers say they were responding to looting

at the mall and the vehicle was suspicious. The five people in the car say they were just

there to shop. Anyway, the video is hard to watch. It's chaotic, it's upsetting. One woman says

officers pulled her out of the car by her hair, says they called her a savage.

Then, and this really stands out in the video, one of the police officers kneels on her neck.

You know, the exact thing that killed George Floyd.

So this got a lot of attention in Chicago.

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