Status Quo ‘Clearly Failing,’ Chicago Mayor Says: Protest Wrap

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“The status quo is clearly failing,” Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said in a CNN roundtable, as the U.S. grappled with more questionable deaths involving police officers weeks after George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis sparked global protests. “These deaths will not be in vain,” Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said. “There’s a movement across this country and it is changing all of our cities.”

Two recent incidents sparked fresh protests: