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Chicago mayor, police union leader clash over defense of Capitol rioters

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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot clashed Thursday with the head of the city's police union after he downplayed the actions of rioters who stormed the U.S.

Capitol on Wednesday. "Shame on them for what they did, but it was out of frustration," John Catanzara, president of the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 7, who was elected last May to represent the city’s police officers, told WBEZ-FM in Chicago. "There’s no fights.There’s no, obviously, violence in this crowd.They pushed past security and made their way to the Senate chamber.

Did they destroy anything when they were there? No." The riot left one woman fatally shot, three others dead from medical emergencies and at least one police officer dead from unspecified injuries.

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