A man wearing a dark shirt and a hat sprays a liquid over the counter of a looted Ulta Beauty store in Brighton Park and ignites the fluid with a match. A group of men start a fire inside the back of an open CTA truck downtown. Two men enter a sporting goods store in Englewood and set fire to papers that had been scattered across the floor.
These are among the 18 persons of interest the U.S. attorney’s office and Chicago Police Department say they’re seeking to identify in connection with 53 separate arsons set during a five-day stretch of protests between May and June after the killing of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police.
The groups, joined also by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, released photos and surveillance footage of several of these suspects in hopes that the public can assist in their identification and arrest.
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Source: WTTW News