CHICAGO – Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Thursday named former Dallas police Chief David Brown to head the police force in the nation's third largest city.
Lightfoot introduced Brown as the next superintendent of the Chicago Police Department during a news conference hours after she announced that a member of the force had died of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.
Brown, who was one of two African Americans named as a finalist for the job, has more than 30 years of experience in law enforcement.
The 59-year-old Brown, who retired from the Dallas force in 2016, drew widespread attention that year after five of his officers were killed in an ambush-style rifle attack and he directed officers to kill the suspect using a