Mayor Lightfoot addresses newest class of Chicago Police officers
CHICAGO (CBS) -- Mayor Lori Lightfoot spoke to the newest members of the Chicago Police Department during their graduation ceremony Tuesday.
The ceremony happened Tuesday morning in the Aon Grand Ballroom at Navy Pier.
This week, the Chicago Police Department will put to rest one of its own. Officer Andrés Mauricio Vásquez Lasso was shot and killed while responding to a domestic call in Gage Park last week.
The new group of officers pledged Tuesday to put their lives on the line.
"Not everyone has the courage to run into danger for the sake of our city," Mayor Lightfoot told the class. "But you can, and you will."
More than a third of the graduates in the newest recruit classes are women, and more than 80 percent are people of color.
