When a Chicago Park District lifeguard shot and killed a teenager at Douglass Park in late June, Ald. Monique Scott (24th) and her brother, Michael Scott, weren’t surprised.
Both had served in the past as Douglass Park supervisors. They had feared something like this would happen, they contend, because the park district has too few lifeguards, too little staff training and inadequate park security.
And, they say, part of the problem lies in assigning white and Latino lifeguards to pools in African American neighborhoods…