Welcome to the Reader‘s morning briefing for Friday, November 4, 2016. Governor Bruce Rauner has declared today Cubs Day in honor of the Chicago Cubs’ remarkable World Series victory, their first since 1908.
Documentary chronicles the stories of two women killed by Chicago police
A new 25-minute documentary from Al-Jazeera, The Lives of Women, tells the story of 22-year-old Rekia Boyd, who was fatally shot in 2012 by an off-duty Chicago cop, and 55-year-old Bettie Jones, who was shot and killed by police in 2015 when they responded to a call about one of her neighbors. “They don’t talk about women that much when they get killed by the police,” Boyd’s brother Martinez Sutton says in the documentary. “They barely talk about women.” [The Fader]
