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ILLINOIS - Democratic Illinois Governor JB Pritzker was seen posing with a man who worked as a 'Peacekeeper' in the state, less than a week before he was arrested for allegedly killing a father while fleeing a robbery at a Louis Vuitton store.
Keller McMillan, 35, was one of seven men charged with murder, burglary, and retail theft after they robbed a luxury retail store and allegedly killed a father who was driving to work.
It has now been revealed that McMillan was working as a 'Peacekeeper,' a trained community member who is sent to violent hotspots to de-escalate conflicts.
Pritzker met with the Peacekeepers at the start of the month, sharing photos in a press release from the event, including one with McMillan.
The photo was removed after McMillian's arrest, but had already been circulated on multiple media websites.
Pritzker shared a video on his social media from the event, where he sat at a roundtable and listened to the Peacekeepers describe their experience in the program.
The governor noted that the Peacekeepers create a safer community and wrote in the caption, 'It's folks like these that we need more of doing the hard work of community violence prevention, not troops on the ground to undermine efforts fighting crime'.
'The Governor meets hundreds of people in communities every week and is often asked to take photos,' Pritzker's office said in a statement.
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