Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot says video of Adam Toledo's fatal shooting by police 'incredibly diffic
Source: Chicago Tribune
Hours before city officials plan to release video of a police officer shooting 13-year old Adam Toledo, Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Thursday asked Chicago residents to withhold judgment and again called for peace.
The mayor choked back tears as she discussed the citys endemic gun violence, saying, We cant have that be what young people experience in our city.
Simply put, we failed Adam, she said during a City Hall news conference.
Toledo was fatally shot by a Chicago police officer in the early morning hours of March 29 in a Little Village alley after a foot pursuit, touching off protests and demonstrations in the neighborhood.
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Bayard
(22,168 posts)Jeez, wonder why he would do that?
mopinko
(70,239 posts)has not covered herself in glory.
sarisataka
(18,779 posts)And available at Chicagocopa.org/case/2021-1112
Needless to say, they are graphic.
Voltaire2
(13,194 posts)Another totally fucked shooting of another person of color.
For contrast watch the video of a white person with a gun refusing in all sorts of ways to comply with the police, including threatening to shoot the police, and finally, just driving the fuck away.
catsudon
(855 posts)from cnn
CNN teams have viewed the footage, which appears to show less than one second pass between the time Adam Toledo draws a handgun and an officer fires a single, fatal shot that hits him in the chest.
ForgoTheConsequence
(4,869 posts)catsudon
(855 posts)i see no gun watching the video, the kid had his hands up
the police officer screwed up big time
regnaD kciN
(26,045 posts)No -- the bastard committed cold-blooded murder.
I'm sick of this "accident" or "screw-up" excuse every time a cop kills an unarmed person (oh, sorry, make that "an unarmed BLACK person" in virtually every case). If you claim to be worthy of being able to carry firearms to protect the public, you deserve to be held fully-accountable for your actions, not hide behind a feeble "oops...my bad" rationalization.
oldsoftie
(12,615 posts)But watching in real time, his hands WERE UP. Period. I see no gun in hand or on the ground near him.
Just too quick on the damn trigger.
cinematicdiversions
(1,969 posts)The police officer needs to be charged with murder in this case.
luckone
(21,646 posts)Link to tweet
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ForgoTheConsequence
(4,869 posts)Everyone from the mayor on down is complicit in this coverup.
Lightfoot vows to hunt down adult she says put gun in Adam Toledos hand
https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2021/4/5/22368299/adam-toledo-shooting-chicago-police-little-village-gun-gangs-foot-pursuit-policy-lightfoot-cardenas
Link to tweet
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,344 posts)Response to mucifer (Original post)
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catsudon
(855 posts)it looks like he dropped it right after
even before the officer said "drop it, drop it" and shoot immediately.
so yeah the officer screwed up still.
johnthewoodworker
(694 posts)Victims should get those big civil cases until the money makes towns change. The cops murdered this kid!
ashredux
(2,609 posts)Stuart G
(38,449 posts)...VIDEOS, VIDEOS, VIDEOS, VIDEOS, & VIDEOS.....
ONE MORE SENTENCE:.....There were times that cops could get away with this, but those times have passed..
dlk
(11,578 posts)He executed a child because he was angry.
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Kali
(55,025 posts)enjoy your stay
Rhiannon12866
(206,111 posts)Kali
(55,025 posts)Rhiannon12866
(206,111 posts)Checking has become habit.
Kali
(55,025 posts)it was the wing nut content
Rhiannon12866
(206,111 posts)Rhiannon12866
(206,111 posts)SouthBayDem
(32,062 posts)From the article:
I don't know the inner workings of Chicago Public Schools, but its website lists the school as serving pre-kindergarten and grades 3-8. What? I've never heard of that kind of combo before!
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,234 posts)CHICAGO Outcry is growing after disturbing footage was released Thursday of police shooting 13-year-old Adam Toledo who appeared to have his hands up, casting doubt on prior accounts from police and city officials of what had happened during the incident.
The officer who fatally shot Adam last month was also identified Thursday as Eric Stillman.
Adam is seen in the body-worn camera footage turning and facing an officer who fires within a second. Surveillance video filmed from across a parking lot, also released Thursday, shows Adam tossing what appeared to be a gun behind the fence.
"Simply put, we failed Adam, and we cannot afford to fail one more young person in our city," Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Thursday.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/outcry-grows-as-police-officer-in-adam-toledo-shooting-is-identified-as-eric-stillman-what-we-know/ar-BB1fIIOg