Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot says video of Adam Toledo's fatal shooting by police 'incredibly diffic

[mucifer]

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 city’s endemic gun violence, saying, “We can’t 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.

Read more: https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoot-adam-toledo-shooting-video-reaction-20210415-krtvckssgzfbfd3bq73xono6cu-story.html

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[Bayard]

1. Shot him because he ran from them?

Jeez, wonder why he would do that?

[mopinko]

2. lori's gonna have a helluva time getting reelected.

has not covered herself in glory.

[sarisataka]

3. All of the videos are up

And available at Chicagocopa.org/case/2021-1112

Needless to say, they are graphic.

[Voltaire2]

4. the 'he had a gun when we shot him' story is falling apart.

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]

6. but i thought he did

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]

7. His hands were in the air.

Link to tweet

[catsudon]

10. i stand corrected

i see no gun watching the video, the kid had his hands up

the police officer screwed up big time

[regnaD kciN]

11. "Screwed up big time"...?

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]

14. This is what i see. And i dont always jump to the cop being in the wrong.

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]

8. There is no hint of a gun or resistance

The police officer needs to be charged with murder in this case.

[luckone]

17. You think that because they have been telling lies even in court

Link to tweet

?s=21

[ForgoTheConsequence]

5. There was no gun.

Everyone from the mayor on down is complicit in this coverup.


Lightfoot vows to hunt down adult she says put gun in Adam Toledo’s 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]

29. There's a gun behind the fence on the ground in one body cam.

[catsudon]

12. i found the gun

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EzCsSOVXMAoWDPQ?format=jpg&name=900x900

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]

13. Hey, what's a Republican/Nazi police officer to do if he can't shoot every POC he sees?

Victims should get those big civil cases until the money makes towns change. The cops murdered this kid!

[ashredux]

15. Pence is done...his political career is toast

[Stuart G]

16. One more word and a symbol...: videos, videos, videos, & videos...

...VIDEOS, VIDEOS, VIDEOS, VIDEOS, & VIDEOS.....

ONE MORE SENTENCE:.....There were times that cops could get away with this, but those times have passed..

[dlk]

18. That officer should be charged

He executed a child because he was angry.

[Kali]

20. uh huh

enjoy your stay

[Rhiannon12866]

22. 8 years?

[Kali]

23. socks used to be knit better in the olden days

[Rhiannon12866]

24. I can't help it

Checking has become habit.

[Kali]

25. I didn't even look

it was the wing nut content

[Rhiannon12866]

26. Well...

[Kali]

27. LOL

[Rhiannon12866]

21. Twitter reply :

Link to tweet

[SouthBayDem]

28. Seventh grader in elementary school?

From the article:

A seventh grader at Gary Elementary School in Little Village, Toledo is the youngest person fatally shot by Chicago police in years.

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]

30. Outcry grows as police officer in Adam Toledo shooting is identified as Eric Stillman

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