AOC Says Prosecutor 'Lied About Police Killing a Child' in Adam Toledo Case
On 4/16/21 at 12:16 AM EDT
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Thursday blasted an Illinois prosecutor who "lied" about the circumstances surrounding the fatal police shooting of 13-year-old Adam Toledo on March 29.
Ocasio-Cortez was responding to a report on the shooting that noted Cook County, Illinois officials determined a prosecutor had "made an error" when he previously claimed that Toledo was holding a gun before being killed. Body camera footage of the shooting released Thursday does not appear to show the boy holding a weapon, while the Cook County State's Attorney's Office said that the prosecutor was mistaken and had "failed to fully inform himself."