This piece was originally published in Momentum, an anti-racism blog officially powered by Medium.
The public has now seen the troubling video of a Chicago police officer shooting and killing Adam Toledo, a 13-year-old Latino boy who lived in the city’s Little Village neighborhood.
For Chicagoans, especially for those in Black and Brown communities, the shooting feels like another likely injustice in a long line of cases in which police have killed young Black people—the police killing and subsequent cover-up of the death of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald offers a high-profile example.
But just seven days after the murder of the child, popular