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In Chicago, residents are still reeling from the release of a video yesterday that shows a 13-year-old boy with his hands above his head seconds before a police officer shot and killed him. Adam Toledo lived in the city's Little Village community, where many of the residents are Latino, like Toledo. As WBEZ's Maria Ines Zamudio reports, unlike the universal call for police accountability after many police shootings, the storyline is a little different in Little Village.
MARIA INES ZAMUDIO, BYLINE: The two young women are sitting in the alley where 13-year-old Adam Toledo was shot and killed last month. They quietly comfort each other after viewing the video of Toledo being shot following a foot chase with police at 2:30 in the morning on March 29. A few feet away, there's a shrine for the seventh-grader, and in the middle, a white candle with a message saying, I'm so sorry for you and your family. I'm so sorry you had to be a martyr. I promise to fight hard for you. Adam's mother said her son had been missing for two days when police showed up at her door.