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MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: 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 famil
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