them, adam toledo of chicago, his killing caught on camera. he was shot by police despite his hands being in the air. he would have turned 14 last week. joining me, nicole gonzalez van cleave, professor at brown university. and carmen perez, we may have you too. i promise to come to you, fantastic. nicole, in chicago police kill latinos at almost seven times the rate of whites. they are racialized as well. for some in the latino community, there was a discrepancy. people were blaming adam toledo s family, but they weren t blaming the chicago police for the shooting. and so i think there is latino racism. and it is adjacent to black racism and it is just as deadly and is just as violent. i want to talk a little bit
more about that. but carmen, your nonprofit is hosting a rally honoring a 22-year-old killed by police last year in california. your sense of what accountability would look like in that case like this? certainly. we think accountability first of all, justice is unique to every family, so justice is really pertaining to to what the family needs are. but accountability would be the officer and all the officers responsible for his killing prosecuted as well as fired. and i think that happens especially because we feel that many police officers get away with murder. one thing that we don t want to see is this officer being let go, especially when the family has been pushing every single day fighting since june 2nd of 2020 to get justice for their brother. nicole, you and carmen are deep in this work, so the numbers i read you from the
daly. you don t think it s going to be any better now? you know, right now people are very angry, and the trust is breached, and, you know, the idea of crook county doesn t just paint with a broad brush the entire system, but when the public has lost confidence in its leaders, right, they need to be taken seriously. their voices need to be taken seriously. anita alvarez is still saying right now that she has done nothing wrong and she s adamant about that. she is saying that to chicago magazine, i have done nothing wrong. her website says she protects victims, but what happens when the victim is quote, unquote, an unattractive victim, someone like laquan mcdonald, where it s uncertain where he was violent or did have mental illness. he still deserved to have justice in that case. anita alvarez cannot pick and choose. nicole, i have to leave it there, i appreciate you coming on. thank you very much. thank you for having me. coming up next, to politics,
you just heard rosa flores report on the allegations of the chicago police falsifying some witness accounts in the shooting death of 17-year-old african-american laquan mcdonald. the police officer who fired 16 bullets and killed mcdonald has pleaded not guilty to a first-degree murder charge. let s talk more about this with temple university assistant professor of criminal justice nicole gonzalez van cleave is with us, she wrote the book crook county, she used to work herself in the cook county prosecutor s office. thank you for being with me. thank you so much for having me. to be clear, this is coming from the attorneys for the victim and the family saying that, look, some of these witnesses that saw the shooting
since the november release of a videotape of the 2014 lequan mcdonald shooting. chicago police officer jason van dyke pleaded not guilty tuesday to murder and misconduct charges in the shooting of the teenager. nicole gonzalez van cleave, assistant professor of criminal justice at temple university joining me now from will philadelphia. she s also author of crook county racism and injustice in america s criminal courts. nicole, appreciate you being here. you ve spent years studying the criminal justice system in cook county, chicago. is anything we seeing from the rash of violence to the incidence we re seeing with police surprise you based on what you ve found in your studies in. you know, i ve been studying cook county, chicago, since 1997. we think of the violence erupting over the holiday weekend. we have to think about the fact that the violence is thriving in areas that are both socially and