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In April 2021, after authorities in Chicago released video footage of the fatal police shooting of 13-year-old Adam Toledo, some observers responded in outrage, claiming that the evidence showed Mayor Lori Lightfoot had misrepresented a key fact in the case by claiming that Toledo had a gun in his hand when he was shot.
On April 15, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, an associate professor at Princeton University, tweeted that Lightfoot had “told the public Adam Toledo had a gun in his hand.” Similarly, Alex Sammon, a reporter at the American Prospect, wrote:
Lori Lightfoot told the city of Chicago and the entire country that Adam Toledo was holding a gun in his hand when he was murdered by the cops. She saw that same video we all saw. She must resign immediately or be removed from office.
Video of Adam Toledo fatal shooting by Chicago police to be released Thursday
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Two boys hold signs at an April 6 news conference, days after a Chicago police officer fatally shot 13-year-old Adam Toledo. Shafkat Anowar/AP
Chicago has released video footage showing the fatal police shooting of Adam Toledo, more than two weeks after the 13-year-old was killed during a foot chase in the Little Village neighborhood.
A graphic and disturbing video captures what police have described as an alleyway confrontation between Toledo and an officer identified as Eric Stillman in the early morning of March 29.
In the footage recorded from the shooting officer s body-worn camera, the officer appears behind the wheel of a squad car responding to a call of shots fired. About 1 minute and 44 seconds in, the officer pulls over, jumps out of the vehicle and starts running after someone. Seconds later, he appears to slam into a person walking in the alley but continues his pursuit. (Th
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A police watchdog agency Thursday released a video showing a Chicago police officer shooting 13-year-old Adam Toledo, whose seemingly empty hands were raised but who appeared to have a gun in his hand just a moment earlier.
The officer who shot Adam was wearing a body camera that shows him chasing the teen down an alley in Little Village at about 2:38 a.m. on March 29. The officer orders him to stop and show his hands.
A slow-motion version of the video from that body camera shows Adam standing sideways in a large gap in a wooden fence with what looks like a gun in one of his hands behind his back. The officer is on the other side of the alley. He yells, “Drop it!”