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Authorities in Chicago released police body camera footage Thursday showing an officer shooting dead a 13-year-old Latino boy, as the mayor of America s third-largest city appealed for calm over the excruciating video.
The shocking footage shows teenager Adam Toledo running from officers in the small hours of 29 March and then being hit with a single shot to the chest as he stops and raises his hands.
Prosecutors say he was armed, although no weapon is visible in his hands in the video when he is struck.
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Tensions over racism and policing are already high in the United States as nearby Minneapolis hosts the trial of a white former policeman charged with murdering African American George Floyd in the same week that the fatal police shooting of an unarmed Black motorist sparked violent protests in a suburb of the city.
Video of fatal shooting of Chicago teenager released
KILLED BY POLICE: The release of the footage comes amid the trial over the killing of George Floyd last year, and after two men were killed in Chicago last month
The Guardian
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot urged calm as body-camera footage of the fatal shooting of Adam Toledo, 13, was released for first time on Thursday.
The footage appears to show a Chicago police officer fatally shooting Toledo on March 29 as he raised his hands.
On Thursday, Lightfoot stood alongside Latino community leaders and called for calm.
Demonstrators on Thursday hold a sign at a protest in Chicago after the city released video footage of the fatal shooting of 13-year-old Adam Toledo.
Fri, Apr 16th 2021 12:12pm
Tim Cushing
Another shooting of an unarmed person by police officers will likely see parts of Chicago burn over the next few days. But to get to where we are in the aftermath of this very disturbing shooting, we have to start at the beginning.
Adam Toledo, a 13-year-old Latino seventh grader, was shot dead in an alley by a Chicago police officer on March 29 following a foot chase. His mother had reported Adam missing. When officers came knocking on her door two days later, it was to identify his body. It wasn’t until after that that she was informed he was killed by police.
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