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Chicago, Long Riven Over Police Conduct, Reels Anew After Shooting of 13-Year-Old
Chicagoans reacted with grief to the shooting of Adam Toledo, a seventh grader. Some recalled Laquan McDonald, another teen killed by the police.
Activists gathered at a demonstration in memory of Adam Toledo in Chicago on Friday.Credit.Carlos Javier Ortiz for The New York Times
April 17, 2021, 11:43 a.m. ET
CHICAGO Another killing by a police officer. Another emotional mayor trying to soothe the city. Another burst of protests, vows for change, pleas for calm.
To Kristian Armendariz, a resident of the neighborhood where 13-year-old Adam Toledo was fatally shot in an alley in March, Chicago is living through a nightmare on repeat.
Published March 9, 2021Updated March 13, 2021
CHICAGO Maisie Robinson was so excited for her first day of kindergarten that she woke up at 2:30 a.m. to make her family breakfast.
“Unfortunately, the cereal was kind of soggy by the time we got up,” said her mother, Lindsey Post Robinson.
But that hardly dulled Maisie’s enthusiasm. She skipped to school last week in her purple coat, part of a wave of Chicago elementary school students who met their teachers and classmates in person for the first time.
A year into the coronavirus pandemic, many American students have been in their classrooms since last fall frequently off and on, as outbreaks have forced quarantines and closures. But in several large cities, students have started returning to school buildings only in the last few weeks.