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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According to ABC7, while Jefferson, the third president of the US (1801-09), owned slaves and Webster, a former senator, also supported slavery, and there was an effort to erase their names from the schoolsâ history. Committees to rename the institutes were formed and they included people from the community, among students and staff members.
Former US president Thomas Jefferson (Getty Images)
But the new names also faced objections. While the names of Obama, the first Black US president (2009-17), and Michelle were among the top three choices for Thomas Jefferson Middle Schoolâs new name, a large part of the Latinx population was not okay with it. District 60 school board member Edgar Castellanos was quoted by ABC7 as saying: âI will not be part of renaming a school after someone who did not and does not represent the undocumented community.â According to Castellanos, he came to the US undocumented as a child.