Adam Toledo: Video of Police Officer Killing Latino Miner with Hands Raised Shakes Chicago | International

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot called on citizens for calm as a Chicago police video released Thursday, showing the death of 13-year-old boy Adam Toledo by the shooting. an agent. The events happened on March 29 in the Hispanic neighborhood of La Villita. Camera footage attached to the police officer’s uniform shows driving in a car, followed by a runaway chase, down an alley. At the time of the shooting, it is seen how the teenager had his hands up when he turns and faces the officer, identified as Eric Stillman, 34.

Following the incident, the police said they found a weapon at the scene and that it was the one allegedly held by the minor. the The New York Times carried out a detailed analysis of the images and a second video broadcast by the authorities. In the moments leading up to the shoot, he shows the analysis of the TimeAdam can be seen holding what appears to be a weapon, which he drops behind a wooden fence just before raising his hands.

The episode lasted for a fraction of a second, and as Lightfoot said “it was an incredibly painful tragedy.” The Civil Police Responsibility Office (COPA), in charge of investigating these types of incidents, published it among around twenty videos recorded with the cameras of the police officers deployed on the scene, as well as security in the area. zoned.

Local authorities expect possible protests and incidents on the streets of Chicago on Thursday after the footage was released, so Lightfoot called on people to “speak out peacefully.” The video, revealed after the death of young African American Daunte Wright last Sunday during a traffic stop in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, sparked a wave of protests against police violence. It also coincides with the trial, in the same state, against Derek Chauvin, one of four police officers accused of the murder of George Floyd in May 2020, which sparked a wave of racial protests across the country.

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