‘No more killer cops,’ protesters shout in Chicago
Thousands of protesters have held a demonstration against police brutality in the US city of Chicago demanding police reforms after the city released body camera footage from the fatal police shooting of 13-year-old Adam Toledo.
Protestors lining the streets of the Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago on Friday evening held signs that read “Justice for Adam” and “No more killer cops,” according to videos and photos posted on social media.
Police prevented protesters from marching to Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) house nearby, according local media reports.
Police also clashed with protesters who were demonstrating peacefully.
Chicago’s Office of Police Accountability on Thursday released to the public body-camera video footage showing the 13-year-old boy being shot by a police officer last month, a video the mayor of the city said was “incredibly difficult to watch.”
The video of the fatal police shooting of Toledo was released two days after his family was shown the footage and 17 days after the shooting itself, which happened in the early morning hours of March 29 in Little Village, a Mexican neighborhood on the city’s West Side.
The teenager was shot in the chest and killed when officers, who were responding to notification of eight shots fired in the area, saw "two males in a nearby alley," the department said. The other man was arrested.
Toledo then turned around and raised his hands in a surrender pose, at which point police said they saw the boy holding a gun, though this is not immediately clear in the video.
The officer, who has since been identified as Eric Stillman, can be heard in the video telling Toledo to drop the weapon twice before shooting him in the chest.
Protesters have urged the Chicago Police Department and Lightfoot to take action in response to the shooting, calling it another instance of unwarranted use of force.
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