Chicago Police Release Body Cam Footage of the Shooting of Adam Toledo

According to Fox news

Extremely graphic police body camera footage shows a Chicago police officer pulling up to the location in the city’s West Side on March 29 and immediately encountering two people, one of whom appears to be Toledo, running away from the area.

The officer shoves the other person to the ground and chases after another person, later identified as Toledo, who is seen running away from the crime scene wearing a baseball cap, a dark-colored hoodie and jeans.

As the camera’s audio begins to play, the officer can be heard telling the boy to “stop” and “stop right f—— now.”

Toledo then stops for a moment before he turns toward the officer, at which point the cop tells him to, “Show me your f—— hand.”

Toledo appears to have his hands up when he is shot at one time. The officer calls over the radio for an ambulance and announces, “Shots fired.”

“Look at me, look at me. You alright? Where are you shot?” the officer asks him. The cop then radios: “Shots fired by the police.”

He continues asking Toledo where he is shot and telling him to “Stay with me.” Other officers can be heard saying, “Stay with me, buddy,” “Stay awake, bud. Come on bud, stay awake,” and “Come on, big guy.”

Toledo was shot one time in the chest. Officers on-scene performed chest compressions while they waited for an ambulance to arrive. The seventh-grader could not be saved.

The police footage later shows a gun on the ground alongside a fence feet from where Toledo was shot, though it was not clear when in the video, if at any time, the teenager was holding the firearm.

Police have said officers were dispatched to the Little Village neighborhood shortly before 3 a.m. on March 29 after the department’s ShotSpotter technology detected the sound of eight gunshots. When they arrived, Toledo and a 21-year-old man ran away. While chasing the teen, there was an “armed confrontation” during which the officer shot him once in the chest.

Meanwhile, Adeena Weiss Ortiz, an attorney representing the family, said Toledo complied with police orders and called his shooting an assassination, according to CBS Chicago.

“If you’re shooting an unarmed child with his hands in the air, it is an assassination,” Ortiz said, according to the report.

Shortly before the board posted the video and other investigation materials on its website, Mayor Lori Lightfoot urged the public to remain peaceful and reserve judgment until the board can complete its investigation.

Choking up at times during a news conference, Lightfoot decried the city’s long history of police violence and misconduct, especially in Black and Brown communities, and said too many young people are left vulnerable to “systemic failures that we simply must fix.”

Lightfoot and Police Superintendent David O. Brown have previously declined to answer when asked whether the boy fired at the officer before he was shot in the chest. But the mayor strongly suggested that the teen may have been involved in gangs before that night and that a gang member gave him the gun.

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