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City officials spent weeks disparaging Adam Toledo before releasing the body camera footage.
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The release of video showing the fatal shooting of 13-year-old Adam Toledo by a Chicago police officer sparked peaceful protests downtown and in the West Loop Thursday night.
Dozens took to the streets, protesting police and calling for justice for Adam Toledo. One group marched from Millennium Park up Michigan Avenue to the Magnificent Mile.
Nowhere has reaction to that tape been more visceral than Little Village, the working class Latino neighborhood where Toledo was born and raised.
After demanding to see the video for weeks, residents openly sobbed on the street. Some said they couldn’t bring themselves to watch.
“When I seen the video today, something inside of me died,” said Kristian Armendiaz, Little Village Community Council. “I couldn’t even bear to watch the whole video by myself. I felt like my childhood just died.”
Chicago Police are currently operating under a CPCD Consent Decree process which they have repulsed, just like the previous efforts of WCG – Chicago 2014 at the United Nations were ignored.
In early 2017, the United States Department of Justice concluded a yearlong civil rights investigation of the Chicago Police Department. The investigation confirmed what many Chicago residents already knew—that CPD has a history of serious problems endangering the lives of both residents and police officers.
The mistrust of police has completely destroyed relations between the citizens of Chicago and it’s government, which makes communities targets of state-sponsored terror and places the lives of civilians in the line of police fire for summary execution.
