The images from the body camera of a police officer Chicago show the precise moment that a child under 13 dies last month after the officer yells “Let it go!” the teenager just before he opens fire.

A still image taken from the night images seems to show that the smallest Adam Toledo he was holding nothing and had his hands raised, or partially, when the officer shot him in the chest. Police say the teenager had a gun.

The images show that 19 seconds passed from when the officer got out of his patrol until he shot the teenager. After exiting the vehicle, the officer chases Toledo walk down an alley for several seconds and yell “Police! Stop! Stop now (expletive)! ”.

As the teen slows down, the officer yells “Hands! Hands! Show me your (expletives) hands! ”

Toledo then he turns to the camera, the officer yells “Drop it!” and halfway between repeating that order, he opens fire and the teenager falls. As he approaches Toledo wounded, the officer radioed an ambulance.

He can be heard imploring the boy to “stay awake,” and when other officers arrive, the officer who apparently shot says he cannot feel his heartbeat and begins CPR. Other officers can be heard imploring Toledo to stay awake.

THIS VIDEO MAY INJURY SUCEPTIBILITIES

Before the video and other investigative materials were posted on the website of the Civil Police Responsibility Office, Mayor Lori Lightfoot held a press conference during which she urged the public to remain in peace and reserve trial until the independent board can complete its investigation.

Drowning at times, Lightfoot condemned the city’s long history of police violence and misconduct, especially in minority communities, and said that too many young people are left vulnerable to “systemic failures that we simply have to fix.”

“We live in a city that is traumatized by a long history of police violence and misconduct.”said the mayor. “So while we don’t have enough information to be the judge and jury for this particular situation, it’s certainly understandable why so many of our residents feel that all-too-familiar wave of outrage and pain. It is even clearer that the trust between our community and the forces of order is far from being healed and remains very broken “.

Lightfoot described viewing the images as “excruciating.”

“As a mom, this is not something you want children to see”, added. She declined to say whether the footage showed the teen was holding a gun when he was shot, but she did qualify a prosecutor’s claim at a recent hearing that Toledo he had a gun when he was shot “correct”.

In addition to publishing the images from the body camera of the officer who shot Toledo, the review board released footage from other body cameras, four third-party videos, two audio recordings of 911 calls, and six audio recordings from ShotSpotter, which is the technology that alerted police to gunfire in the area and that led to officers to respond.

The release comes in the wake of the Daunte Wright traffic shooting by an officer in a Minneapolis suburb that has sparked protests as the wider Minneapolis area nervously awaits the outcome of Derek Chauvin’s trial in the death of George Floyd.

On ChicagoPolice said officers responded to an area of ​​the predominantly Black and Latino neighborhood of La Villita on the city’s West Side before dawn the morning of the shooting after a police tech detected gunfire there. The teenager, who was Latino, and a 21-year-old man fled on foot when confronted by police, and was shot once in the chest by an officer following a foot chase during what the department described as an armed confrontation.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot analyzes videos of 13-year-old Adam Toledo, who was shot and killed by a Chicago police officer, during a press conference at City Hall, Thursday, April 15, 2021. Lightfoot urged the public to stay in peace and reserve your judgment. until an independent board can complete its investigation into the Toledo police shooting last month. (Ashlee Rezin García / Chicago Sun-Times via Globe Live Media)

Police said a pistol the boy was carrying was recovered at the scene. The 21-year-old man was arrested for a misdemeanor offense of resisting arrest.

The review board initially said it could not release the video because it involved the shooting of a minor, but changed course after the mayor and police superintendent requested the release of the video.

The images of the shooting in Toledo had been widely anticipated in the city, where the posting of some earlier police shooting videos sparked large protests, including the 2015 release of images of a white officer shooting black teenager Laquan McDonald 16 times and killing him.

Before the release of the video, some businesses in the “Magnificent Mile” business district of downtown Chicago they boarded their windows. Lightfoot said the city has been preparing for months for a verdict in Chauvin’s trial and that it had activated a “neighborhood protection plan.”

“It happens now that these circumstances are together”, He said.

Meanwhile the family Toledo issued a statement urging people to “remain in peace.”

“We have heard reports in the media that more protests are planned today, and although we have no direct knowledge of such events, we pray that for the sake of our city, people will remain in peace to honor Adam’s memory and work constructively to promote reform “said the family, who planned to hold a press conference Thursday afternoon.

Before the video was released, Lightfoot and attorneys for the family and city said in a joint statement that they agreed that, in addition to posting the video, all investigative materials must be made public, including a slowed down compilation of what happened. that morning. .

“We recognize that the publication of this video is the first step in the process towards the healing of the family, the community and our city.”the joint statement reads. “We understand that posting this video will be incredibly painful and will elicit an emotional response from all who view it, and we ask that people express themselves peacefully.”

The Police Department of Chicago It has a long history of brutality and racism that has fostered mistrust among the city’s many black and Hispanic residents. Added to this mistrust is the city’s history of suppressing convicting police videos.

The city fought for months to prevent the public from seeing the 2014 video of a white officer shooting McDonald 16 times and killing him. The officer was eventually found guilty of murder. And the city tried to prevent a television news station from broadcasting a video of a failed police raid in 2019 in which an innocent and naked black woman was not allowed to put on clothes until after being handcuffed.

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