Lightfoot On Shooting Death Of 13-Year-Old By CPD, His Access To A Gun: 'No Evidence Whatsoever Adam Toledo Shot At The Police'
"Simply put, we failed Adam and we cannot afford to fail one more young person in our city."
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"Simply put, we failed Adam and we cannot afford to fail one more young person in our city."
Body camera video and other materials from the police shooting that killed Adam Toledo, 13, were released Thursday.
"I want to be especially clear right now that that child complied, Adam complied with the officers request, dropped the gun, turned around. The officer saw his hands were up and pulled the trigger."
The City of Chicago has not raised downtown bridges out of worries about civil unrest stemming from the release of the Adam Toledo police shooting video.
"We cannot rest, and I will not rest until all of our communities feel and experience real safety and protection."
A spokeswoman for the Cook County State's Attorney's office said Thursday that a prosecutor misspoke over the weekend in saying 13-year-old Adam Toledo had a gun in his hand when police shot and killed him.
At a news conference Thursday ahead of the release of the body cam video of the police shooting that killed 13-year-old Adam Toledo, Mayor Lori Lightfoot said she had seen "no evidence whatsoever" that Adam shot at police.
Body cam video and other materials from the police shooting that killed Adam Toledo, 13, will be released on Thursday, the Civilian Office of Police Accountability announced.
The Civilian Office of Police Accountability plans to release video of the March 29 police shooting that killed Adam Toledo, 13, on Thursday.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot declined to describe her own reaction to the video of the shooting death of 13-year-old Adam Toledo, citing the ongoing COPA investigation.
A woman was shot in the hand in broad daylight Tuesday in the Irving Park neighborhood.
Chicago Police on Monday evening said they are deploying additional resources to the downtown area and business corridors, and canceling days off for several units.
Gunmen taking aim at drivers and passengers is a growing problem in Chicago.
There was outrage in the Minneapolis area Monday following another deadly police killing.
Kayden Swann, the 21-month-old boy who was shot in a road rage incident on Lake Shore Drive downtown last week, continued to make "slow and steady progress" Monday.
Both are being investigated by the Winnebago-Boone County Integrity Task Force, which investigates police shootings in the region.
A shooting on the Eisenhower Expressway left one dead and two others injured near the Damen Avenue exit early Monday.
At least 24 people had been shot this weekend in Chicago as of Sunday afternoon, and three of them had been killed.
A woman is dead and another is injured after a shooting Saturday night in the Lawndale neighborhood.
The man who was with 13-year-old Adam Toledo when he was shot and killed by police has been charged with aggravated unlawful use of a weapon and discharge of a firearm.
One teen is dead after three people were shot in the 200 block of West 37th Street Friday night.
Police are searching for a shooter after a man was shot on the Eisenhower Expressway Friday night.
Demonstrators took over a Gold Coast intersection, demanding the city release video of police officers shooting and killing a 13-year-old boy.
The two officers – Melvina Bogard and Bernard Butler – got into the altercation at the Grand Avenue stop on the Chicago Transit Authority's Red Line after the officers tried to stop Ariel Roman from moving between train cars.
A person was taken into custody after shots were fired in a parking lot in Northbrook.
