Protesters chanted"Hands up, don't shoot!" and"No justice, no peace!" while hoisting signs with messages such as"Justice for Adam Toledo" and"Stop Racist Police Terror!" in a march that remained peaceful as night fell.
Demonstrators protest the shooting of 13-year-old Adam Toledo, Friday, April 16, 2021, in Logan Park in Chicago. Hundreds have marched through the streets of Chicago to protest the police shooting of Adam Toledo, a day after the city released a graphic video of a police officer shooting and killing the 13-year-old Latino boy in an alley two weeks ago.
Demonstrators chanted "Hands up, don't shoot!" and "No justice, no peace!" while hoisting signs with messages such as "Justice for Adam Toledo" and "Stop Racist Police Terror!" in a march that remained peaceful as night fell. The demonstrators observed a moment of silence and expressed solidarity with the boy's relatives, who had implored protesters to remain peaceful.The nine-minute video, recorded by Eric Stillman's body camera, shows showed the 34-year-old officer chasing and shooting Toledo on March 29 at 2:30am in Little Village, a working-class neighborhood on the city's West Side with a large population of Mexican Americans.