The group also will call on Mayor Lori Lightfoot to accelerate court-supervised changes to policing in Chicago, end foot pursuits by officers, and to invest federal COVID-19 relief dollars to help young people in the neighbourhood where Adam Toledo lived and died.
Stillman is white and Adam was Latino. The video prompted grief and demonstrations in Chicago, a city with a long history of police misconduct and distrust between police and the community, especially among Black and Latino residents. It also came against the backdrop of a trial in Minneapolis for the former police officer, Derek Chauvin, who killed George Floyd and of another killing of a black man by a white officer in a Minneapolis suburb.
Chicago agreed to hundreds of changes in policing under a consent decree approved by a federal judge in 2019 after a Justice Department investigation found a record of racism and abuse by Chicago police, going back decades. The investigation was prompted by the 2014 killing of Laquan McDonald, a black 16-year-old, by a white officer. Jason VanDyke was later convicted of murder for shooting the teen 16 times, video of which the city fought to suppress.
Maybe the 'Latino groups' involved should have an internal conversation about the cultural values they possess that make them think it is in any way acceptable for a 12 year old 'hood thug CHILD to be running around with a gun at 2:30 in the morning.
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