The gathering, advertised widely on social media, was the first major demonstration against the Chicago Police Department since the city released the troubling video of Toledo’s killing Thursday.
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Adam Toledo did everything the officer told him to do, but it couldn’t save him, Dahleen Glanton writes.
Adam Toledo was a kid and a Chicago cop shot him to death while his hands were up. There aren’t two sides to this story. It’s simply unacceptable.
Former Chicago police superintendent Eddie Johnson said the officer who shot Adam Toledo was following his training.
The author, who grew up on the South Side and in Evanston, traveled around the country to understand how race infuses questions of “belonging, competition and status,” and how restrictive policies aimed at Black people can also hurt white people.
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I am a 50-year-old woman who was adopted as an infant.
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