Posted on 05/08/2021 10:59:46 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Chicago’s top prosecutor apologized Wednesday because an attorney who works under her implied in court that 13-year-old Adam Toledo was holding a gun when a police officer fatally shot him, and she acknowledged that neither she nor anyone in her office tried to clear up the matter until right before video was released showing that wasn’t actually the case.
The Cook County state’s attorney’s office came under fire after the April 15 release of body camera video showing that Toledo either dropped or tossed the gun less than a second before Officer Eric Stillman shot and killed him early on March 29. Days earlier, a prosecutor from that office implied during a hearing for the 21-year-old man who was with Toledo that morning, Ruben Roman, that Toledo was holding a gun when Stillman shot him.
“The tragedy of the death of 13-year old boy has been clouded by the confusion and frustration my office has caused and for this I apologize,” Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx said in a statement announcing the findings of an internal review of her underling’s erroneous statement in court. …
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if he tossed the gun a second before he was shot then thats the reason he was shot....duh
It’s simply astonishing how much a stickler for accuracy the gaslight media can be when the narrative demands it: he wasn’t holding the gun when he was shot, but was holding it less than a second prior, but has zero concern for accuracy when it doesn’t, e.g. first responder Brian Sicknick was killed by being struck in the head with a fire extinguisher - except that he wasn’t.
A police officer sometimes only has seconds to decide if a suspect is armed and ready too use it. If the kid had just not run away and then drop his weapon at the last second he would probably be alive today.
A police officer sometimes only has seconds to decide if a suspect is armed and ready too use it. If the kid had just not run away and then drop his weapon at the last second he would probably be alive today.
My brother-in-law spent his entire career in the Chicago juvenile justice system, working mostly with gang members arrested for violent crimes. By the time they were 13 they were already lost. Most of them would kill him just as easily as shake his hand. He didn’t believe in rehabilitation and when he retired he wanted to be as far away from other people as possible. He gardens and goes fishing, the end result of a life spent surrounded by the worst humanity has to offer.
If a social worker had been sent then..........never mind.
The ‘tragic’ lad was carrying the pistol the entire time the officer was chasing him, had been involved in a shooting which is why he was being chased in the first place, tosses the pistol in a way that the officer can’t see less than a second before he was shot and we are told he was ‘unarmed’.
The state’s attorney, the same one who perpetrated the Smollett farce, fires the attorney who ‘implied’ that the little thug Toledo might have been armed when he met his demise. The world has been turned upside down.
Argue it all you want kids, the cop shot an unarmed kid who was surrendering. I don’t get away with doing that kind of thing and neither should a cop.
The ‘tragic’ lad was carrying the pistol the entire time the officer was chasing him, had been involved in a shooting which is why he was being chased in the first place, tosses the pistol in a way that the officer can’t see less than a second before he was shot and we are told he was ‘unarmed’.
8 posted on 5/8/2021, 4:15:44 PM by hanamizu
No, that’s not what happened. Argue it all you want: the mainstream media’s lie is not the truth.
Nobody has Godlike omniscience. We all operate according to the information we have.
The information the officer had: he saw the kid was armed. He chased the kid. He did not see the kid toss the gun. The information available to him would lead any officer to think that the kid was armed and a deadly threat.
The bodycam video is not a lie.
And under the same set of circumstances and in the same jurisdiction you or I would be facing prison.
Your interpretation of it sounds like one.
Enjoy your stay on FR.
Since I am not a cop, I would not be chasing an armed criminal who was running away. Unless that armed criminal had just harmed someone I cared about, in which case my response might be similar to the cop’s.
Been here since 2004. Don’t think I’m going anywhere anytime soon.
Retread then? WWYBYWB?
Yup. My old account was linked to me in real life and that caused problems.
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