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2021-04-17 -Lurid Crime Tales-

If You Care About the Tragic Death of Adam Toledo, You Can Care About the 28 People Shot in Chicago Last Weekend

[PJ] Thirteen-year-old Adam Toledo didn’t deserve to die. He didn’t deserve to die for violating curfew. He didn’t deserve to die for unlawfully discharging a weapon. He didn’t deserve to die for being in possession of a handgun. He didn’t deserve to die because he was a black kid in a high-crime area. He didn’t deserve to die for running away when police ordered him to stop. He didn’t even deserve to die for having a gun in his hand and running away from the police. Police are trained to handle situations like this without killing someone.

None of those offenses carry a death sentence in a court of law. He didn’t deserve to die.

The circumstances of young Toledo’s death have already been mythologized and memorialized by bodycam footage, which the the Civilian Office of Police Accountability (COPA) released on Thursday. It is very difficult to watch.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-04-17 00:29|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 Drawing a gun when police are trying to arrest you tends to be fatal.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2021-04-17 02:35|| 2021-04-17 02:35|| Front Page Top

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-04-17 04:56|| 2021-04-17 04:56|| Front Page Top

#3 "The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of more than one is a statistic." I doubt I'll go down in history for writing this.

Posted by Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 2021-04-17 11:11|| 2021-04-17 11:11|| Front Page Top

#4 Toledo was Hispanic not Black,Try a little research first, huh?
All he had to was obey the officers commands.

Posted by Pheretch Uleregum5328 2021-04-17 12:20|| 2021-04-17 12:20|| Front Page Top

#5 Sorry, no.

Posted by Skidmark 2021-04-17 15:14|| 2021-04-17 15:14|| Front Page Top

#6 Young Master Toledo was Mexican-American, according to Wikipedia, the events took place in the Little Village neighbourhood, known locally as Mexico in the Midwest, and the 21 year old Toledo was with at 2:30 in the morning had been shooting at passing cars when the police were called. Possibly of interest, the Latin Kings gang received orders to shoot at unmarked police cars two days after Toledo was killed, reinforcing to me the idea that he was one of theirs rather than an innocent bystander.

According to Fox News, “ Lightfoot said earlier this month she instructed Chicago Police Department officials "to use every resource to track down the origins of this gun – through tracing, fingerprinting and DNA and any other means – and to find the person responsible for giving it to Adam,"” which certainly implies she believes the police when they said Toledo had a gun when he was shot.

Posted by trailing wife 2021-04-17 16:07|| 2021-04-17 16:07|| Front Page Top

#7 which certainly implies

It wasn't a drop.

Posted by Skidmark 2021-04-17 17:26|| 2021-04-17 17:26|| Front Page Top

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