Chicago mayor urges new police foot-chase policy after boy shot and killed

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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Monday called for the city to create a new foot-pursuit policy after a police officer shot and killed an 13-year-old boy during a foot chase in an alley a week ago.

FILE PHOTO: Chicago's Mayor Lori Lightfoot speaks during a science initiative event at the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. July 23, 2020. REUTERS/Kamil Krzaczynski/File Photo

Police said Toledo was armed with a handgun. Officers were chasing him and another man after they received notification of shots fired in the area, the department said. As communities nationwide face a reckoning over police violence, the incident has renewed calls for police reforms in the third largest U.S. city. Chicago police have been under intensify scrutiny since 2014 when a white officer shot and killed a Black teenager. He was later convicted of second-degree murder.

Video of the last Monday’s incident has not been made public. The city’s Civilian Office of Police Accountability , which is investigating, said it is required to release police body camera video within the 60 days of the incident. The agency described it as “troubling video footage” in a statement.

 

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Simple reduce arrests .. Let it happen ,, who needs the hassle.

Aren’t there people dying daily in chicago from gun violence? Mostly black on black

What's there to change in the policy? They killed an armed criminal, there's nothing wrong with that happening.

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If I had a face like Betelgeuse, people would be running away from me too! I wish we could summon her back into the dark mirror that she came from! The only policies she is capable of making, are bad ones!

What the hell are the cops supposed to do? 2:30 am, it’s dark out, reports of shots fired, people running, not listening to the police. Damned if they do and damned if they don’t.

Let's discuss the fact the 13.yeat old was out at 230am with a handgun first.

This is a racist policy from a racist, FASCIST, mayor who promotes capitalism and refuses to sieze the means of production. Everyone knows hitler was a devout capitalist, therefore all capitalist sympathizers are also nazi sympathizers.

We need something to work. Maybe use drones to do the chasing and de-escalate. If perp shoots at drone, all bets off

Whats up with her body hair situation?

Let me guess. New policy no chasing

A 13yo out at 2:30am with a handgun! What could go wrong? 🤷‍♀️

It's a crime! Either you jail such criminals forever and they never leave prisons, or they will respond and the USA Authorities will suffer from ping pong game (War of Gangs)! Criminals should be neutralised to stop recidivism!

Why is she or he it ? still there in that position? Poor Chicago. He or she or ? did such a wacked up job last year. Please. Not more blah blah 😉 Lol Insanity never ends? Wow.

Let me guess, young white kid! Didn’t read it.

Chicago PD needs to have a wave of Blue Flu & just stop showing up. Let them all battle it out on the streets & hope no innocents get in the way

If we say beetlejuice 3 times will She resign?

Police Departments are woeful. Time to start requiring Bachelor's degree to weed out the lowest common denominators.

Amazing she still holds office. Amazing.

Where can you go for fun in your city?

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