"The shooting of Adam Toledo is more controversial and nuanced. The thirteen-year-old - whose gang nickname was apparently "L'il Homicide - had fired a gun that he was still holding when the police confronted him and his twenty one-year-old accomplice in a dark alley. Toledo threw his gun behind a fence, but it is unclear whether Officer Stillman knew he was no longer armed when he pulled the trigger less than a second after Toledo threw his gun behind the fence, out of the view of the officer."
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Adam Toledo
Adam Toledo (May 26, 2007 – March 29, 2021) was a Mexican American boy who was killed during a police foot chase, after being shot with his hands raised. Chicago police officer Eric Stillman was not charged for Toledo's death. A series of protests against police brutality developed across Chicago and around the United States.
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