13-year-old Adam Toledo was shot dead by a Chicago police officer during a foot chase. Sky News has gone through footage released by officials to assess in detail what the videos can tell us about the moment the trigger was pulled. Read more:
Within 20 seconds of Officer Stillman getting out of his police car, 13-year-old Adam Toledo had been shot.
Audio files and documents released alongside the videos show the officer radioed colleagues to warn that the boy was holding his waistband while fleeing and that police initially documented the youth's age as between 18 and 25.It shows that Adam was not armed when he was shot, as had been initially indicated.The police released two edited videos and the independent Civilian Office of Police Accountability posted more than three hours of raw footage on its site.
The footage is too blurry to compare the shapes exactly, but it is possible to see what appears to be the same lighter colour tip on the gun. Although this could help confirm he is holding the gun at this time, we see other moments in the video where the light creates the same effect on his visibly empty left hand.
In the police's edited version, the footage zooms in and appears to show Adam's right arm moving behind the fence. Later, we see police showing a gun on the floor behind that same fence. When he pauses, his body stays largely still while his right arm draws back slightly – as seen in the frames where an object appears to be visible.This could suggest if he is holding an object he is more likely to have dropped it rather than thrown an object with force. We can then map the location of this gun on to the zoomed-in image showing Adam's arm at its most extended.
We verified the locations of the cameras which recorded any of the non-body camera videos. This included spots on a residential building and a church.
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