The officers involved in two highly polarizing fatal shootings in Chicago – the killings of 13-year-old Adam Toledo and 22-year-old Anthony Alvarez – will not face charges, Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx announced Tuesday
Body camera footage of Toledo's shooting showed the teen running from a Chicago police officer down a Little Village alley on March 29. Toledo starts to turn toward the officer, and is in the process of putting his hands up when the officer fires his weapon once, striking the teen in the chest.
Foxx cited during her press conference that case law"recognizes that police officers are often forced to make split second decisions and judgements in circumstances that are tense, uncertain and rapidly evolving." "Based on the facts, the evidence and the law, we've concluded that there was no evidence to prove that Officer [Eric] Stillman acted with criminal intent," she added."Officer Stillman fired only one shot."
A fleeing Alvarez collapsed onto the front sidewalk of a home on the 5200 block of West Eddy Street. Footage captured by Solano’s body camera shows a gun in Alvarez’s right hand but never shows Alvarez pointing the gun toward officers. Chicago’s police oversight agency released video Wednesday showing an officer fatally shooting Anthony Alvarez in the Portage Park neighborhood last month. Lauren Petty reports.
She added that she has"deep, deep concerns about the foot pursuit policy in both of these cases but, in particular, what happened with Mr. Alvarez."
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