And days later, Chicago police released body camera footage of a 13-year-old boy named Adam Toledo being shot in a dark alleyway on March 29 in Chicago. Police said the boy was seen holding a handgun at the end of a foot chase, though in the split second before he was shot, according to the footage, his right arm disappeared behind the fence just before he began to raise both hands.
The relationship between race and criminal justice dates to America’s early history, traced through Jim Crow and the civil rights era, and through the violent assault on Rodney King in Los Angeles in 1991, the…
