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EPIC Video: Rep. Jim Jordan Demands Answers From Fauci – Is Told ‘Shut Your Mouth’ By Dem Waters

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During a House subcommittee hearing Thursday, Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio demanded answers from White House medical advisor Anthony Fauci to basic questions about COVID restrictions, but was told he was ‘making the matter personal’, that he was ‘ranting’, and to ‘shut his mouth’.
Jordan charged Fauci of flip flopping on restrictions such as masks and distancing, and demanded to know exactly when the mitigation measures would be put to bed.
“15 days to slow the spread turned into 1 year of lost liberty,” Jordan urged,  adding “What metrics, what measures, what has to happen before Americans get more freedoms back?”
Fauci responded “I don’t look at this as a liberty thing, Congressman Jordan. I look at this as a public health thing.”
Jordan interjected “well that’s obvious”, after having asserted that Americans’ liberties have been “assaulted” during the past year.
“Do you think that the Constitution is suspended during a virus, during a pandemic? It’s certainly not,” Jordan emphasised.
As Fauci spluttered that “this will end when infections are low,” Jordan again declared “Dr Fauci, over the past year Americans’ First Amendment rights have been completely attacked.”
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Rep. Jordan (R-OH) demands Dr. Fauci give him a date for the end of COVID mitigation measures:
“15 days to slow the spread turned into 1 year of lost liberty.”
Fauci says: “I don’t look at this as a liberty thing, Congressman Jordan. I look at this as a public health thing.” <a href="https://t.co/Pgv2mEySeo">pic.twitter.com/Pgv2mEySeo</a>
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When Fauci failed to give any time frame for the end of restrictions, Jordan asked “give us your best guess then”, to which Fauci responded “I just did”.
“Are we gonna be here two years from now wearing masks?” Jordan asked, to which Fauci arrogantly responded “You’re ranting again.”
“Here’s how it works, Dr. Fauci. I get to ask you the questions,” Jordan fired back, adding “You’re the highest paid official in the United States government, you’ve given us your opinion on baseball, on dating apps, on cruise ships, you told us zero masks, one mask, two masks, now back to one mask, I’m just asking you when is it gonna end?”
“You call it ranting, I call it standing up for the Constitution, which I take an oath to uphold,” Jordan passionately proclaimed.
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Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH): “Are we gonna be here two years from now wearing masks …?”
Dr. Fauci: “You’re ranting again.”
Rep. Jordan: “Here’s how it works, Dr. Fauci. I get to ask you the questions.” <a href="https://t.co/7ufdQ65zG8">pic.twitter.com/7ufdQ65zG8</a>
— The Recount (@therecount) <a href="https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1382738615990620163?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 15, 2021</a>
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Fauci also told Jordan, “You’re making this a personal thing and it isn’t.”
“It’s not a personal thing,” Jordan shot back. 
“No, you are,” Fauci whined, adding “That is exactly what you’re doing.”
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“You’re making this a personal thing, and it isn’t … my recommendations are not a personal recommendation. It is based on the CDC guidance … we’re not talking about liberties. We’re talking about a pandemic that has killed 560,000 Americans” — Fauci to Jim Jordan <a href="https://t.co/Q0TzaaGlAG">pic.twitter.com/Q0TzaaGlAG</a>
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) <a href="https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1382744943614132230?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 15, 2021</a>
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When Jordan attempted to continue questioning Fauci beyond his allowed time, Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters yelled from across the room “You need to respect the chair and shut your mouth.”
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Jordan’s fiery in your face approach is certainly visually effective, but Americans still don’t have any answers from Fauci to basic questions about restrictions. Indeed, <a href="https://summit.news/2021/04/15/tucker-carlson-responds-to-fauci-labelling-his-basic-questions-crazy-conspiracy-theory/">as he told CNN</a>, he believes any such questions are part of “crazy conspiracy theory”.
 
 
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8 Dead In Shooting At FedEx Unit In Indianapolis, US: Police

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At least eight people were killed in a shooting in the US city of Indianapolis by a gunman who is believed to have then killed himself, police said.
The victims were all found at a Fedex facility near the international airport where the shooting took place late Thursday, police spokeswoman Genae Cook told a news conference, adding several others had been taken to hospital.
One man who said he works at the plant told local broadcaster WISH-TV he saw the gunman start shooting and heard more than 10 gunshots.
"I saw a man with a sub-machine gun of some sort, an automatic rifle, and he was firing in the open. I immediately ducked down and got scared," Jeremiah Miller said.
Cook told reporters officers had responded to an "active shooter incident," adding they believe the gunman died by suicide.
She said authorities judged there was no longer an immediate threat to public safety.
A Fedex spokesperson confirmed to AFP that its facility was the scene of the shooting, and said the company was cooperating with authorities.
"We are aware of the tragic shooting at our ground facility near the Indianapolis airport," the company said in a statement.
"Safety is our top priority, and our thoughts are with all those who are affected."
The facility for the delivery company is reported to employ more than 4,000 people.
Timothy Boillat, another employee at the facility, told WISH-TV that he saw around 30 police cars arriving at the scene as he witnessed the shooting unfold.
"After hearing the shootings, I did see a body on the floor," he said.
"Luckily, I was far enough away to where he [the shooter] didn't see me."
Spate of shootings
Live video showed police tape at the scene of the incident, which follows several mass shootings in recent weeks.
At the end of last month, four people, including a child, were shot dead in an office building in southern California.
On March 22, 10 people were killed in a shooting at a grocery store in Boulder, Colorado.
That came less than a week after a man shot and killed eight people, including six women of Asian descent, at spas in Atlanta, Georgia.
Nearly 40,000 people in the United States die each year from guns, more than half of those being suicides.
The issue of gun regulation in the United States is politically fraught.
President Joe Biden this month announced six executive measures he said would help stem the gun violence crisis.
"It's an international embarrassment," Biden told Congress members and gun control activists at a White House ceremony.
"Enough prayers," the Democrat said. "Time for some action."
The move was immediately attacked by Republicans, with the party's senior leader in the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, warning of "unconstitutional overreach."
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"Need To Do Better Job For Employees": Jeff Bezos In Last Letter As CEO

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US tech giant Amazon on Thursday sounded conciliatory notes as the US government considers stricter regulatory measures against America's largest digital platforms.
Founder Jeff Bezos told investors his e-commerce empire needs a better "vision" for its workers, just days after an effort to create the company's first labor union was defeated.
Some Amazon executives had fired off snappy comments at various politicians who supported the labor campaign, but their chief executive took a more circumspect approach to the anti-union victory at its plant in Bessemer, Alabama.
"Does your chair take comfort in the outcome of the recent union vote in Bessemer?" Bezos asked rhetorically in an annual letter to shareholders.
"No, he doesn't. I think we need to do a better job for our employees."
In the letter, which was his final before stepping down as chief executive, Bezos laid out a new goal for the company to be "Earth's best employer and Earth's safest place to work."
"Despite what we've accomplished, it's clear to me that we need a better vision for our employees' success," Bezos said.
The vote count in the contentious unionization drive at the warehouse in the southern state of Alabama last week showed a wide majority of workers rejecting the move.
"Bezos's admission today demonstrates that what we have been saying about workplace conditions is correct," said Stuart Appelbaum, president of the union that vied to represent Amazon workers.
"But his admission won't change anything, workers need a union -- not just another Amazon public relations effort in damage control."
Bezos rejected news reports that he said unfairly portray Amazon workers as "desperate souls and treated as robots."
"That's not accurate," Bezos said.
"They're sophisticated and thoughtful people who have options for where to work."
Unions and political leaders have argued that Amazon employees face constant pressure and monitoring, with little job protection, highlighting the need for collective bargaining.
Amazon has held firm that most of its workers don't want or need a union and that the company already provides more than most other employers, with a minimum $15 hourly wage and other benefits.
Tax boost backed
Bezos had already shown deference to political momentum, announcing support for an increase in corporate taxes sought by US President Joe Biden to help finance a $2 trillion infrastructure plan.
Bezos embraced the move just days after Biden singled out Amazon for avoiding federal income taxes while proposing to boost the corporate tax rate to 28 percent.
"We support the Biden administration's focus on making bold investments in American infrastructure," Bezos said.
"We recognize this investment will require concessions from all sides -- both on the specifics of what's included as well as how it gets paid for (we're supportive of a rise in the corporate tax rate)."
Amazon has been the target of critics for years who claim it pays little or no corporate taxes. The company has defended its policies, saying that its investments offset taxes as intended by the tax code.
Last month, Biden cited a 2019 study showing 91 Fortune 500 companies, "the biggest companies in the world, including Amazon... pay not a single, solitary penny of federal income tax," adding, "that is just wrong."
Bezos's support for raising corporate taxes was echoed Thursday by the Chamber of Progress, a self-described "center-left" tech industry coalition whose roster of members includes Amazon, Facebook, Google and Twitter.
"Many tech industry leaders view corporate taxes as a patriotic duty and a wise investment in a well-functioning society," chamber chief Adam Kovacevich said in message posted online.
"President Biden's proposal to raise corporate tax rates to make major investments in infrastructure is a tradeoff that many in the tech industry can support."
Meanwhile, political will to regulate internet giants whose power has grown dramatically during the pandemic has seemed to increase.
US House Antitrust Subcommittee Chairman David Cicilline said Thursday that a 16-month investigation makes it clear that Congress must act.
"Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook each hold monopoly power over significant sectors of our economy," Cicilline said in a statement.
"This monopoly moment must end."
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"China Poses Biggest Geopolitical Test For US In 21st Century": CIA Chief

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China poses the single biggest geopolitical test for the US in the 21st century, CIA Director William Burns has said, stressing that this threat is more serious than those from Russia during the Cold War.
Burns made the remarks to members of the House Select Committee on Intelligence during a Congressional hearing on worldwide threats on Thursday.
"I think China poses the single biggest geopolitical test for the United States as far out into the 21st century as I can see," Burns said.
"What distinguishes that challenge from an increasingly adversarial Chinese Communist Party from, for example, the challenge we faced with the Soviet Union during the Cold War, is that this challenge unfolds across a whole range of areas from military to ideological in terms of our values, economic and especially at its core competition and technology as well," Burns said.
The US and China are at odds over a range of issues from trade to human rights in Tibet, Hong Kong and China's western Xinjiang region, as well as over Taiwan, Beijing's assertiveness in the South China Sea and the coronavirus pandemic.
Responding to a question from Senator Peter Welch, Burns said that certainly, there are going to be some areas where it's in their mutual self-interest to work together. Climate change and nuclear nonproliferation are a few of those areas.
But there are an increasing and growing number of areas in which China poses a real challenge, he said.
During the hearing Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi, the only Indian-American in the House Intelligence Committee, said China possesses substantial cyber-attack capabilities that have been identified with localised infrastructure disruptions in different countries, for instance, following the clashes between China and India on the Line of Actual Control.
"Recently, in the fall, there was a temporary blackout in Mumbai that folks may have associated with Chinese-based entities. Can you guarantee to us that the Chinese government cannot do to any city here what they may have done in other places on the earth?" he asked.
Congressman Adam Schiff, Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said that China and Russia have different capabilities and intentions, but both seek to challenge and disrupt and supplant the liberal democratic order built by the United States.
"We face challenges from these two nations across all domains, some of them very immediate, with Russia mobilising its forces along the border with Ukraine and China taking aggressive actions towards Taiwan. And we must confront persistent threats from nations like North Korea and Iran," he said.
An executive order issued by President Joe Biden this morning makes clear that the United States will no longer sit on its hands in the face of Russian aggression, Schiff said.
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FBI Wanted To Unlock US Shooter's iPhone. It Turned To A Little-Known Firm

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The iPhone used by a terrorist in the San Bernardino, Calif., shooting was unlocked by a small Australian hacking firm in 2016, ending a momentous standoff between the U.S. government and the tech titan Apple.
Azimuth Security, a publicity-shy company that says it sells its cyber wares only to democratic governments, secretly crafted the solution the FBI used to gain access to the device, according to several people familiar with the matter. The iPhone was used by one of two shooters whose December 2015 attack left more than a dozen people dead.
The identity of the hacking firm has remained a closely guarded secret for five years. Even Apple didn't know which vendor the FBI used, according to company spokesman Todd Wilder. But without realizing it, Apple's attorneys came close last year to learning of Azimuth's role - through a different court case, one that has nothing to do with unlocking a terrorist's device.
Five years ago, Apple and the FBI both cast the struggle over the iPhone as a moral battle. The FBI believed Apple should help it obtain information to investigate the terrorist attack. Apple believed that creating a back door into the phone would weaken security and could be used by malicious actors. The FBI sought a court order to compel Apple to help the government. Weeks later, the FBI backed down after it had found an outside group that had a solution to gain access to the phone.
The tale of the unlocking of the terrorist's iPhone, reconstructed through Washington Post interviews with several people close to the situation, shines a light on a hidden world of bug hunters and their often-fraught relationship with the creator of the devices whose flaws they uncover. Azimuth is a poster child for "white hat" hacking, experts say, which is good-guy cybersecurity research that aims to disclose flaws and disavows authoritarian governments.
Two Azimuth hackers teamed up to break into the San Bernardino iPhone, according to the people familiar with the matter, who like others quoted in this article, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters. Founder Mark Dowd, 41, is an Australian coder who runs marathons and who, one colleague said, "can pretty much look at a computer and break into it." One of his researchers was David Wang, who first set hands on a keyboard at age 8, dropped out of Yale, and by 27 had won a prestigious Pwnie Award - an Oscar for hackers - for "jailbreaking" or removing the software restrictions of an iPhone.
Apple has a tense relationship with security research firms because it wants them to disclose all vulnerabilities to Apple - helping preserve its reputation as having secure devices - rather than sell them to law enforcement, according to Apple executives who testified in the court case. But by unlocking the terrorist's iPhone, some say, Azimuth came to Apple's rescue by ending a case that could have led to a court-ordered back door to the iPhone.
"This is the best possible thing that could have happened," said Will Strafach, an iOS security researcher. The vendor that unlocked the phone, far from being unethical, potentially averted "a very bad precedent" for Apple "where everyone's phone would have weakened security."
Wilder said Apple supports "good faith" security research. "Our engineers work closely with the security community in numerous ways," he said.
When contacted by The Post, the FBI, Azimuth, Wang and Dowd declined to provide a comment for this story.
In September, 2015, Apple released its new operating system, iOS 9, which it billed as having enhanced security to "protect customer data." The new iOS was running on the iPhone 5C used by Syed Rizwan Farook, a public health inspector for San Bernardino County.
The FBI suspected the iPhone 5C might have valuable clues about why Farook and Tashfeen Malik opened fire on a holiday party at Farook's office. Both Farook and Malik were killed in a shootout with police.
Before the attack, Malik had posted a message on her Facebook page, pledging loyalty to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State. (Baghdadi died in a U.S. Special Forces raid in Syria in 2019.) The FBI had few leads on whether the couple had accomplices or whether it was directed by the Islamic State, which was directing similar attacks around the world at the time. The FBI thought the contents of Farook's iPhone 5C might provide useful information, such as who he had been communicating with in the lead-up to the attack.
But the phone, which belonged to Farook's employer, was locked with Apple's new security. In the past, the FBI could use software to quickly guess every possible combination of numbers for the four-digit passcode, a "brute force" effort that would normally take about 25 minutes. But the 5C included a feature that erased itself if the wrong password was entered more than 10 times.
Months of effort to find a way to unlock the phone were unsuccessful. But Justice Department and FBI leaders, including Director James Comey, believed Apple could help and should be legally compelled to try. And Justice Department officials felt this case - in which a dead terrorist's phone might have clues to prevent another attack - provided the most compelling grounds to date to win a favorable court precedent.
In February 2016, the Justice Department obtained a court order directing Apple to write software to bypass the security feature. Apple said it would fight the order. Its argument: the government was seeking to force the company to break its own security, which could pose a threat to customer privacy.
"The U.S. government has asked us for something we simply do not have, and something we consider too dangerous to create," Apple CEO Tim Cook wrote in a statement at the time. "The government could extend this breach of privacy and demand that Apple build surveillance software to intercept your messages, access your health records or financial data, track your location, or even access your phone's microphone or camera without your knowledge."
All sophisticated software contains "bugs" or flaws that cause computer programs to act in unexpected ways. Not all bugs are significant, and on their own they don't pose a securityrisk. But hackers can seek to take advantage of certain bugs by writing programs called exploits. Sometimes they combine a series into an "exploit chain" that can knock down the defenses of a device like the iPhone one-by-one.
Azimuth specialized in finding significant vulnerabilities. Dowd, a former IBM X-Force researcher whom one peer called "the Mozart of exploit design," had found one in open-source code from Mozilla that Apple used to permit accessories to be plugged into an iPhone's lightning port, according to the person. He found it even before Farook and his wife opened fire at the Inland Regional Center, and thought it might be useful at some point to develop into a hacking tool. But Azimuth was busy at the time with other projects.
Mozilla declined to comment.
Two months after the attack, Comey testified to Congress that investigators were still unable to unlock the terrorist's iPhone. Seeing the media reports, Dowd realized he might have a way to help. Around that time, the FBI contacted him in Sydney. He turned to 30-year-old Wang, who specialized in exploits on iOS, the people said.
Using the flaw Dowd found, Wang created an exploit that enabled initial access to the phone - a foot in the door. Then he hitched it to another exploit that permitted greater maneuverability, according to the people. And then he linked that to a final exploit that another Azimuth researcher had already created for iPhones, giving him full control over the phone's core processor - the brains of the device. From there, he wrote software that rapidly tried all combinations of the passcode, bypassing other features, such as the one that erased data after 10 incorrect tries.
Wang and Dowd tested the solution on about a dozen iPhone 5Cs, including some bought on eBay, the people said. It worked. Wang dubbed the exploit chain "Condor."
In mid-March, Azimuth demonstrated the solution at FBI headquarters, showing Comey and other leaders how Condor could unlock an iPhone 5C. Then, one weekend, the FBI lab did a series of forensic tests to be sure it would work without destroying data. The tests were all successful, according to the people. The FBI paid the vendor $900,000, according to remarks by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., in May 2017.
FBI officials were relieved but also somewhat disappointed, according to people familiar with the matter. They knew they were losing an opportunity to have a judge bring legal clarity to a long-running debate over whether the government may compel a company to break its own encryption for law enforcement purposes.
On March 21, 2016, the government canceled a hearing scheduled for the following day on the legal case in California.
Soon after, the FBI unlocked the phone. Nothing of real significance - no links to foreign terrorists - was found.
The government subsequently abandoned its legal bid to force Apple to unlock the phone.
Apple sought to recruit Wang to work on security research, according to the people. Instead, in 2017 he co-founded Corellium, a company based in South Florida whose tools help security researchers. The tools allow researchers to run tests on Apple's mobile operating system using "virtual" iPhones. The virtual phones run on a server and display on a desktop computer.
In 2019, Apple sued Corellium for copyright violation. As part of the lawsuit, Apple pressed Corellium and Wang to divulge information about hacking techniques that may have aided governments and agencies like the FBI.
Apple subpoenaed Azimuth, Corellium's first customer, according to court documents. Apple wanted client lists from Azimuth, which is now owned by L3 Harris, a major U.S. government contractor, that might show malign entities. L3 and Azimuth said they were "highly-sensitive and a matter of national security," according to court documents.
Last April, Apple also made a document request in the lawsuit for "[a]ll documents concerning, evidencing, referring to, or relating to any bugs, exploits, vulnerabilities, or other software flaws in iOS of which Corellium or its employees currently are, or have ever been, aware."
Those employees included Wang. The request would have turned up Condor.
The judge denied the request in part.
During a deposition, Apple questioned Wang about the morality of selling exploits to governments, according to court records. A lawyer pressed him during the deposition on whether he was aware of any bugs that were not reported to Apple but were later found by malicious hackers.
Apple "is trying to use a trick door to get [classified information] out of him," Corellium attorney Justin Levine said, according to a transcript. Corellium declined to comment for this story.
In its statement, Apple said the case "is about Corellium attempting to profit by selling access to Apple's copyrighted works."
In its lawsuit, Apple argued that Corellium has "no plausible defense" for infringing on Apple's copyright, in part because it "indiscriminately markets its iPhone replicas to any customer, including foreign governments and commercial enterprises."
Corellium has denied the allegation. It has countered that the lawsuit is an attempt to put it out of business following a failed effort by Apple in 2018 to purchase the company.
"If Apple wants to make their phones more secure against these government-affiliated bug hunters, then they should make their phones more secure," said Matthew Green, a computer scientist at Johns Hopkins University, who has led research that found holes in Apple's encryption. "They shouldn't be going after people in a courtroom."
In December, U.S. District Judge Rodney Smith in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., dismissed Apple's copyright claims against Corellium. He ruled Corellium's virtual iPhones do not violate Apple's copyright because they are used to find security vulnerabilities, not compete with Apple sales. He deemed "puzzling" Apple's allegation that Corellium's products are sold indiscriminately.
The legal fight is far from over. Apple can appeal Smith's ruling. And Apple has lodged another claim: that Corellium's tools illegally bypass Apple's security measures. That trial, which will be closely watched by security researchers, is set for the summer.
Meanwhile, Corellium can keep selling tools that help researchers find iOS bugs.
But all exploits have a shelf-life.
A month or two after the FBI unlocked the terrorist's iPhone, Mozilla discovered the flaw in its software and patched it in a routine update. So did vendors that relied on the software, including Apple.
The exploit was rendered useless.
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Chicago Releases Video Of Cop Chasing, Fatally Shooting 13-Year-Old

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More than two weeks after a Chicago police officer shot and killed 13-year-old Adam Toledo, a police oversight agency on Thursday released a video of the March shooting that had set the city on edge.
The graphic video, which the city's Civilian Office of Police Accountability (COPA) posted to its website, shows the police officer chasing Adam through an alley, ordering him to stop and show his hands. Adam appears to stop at the opening in a fence, turn and raise his hands as the officer fires once, striking him in the chest.
The 13-year-old crumples to the ground and the officer immediately calls for an ambulance as he rushes to Adam, turns him over while asking him if he's OK, where he's been shot, and begins chest compressions.
The officer was identified as 34-year-old Eric Stillman in a police report included in the documents released by the oversight panel.
At the point in the video where Adam stops at the fence, he appears to be holding something in his right hand. Police say it was a gun that was later recovered behind the fence. But a lawyer representing the Toledo family said it's "not relevant" if Adam dropped a gun because he followed police orders.
"That child complied," Adeena Weiss-Ortiz said. "Adam complied with the officer's request, dropped the gun, turned around. The officer saw his hands were up and pulled the trigger."
After police released still images showing what they claim is Adam holding a gun, Weiss-Ortiz said the video would need to be forensically analyzed before making such a determination.
"I see no evidence whatsoever that Adam Toledo shot at police," Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoo, a Democrat, told reporters Thursday.
Lightfoot, the Toledo family, and attorneys for both sides released a joint statement Thursday saying the video is "the first step in the process toward the healing of the family, the community and our city. We understand that the release of this video will be incredibly painful and elicit an emotional response to all who view it, and we ask that people express themselves peacefully."
Adam was a seventh-grader at Gary Elementary School on the South Side and lived with his mother, grandfather and two siblings in the Little Village neighborhood. In speaking with reporters Thursday, Lightfoot, her voice trembling, said the video was "extremely difficult" to watch. "I say that not only as a mother of a 13-year-old myself, but as a mother who is deeply passionate about protecting our young people."
The footage from Stillman's body-worn camera, along with other video, audio and text documents released Thursday, shows the scene that led up to and followed Stillman firing the fatal shot.
Cook County prosecutors said Adam and Ruben Roman, 21, led officers on a foot chase through a Chicago alley around 2:30 a.m. on March 29. Police detained Roman, who had fired shots at officers, while Adam continued to run.
Stillman can be heard yelling at Adam as he chases him down the alley. "Stop right f------ now! Show me your f------ hands," Stillman says, followed by "drop it," as Adam begins to turn around.
In the grainy, unsteady footage from Stillman's body-worn camera, as well as security camera video from a nearby building, Adam's right arm seems to move back behind the fence. He then turns, putting his hands up; almost simultaneously Stillman fires.
Other body-camera footage showed the chaotic scene following the shooting. Responding officers appeared confused about what had happened and who fired the fatal shot.
"Were shots fired by police?" one officer asked.
"I don't think so," an officer responded.
After another officer takes over for Stillman, continuing chest compressions on Adam, Stillman steps away, seemingly distraught enough that other officers comfort him.
Minutes later, a commanding officer instructs those at the scene to turn off their body cameras.
The department's ShotSpotter technology recorded eight shots fired; a total of seven shell casings were found at the scene. Prosecutors said they matched with the Ruger 9mm handgun found nearby.
Last weekend Cook County prosecutors charged Roman with felony reckless discharge of a firearm, felony unlawful use of a weapon by a felon, and felony endangerment of a child.
COPA, in a statement, said it was in "the very early stages" of the investigation and was interviewing civilian and law enforcement witnesses. Its work will focus "not only on the officer's use of deadly force but also the actions of other involved officers leading up to and following the deadly shooting to determine whether each officers' actions complied with Department policy directives and training."
Stillman, according to a report, is on administrative duty. He has been a Chicago police officer since 2015. He has not had any prior use-of-force reports filed against him, according to Invisible Institute, a journalism nonprofit group that tracks Chicago police data.
Tim Grace, an attorney for Stillman, accused Adam of not complying with Stillman's commands and said the officer was "faced with a life threatening and deadly force situation."
"The officer had no place to take cover or concealment, the gun was being orientated in his direction and he was left with no other option," Grace said in a statement.
Grace blamed "the media" for fanning the flames and accused Roman, seen with Adam before Stillman shot him, of giving the teenager a gun.
Many businesses in downtown Chicago had boarded up their windows by Thursday. Lightfoot said much of the preparation for social unrest was already underway due to the trial of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer charged with killing George Floyd. The case is expected to go to the jury as soon as Monday. Lightfoot pleaded for people to consider the Toledo family in the actions following the release of the video.
"We all must proceed with deep empathy and calm and importantly, peace," Lightfoot later told reporters.
Adam is among at least 265 people shot and killed by police in the United States this year, according to a Washington Post database tracking such shootings. He is among the youngest people fatally shot by police since The Post began tracking police shootings in 2015. The only younger people were two six-year-olds and a 12-year-old, all of whom were unarmed. Adam is first person younger than 14 shot and killed by police since 2017.
Adam's death has ignited familiar tensions in Chicago, where streets were filled nearly every weekend last summer by protesters demanding police reform. Since March 2019, the department has been under a federally mandated consent decree, but has consistently failed to meet the majority of its court-mandated deadlines for reform measures related to how the department handles training, use of force, and accountability.
Sheila Bedi, director of the Community Justice and Civil Rights Clinic at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law in Chicago, said incidents like the shooting of the 13-year-old suggest "there's been a lack of political will" for true police reform and that the decree itself is viewed by some within the police department "as a paper tiger."
"The decree was supposed to inject into the Chicago Police Department a respect for the sanctity of life, require de-escalation, and that officers take all other means before engaging lethal force," she said. "The fact that a tragic incident happened under those circumstances underscores how policing can't be reformed and the need to reduce the power and presence of police in our communities."
Since the shooting, small marches have taken place downtown and in some neighborhoods, while some activists unsuccessfully demanded that Vice President Harris, who visited Chicago on Tuesday, press Lightfoot for greater police reform.
"The murder of this young man was not justified," said Rabbi Michael Ben Yosef, of the Chicago Activist Coalition For Justice, an organization that planned to march downtown Thursday. "Black and Brown people are under attack and in danger. [Adam's] life taken is a clear example of the long history of police brutality in the city of Chicago and around the country."
Following the video's release, reaction from city and regional officials was swift, ranging from a city council member who owns a restaurant on the North Side sharing condolences while also pleading for protests to remain peaceful, to aldermen from the city council's liberal wing who had backed proposals to defund the police.
"An armed agent of the state executed a child because that child ran," Alderman Carlos Ramirez-Rosa said via Twitter.
Rep. Marie Newman, D-Ill., tweeted that "Adam Toledo should still be with us," echoing the same sentiment about Laquan McDonald and Rekia Boyd - two other high-profile victims of Chicago police killings.
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, a Democrat, said the state was committed to working on systemic issues.
"This is a moment that calls for justice for our children and accountability in all our public institutions," Pritzker said in a statement.
Calls to release the video of Adam's shooting echoed a similarly tense period in the tenure of former mayor Rahm Emanuel, aDemocrat, Lightfoot's predecessor, whose second term was damaged after a federal court ordered the release of a 2014 dashboard-camera video showing a Chicago police officer fatally shooting 17-year-old McDonald 16 times. The video was released in 2015, a year after the incident. According to media reports, the mayor's aides, city lawyers and top police officials knew of the video's contents, which contradicted official police accounts of the shooting.
Immediately following Adam's shooting, Lightfoot was likewise criticized for holding back the video, despite a state law that prohibits posting video material in cases involving minors. Lightfoot and Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown asked for the video's release and the COPA subsequently determined that the law "does not bar publication of the body-worn and third-party video camera footage the agency has obtained to date," as it said in a statement.
Adam's family viewed the video Tuesday. Weiss-Ortiz said in a statement that the video was "extremely difficult and heartbreaking" to watch. The family asked that "Adam's memory can best be honored by refraining from violence and working constructively for reform."
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