Hours before city officials plan to release video of a police officer shooting 13-year old Adam Toledo, Mayor Lori Lightfoot asked Chicago residents to withhold judgment on the shooting and again called for peace.The mayor choked back tears Thursday as she discussed the city’s endemic gun violence, saying, “We can’t have that be what young people experience in our city.”
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