Live Updates: Chicago Reacts To Toledo Video

Adeena J. Weiss-Ortiz, a lawyer for Adam’s family, told reporters Thursday afternoon that “the videos speak for themselves.”

Weiss-Ortiz said she is “not going to deny” that an object in the child’s hand seconds before the shooting could have been a firearm, but she said the video made it clear that “Adam during the last second of his life did not have a gun in his hand.”

“If you’re shooting an unarmed child with his hands in the air, it is an assassination,” Weiss-Ortiz said.

“An officer is trained not to shoot an unarmed individual, not to shoot an unarmed child,” Weiss-Ortiz said. “If he asked him to toss it and show his hands and the kid complies, then he shouldn’t be shot.”