Some Twitter users criticized Lightfoot as being quicker to respond to the rumors than to the death of 13-year-old Mexican-American Adam Toledo.
Toledo was killed by police March 29 in an alley, and an officer’s body-camera video of the shooting was released last Thursday.
It had been shown privately to Toledo’s mother, who asked that it not be released publicly, but city officials said they were legally bound to do so.The video shows Toledo with his hands up and empty when an officer fires at him.
He “appeared to have a gun in his hands just a moment earlier,” the Chicago Sun-Times reports. But Toledo doesn’t appear to be throwing anything away after the officer yells “Drop it,” and there is nothing in his upraised hands.