Letter to the editor: Officer should be charged in Chicago boy's killing

George Floyd’s death led to conviction of his killer. Daunte Wright’s life was taken by a police officer who has been charged with manslaughter, but not murder. Adam Toledo’s killer has not been charged with anything.

This 13-year-old boy was shot and killed March 29 by a Chicago police officer whose order to raise his hands was immediately complied with. In an instant he was shot to death. If you saw the video, you would have seen a pistol lying next to a nearby fence. Was the gun thrown there by the boy? No comment from the police officer.

Another side of the story goes like this: What was he doing there at 2:30 a.m.?

What if a woman or girl had been assaulted and murdered on a Chicago street at that hour? Would people say it was her fault for being there?

This officer should at least be charged with manslaughter, if not murder.

Tom Pevarnik

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