“This is not something you want your children to see”

Chicagoans protest the police killing of 13-year-old Adam Toledo; Brazil's variant-fueled Covid-19 wave shows no signs of abating.   Tonight's Sentences was written by Greg Svirnovskiy. TOP NEWS Protests erupt in Chicago after video of the shooting of Adam Toledo is released Photo by Kamil Krzaczynski/Getty Images Two weeks after the fatal police shooting of 13-year-old Adam Toledo, police footage of the killing was released to the public. In it, Toledo is shown with his hands up and his body turned towards law enforcement in the seconds before officer Eric Stillman took the shot. [Chicago Sun-Times / Frank Main, Tom Schuba, and Sam Kelly] The police body cam video shows what police allege to be a gun in Toledo's hand, which he appears to dispose of behind a fence in a lot. The footage also shows Toledo obeying police commands in his last moments, and shows Stillman performing CPR and doing chest compressions on the boy. [CNN / Peter Nickeas, Dakin Andone and Emma Tucker] It took two days for police to identify Toledo and notify his family members about the shooting. On Saturday, prosecutors of the man who was with Toledo on the night of his death alleged that the boy was carrying a gun when he was shot and was told to drop it twice but did not. The state finally refuted those claims five days later, just before the video was made public. [Block Club Chicago / Kelly Bauer and Mauricio Pena] Scattered peaceful protests took place in Chicago after the release of the video on Thursday. At a press conference before the video's release, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said police presence would be increased throughout the city in preparation for protests and urged the public to remain calm. [WBEZ / Becky Vevea and Alex Keefe] "There are several videos that kind of start at the beginning of the episode but watching the bodycam footage, which shows young Adam after he is shot is extremely difficult," Lightfoot said at the press conference. "And I would just say ... as a mom, this is not something you want children to see." [NBC5 Chicago] Brazil struggles mightily to contain a variant-fueled Covid-19 wave Brazil's Covid-19 situation, labeled a "humanitarian catastrophe" by Doctors Without Borders, has spiraled out of control in recent weeks, with the daily death toll in the country now above 3,000. The 365,444 dead in Brazil make it the second-hardest-hit country in the world, behind only the United States. Another 100,000 deaths are expected in April. [NPR / Philip Reeves] Part of the spread has been fueled by the P.1 variant, a worrying mutation in the virus that makes it 2.5 times more communicable and less resistant to vaccines. Younger people are getting sick and showing up to the hospital in droves, and the national government is failing to enforce social distancing. [Insider / Dr. Catherine Schuster-Bruce] Children are dying of Covid-19 in Brazil at a startling rate. Despite overwhelming evidence that children usually do not catch severe cases, the virus has killed an estimated 2,060 children under the age of 9 since last year, including 1,302 babies, according to leading epidemiologists at the University of Sao Paulo. [NBC News / Nicole Acevedo] Many hospitals in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo have run out of critical medicines that aid in Covid-19 treatment, so patients are being intubated without the use of sedatives. Up to 640 hospitals in Sao Paulo are on the verge of collapse, according to state health secretary Jean-Carlo Gorinchteyn. [AP / Diane Jeantet and David Biller] President Jair Bolsonaro has made things worse, pushing back on state-mandated lockdowns and social distancing orders, advocating unproven remedies, and refusing to acknowledge the danger of variant spread. The Senate is launching an inquiry into Bolsonaro's handling of the pandemic. [Al Jazeera / Sam Cowie] MISCELLANEOUS Derek Chauvin is invoking the Fifth Amendment and not testifying at his trial, meaning the prosecution and defense will proceed to closing arguments Monday. The prosecution called 38 witnesses, including Chauvin's former partners on the force, before resting its case. The defense called just seven. [CNN / Ray Sanchez, Eric Levenson, and Aaron Cooper] Kim Potter, the Minnesota police officer who killed Daunte Wright at a traffic stop Sunday, was charged yesterday with second-degree manslaughter. The Wright family is demanding stricter charges on the officer, who allegedly mistook her gun for a taser. [AP / Mike Householder and Scott Bauer] Japanese Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide is on his way to the White House for President Biden's first face-to-face meeting with a foreign leader. The two will talk about a wide range of topics, including the Covid-19 pandemic, regional security, the 2021 Olympics, and China policy. The Biden camp sees Japan as a key bulwark for its interests in East Asia and a counter to China in human rights and trade practices. [USA Today / Michael Collins] Four years after the disastrous Fyre Festival that left influencers stranded in the Bahamas, a court has ruled in a class-action lawsuit that 277 attendees will receive $7,220 apiece. [NYT / Sarah Bahr] A gunman killed eight people in an Indianapolis FedEx facility last night and wounded several others before turning the gun on himself, local police said. 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