CHICAGO -- The collective trauma of seeing 13-year-old Adam Toledo shot to death on police body camera footage in March 2021 was not a new sensation for young Black and brown men on the city’s West Side.
But this time, researchers were watching. Researchers who knew just how they felt.
“That’s the lived experience that these young people are dealing with,” said Claudio Rivera, a pediatric psychologist at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and an assistant professor of psychiatry at Northwestern University.
