Hundreds march through Chicago to protest police shooting at 13-year-old Adam Toledo

The boy was killed in March after a police chase in the small village of Chicago.

CHICAGO - Hundreds of people protested Friday night in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood, demanding reforms from the city's police department after 13-year-old Adam Toledo was shot and killed by a police officer in March.

Large crowds listened to banners labeled "Justicia Para Adam" and "We are Adam, stop the police", as speakers denounced the Chicago Police Department and Mayor Lori Lightfoot.

Adam was shot and killed by police officer Eric E. Stillman, 34, in the early morning hours of March 29. In a video clip of the shooting, released Thursday by an independent municipal agency investigating police behavior, Adam Zuqaq is chased by a white policeman who orders him to stop and shows him his hands. Analysis of the video, the slowest event in a second, which then shows the boy throwing a pistol nearby and raising his hands in the air, before the officer shoots him in Chest.

Yasmine Cardenas, who attended the march with her two young children, cried while holding a sign supporting Adam and his family. She lives in Little Village, the predominantly Latino neighborhood where Adam was killed, and she runs an after-school arts program that worked with children at Gary Elementary School, where Adam was a student.

She said the neighborhood is sorely lacking in services for children and teens, and it needs school nurses and more technical programs to keep young people busy.