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Clarence Page: In less than a second, a 13-year-old’s life is ended and a police officer must live with it

Heartbreaking.

That description is undeniable in the otherwise controversial shooting death of 13-year-old Adam Toledo by Chicago police.

The most obvious headline for the story of the video’s release Thursday was simple: Police video shows 13-year-old was shot with his hands up.

Microseconds matter.

But frame grabs of his hands up show only a tiny slice of those fateful early morning hours on March 29. Watching the video posted by the city’s Civilian Office of Police Accountability, which

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