Why did the family of police shooting victim Adam Toledo abruptly drop its lawsuit against the city?

& results of our latest reader survey

4-23-2026

This week:

• What seems to be going on with the lawsuit involving the police killing of Adam Toledo?

• Last week’s winning quip

• News and Views — Hot takes, fully baked

• Results from my recent reader survey

• Land of Linkin’ — Where I tell readers where to go

• Squaring up the news — Where Charlie Meyerson tells readers where to go

• Media notes — Farewell to a 17-year-old podcast

• Quotables — A collection of compelling, sometimes appalling passages I’ve encountered lately

• Quips — The winning visual jokes and this week’s contest finalists

• Green Light — For “Football,” the book

Litigation interrupted: Why Adam Toledo’s family hit pause on their lawsuit just as it was about to go to trial

Just as it appeared jury selection was about to begin in the civil trial pitting the family of Adam Toledo against the city of Chicago and the police officer who shot and killed Adam five years ago, Adeena Weiss Ortiz, the family’s lead attorney, abruptly dropped her case while issuing a strong statement that she was not giving up:

The voluntary dismissal entered in this case is not a surrender. It is a lawful procedural right under Illinois law, and it was exercised deliberately to protect the integrity of this case and to ensure that it proceeds in a manner that serves justice—not convenience.

Let me be clear: this case is moving forward. The Toledo family is not walking away. We are not backing down. We are not deterred by noise, speculation, or mischaracterizations in the media.

This is about a 13-year-old child. Every decision we make is guided by one principle: what best serves Adam Toledo and the pursuit of full accountability for his death.

We will not litigate this case in the press. But we will correct the record when false narratives are pushed. The facts have not changed. The evidence has not changed. Our commitment has not changed.

This is not the end of this case. It is a step toward pursuing it the right way.

To refresh: Chicago Police Department Officer Eric Stillman and his partner responded to a ShotSpotter gunfire-detection alert in the Little Village neighborhood at 2:36 a.m. on March 29, 2021. When they confronted Adam and a young adult male companion, Adam took off running down an alley carrying a handgun, and Stillman gave chase, yelling at the boy to stop and to show his hands.

In one quick motion, Adam evidently attempted to discard the gun behind a gap in a fence bordering the alley and wheel about with his hands up. Stillman, who feared the boy was still armed, fired one shot, fatally striking Adam in the chest.

UPDATE

A key question at trial is going to be whether Stillman was justified in pursuing Adam, and that will be rooted in the fact that by his own admission he didn’t actually see a gun in Adam’s hands until just seconds or less before he fired the fatal shot.

Here in his own words under oath is the account Stillman gave of the incident gleaned from more than 500 pages of transcripts:

It’s 2:30 in the morning, it’s a high-gang area, it’s within a reasonable distance of the ShotSpotter (alert), I arrive in under a minute … When I first turn into the alley (in an unmarked police vehicle with its lights off) … I see two individuals that see my vehicle and then face away, get shoulder to shoulder. … I believed they were passing an object.

Then as I get out, as I’m exiting, I give verbal commands … that are ignored. And then I continue to the first individual (Ruben Roman) who acts as a decoy and goes down, goes limp. And then I don’t feel a firearm on that individual. And with everything else I’ve just seen, now I see the (other) individual running down the alley.

As he’s running …. his left-hand is over his right hand, which is what officers do to cycle the slide on our pistols to chamber a round. .. I don’t see the firearm at this time. He hasn’t listened to any verbal commands. I know he’s got the gun. I know it’s in his right hand. He’s turning towards me …. He’s looking in my direction. I know that he’s -- in my mind, I know that he’s acquiring the target. I know that he’s looking at me in order to go ahead and shoot the gun at me and kill me…. because he didn’t listen to any verbal commands. At that moment in time, I felt that he had a firearm on him and that’s why he was fleeing. And I felt that he was a danger to society, and that’s why I took chase. I was doing my job. All he had to do was show me his hands. He didn’t have to spin at me. …. when I told him to drop it, all he had to do was drop it. He didn’t have to turn it. He didn’t follow the command.

I have a right as a police officer to go ahead and chase somebody that has a firearm. Its 2:30 in the morning. Shots fired is the reason why I’m there. I have an obligation as a police officer to respond to that threat.

Based off of all of my observations up to that point, 1 believed he had a firearm at that time.

I saw the firearm before I shot him.

To certain activists, this was murder, another example of out-of-control police violence against minorities.

To the police union and others, the decision to shoot was a reasonable though regrettable decision, an officer who made a split-second judgment that he needed to fire in self-defense.

Then Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx, known as a progressive prosecutor, decided not to bring charges against Stillman “given the totality of the circumstances surrounding the incident,” she said.

The Civilian Office of Police Accountability urged that Stillman be fired, but then Chicago police Superintendent David Brown rejected that recommendation and concluded Stillman should get only a brief suspension for failing to activate his body camera to capture the entire encounter (the camera was on during the chase and the shooting).

After Brown resigned in March 2023, his interim successor, Eric Carter, recommended that Stillman be fired. Stillman has been on disability since the incident, and his disciplinary hearing has been on hold due to a legal battle over whether such hearings in serious cases should be public.

(Yes, they totally should be, by the way.)

The civil trial looked as though it might finally provide more information and even some resolution in this tragic and still controversial case. Heather Cherone at WTTW-Ch. 11 offered a crisp summation of the latest development:

The lawsuit suffered a significant blow on April 9, when Cook County Judge Thomas Lyons granted the city’s request to sever the lawsuit’s two claims … that not only was the city and CPD responsible for Adam’s death because Stillman used excessive force against the teen, but also because CPD was negligent in hiring Stillman in 2015.

Lyons ruled that a jury should determine first whether Stillman’s decision to shoot Adam complied with CPD policy and whether Stillman acted in a “willful and wanton manner.”

If the jury agreed with Toledo’s family that the shooting was improper, a second trial would be held to determine whether the city was negligent when it hired Stillman after the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs determined that he suffered from a stress disability as a result of his service in the military before he became a Chicago police officer.

I’m not a lawyer, but separating those issues makes sense to me. The threshold question is whether any reasonable police officer — regardless of previous troubles or suitability for the job — faced with having to decide in less than one second whether to fire his or her gun in self-defense would have done what Stillman did.

If the answer is yes, then the other questions — about whether Stillman should have been a police officer in the first place, whether he was properly trained and whether he was following department procedure — would appear to be moot.

If the answer is no — if the jurors find Stillman’s actions unreasonable — then the other questions become highly relevant.

So I can understand why a judge would want to keep the questions wholly separate.

And I can also understand why attorney Ortiz would want to present both questions together and create for jurors a unified picture of what happened. To do so she’ll have to get another county judge or perhaps try her luck in the federal court system, which explains why she withdrew a suit she clearly has no intention of dropping.

She would not speak to me on the record, and Stillman’s attorneys did not return my calls.

There are other issues in the case: Was it reasonable and in accordance with department policy for Stillman to have chased Adam by himself with his weapon unholstered? Did Adam know Stillman was a police officer? Could Stillman have deescalated the confrontation?

Other questions that come up from time to time on social media, such as “What was a 13-year-old boy carrying a gun on the streets in the middle of the night up to, if not no good?” are interesting, but also likely irrelevant to whether Stillman was justified in firing the fatal shot.

But, again, I’m not a lawyer. And I’m interested in what those of you who are lawyers have to say.

Last week’s winning quip

Never let your printer know you’ve waited until the last minute and you’re in a hurry, because it can sense fear. — @omgsidewalks

Here are this week’s nominees and the winner of the Tuesday visual-jokes poll. Here is the direct link to the new poll.

News & Views

News: Virginia voters narrowly OK Democrats’ gerrymandering plans.

View: I despise partisan gerrymandering, and I find the idea that Virginia lawmakers may be able to win up to 10 of the state’s 11 seats in the U.S. House after getting the OK from voters in a referendum Tuesday offensive to our small-d democratic ideals.

Gerrymandering effectively disenfranchises voters, leads to disproportional representation of views and serves to further polarize our politics.

But that said, I’m thrilled that Democrats are fighting back. At Donald Trump’s urging, Republicans have been redrawing political maps where they can prior to November’s midterm elections.

It’s an ugly, stupid war that the U.S. Supreme Court ought to have put a stop to when it had the chance, but that war should not be asymmetrical. Sometimes, two wrongs do make a right.

News: FBI director Kash Patel sues The Atlantic over a story (gift link) claiming he is an erratic drunkard.

View: Bring it on! The story is deeply unflattering, referring to Patel’s “conspicuous inebriation and unexplained absences” along with his “reputation for acting impulsively during high-stakes investigations” that creates “a national-security vulnerability.”

The smart response to such devastating allegations is a terse denial, not a lawsuit destined to draw hundreds of thousands of new readers to an article (again, gift link) comparatively few people would otherwise have seen.

And a lawsuit destined to be thrown out of court or withdrawn before it reaches the deposition stage, during which many of the claims in the article — all from anonymous sources — would be scrutinized under oath.

But Patel is just following the Trump playbook of filing suits to harass unfriendly media outlets in hopes of intimidating other reporters and editors. Here’s The New York Times:

The lawsuit is the latest in a series from the Trump administration against media outlets over unfavorable reporting. Last week, a federal judge dismissed President Trump’s complaint against The Wall Street Journal over a birthday message to the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, though Mr. Trump may refile that suit. The president has also filed lawsuits in recent months against The New York Times, the BBC, CNN and The Des Moines Register.

No way does Trump want to be deposed in such suits. It’s my hope that The Atlantic calmly lets this suit go forward with minimal opposition and puts the erratic vindictive, manifestly unqualified Patel under oath.

News: The Onion plans to pay $81,000 a month to take over Alex Jones’ InfoWars site and turn it into a platform for parody.

View: What a stupid investment. Sure, for a brief period, uninformed fans of Alex Jones will click on their InfoWars bookmark and find parodies instead of the conspiracy theories and nutty commentary they crave. They’ll wise up. The value of owning that domain will drop to near zero.

News: "The Mamdani Act” introduced in Congress by a Texas Republican seeks to “enable deportation and denaturalization for any membership, affiliation, or advocacy of socialist, communist, Chinese communist, Marxist, or Islamic fundamentalist doctrine.”

View: Pure nativist fascism that’s utterly inconsistent with the First Amendment! And Illinois’ own U.S. Rep. Mary E. Miller, a downstate Republican, is among the co-sponsors.

News: “US weighs plan to send Afghans who helped with war effort from Qatar to a third country.”

View: The outright, brazen betrayal of Afghan natives who assisted U.S. troops in the war against the Taliban and were once promised resettlement in the United States is shameful and hideous, a broken promise made by previous administrations but broken by the malign Trump administration that will make native cooperation in foreign war theaters far more difficult in the future.

“There was this expectation and promise, like, if you help us, this is a way for you to be able to come to America,” said (retired Army Lt. Col. Mariah) Smith, who is vice chair of No One Left Behind, a nonprofit based in Arlington, Virginia, that advocates for Afghan and Iraqi allies. (NBC)

News: Sixteen percent of respondents tell a Tribune pollster they’ll switch allegiances to another team if the Bears move to Hammond, Indiana

View: Whatever decision the Bears end up making about where to play their home games in the future — and Arlington Heights looks to be the most likely destination after the Illinois House passed a Bears-friendly “megaprojects” bill Wednesday — these “fans” are either bluffing or lying.

As a member of the “don’t care” caucus I guarantee that Bears fans will remain Bears fans if the team crosses the state line just as fans of the New York Giants and New York Jets have stayed true even though their teams play in New Jersey or as fans of the Washington (D.C.) Commanders have stayed true even though their team plays in Maryland.

The Picayune Sentinel, where suburban lefties of a certain age come for news and commentary.

Thanks to more than 1,200 of you who responded to my recent reader survey, and here are the takeaways:

• 92% of my readers are 60 or older.

• 64% live in the suburbs or collar counties, and another 22% are city residents.

• 78% consider themselves moderately to very liberal, and just 6% are moderately to very conservative; 16% identify as centrist or libertarian.

• In order from most to least popular features of Thursdays’ main edition, a majority of you favor commentary on local and state news; commentary on national and international news; the quips; quotables; Land of Linkin’ and Squaring Up the News; media notes. Less than half of you told me you enjoy “Green Light” recommendations, updates on Brandon Johnson’s performance as mayor, items about sports and, way at the bottom with just 18% interest, promotion of “The Mincing Rascals” podcast.

• In order from most to least popular features of Tuesdays’ main edition, a majority of you favor the visual jokes poll, Zmail and the “Unpopular opinions?” reader poll. Only 18% of you reported enjoying the NewsWheel puzzle.

Here are some sample suggestions from answers when I asked you to complete the sentence, “I wish that the Picayune Sentinel …”

• commented more on local politics.

• had more articles about the stupidity of John Kass, Dan Proft and other local buffoons.

• would include more from Mary Schmich (numerous mentions).

• was a tad more politically balanced.

• didn't use so many profanities.

• had a cool tote bag.

• devoted more space to Chicago news. I usually agree with your opinions on Trump but get lots of that elsewhere. This city and CPS are in a financial crisis that is not being examined enough.

• had more diverse readership, in terms of both age and politics.

• featured a point-counterpoint between you and Austin Berg.

• had an audio podcast version.

• had point-counterpoint posts that briefly debated current issues.

• would take a more balanced view of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson. The vicious tone that you take about Johnson is shocking.

• wasn't so smugly condescending toward viewpoints that differ from yours.

• would offer endorsements of candidates.

• would have a more independent take on the news and just report the facts. Or change the name to the “Bash Trump” newsletter.

• showed the full results from the quip poll.

• would interview other Chicago local news people.

• would have more personal stories from Eric.

In addition, there were many complaints that the PS is too long as well as complaints that it’s too short and doesn’t come out often enough.

I really like some of these suggestions and found the survey results useful and thought-provoking. I intend to follow up on some of them — in fact starting today, I am simply including the “Mincing Rascals” promo as a link in the Land of Linkin’ rather than its own separate item.

But I cannot in good conscience pull back from criticizing Donald Trump, as ineffective and unnecessary as that might be. History will not be kind to those who remained silent in the face of Trump’s rampaging, narcissistic, frightening foolishness.

Mary Schmich and I remain good friends, and she’s always welcome here, but she’s got lots on her plate with teaching and other projects and wanted to step away from the feeling of having a weekly deadline to share her thoughts.

Land of Linkin’

• Policy clash: Austin Berg, executive director of the Chicago Policy Center, debated Frank Manzo of the Illinois Economic Policy Institute over the proposed “millionaire’s tax” in Illinois on WTTW-Ch. 11’s “Chicago Tonight” (video link). Berg’s look at the issue is posted to his Substack, The Last Ward. Manzo’s counterargument “Tax Reform Twice Supported by Strong Majorities of Illinois Voters Could Cut Property Tax Bills by 20% or Fully Fund Public Schools,” is here.

• CNN: “A Chinese android just ran a half-marathon faster than any human ever.”

• On this week’s episode of “The Mincing Rascals” podcast, Marj Halperin, Steve Bertrand and I joined host John Williams to discuss gerrymandering, the proposed “millionaires’ tax,” Kash Patel, Bears stadium proposals and other matters. Subscribe to us wherever you get your podcasts. Or bookmark this page. If you’re not a podcast listener, you can hear an edited version of the show at 8 p.m. most Saturday evenings on WGN-AM 720. Look for the YouTube version that will be posted later in the week.

• Gallup: “Rise in Young Men’s Religiosity Realigns Gender Gaps.” Lots of interesting charts and food for thought here.

• Personal note: Last weekend’s symposium at the University of Michigan “The Science of Jens Zorn’s Art,” in which a number of physicists explain the symbolism behind my late father’s sculptures, is available on YouTube. It’s upper-level stuff, I warn you.

From Tuesday’s Picayune Plus:

• Scary good: The AI trailer for “Pi Hard,” a movie not coming soon to a theater near you.

• Your chance to vote on the May Day compromise at Chicago Public Schools.

• The latest most-loathsome rankings of Donald Trump’s inner circle. Guess who is still No. 1?

• A timely NewsWheel puzzle and a highly unusual WordWheel with three solutions.

Squaring up the news

This is a bonus supplement to the Land of Linkin’ from veteran radio, internet and newspaper journalist Charlie Meyerson. Each week, he offers a selection of intriguing links from his daily email news briefing Chicago Public Square:

■ Sorry about “hellhole,” Chicago: In a new campaign video, Republican gubernatorial candidate Darren Bailey admits he “said something dumb” about the city in his last campaign. And you’re not alone if that reminds you of a scene from “Blazing Saddles.”

■ “Demonstrate opposition”: Hundreds of veteran journalists and at least six national journalism organizations have released a letter calling on the White House Correspondents’ Association, whose annual dinner for the first time this weekend welcomes President Donald Trump, to address head-on his “systematic, sustained, and unprecedented attacks on the free press” that “render his presence at such an event a profound contradiction of its purpose.” Read the letter—whose signatories include Chicago Public Square’s publisher—here. CNN’s Brian Stelter explains “why I’m going.”

■ Trump left a MAGA-ish CNBC host squirming when he revealed that he’d been promised that a more critical host wouldn’t be there at the time.

■ The AP explains why the Bible passage Trump read Tuesday night is so polarizing.

■ Political analyst Rachel Hurley has read FBI Director Kash Patel’s lawsuit against The Atlantic for its reporting about his problematic behavior: “Let’s start with the typos …” Popular Information adds: The suit “puts Trump in a difficult position. If Trump fires Patel now … it effectively confirms The Atlantic’s reporting”—which you can read here in a gift link.

■ Columnist and former Labor Secretary Robert Reich updates his list of “The 10 Most Important Ways to Resist Now.”

■ “Why is AT&T being such a dick?” Columnist and Chicago Tribune alumnus Charlie Madigan: “Time for a worst service ever award!”

■ Still have an AT&T landline—or know someone who does? Time’s almost up.

■ Environment reporter Brett Chase rounds up “easy and inexpensive ways to reduce flooding around your home and neighborhood.”

■ Stephen Colbert this week interviewed a guest he identified as his favorite ever.

You can (and should) subscribe to Chicago Public Square free here.

Media notes

Slate, gives the dial tone to “Hang Up and Listen”

“Hang Up and Listen” wasn’t the first sports-themed podcast when it launched on Slate in 2009, but for many years, it was the best. Josh Levin, Stefan Fatsis and Mike Pesca had cerebral, funny conversations about a range of topics sometimes just loosely connected to sports.

Pesca left the show in 2017 to start a daily, news-oriented podcast for Slate — “The Gist” — and though HUAL lost some of its edge with his departure, Joel Anderson proved to be a capable third.

I soured on the show in early 2021 when the insufferable management at Slate suspended Pesca for arguing in an internal Slack conversation that people who are not Black should be able to quote the n-word — not to use it as a slur — in some contexts. He did not deploy the word during that debate. The company then effectively fired him, and the reason I soured on HUAL was that Levin and Fatsis never rose to Pesca’s defense, a deplorable act of cowardice.

I still listened occasionally, particularly around major sporting events. But I mostly lost interest in the summer of 2024 when Slate laid off Anderson, after which Levin and Fatsis abruptly quit the show.

Pesca has independently continued “The Gist” and is probably lucky to be free of the erratic managers who oversee podcasts at Slate. At least they haven’t yet ruined Slate’s “Political Gabfest,” the O.G. online political talk show that debuted in 2005 and still features founding hosts David Plotz, Emily Bazelon and John Dickerson.

Quotables

A collection of compelling, sometimes appalling passages I’ve encountered lately

Donald Trump on Sept. 24, 2020 — Under the America First Healthcare Plan, we will ensure the highest standard of care anywhere in the world, cutting-edge treatments, state-of-the-art medicine, groundbreaking cures, and true health security for you and your loved ones. … In short, we are delivering better care with more choice, at much lower cost, and working to ensure Americans have access to the care they need. … My plan expands affordable insurance options, reduces the cost of prescription drugs, will end surprise medical billing, increases fairness through price transparency, streamlines bureaucracy, accelerates innovation, strongly protects Medicare, and always protects patients with preexisting conditions.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — President Trump has a different way of calculating percentages. If you have a $600 drug and you reduce it to $10, that's a 600% reduction.

Washington Examiner columnist Dan Hanan — A 79-year-old man who has long dealt in chaos is now being consumed by that chaos. His episodes are becoming more frequent, his good days further apart. What he has lost is not a sense of decency or decorum — he never had those — but any remaining sense of self-control. Everyone around him can see it. Yet, whether from ambition, cowardice, or weary acceptance, they keep looking for ways to rationalize his behavior. The tragedy is no longer Trump’s. It is now America’s.

Donald Trump — As everyone knows, I am an extraordinarily brilliant person.

White House spokesman Davis Ingle — JB Pritzker is a slob.

The Washington Post Editorial Board’s dueling headlines eight months apart

Quips

In Tuesday’s paid-subscriber editions, I present my favorite tweets that rely on visual humor. Subscribers then vote for their favorite. Here is the winner from this week’s contest:

The new nominees for Quip of the Week:

• “Sorry for the confusion” is a corporate phrase for “I fucked up, but I want you to wonder if it was also a little bit your fault.” — shareef_taher_haha (Threads)

• If I ask you if you need help cleaning up after a meal, don’t make it weird by saying yes. — @jakevig.bsky.social

• Every ceiling fan I’ve ever used has five settings: 1. No, that’s the light. 2. I think I turned it off?? 3. No, it’s still going. 4. Okay, it finally stopped. 5. Apache war helicopter. — Mistermassey (Threads)

• I asked my therapist if I could read his notes from our last session and it was just a drawing of my face with a line through it. — @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social

• Apparently the serving size for chips is 10 chips. Listen, I eat 10 chips while deciding if I even want chips. — @datejtease.bsky.social

• My favorite thing about my wife is that she is not shallow enough to pick a husband based on his looks. — @wildethingy

• My boss is getting a little perturbed about my current excuse for everything “It must have gotten stuck in the Strait of Hormuz.” — @jakevig.bsky.social

• The loudest sound ever heard was a volcano erupting in Krakatoa in 1883. The second loudest was my mom asking what size bra I wear in a TJ Maxx — themissymaker (Threads)

• TV series idea: “The C Team.” It’s the early ‘80s. A group of earnest and whimsical but wildly mediocre misfits are on the run because they think they did something wrong. No one is actually after them. Every week, they visit a new town and fail to solve a problem or mystery. They often make things a little bit worse. — sailandhikeandfly (Threads)

• The real lesson of “Little Red Riding Hood” is don’t body shame the elderly. — @benedictsred

Vote here and check the current results in the poll.

Green Light

Green Light features recommendations from me and readers not only of songs — as in the former Tune of the Week post — but also of TV shows, streaming movies, books, podcasts and other diversions that, with only rare exceptions, can be enjoyed at home.

I enjoyed listening to Chuck Klosterman’s new nonfiction book, “Football,” all about, well, obviously, the most popular sport by far in America. Klosterman is a charming writer whom the New York Times aptly described as “the overthinkers’ overthinker.” He vamps. ruminates, muses and digresses in what at times feels like a stream of consciousness, but fills his book with interesting asides — a discussion of the relative merits of the metric system and the imperial system comes to mind and occasionally compelling arguments.

He fumbles, however, in his main argument that the sport itself, which he professes to love, is doomed to one day becoming as marginal as boxing or horse racing (summarized here).

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