Friday Briefing: Chicago releases graphic video of police shooting 13-year-old

The Reuters Daily Briefing Friday, April 16, 2021 by Linda Noakes Hello Here's what you need to know. Video shows Chicago police shooting a 13-year-old, Biden welcomes his first foreign leader, and Jeff Bezos says Amazon must do better Today's biggest stories Adam Toledo, 13, holds up his hands a split second before he was shot by police in Little Village, a neighborhood on the West Side of Chicago, Illinois, U.S., March 29, 2021 in a still image from police body camera video U.S. Chicago officials released to the public a graphic body-camera video showing a police officer shooting and killing a 13-year-old boy while he appeared to be raising his hands in an alley more than two weeks ago. The nine-minute video from Eric Stillman's body camera showed the officer getting out of his squad car and running after Adam Toledo in Little Village, a Mexican neighborhood on the city's West Side. Former Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin waived his right to testify to the jury about his part in the deadly arrest last May of George Floyd as both sides rested their cases at his murder trial, the most high-profile police misconduct case in decades. A gunman shot eight people dead and injured several others at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis before taking his own life, police said early today. FILE PHOTO: Media mogul Jimmy Lai leaves the Court of Final Appeal by prison van in Hong Kong, China, February 9, 2021 WORLD Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been sentenced to 14 months in prison while nine other activists have received jail time or suspended sentences for taking part in unauthorised assemblies during mass pro-democracy protests in 2019. President Joe Biden will today welcome Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga as the first foreign leader to visit his White House, underscoring Tokyo’s central role in the U.S. strategy to counter the challenge of China’s growing assertiveness. Chinese carrier drills and stepped-up incursions into Taiwan's air defence zone in recent weeks are meant to send a message to Washington to stand down and back off, security sources in Taipei say. Opponents of Myanmar's junta have announced a National Unity Government including ousted members of parliament and leaders of anti-coup protests and ethnic minorities, saying their aim is to root out military rule. BUSINESS Global stocks hit a record high and oil climbed after strong U.S. and Chinese economic data bolstered expectations of a solid global recovery from the coronavirus-induced slump. Amazon.com needs to do better at taking care of its employees, Jeff Bezos said in his final letter to shareholders as chief executive officer of the online retail giant. Bezos’ comments came just days after Amazon warehouse workers in Alabama voted against forming a union by a more than 2-to-1 margin. The Biden administration is seeking to leverage a secret weapon in its bid to get corporate America to pay for a sweeping jobs and infrastructure package: the nation’s some 30 million small businesses. Daimler has unveiled the electric “sibling” of its flagship Mercedes-Benz S-Class luxury sedan, taking the fight to market-leader Tesla in the battle for market share as electric car sales take off. Quote of the day "Using mechanical restraints without sedatives is bad practice... the patient is submitted to a form of torture" Aureo do Carmo Filho ICU doctor in Rio Brazil's hospitals running out of sedatives Video of the day Cuban 'healer' performs surgeries with a machete Using an 18-inch machete, bottles of rum and candle wax, a Cuban healer uses unconventional methods to operate on his patients And finally… ‘Like Godzilla, but actually real’ - T. rex numbered 2.5 billion Researchers have unveiled the first calculation of the total T. rex population during the estimated 2.4 million years that this fearsome species inhabited western North America during the twilight of the age of dinosaurs More from Reuters COVID-19 Investigations Breakingviews Legal News Thanks for spending part of your day with us. Share your thoughts You are receiving this email because you signed up for newsletters from Reuters. No longer want to hear from us? Unsubscribe from The Reuters Daily Briefing. Terms, conditions, and privacy statement © 2021 Thomson Reuters. All rights reserved. 3 Times Square, New York, NY 10036