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0:09.0	Now, welcome to the award-winning BestOfTheLifetime podcast with Cups today from Democracy Now, Dan Savage, Melissa Harris-Perry, the show about race, the Laura Flanders show, All In With Chris Hayes, and The Young Turks.
0:30.0	We begin today in Chicago, where for the first time in three decades of police officer faces charges of first-degree murder for an undue shooting.
0:39.0	White police officer Jason Van Dyke was arrested on Tuesday and is being held without bail for the killing of 17-year-old Lacwan McDonald, who was African-American.
0:50.0	It was more than a year ago on October 20, 2014, when Officer Van Dyke shot the teenager 16 times, including multiple times in the back.
1:00.0	Police claimed McDonald launched at the officer with a small knife. But newly released dash cam footage showed the teenager walking away from the police officer's cars when another police car pulls up to the scene.
1:14.0	The video, which has no sound, then appears to show Officer Jason Van Dyke jumping out of the car, pointing his gun at McDonald and opening fire.
1:23.0	The teenager's body spins as he is hit with the barrage of bullets, and then he falls to the pavement where he continues to be struck by bullets.
1:32.0	This is Cook County State's attorney Anita Alvarez talking after the indictment about what happened at the scene.
1:42.0	Our investigation has determined that Officer Van Dyke was on the scene for less than 30 seconds before he started shooting.
1:50.0	In addition to the fact that all evidence indicates that he began shooting approximately six seconds after getting out of his vehicle.
1:59.0	Officer Van Dyke remained on pay desk duty after the shooting until he was taken into custody on Tuesday.
2:05.0	In addition to the failed shooting last October, Officer Van Dyke had at least 20 civilian complaints against him, which included excessive use of force, illegal arrest, and use of racial slurs.
2:17.0	None of those complaints had led to any disciplinary action.
2:21.0	This week, Chicago Police Superintendent Jerry McCarthy also announced he would move to fire Officer Dante Servin, who killed 22-year-old African American woman named Vercilla Boyd in 2012.
2:34.0	Officer Servin was off duty when he fired several shots over his children to a group of people Boyd was standing with near his home, striking her in the back of her head.
2:43.0	He was charged with involuntary manslaughter, making the first time in more than a decade that a Chicago Police Officer was charged for fatal shooting, but last spring in a dramatic dismissal, a judge acquitted Detective Servin on illegal technicality.
2:56.0	Well, from more on the deaths of Laquan McDonald and Rakyah Boyd were joined in Chicago by Barbara Ransby, Professor of African American Studies, Gender in Women Studies, and History of the University of Illinois, Chicago.
3:09.0	We welcome you to Democracy Now Professor.
3:12.0	16 shots, 30 seconds, 400 days to indict the Police Officer for First Degree Murder, all of those days he was paid.
3:23.0	The number of officers at the scene, it's not clear exactly from the video it's believed about seven in addition to Van Dyke, the number who came to Laquan McDonald's aid, none.
3:36.0	Can you talk about the indictment yesterday just before the court ordered video of the killing was released?
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