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So around 10 o'clock at night a little before 10 o'clock at night there was a call to 9-1-1

about someone breaking into trucks.

Two officers arrived on scene and these two officers follow Laquamic Donald as

he's walking along the street carrying this knife by his side. It's about a

three inch blade and one of the officers is on foot about 10-12 feet behind while

the other officer follows along in his car. These officers have said that they

didn't see him making any threatening motions and that what they were

essentially doing was buying time until an officer could arrive on scene with

a taser which they had called for over the radio. At one point police officers

block Laquam's movements with the police car and McDonald takes this knife he

has and he pops the tire and there's also an autopsy that was later done.

Officers didn't know this at the time showing that Laquamic Donald had PCP in

his system and eventually other police arrive on scene and Laquamic Donald

ends up walking down the middle of the street. This is when Jason Van Dyke

arrives and he's in the passenger side of a police car with his partner. He

gets out of the car and within about six seconds of arriving begins shooting. He

shoots 16 times including after Laquam is lying on the ground. Van Dyke moved

to reload his gun but his partner stopped him. His partner then went over to

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