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🗓️ 29 August 2018
⏱️ 37 minutes
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The police shooting of Laquan McDonald forces Chicago to prepare for potential riots. We piece together details from McDonald’s too-short life and hear from Officer Jason Van Dyke in his first interview since the shooting.
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0:11.0 | I got a call from the mayor's black preacher liaison person and I was surprised to get the call. Marshall Hatch Sr. is the pastor of New Mount Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church |
0:26.8 | on Chicago's West Side. |
0:29.2 | He was one of about 25 black preachers called down a city Hall near the end of 2015 for a meeting with |
0:35.3 | Chicago Mayor Ram Emanuel. |
0:37.5 | I thought it was very unusual because after kind of a brief talk or so the mayor opened it up. I mean I |
0:47.1 | never known him to open the floor up and give much of a hoots about what the black pastors thought. |
0:54.8 | It was normally a monologue, not a dialogue that I was accustomed to. |
1:01.2 | The meeting was three days before Thanksgiving. The next day, the city would release a police dash cam video. |
1:08.0 | It showed white Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke shooting black teenager |
1:13.8 | Laquon McDonald 16 times. They were very concerned about rioting. The message to |
1:20.3 | the preachers was you know if you all don't help me to keep a lid on all of this |
1:25.7 | don't come downtown asking me for anything anymore if things go up and smoke. |
1:32.4 | Hatch says during the smoke. |
1:33.0 | Hatch says during the meeting, it came out that McDonald had been in foster care, |
1:38.0 | taken from his mom as a toddler by Illinois Child Welfare Agency. |
1:42.0 | I mean, that's when I knew we had moved into a real spiritual realm with this piece. |
1:47.0 | I honestly that and as a pastor you know to me that's divine poetry. |
1:55.0 | Because he was a throwaway person if they ever was one. |
2:00.0 | That would have to be the one that God would have to put in the center the name that somebody else thinks is worth throwing away |
2:09.6 | And it was pretty explosive after that as As ministers kind of said, you know, look, we're not making any guarantees. |
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