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🗓️ 20 September 2018
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An expert on police use of deadly force testified that Jason Van Dyke didn’t need to shoot Laquan McDonald.
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0:00.0 | My assessment of the situation was that the risk posed by Mr. McDonald did not rise to the necessity of using deadly force to stop it. |
0:20.0 | From W.B. E. Z. Chicago and the Chicago Tribune, this is 16 shots, the police shooting of |
0:27.7 | Lacwan McDonald. Today, prosecutors wrapped up their case against Jason Van Dyke. |
0:33.0 | At this time, the people of the state of Illinois arrest. |
0:36.0 | W.B. E. Z. Shannon, Hafernan and Patrick Smith are at the courthouse. |
0:40.0 | Patrick, we're going to analyze the prosecution's entire case with experts tomorrow, but first I want to talk about what happened in court today. |
0:48.0 | The first witness today was a ballistics expert from the FBI. His name is Scott Patterson. He testified about the |
0:54.2 | moments of the actual shooting. What were prosecutors trying to show with |
0:57.6 | his testimony? I think the main thing that they were trying to show was just |
1:01.9 | how long Laquon McDonald was on the ground during the |
1:06.1 | shooting. You know Patterson today testified that Jason Van Dyke was shooting |
1:10.5 | for about 14 seconds and that Laquoix |
1:13.7 | McDonald was on the ground for 12.6 seconds of that entire thing. |
1:18.1 | So the vast majority of it. |
1:20.7 | Patterson was using slowed down video to show when the first and last shot happened, |
1:25.8 | although he did say he didn't know exactly when the last shot hit. |
1:29.0 | So I think the main thing was how long the shooting took and how much of it was aimed at |
1:34.5 | at Laquan while he was laying on the ground. |
1:36.5 | Why is the amount of time |
1:38.5 | Laquoane was on the ground as opposed to the amount of time he was standing significant? |
1:43.0 | Well I think the reason it's significant is because you know |
1:46.4 | Officer Van Dyke's defense is that he was in fear for his life or in fear for |
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