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.

From W.B. E. Z. Chicago and the Chicago Tribune, this is 16 shots, the police shooting of

Lacwan McDonald. Today, prosecutors wrapped up their case against Jason Van Dyke.

At this time, the people of the state of Illinois arrest.

W.B. E. Z. Shannon, Hafernan and Patrick Smith are at the courthouse.

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.

The first witness today was a ballistics expert from the FBI. His name is Scott Patterson. He testified about the

moments of the actual shooting. What were prosecutors trying to show with

his testimony? I think the main thing that they were trying to show was just

how long Laquon McDonald was on the ground during the

shooting. You know Patterson today testified that Jason Van Dyke was shooting

for about 14 seconds and that Laquoix

McDonald was on the ground for 12.6 seconds of that entire thing.

So the vast majority of it.

Patterson was using slowed down video to show when the first and last shot happened,

although he did say he didn't know exactly when the last shot hit.

So I think the main thing was how long the shooting took and how much of it was aimed at

at Laquan while he was laying on the ground.

Why is the amount of time

Laquoane was on the ground as opposed to the amount of time he was standing significant?

Well I think the reason it's significant is because you know

Officer Van Dyke's defense is that he was in fear for his life or in fear for

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