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🗓️ 25 September 2018
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The defense presented a computer-generated video that showed the shooting of Laquan McDonald from the perspective of Officer Jason Van Dyke.
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0:00.0 | It's your computer drawing, correct? It is. It's not real. I don't. I don't know what you mean by real? |
0:11.0 | Well, this isn't an actual video where somebody's taking a camera of an actual area, right? |
0:17.1 | No, but it's a 3D model that's been laser scanned and demonstrated using aerial photography. |
0:24.4 | So it's just as real as a photograph, I guess. |
0:27.1 | Today attorneys for Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke |
0:31.2 | played an animated video for the jury. It was meant to recreate the shooting of |
0:35.3 | Lacan McDonald from multiple angles, including from the perspective of Van Dyke. |
0:41.2 | Jason Van Dyke made the right decision. The defense did an excellent job today in proving that |
0:47.6 | Laquoane McDonald was not walking away from Officer Jason Van Dyke. |
0:53.4 | And I think that animation today went a long ways |
0:56.6 | to prove what I'm saying is correct. |
0:59.4 | It was obviously biased and the animation was entirely inaccurate. |
1:06.0 | Reverend Marshall Hatch was in the courtroom, |
1:09.0 | as was his fellow Westside pastor, Ira Accrine. |
1:12.0 | When the defense continues to present this case, they cannot change the fact that there were other officers |
1:20.8 | on the scene who tried to de-escalate with tasers. |
1:25.0 | I keep hearing about this taser and the taser. |
1:27.5 | This taser really, folks, we don't even know that the taser would have been effective |
1:31.1 | of this situation. |
1:32.6 | Also in the courtroom, the president of the Illinois Fraternal Order of Police, Chris Southwood. |
1:37.8 | But it doesn't make any difference in this case because there was no time from the moment Jason Van Dyke stepped out of that squad car, he had what, six seconds. |
1:47.0 | From WBEZ Chicago and the Chicago Tribune, this is 16 shots, the police shooting of Lacan McDonald. |
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