Ep 17: The Initial Call
16 Shots
WBEZ & the Chicago Tribune
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2018
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
A truck driver who called 911 took the witness stand and described fighting off a knife-wielding man moments before Officer Jason Van Dyke fatally shot Laquan McDonald.
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| 0:00.0 | So you were able to fend off this young man with a cell phone and a handful of rocks. |
| 0:08.0 | Is that right? |
| 0:09.0 | See? |
| 0:10.0 | No further question. |
| 0:11.0 | Redirect? |
| 0:12.0 | So you were lucky, right? |
| 0:14.0 | Objection. |
| 0:16.0 | I'll allow them to answer. |
| 0:18.0 | And I think of regross. |
| 0:20.0 | Oh yes, your honor. So you were lucky that you were facing a man who didn't really want to stab you, weren't you? |
| 0:25.0 | I don't know. |
| 0:27.0 | I don't know. |
| 0:30.0 | I don't know what intentions you might have had. |
| 0:35.0 | From WBEZ Chicago and the Chicago Tribune, this is 16 shots, the police shooting of Lacwan |
| 0:42.0 | McDonald. |
| 0:43.0 | I'm Jen White. |
| 0:44.0 | Today, Jason Van Dyke's defense team brought to the stand the man who called 911 |
| 0:50.0 | on October 20, 2014. |
| 0:52.0 | That's the call that brought Jason Van Dyke to 41st in Pulaski, |
| 0:56.4 | where he shot Lequon McDonald. Rudy Barias said he saw someone he thought was stealing radios from trucks. |
| 1:04.0 | Jason Meisner is a reporter with the Chicago Tribune. |
| 1:07.8 | He's interviewed Barrias before and was in court today |
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