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16 Shots

Ep 17: The Initial Call

16 Shots

WBEZ & the Chicago Tribune

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4.61.1K 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.

Transcript

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So you were able to fend off this young man with a cell phone and a handful of rocks.

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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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