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Ep 18: The Effects Of PCP

16 Shots

WBEZ & the Chicago Tribune

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4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2018

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Lawyers for Officer Jason Van Dyke called witnesses Thursday to testify about PCP, police training, and McDonald’s behavior hours before the shooting.

Transcript

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The description of what he was observed to be doing is evidence of bizarre aggressive behavior. You put the two together that to me says he was

0:17.9

impaired, he was intoxicated with and there's a slang term he's whacked on this PCP.

0:27.0

From W.B. E.C. Chicago and the Chicago Tribune, this is 16 shots, the police shooting of LeQua Mcdonald. the Jason Van Dyke called witnesses to aid in his defense.

0:43.8

W beez's Patrick Smith is at the courthouse and Patrick today a specialist in the effects of

0:49.0

the drug PCP testified for the defense.

0:51.9

What did you have to say? Yeah, the defense called Dr. James

0:55.5

O'Donnell. He's a pharmacologist to testify. You know, the reason they called

0:59.7

them is because we know that there was PCP in the Quam McDonald's blood the night he was

1:05.1

killed by officer Jason Van Dyke. However, the Cook County Medical

1:08.8

Examiner last week testified that it was a low level. Today Dr. O'Donnell testified that he could tell

1:15.8

based on looking at the video and other police reports that LaQua

1:19.8

McDonald was high on PCP when he was killed, that his behavior was altered by that PCP.

1:26.4

You know, he testified about possible effects that being high on PCP can have, including hallucinations, making someone act aggressively,

1:36.0

making someone not be able to feel pain or have superhuman strength.

1:40.7

And the reason he was up there is because the defense wanted him to help paint that picture that they've been trying to paint since day one of

1:47.4

LeQua Mcdonald as a scary dangerous person the sort of person that it would be justifiable and

1:53.9

reasonable to be afraid of, the sort of person that you might need to use or

1:58.1

did need to use deadly force on.

2:00.3

To my opinion, based on all the evidence I reviewed he was intoxicated and impaired by

2:07.5

PCP at the time of his death as demonstrated by aggression, failure to heed orders from the police assault on the police vehicle, continuing aggressive movement toward officer Van Dyke.

2:25.0

He looked unfazed.

2:27.0

He looked like he was looking over us or through us.

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