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🗓️ 27 September 2018
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Lawyers for Officer Jason Van Dyke called witnesses Thursday to testify about PCP, police training, and McDonald’s behavior hours before the shooting.
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0:00.0 | 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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