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🗓️ 30 August 2018
⏱️ 37 minutes
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The fatal police shooting of Laquan McDonald aggravated longstanding tensions between Chicago police and the city’s black residents. We look at how a troubled police department spun a narrative of the shooting, how that narrative fell apart, and how the city reacted when it did.
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0:00.0 | The following podcast contains language and subject matter that some listeners may find disturbing. |
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0:08.3 | 5140 come on 40 seconds. |
0:09.7 | Plaski. |
0:10.7 | Just we advise that they do have all of Pulaski shut down between 41st and 42nd for the crime scene. |
0:18.0 | The official story about the shooting of Lacan McDonald starts taking shape immediately. You can hear it just minutes after the |
0:26.3 | gunfire when an officer corrects a dispatcher asking about McDonald. |
0:30.5 | When you can I need to get some info on the victim condition, whatever you can, when you can, okay? |
0:37.0 | The offender. |
0:42.0 | That's what I meant. agreed. |
0:43.0 | The person shot is the offender, not the victim. |
0:48.8 | From W.B.E.C. Chicago and the Chicago Tribune, I'm Jen White and this is 16 shots, the police shooting of Lequon McDonald. |
0:58.0 | In this podcast, we tell the story of how this police shooting aggravated long-standing tensions between Chicago |
1:05.2 | police and the city's black citizens. Our team of reporters will look at how a |
1:10.0 | city with a troubled police department spun a narrative of the shooting, how that |
1:14.8 | narrative fell apart, and how the city reacted when it did. |
1:20.8 | Last time on 16 shots, we heard about the night's 17-year-old |
1:24.2 | LaQua McDonald was shot and killed by officer Jason Van Dyke. |
1:32.3 | McDonald's short life. You let all of them hot shells go off in some |
1:36.8 | little 17 year old man. And we heard about Van Dyke's years as an officer with |
1:41.1 | the Chicago Police Department and how he and his family have lived |
1:44.7 | with the fallout from the shooting. |
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