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16 Shots

Ep 2: Pattern & Practice

16 Shots

WBEZ & the Chicago Tribune

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4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

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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The following podcast contains language and subject matter that some listeners may find disturbing.

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Listener discretion is advised.

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5140 come on 40 seconds.

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Plaski.

0:10.7

Just we advise that they do have all of Pulaski shut down between 41st and 42nd for the crime scene.

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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.

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The person shot is the offender, not the victim.

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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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