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🗓️ 2 October 2018
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Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke took the stand in his own defense in the shooting death of Laquan McDonald.
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0:00.0 | He turned his torso towards me. |
0:03.0 | And what if an enemy do with his arm? |
0:06.0 | He waved the knife from his lower right side upwards, his body towards my left shoulder. |
0:20.0 | And when he did that, what did you do officer? |
0:22.0 | I shot him. And when he did that, what did you do, officer? |
0:22.8 | I shot him. |
0:27.2 | From W.B.E.Z. Chicago and the Chicago Tribune, this is 16 shots, the police shooting of Lacan McDonald. |
0:34.8 | I'm Jen White. |
0:36.3 | Officer Jason Van Dyke took the stand and testified in his own defense today. |
0:41.7 | W.B.E.Z. Patrick Smith is at the courthouse. |
0:45.0 | Patrick, this was the first time Officer Van Dyke has described in public the shooting of |
0:49.7 | Laquonald. What did he say? Well Well he described from the moment when they first got the call of officers needing assistance, |
0:58.0 | that call of asking for a taser actually, which he did not have in his car. |
1:02.0 | He described, you you know him and |
1:04.4 | his partner driving to the scene seeing requirement Donald for the first time |
1:07.6 | he got probably about 10 to 15 feet away from me. |
1:15.0 | When he got 10 to 15 feet away from me, what did he do? |
1:19.0 | We never lost eye contact. |
1:30.0 | Guys were bugging on his face was just expressionless. |
1:33.8 | And then he said that Lacquonne McDonald turned his torso toward Van Dyke |
1:39.2 | and waved the knife across his chest. |
1:41.6 | And Van Dyke said that's when I shot him. |
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