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🗓️ 3 October 2018
⏱️ 29 minutes
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We examine the defense’s case and hear about what Chicago police officers are saying about the trial.
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| 0:00.0 | Tell ladies and gentlemen the jury your name please display your last name for the court clerk. |
| 0:06.6 | Jason Van Dyke. |
| 0:08.1 | V-A-N-D-Y-K-E. |
| 0:10.9 | Did you ever have occasion to draw your gun? |
| 0:15.0 | Unfortunately, I've had to. |
| 0:18.0 | And how many times did you say you had to draw your gun? |
| 0:22.0 | I don't know. Would it be more than 10? Yes. More than 20? Probably. |
| 0:30.1 | Any time from 2001 until October 20th to 2014 did you ever fired your weather? |
| 0:37.0 | No and I'm very proud of that. |
| 0:42.0 | What was LeQua McDonald doing? |
| 0:45.0 | Advancing on me. |
| 0:47.0 | He did not look at us. |
| 0:50.0 | He did not look towards our direction. |
| 0:52.0 | He just kept looking straight ahead he looked deranged |
| 0:56.5 | this is clinical evidence of rage, violent person. |
| 1:03.0 | That is in my opinion, caused by the PCP that they had used. |
| 1:08.0 | I was yelling at him, dropped the knife. |
| 1:10.0 | I yelled, I don't know how many times, but that's all I yelled. |
| 1:15.0 | And did he keep advancing toward you? |
| 1:18.0 | He never stopped. |
| 1:19.0 | My opinion is that on 10, 2014, Officer Jason Van Dyke responded to what he perceived was a deadly threat |
| 1:27.4 | and responded in a way that based on his training was designed to neutralize that |
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