Only you are the judges of the believability of the witnesses and of the weight to be given to the testimony of each of them. You are not to concern yourselves with possible

punishment or sentence for the offense charged during your deliberations. Neither

sympathy nor prejudice should influence you.

You should not be influenced by any person's race, color, religion, or national ancestry,

gender or sexual orientation.

From W.B. E.Z. Chicago and the Chicago Tribune, this is 16 shots, the police shooting of Lequon

McDonald. I'm Jen White. Today the defense and

prosecution delivered their closing arguments. We wanted to bring you the

highlights from those arguments so we're going to play some excerpts.

First you'll hear from prosecutor Jody Gleason,

then Jason Van Dyke's defense attorney Dan Herbert.

The prosecutors then get to make a rebuttal argument

because they have the burden of proof here so lead prosecutor

Joseph McMahon gets the last word with the jurors.

Ladies and gentlemen, we're at the conclusion of the trial and closing arguments are a discussion of the facts that have been proven at trial,

reasonable differences to be drawn from the facts, along with circumstantial evidence.

All right, at this time, closing on.

State.

Thank you.

Well, McQua McDonald was never going to walk home that night.

The defendant decided that on the way to the home that

he said, he said, you heard what it was that he said,

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