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Ep 24: Inside The Jury Room

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WBEZ & the Chicago Tribune

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4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2018

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

The jurors talk to reporters about why they convicted Van Dyke. Activists express thanks for the guilty verdict and Van Dyke’s attorney Dan Herbert says cops are now going to stay in their cars.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Everybody this side of the Atlantic Ocean is taking credit for the fact that

0:04.9

Jason Van Dyke just got convicted for whatever their reasons are and they should

0:09.6

because this is a victory for America. As I forestated, America was on trial here.

0:16.2

And people all over America and all over the world

0:19.1

have been waiting to see what was going to happen. They've been watching. A few hours after the jury

0:25.2

announced they found Jason Van Dyke guilty. Laquonne McDonald's great uncle

0:30.2

Reverend Marvin Hunter held a press conference at his church. He stood at the pulpit

0:35.0

surrounded by family and friends. He's been a spokesperson for the family and

0:39.3

attended the trial. He sat with family clutching each other's hands as they waited for the verdict of

0:44.6

Jason Van Dyke.

0:45.6

I can't rejoice in a way, you know, to say Yippi I-O-Kaiy because this man is going to jail.

0:54.1

When I looked over and I saw his wife,

0:56.4

my mind had to go to his daughters.

0:59.4

I could see the pain in those people.

1:01.6

But it was also touching bothering me that they couldn't see the

1:04.7

pain that was within us and everybody that tried to come to us on behalf of

1:10.8

Jason Van Dyke they came to us asking us, could we forgive Jason

1:15.0

Dan Dyke? And I want the world to know that you can't just go around forgiving

1:20.0

people who didn't think they'd done anything wrong.

1:23.1

But at the end of the day, I can say

1:26.2

that I did feel compassion for that family.

1:28.8

And if you saw them and didn't feel compassion,

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