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🗓️ 21 November 2018
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A month and a half after Jason Van Dyke was convicted of murder, three other Chicago police officers face charges of conspiring to cover-up for him. Prosecutors say the officers’ reports exaggerated the threat Laquan McDonald posed. Defense attorneys say this was a “good case with a little bit of bad paper.
Update: The trial has been moved back one day to Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2018.
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0:00.0 | It's been a month and a half since Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke was convicted of murder for killing 17 year old Lequon McDonald. |
0:12.0 | He's being held in a jail three hours west of Chicago as he |
0:15.0 | awaits sentencing. That likely won't be until the new year. In the meantime, |
0:19.6 | there's been a separate criminal case moving forward, one involving three officers facing |
0:24.7 | trial for their actions after the shooting. Prosecutors brought the charges |
0:28.8 | last year. Good afternoon. I'm here to announce the indictment by a special grand jury of three current or former Chicago |
0:38.5 | police officers. |
0:40.3 | Officers Joseph Walsh and Thomas Gaffney and Detective David March have been charged with obstruction of justice, official misconduct, and conspiracy to commit both of these offenses. |
0:56.0 | These charges are brought in connection with the police involved shooting |
1:00.0 | of Laquon |
1:04.2 | Quand McDonald in October of 2014. |
1:06.0 | This indictment alleges that these defendants lied about what occurred during a police |
1:12.0 | involved shooting in order to prevent |
1:14.9 | independent criminal investigators from learning the truth. |
1:19.8 | The indictment makes clear that it is unacceptable to obey an unofficial code of |
1:26.4 | silence. |
1:28.9 | Van Dyke's trial was about his decision to shoot McDonald and the moments leading up to it. |
1:35.3 | This trial, starting Monday, will focus on what happened in the hours after the shooting. |
1:45.0 | There was a machinery in the cold silence was instantly put into the cold silence was instantly put into full effect he leaves |
1:52.0 | them no choice at that point but to defend himself. |
1:55.2 | It is his tendency to ignore. |
1:56.9 | If you would have had officers who would have stood up |
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