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🗓️ 28 November 2018
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Attorneys give their opening statements in the conspiracy trial of officers who were on the scene when Jason Van Dyke killed Laquan McDonald and a detective who led the investigation of the shooting. We take a closer look at the judge who will be deciding guilt in the case, Cook County Judge Domenica Stephenson, and her relationship with one of the defense attorneys.
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0:00.0 | Defendants March, Walsh and Gaffney intentionally and knowingly provided false information |
0:09.0 | in direct contravention to their duties and obligations under the law as public servants. |
0:15.0 | Instead of serving and protecting all citizens of Chicago, |
0:19.0 | the defendants tried to protect only one, |
0:22.0 | Jason Van Dyke, by trying to create a false |
0:25.3 | justification for the shooting of Lacquonnel by Jason Van Dyke. They were |
0:31.7 | doing their jobs on behalf of the public. |
0:35.0 | McDonald was violating every law he could possibly imagine that night. |
0:40.0 | Prosecutors and defense attorneys gave their opening statements today and the trial of one current |
0:46.4 | and two former Chicago police officers. |
0:49.4 | They're charged with covering up details of Jason Van Dyke's shooting of Lacquon McDonald. |
0:57.0 | Before the trial began, a group of pastors held a press conference in the lobby of the |
1:01.3 | latent criminal court building. |
1:03.0 | This court takes attention that we were not going to stand by and allow a unjust verdict to happen. |
1:09.0 | This is bigger than LeQua. |
1:11.0 | This is bigger than Chicago. This is happening all over the country. |
1:15.4 | Police are covering up murders of young people. |
1:18.3 | Blacks are being shot down on the street and we will not stand for it any longer. |
1:23.6 | And so we say together, we're here together united. |
1:27.6 | From W.B. E.Z. Chicago. Z. Chicago Tribune, this is 16 shots, the police shooting of Lacwan |
1:37.5 | McDonald. I'm Jen White. In this episode we'll hear the highlights from the first day of the trial and we'll explore the judge's close relationship with one of the defense attorneys. |
1:48.0 | But first, Chip Mitchell was in the courtroom for us today and Chip, what was the scene like? Well Jen this is Cook County's main |
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