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Ep 28: Consensus or Conspiracy?

16 Shots

WBEZ & the Chicago Tribune

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4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Defense attorneys present just one witness and some documents. That comes after 7 prosecution witnesses over 4 days. The sides make their closing arguments and Judge Domenica Stephenson says she’ll announce a verdict December 19.

Transcript

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At a little before 7 o'clock Thursday night, attorneys finished giving their closing arguments in the conspiracy trial of three Chicago police officers. They're accused of covering up for Jason Van Dyke and

0:15.6

Laquon McDonald's killing.

0:17.2

Laquonne McDonald was a human being. He deserved due process and the law and not to have police officers write false reports and shape a false narrative to justify his killing.

0:31.0

Filing a false police report in order to protect the fellow officer from prosecution is not honorable.

0:38.0

It's not sticking up for a colleague.

0:41.0

It's a violation of the public trust. It's a violation of

0:46.2

their oath of office. It's a violation of the law.

0:49.7

This case isn't about violating public trust, it's about

0:53.0

McDonnell violating the laws, it's about law and order.

0:58.8

Take God we're in the courtroom.

1:01.3

Thank God we are in a courtroom. Finally.

1:05.0

This is not a court of public opinion.

1:10.0

Evidence matters here. Here.

1:14.0

From W.B. E. Z. Chicago and the Chicago Tribune,

1:20.0

this is 16 shots, the police shooting of Lacquonald.

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I'm Jen White.

1:26.4

Before closing arguments, defense attorneys presented their case.

1:30.0

They put on just one witness and entered 57 documents into evidence, mostly police records.

1:36.0

That followed four days of testimony by seven prosecution witnesses.

1:41.0

Officer Thomas Gaffney, former Officer Joseph Walsh, and former Detective David March are charged

1:48.2

with obstruction of justice, official misconduct, and conspiracy to commit those offenses.

1:54.7

We're going to dive into the closing arguments in a minute, but first we wanted to take a look

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