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🗓️ 7 December 2018
⏱️ 21 minutes
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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.
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0:00.0 | 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. |
1:24.0 | 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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