It's been six weeks since attorneys gave their closing arguments in the trial of Officer Thomas Gaffney,

former Officer Joseph Walsh, and former Detective David March.

They were accused of lying to cover up for Jason Van Dyke after he shot Lacquonne McDonald.

Laconne 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.

Following the law was a completely foreign concept to Leclon McDonald.

Based on all the evidence of this crime, I can't think of one law with

on McDonald's follow.

Today, Judge Dominica Stevenson read her verdict in the case.

This court finds that the state has failed to meet its burden on all charges.

Therefore, there is a finding of not guilty as to every count in each defendant of conspiracy, official misconduct, and obstruction

of justice.

From WBEZ Chicago and the Chicago Tribune, this is 16 shots, the police shooting of

Lacquonald. I'm Jen White. Judge Stevenson spent about an hour explaining how she reached her decision.

W.B. E. Z. Patrick's

Patrick Smith was in the courtroom.

Patrick, what was it like in there?

Well, it was interesting, you know, Judge Stevenson, she gave a very lengthy, very detailed

verdict where she was explaining her reasonings before getting to the final conclusion.

And so there was this sort of interesting feeling

where sort of what she was saying and the conclusion

she was drawing along the way were making it clearer and clearer

that she was going to come to a not guilty

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