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🗓️ 5 September 2018
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Jason Van Dyke’s trial started Wednesday. We take you inside the courtroom for the start of jury selection and outside where protesters gathered in force.
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0:00.0 | Today we begin the process to deliver justice for Lacan and we continue to fight to end racist policing and to deliver justice for every child, for every working person in the city of Chicago. |
0:16.9 | We will win. |
0:20.2 | From W.B.E.Z. Chicago Tribune, this is 16 shots, the police shooting of Laquon McDonald. |
0:27.5 | I'm Jen White. |
0:29.0 | Jason Van Dyke, a white Chicago officer, is charged with murder for killing black teenager |
0:34.1 | Laquon McDonald in 2014. Today was the first day of Van Dyke's criminal trial and |
0:40.6 | it drew a crowd. How many sense? |
0:44.0 | We are here to lift up Laquoix |
0:47.4 | and people like Laquoix McDonald. |
0:50.0 | Hundreds of protesters gathered across the street from the main criminal courthouse in Chicago. |
0:56.0 | They chanted, gave speeches, and held signs, some with Van Dyke's mug shot, and the words, |
1:01.6 | guilty of racist murder written over his face. |
1:05.0 | W beezes Patrick Smith was out there today. |
1:07.1 | Patrick described the scene for us. |
1:09.6 | Yeah, so everybody was gathered in this big grassy area that's kind of like a really big median across the street from the courthouse. |
1:17.6 | It's more than half a city block and it was fenced off. |
1:21.0 | The city had actually put up temporary fencing on one side to keep |
1:25.2 | this area contained that fencing was guarded by by police officers I counted |
1:29.8 | about 25 maybe more than that sort of guarding the fence. |
1:33.2 | There were a bunch of different groups |
1:34.4 | out in this grassy area. |
1:36.0 | You know, I got there about a quarter to nine, |
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