Today officer Jason Van Dyke was briefly taken into custody and the city of Chicago agreed to a police reform plan that comes out of the shooting of Laquon.

We never want officers to hesitate.

Because if they do that could mean the loss of their life

or someone else's.

What message do you hope this sends to the people of Chicago?

I hope it sends, first and foremost, you know, our job is to serve and protect, you know, and we take that seriously.

From W.B.E.Z. Chicago and the Chicago Tribune, this is 16 shots, the police shooting of

Lacan McDonald.

I'm Jen White.

We start this episode with a short update from the trial of officer Jason Van Dyke.

Now last week, Van Dyke sat down for interviews with a handful of local media outlets.

You heard pieces of one of those interviews in the very first episode of this podcast.

Obviously my darkest day was night of the shooting.

Overwhelming amounts of everything at once emotions, adrenaline.

The look at this, was this interview a violation of the condition of bail?

Yes, it was. I find that was a violation of

the condition of bail. Judge Vincent Gaughen ruled that when Van Dyke did those

interviews he violated the decorum order.

It restricts what people involved in this trial can say to the media.

I'm not going to go in and speculate whether this was an attempt to

contaminate the potential jury pool,

and I'm not even going to comment or make any findings

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