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🗓️ 3 February 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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0:00.0 | It was October 5th, 2018, just a little more than three years ago when a jury in Chicago |
0:12.8 | brought back a verdict in the murder case against police officer Jason Van Dyke. |
0:17.6 | We the jury find the defendant Jason Van Dyke guilty of second-degree murder. |
0:24.3 | We the jury find the defendant Jason Van Dyke guilty of aggravated battery with a firearm |
0:30.5 | first shot. |
0:32.5 | For many, especially activists and Laquan's family, the guilty verdict was some measure |
0:37.9 | of justice. |
0:39.0 | We the jury find the defendant Jason Van Dyke guilty of aggravated battery with 16 shots. |
0:49.0 | Like many other police shootings of young black men in the city of Chicago, there was little |
0:53.4 | attention on Laquan's killing at first. |
0:55.8 | The case had been hidden by police, by the city. |
1:00.1 | The video of the killing was kept from the public until it wasn't. |
1:04.5 | The officers are responding to somebody with a knife in a crazed condition. |
1:16.1 | There is going to be a narrative. |
1:18.4 | That becomes the truth. |
1:19.9 | Police say they had no choice but to shoot a 17-year-old boy who threatened them with |
1:24.6 | a knife. |
1:25.6 | Say this was a clear cut case of self-defense. |
1:28.6 | There was a machinery in place by which these stories disappeared. |
1:34.6 | In the judge, he just reared his decision. |
1:38.2 | I ordered for the video of the Laquan McDonald's to be released in five years as they asked |
1:43.8 | all I know. |
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