this morning. let s listen in. working with partner in a marked patrol car, assigned to the overnight shift in the chicago police department s 8th district. the circumstances leading up to the shooting that evening began at 9:47 p.m. when a chicago police dispatcher radioed to an 8th district beat car this a citizen was holding a male who had caught who had been caught breaking into trucks and stealing radios in a parking lot near 41st and killdeer. that male was identified as laquan mcdonald. the radio dispatches were broadcast to all 8th district patrol units. 9:53 p.m., a responding beat car related that the guy is walking away with a knife in his hand. and a dispatcher inquired as to whether any available units had a taser. another beat car responded