more time. we will not play it again. if you do not want to see it, i want to let you know the that. we re very sensitive to the fact this is a person s wife you are watching extinguished here. at the same time, it is essentially the grounds for the facts as the issue here. so gentlemen, if you ll watch along with me, this is the dashcam pulling up. this young man, the police called that someone was walking around. some i believe said he had knifed a few tires. you see him pulling up his pants there. he moves past the first car. it is the second car on the far left is officer van dyke, on the right is his partner. officer van dyke fires a but the right there as mcdonald walks away putting him to the ground. he proceeds to put 15 more bullets into him. at the end there, are plumes of smoke come up which we have blurred out. he s still firing there. so he is firing all of that time. that first shot spins him around, puts him on the ground. his partner comes and kicks the knife away. and
then we talked with witnesses. we got the autopsy which showed rather than single shots, self-defense to the chest but that the young man was actually shot 16 times. and then when we talked to witnesses and also when i talked with people who had seen the video from the inside who took me through it frame by frame, just as you even as the state s attorney described it, that there was they shot him while he s walking away, walking away toward the fence. not they, officer van dyke shoots him walking away toward the fence and then he goes down to the ground and then unloads his clip into the body. 16 shots in total and really different from the police story. then the code of silence goes immediately into effect. police officer who s arrive on the scene cover it up. tell the witnesses to get the heck out of there. a witness who was there, a woman who said stop shooting, stop shooting during the entire time when the officer was unloading his clip into this young boy s body, she refuses to
today the officer was charged with first degree murder. hours later, officials released the video showing the moment the officer opened fire hitting laquan mcdonald 16 times. the court ordered the release of the video before tomorrow. the prosecutor announced she moved up her announcement of charges because of the release date of the video. right now protesters are on the streets. we ll continue to monitor what s happened there and bring you updates as warranted. ok, we re here. here s dad. mom. the twins. aunt alice. you didn t tell me aunt alice was coming. of course.
knew they were going to be very severe political implications. let me stop for a second, laura and recap for folks that have not seen the video, what it shows is this young man walking down the middle of the street. he passes one police car. he keeps walking. he another police car pulls up, two officers s get out. here s the dashcam video again. i want people to sort of be acquainted with what the facts are. there s mcdonald. you sue he him walking down the divider. police have been called. there s a report of a young man walking around possibly with a knife. those two officers get out. the one on the left drew his weapon. the first shot spins him around. he hits the grounds. as he s on the ground, shots continue to be fired unloading the entire clip, 16 bullets into him. later on, other police will come to the scene. you see he s still being shot there. other police will come onto the scene. the partner of officer van dyke comes, you saw right there, and
tomorrow by court order. on october 20th of last year, police responded to a call that a person breaking into cars. they found laquan mcdonald carrying a knife, a three-inch blade. the video seems to show mcdonald was walking away from the arriving police vehicles when the shooting happened. the dashcam video of the saluting death we re about to show you is disturbing. we have blurred out portions of the footage. the video you see was described by cook county state s attorney anita alvarez this way. mcdonald crossed over the white line divider away from the officer, officer and officers jason van dyke has taken at least one step toward him. you re going to see this here as they come out of the car. the officer then opens fire. that first bullet spinning him around as he hits the ground. his body jerks. the video captures what appears to be two puffs of smoke coming from the ground near his body caused by fired bullets. mcdonald is still lying on the street when the last visible