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 kicks the knife out of the hand of the inert dead body at that point one imagines of laquan
caused by fired bullets. mcdonald is still lying on the street when the last visible shot is fired. 16 in all. state s attorney who today announced charges of first degree murder against officer van dyke summed it up this way. our investigation has determined that officer van dyke was on the scene for less than 30 seconds before he started shooting. in addition to the fact that all evidence indicates that he began shooting approximately six seconds after getting out of his vehicle. an analysis after the video establishes that 14 to 15 seconds pass from the time the defendant fired his first shot to clear visual evidence of a final shot. for approximately 136 they seconds, laquan was lying on the ground. ten days after the initial shooting, chicago police say that officer jason van dyke was stripped of his powers and placed on deck duty. today he was charged with first degree murder. he turned himself in at the cook county courthouse and ordered held without bond.
the station, locked in a room, intimidated, told she didn t see the what they saw and worse, there s an officer who comes to the scene and there s a burger king kitty corner which doesn t capture the shooting but they have surveillance tape that captures events leading up to the shooting. there s seven different angles. police officer goes into the burger king and the police officer deletes every sing one of those seven files. the irony and poetic justice, there s tape of the burger king tape running while he s deleting the files. there is a videotape of the officer deleting that. one of the questions we have about the code of silence and this is a historic day that an officer is actually charged and being held to account for shooting and taking the life of a young man. what also about the officers who helped to cover it up? what about the official narrative that was given out and that may have been the official narrative, it may have been the official narrative unless we all pushed fo
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 the body will continue to lay there as other police vehicles come and he is in the street for quite s
the scene and there s a burger king kitty corner which doesn t capture the shooting but they have surveillance tape that captures events leading up to the shooting. there s seven different angles. police officer goes into the burger king and the police officer deletes every sing one of those seven files. the irony and poetic justice, there s tape of the burger king tape running while he s deleting the files. there is a videotape of the officer deleting that. one of the questions we have about the code of silence and this is a historic day that an officer is actually charged and being held to account for shooting and taking the life of a young man. what also about the officers who helped to cover it up? what about the official narrative that was given out and that may have been the official narrative, it may have been the official narrative unless we all pushed for in and this came out. craig futterman, thank you very much joining me laura washington, chicago sun-times columnist and