world. there s also that. betsy wood rough, josh barrow, thank you. live pictures from chicago tonight where a much smaller group of demonstrators are out on the night after the second night after the video of laquan s death was released. up next, my interview with the lawyer for the chicago police officer who shot and killed mcdonald. and protests outside a texas mosque, i will talk to the mayor of dallas to get his response. later, president obama s annual turkey pardon, which he treated with the proper amount of reverence such a tradition deserves. as you may have heard, for months, there has been a fierce competition between a bunch of turkeys trying to win their way into the white house. [ laughter ] so you call the that? of reverence such a tradition ok, we re here.
cleared this scene after gathering evidence overnight. the independent police review authority is investigating, but police say this was a clear-cut case of self-defense. clear-cut case of self-defense. the time of the shooting death of 17-year-old laquan 13 months ago, much of the initial account upon which several news organizations based their stories at the time was provided by the spokesman for chicago s fraternal order of police at camden. camden, who arrived at the scene and was paraphrased and quoted by news organizations gave an account of the shooting laquan that was later contradicted by the dash cam video. here s how nbc s chicago affiliate, wmaq, which characterized the police account of the shooting as a clear-cut case of self-defense reported on camden s explanations of what happened when police approached laquan. fraternal order of police spokesman pat camden says as other officers approached to arrest them, he lunged at one of them with the knife and as soon as tha
about officer van dyke and laquan there were numerous other officers present who presumably filed reports about what happened. numerous officers internally who may have seen the tape and there are a lot of questions the may around the police department are going to have to answer whether this was adequately investigated before that whistleblower spoke out and before the public started asking questions. joining me now, larry rogers, cook county board of review commissioner and a civil rights attorney. and commissioner rogers, are you confident that thfg this was all handleded according to protocol and on the up and up? absolutely not. there is a question on our mind why they would restrict the public from seeing the video for so long. if you re familiar with the timeline, you will also know that soon after october 14th 20th when this happened, within a couple of months, we had a mayoral election. so, there s a great deal of concern as to whether there was a conspiracy, quite frank
until later on in the process that he learned which agencies were conducting the investigations. he knew that there would be an internal investigation done by the chicago police department, as is routinely done in any shooting cases, but at some point after that, we became aware of the fact that the united states attorney s office was conducting the investigations into the shooting. all right, dan herbert, i appreciate your time. thank you. sure. thanks. all right, we are keeping an eye on the protests as they develop in chicago tonight. a smaller crowd tonight, we are told, a lot of police on the streets, but so far, no incidents. the president this hour is weighing in on facebook. like many americans, i was deeply disturbed by the footingage of the fatal shooting of 17-year-old laquan. this thanksgiving, i ask everybody to keep those who suffered tragic loss in our thoughts and prayers and thankful for the overwhelming majority of men and women in uniform who protect our commun
protesters back on the streets of chicago as the nation continues to react to the video of the shooting death of 17-year-old laquan who died on october 20, 2014 last year, after chicago police officer, jason van dyke, shot him 16 times. yesterday, officer van dyke was charged with first-degree murder. today, his record as a police officer is coming under new scrutiny. the 14-year veteran, according to his lawyer had zero discipline on his record. that part appears to be true. van dyke had not been disciplined for complaints filed prior to the mcdonald shooting. that does not mean there weren t complaints. according to published reports, there are between 17 and 20 complaints, 15 of which were resolved with no discipline. according to chicago tribune, one complaint nant, ed nance, claimed van dyke handcuffed him so violently during a 2007 traffic stop, he seriously