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Firings and the police agency reforms in chicago. let s go straight to chicago to our correspondent there rosa flores and also with me in new york is debra cohen. . thank you for joining me. rosa is in chicago, tell me about what happened in court today. . hi, brooke. the actual arraignment took moments and e with know that jason van dike pled guilty to the charges of misconduct as well. and pretrial motions were set for a month from today. but a few other topics also came up. first of all for the family, they were asking for a fair trial and they would like cameras in the courtroom. that s not the norm in illinois, but now those motions are going to take place. and la-quan s family asking for cameras to be in the courtroom. you and i know how powerful that can be, the image of both the ....
Make some decision on their own. we have seen some people still pop up protest iing, but on the signs, it says protesting for la-quan, not necessarily for this case. i think what helped in a lot of the cases today was the fact that the doj has stepped forward to say they are going to investigate this police department because that s what so many people want to see moving forward. a pattern and practice across the board. an investigation by the department of justice into the chicago police department. ryan young reporting for us, thank you for that. next, we turn to politics. you heard the president last night in the prime time address promising we will prevail talking about the war against isis. but a new poll shows that most americans do not think he s headed in the right direction. republicans are now pouncing on the speech laying out their own plans to defeat the terror group. we ll talk about it, next. when i lay in my tempur-pedic contour- the next thing i know it s morning. w ....
let s talk about that if our viewers who may not have heard that part of it yet. as i do, i want to show you the video of of the dash cam video of the la-quan mcdonald deadly shooti shooting. you e see him running down the street here. what you re talking about is the fact that late friday night what was revealed were the accounts that police officers on the scene gave to their superiors in chicago p.d. about the shooting. six of them agreed with the officer, who is now charged with first-degree murder, saying that la-quan was approaching them. one of them saying he believed mcdonald was attacking them. and that is not what we see on the videotape. . this is going to be part of the civil rights investigation that the justice department is going to carry out. just so viewers don t get confused, this is going to be a second investigation. there s a long running federal investigation of the criminal action that resulted that we ....
But the video of la-quan that was killed after your son. when he was shot 16 times. i couldn t watch it. , plain the emotions you were feeling after what you were going through with your own son. it brought back a lot of memories and it brought back memories to what i had seen on the tape of my son. michael, we want to get the chicago police s side. we have gotten nothing from them so far, although their spokesperson has said since their shooting that dorothy s son that he had a gun and he pointed his gun at officers before he was shot. i know you disagree. you tell me your version of events. she had a statement through ....