Here’s How The Laquan McDonald Shooting Differs From What Police Said Happened
Dashcam footage released on Tuesday
After a Oct 2014 killing, Pat Camden, a orator for a Fraternal Order of Police, told a Chicago Tribune
Camden conspicuous McDonald had a “crazed”said military
“The officers are responding to somebody with a blade in a demented condition, who stabs out tires on a automobile and tires on a unit car. You apparently aren’t going to lay down and have a crater of coffee with them,†Camden told CBS Chicago after a incident
The dashcam video expelled on Tuesday shows McDonald tugging his pants adult and walking in a center of a travel after some unit cars have already arrived on a scene. He is walking divided from a officers, not lunging, when one of them, Jason Van Dyke, opens fire. McDonald spins, falls to a belligerent and lays there for several some-more seconds while Van Dyke continues to fire him.
The Tribune reported that McDonald had been “shot in a chest and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was conspicuous passed during 10:42 p.m.” After obtaining McDonald’s autopsy report
The military account of a murdering might have left unchallenged, were it not for Kalven, freelance publisher Brandon Smith, and Smith’s attorney, Craig Futterman, who pushed for a recover of a video after a whistleblower alerted them it existed.
Smith sued for a video’s recover underneath a Freedom of Information Act in August. After a decider ruled in his favor, city officials expelled a video on Tuesday.
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