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September 26, 2018

Chicago Jurors Shown Animated Version of Shooting in Police Murder Trial
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And in Chicago, the legal team defending police officer Jason Van Dyke
from murder charges presented a computer-generated video in court
Tuesday, calling the four-minute depiction of the death of Laquan Mc
Donald evidence that the officer acted in self defense when he shot the
unarmed African-American teenager in a hail of gunfire in October 2014.
The computer-generated video did not reflect what was recorded in a
police dashcam video of the actual incident. It did not include the
images of other officers at the scene, and it showed Van Dyke shooting
just a fraction of the 16 bullets he actually fired at Mc Donald. Jason
Van Dyke faces two counts of first-degree murder. He is the first police
officer in Chicago to stand trial for killing someone on duty in 50
years.


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