NEws outlets are releasing the dash cam video of Chicago PD Officer Van Dyke shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald 16 times last October subsequent to a ruling of an Illinois judge.
The victim was running along the middle of a road carrying a small knife (reportedly) he slows to a walk as he approaches two police cars and swerves away from them and swings his right arm out as if he is discarding a butt and is not walking toward the two officers. They both have handguns pointed at him as he is passing them perhaps ten feet away. One opens fire and the victim falls. This is as much as was shown on MSNBC. He was shot some sixteen times which would seemingly have required a reload, I would think. Perhaps that is why the charge is first degree murder.