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Chicago Police Constable Jason Van Dyke's Special Prosecutor's Team continues his trial on Tuesday, the second day of the hot button affair.
Updates: Walsh: McDonald's always posed a danger after his fall | "My angle was totally different" | & # 39; Embody & # 39; code of silence & # 39; & # 39; | Walsh says he told Van Dyke to stay in the group car | Van Dyke's partner testifies under immunity
11:10 AM McDonald still in danger after being shot and shot, says Walsh
Chicago police officer, Joseph Walsh, said he had stepped back when Laquan McDonald 's moved closer to his car to create more distance between him and the teenager.
Jason Van Dyke has taken a step forward.
Repeating several times to the jury that McDonald was a threat, Walsh said that the teenager still represented a danger after being shot and falling on the street.
He said McDonald had never lost the knife, prompting prosecutor Joseph Cullen to ask why he did not shoot him at the time.
"I could have," he said.
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11:07 AM "My angle was totally different"
While he continued his testimony, former Chicago police officer, Joseph Walsh, claimed that McDonald had lifted the knife up to his shoulders and swayed him a few moments before Van Dyke does not open fire.
Hated to concede that the video does not show this action, Walsh angrily told the prosecutor that the video showed McDonald from behind while he and Van Dyke had a front view.
"My position, my angle was totally different from this position," he said about the video.
The defense tried to prevent prosecutors from showing still images of the video on the dashboard, but Judge Vincent Gaughan dismissed the objection. Until now, the jury has spent about an hour viewing images and videos of McDonald's being filmed.
At one point, Walsh found himself in a still image of the night at the prosecutor's request. When asked to encircle "the accused", he encircled McDonald by mistake.
"Sorry," he said.
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10:41 AM: "Embody the" code of silence & # 39; & # 39;
Walsh, in the field since June 1998 and Jason Van Dyke's partner for the second time only that night, has already given the same account as Van Dyke and said shooting was needed.
The city's inspector general found that Walsh made numerous false statements and omissions in his interview with the police and the Independent Police Review Authority, the municipal agency investigating police shootings at the time. .
"Walsh's actions embody the" code of silence "which has no legitimate place in the CPD," the report concluded.
Walsh resigned from the department after the Inspector General recommended his dismissal.
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10:38: Walsh says that he told Van Dyke to stay in the car
Walsh spoke in a clear and confident voice that contrasts sharply with two officers who testified on Monday. He went to the jury as "Officer – former officer Joseph Walsh".
Walsh, who was Van Dyke's partner on the night of the shootout, repeatedly acknowledged that he did not know anything about Laquan McDonald before filming and that nothing in McDonald's troubled history would have been taken into account. in his decision that night.
Walsh also told the jury that McDonald did not commit any act of aggression while he was being sued, but that he did not want him to enter a Burger King and injure people inside.
He then followed him into the street because he thought McDonald posed a danger for another nearby business.
"I was reasonably thinking that he was heading to the Dunkin 'Donuts," said Walsh.
When Walsh stopped the car, he told Van Dyke to stay in the car.
"I told him not to go out because Laquan McDonald was too close," said Walsh.
At Walsh's request, Gaughan JA prohibited the broadcast of audio and video images and photographs of Walsh in the courtroom.
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10:35: Van Dyke's partner testifies under immunity
Walsh welcomed the witness on Tuesday morning and admitted to receiving immunity in exchange for his testimony.
The jury was also informed that the former Chicago police officer is charged with obstructing justice, malpractice and conspiracy in another court.
Walsh and two other officers are being tried on charges that they have created "police reports in the early hours and days of criticism after Laquan McDonald's murder containing false important information to try to prevent or conduct a criminal investigation ". last year by a special grand jury. All three are tentatively scheduled for trial in November.
The statements made by Walsh during his testimony in the Van Dyke case can not be used against him at his own trial.
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