CHICAGO — From the moment Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke was charged with first-degree murder in the 2014 shooting of Laquan McDonald, the case has centred around the video. What about the testimony from Van Dyke and his partner that night that the squad-car and nearby surveillance cameras didn’t capture their experience? Official police accounts of the Oct. 20, 2014, shooting described McDonald as lunging toward officers with the knife. The defence told jurors the man in the 27-minute video wasn’t R. Kelly and jurors ultimately acquitted him. One witness who could figure prominently in closing arguments is Dr. Laurence Miller, a psychologist who interviewed Van Dyke for his legal team.

Source: National Post October 03, 2018 20:15 UTC