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TONIGHT, WAS IT A COVER UP?
A STUNNING INDICTMENT AGAINST
THREE CHICAGO POLICE OFFICERS.
ON THE SCENE DURING THE McDONALD
FATAL SHOOTING.
GOOD EVENING, I'M IRIKA SARGENT.
AND I'M ROB JOHNSON.
IT WENT AGAINST THE SO-CALLED
CODE OF SILENCE.
LIVE IN THE NEWSROOM WITH ALL
THE DEVELOPMENTS, DANA?
Reporter: ROB AND IRIKA, THE
SPECIAL PROSECUTOR CALLED TO
THIS CASE CALLED HER TASK A
SOBERING RESPONSIBILITY.
THE RESULT OF THE YEAR-LONG
PROBE IS THE INDICTMENT OF THREE
FORMER AND CURRENT POLICE
OFFICERS, PRESENT WHEN OFFICER
VAN DYKE SHOT THE 17-YEAR-OLD.
THESE DEFENDANTS LIED ABOUT WHAT
OCCURRED, SERIOUS ALLEGATIONS
MADE BY SPECIAL PROSECUTOR
PATRICIA BROWN HOLMES AGAINST
THREE MEN WHO SWORE TO UPHOLD
THE LAW.
NOW THEY'RE CHARGED WITH
OBSTRUCTING JUSTICE FOR WHAT
THEY ALLEGEDLY DID AFTER
McDONALD'S DEATH.
THE INDICTMENT ALLEGES THEY
FAILED TO INTERVIEW SPECIFIC
WITNESSES.
Reporter: ALSO ACCUSES THEM
OF FURNISHING FALSE INFORMATION,
FALSE REPORTS AND FAILING TO
REPORT OR CORRECT FALSE
INFORMATION.
IN ORDER TO PREVENT
INDEPENDENT CRIMINAL
INVESTIGATORS FROM LEARNING THE
TRUTH.
Reporter: OFFICER JASON VAN
DYKE NOW FACES MURDER CHARGES
FOR SHOOTING McDONALD.
INITIALLY POLICE CLAIMED THE
TEEN WAS THREATENING OFFICERS
WITH THE KNIFE, SOMETHING DASH
CAM VIDEO CALLED IN TO QUESTION.
BUT ATTORNEYS FOR McDONALD'S
FAMILY QUESTIONED HIS DEATH FROM
CONSISTENT WITH OUR
INVESTIGATION.
Reporter: JEFF NESSLIN EVEN
WROTE LETTERS TO CITY ATTORNEYS
WITH HIS CONCERNS.
HE HOPES THE GRAND JURY
INVESTIGATION CONTINUES.
JUST THREE OFFICERS NOW THERE
WERE EIGHT OR 10 OFFICERS AT THE
SCENE, AND NONE OF THEM GAVE AN
HONEST ACCOUNT OF WHAT HAPPENED
IN MY OPINION.
DYKE'S ATTORNEY CALLS THE
ALLEGATIONS FALSE.
STAN HERBERT SAYS IT'S PROOF THE
GOVERNMENT WANTS TO PREVENT VAN
DIKE FROM GETTING A FAIR TRIAL
BY SILENCING POTENTIAL
WITNESSES.
VAN DIKE WILL BE IN COURT
TOMORROW.
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