CHICAGO — The traffic stop started like most others: Lights and sirens were activated, the police cruiser slowed to a stop and Officer Ella French and her partners walked to the vehicle. Jurors on Tuesday watched footage from police body cameras that showed a relatively normal traffic stop devolve into stunning violence. They saw and heard frenzied movements, a battery of gunshots, then a ...
“I’m sorry you will have to see and hear the things you are going to have to see and hear in this trial,” a prosecutor warned jurors in his opening statement as the trial began for Emonte Morgan, 23.
Defense attorneys had asked the judge to bar officers from wearing their uniforms and creating “a sea of blue” that could intimidate jurors in Emonte Morgan’s trial.
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