mcdonald s attorneys and scouring over 3,000 pages of e-mails obtained through a freedom of information request. at least three eyewitnesses that were in the drive-through of the burger king, that were taken to a police station, separated, put in different rooms and interviewed by police, detectives, sergeants, lieutenants. reporter: mcdonald family attorney jeff newslin says one of the truck drivers said he saw an execution. another started screaming, stop shooting, and after hours of interrogation and no sign of release, he says police asked witnesses to change their stories. code of silence. thin blue wall. i think that s an anchored description of what happened here and quite frankly in almost any shooting. reporter: police reports state that witnesses and officers on-scene either didn t see the shooting or saw that van
attorney says one of those witnesses, a truck driver, told investigators he saw, quote, an execution. another allegedly started screaming, stop shooting. and after hours of interrogation and no sign of release, he says, police asked witnesses to changes their story. code of silence, thin blue wall, that s an accurate description here. reporter: statements state that witnesses and police officers on scene either didn t see the shooting or saw what van dyke alleged, that mcdonald raised his knife at van dyke, attempting to kill him. the release of the shooting video would later poke holes in his story. the city of chicago responded in a statement saying the police action surrounding this shooting are under investigation by the u.s. department of justice for possible criminal charges. and by the city inspector
down, stop shooting. marc, where do we start? it s stunning that we have to tell someone that someone is on the ground after they walk up and shoot them 14 more times. we have to ask fundamental questions about who we re recruiting, who we re hiring. also, what is the role that police should play in our society and what is the role that police should play in our neighborhoods. at the end of the day, this isn t happening. i love new day, but i d love to talk about syria and how awesome the eagles are or thanksgiving. we would love to as well, unfortunately, you re right. this is happening all too frequently. gentlemen, i hope you get a wonderful thanksgiving with your families. thank you. thank you for working on this with us today. alisyn. russia and turkey still butting heads despite cause to
the video doesn t completely show because there s no audio. after he fired the first couple of shots took the boy down, he paused. there s a pause. you can t hear that pause in the video because there s no sown. we don t know why there s no sound because there s supposed to be sound in the video. and he enters 16 rounds into the body. next is the code of silence. the lie that s told to the press and to the public that this boy lunged at him with a knife, shot him once, shot him once in the chest. in self-defense. when the boy is coming after him. we know that s a lie. then there s silence. the witnesses were told to get out of there. one of the witnesses who said stop shooting refuses to leave.
rather than single shots, self-defense to the chest but that the young man was actually shot 16 times. and then when we talked to witnesses and also when i talked with people who had seen the video from the inside who took me through it frame by frame, just as you even as the state s attorney described it, that there was they shot him while he s walking away, walking away toward the fence. not they, officer van dyke shoots him walking away toward the fence and then he goes down to the ground and then unloads his clip into the body. 16 shots in total and really different from the police story. then the code of silence goes immediately into effect. police officer who s arrive on the scene cover it up. tell the witnesses to get the heck out of there. a witness who was there, a woman who said stop shooting, stop shooting during the entire time when the officer was unloading his clip into this young boy s body, she refuses to leave and she reports she s taken down to the station, locked i