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 .
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Chicago police officer Ella French had one final call with her mother on her way to work on Aug. 7, 2021. She used the phone call to pass the time during the drive to her district, her mother told jurors Tuesday. Elizabeth French then ended the call as she always did: that she loves her, to be careful and to be safe. “She liked to call me on her way to work,” French testified, smiling through .
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“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.