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From the time the defendant fired his first shot to clear visual evidence of a final shot. for approximately 13 of those seconds, laquan was lying on the ground. of the eight or more officers on the scene, it was only the defendant who fired his weapon. >> mark claxton, this is an investigation that's an examination of one minute in time, a little built more of a minute in time that's actually relevant to the murder investigation. this same district attorney, this same prosecutor takes over a year to get to this point, and tonight, when she describes her case, she sites only the dash cam video...

Been misplaced or destroyed or something along those lines. those type of questions would then leaded you into whether there is some sort of -- if there is, and i'm not saying there is or is not, whether there is some conspiratorial kind of action or movement and that would actually explain why it would take these 13 months, if you will, for there to be a decision by a prosecutor's office to pursue charges against a police officer, on duty, off duty, doesn't make a difference here. what that does is say to a lot of people, there is not a sim biotic relationship between prosecutor's offices and...

Something along those lines. those type of questions would then leaded you into whether there is some sort of -- if there is, and i'm not saying there is or is not, whether there is some conspiratorial kind of action or movement and that would actually explain why it would take these 13 months, if you will, for there to be a decision by a prosecutor's office to pursue charges against a police officer, on duty, off duty, doesn't make a difference here. what that does is say to a lot of people, there is not a sim biotic relationship between prosecutor's offices and police departments that there ...

Coming up in march. we have a democratic primary which anita alvarez is running for re-election who you heard from earlier, and everyone is worried about how this will look. >> all right. laura washington, thanks for your time. one quick correction. i mentioned he died. it appears he died in the ambulance later on. we should also note that the original accounts from police which we'll talk about more in a moment went through the a whole variety of actions, laquan mcdonald allegedly did that that video does not show. we'll have more breaking coverage of this news out of chicago up next. i'm goi...

This is just one more scar on the record of superintendent mccarthy. and you also have an election coming up in march. we have a democratic primary which anita alvarez is running for re-election who you heard from earlier, and everyone is worried about how this will look. >> all right. laura washington, thanks for your time. one quick correction. i mentioned he died. it appears he died in the ambulance later on. we should also note that the original accounts from police which we'll talk about more in a moment went through the a whole variety of actions, laquan mcdonald allegedly did that that ...