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It's at the area of the gun. >> it's my determination that this defendant's actions of shooting laquan mcdonald when he did not pose an immediate threat of great body harm or death, and his subsequent actions of shooting laquan mcdonald while he lay on the ground after previously being struck by gunfire were not justified and they were not a proper use of deadly force by this police officer. >> we're joined now from chicago by jamie calvin who's reported extensively on patterns of abuse there. he was the person who got the autopsy report in this case and got that to be public also. joining us,...

Mark, let me start with you. as a police officer, your reaction to what you see there. >> well, you know, chris it's very easy to discuss what we've just seen in terms of tactics but i think that really doesn't even touch on what the real issues are here. i think it's obscene and as disturbing and as painful as the video is, it will be for mm people who are witnessing the video, i think there are larger issues that are disturbing and enraging folk. and that is the process, how do we get to the this point. you know, why did it take as long as it has taken to get to this point. and are we on a c...

>> mark, let me ask you this. when you talk about tremaine was talking about the possibility of a cover-up. craig futterman raised that specter. i don't have the evidence to suggest that happened. that said, when you talk about something systemic, are there questions you would want answered and documents you would want to see from the other officers present that night to be confident this was dealt with integrity. >> absolutely. there's so much information out there that we haven't been at least supplied up to this point. and some of it, of course, you won't be privy to because you don't want ...

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 ...

We're very sensitive to the fact this is a person's wife you are watching extinguished here. at the same time, it is essentially the grounds for the facts as the issue here. so gentlemen, if you'll watch along with me, this is the dashcam pulling up. this young man, the police called that someone was walking around. some i believe said he had knifed a few tires. you see him pulling up his pants there. he moves past the first car. it is the second car on the far left is officer van dyke, on the right is his partner. officer van dyke fires a but the right there as mcdonald walks away putting him...