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Times, he was left to die in the middle of the street and there were at least a dozen members of the chicago police department who were standing there, and not a single police officer rendered aid. >> they reduced this boy to a second-class citizen by saying that, no matter what happened to him and how he suffered, we're not gonna take his suffering into consideration. that is not how the justice system in this country was designed to be. if you are wrong, you should pay for what you've done. >> reporter: the question now is, will that payment end with this sentence having been served? or will...

And bottom line, now that we're at this moment, his family is reminded they feel the punishment doesn't fit the crime. take a listen. >> they reduced this boy to a second class citizen. by saying that no matter what happened to him and how he suffered, we're not going to take his suffering into consideration. that is not how the justice system in this country was designed to be. if you are wrong, you should pay for what you've done. >> reporter: the mayor released a statement this morpning -- he was the first officer in more than half a century to be convicted of a crime committed purportedly ...

And there were at least a dozen members of the chicago police department who were standing there, and not a single police officer rendered aid. >> they reduced this boy to a second-class citizen by saying that no matter what happened to him and how he suffered, we're not going the take his suffering into consideration. that is not how the justice system in this country was designed to be. if you're wrong, you should pay for what you done. >> the question now is will that payment end with this sentence having been served or will there be new federal charges? a spokesperson for the department of...

Dictated and controlled really by members of the chicago police department. it was horrific what happened to laquan mcdonald. >> it was a lynching. that's what you saw. they were invoking fear. this is what you do when you get out of line. this is what you do when you do anything other than what we tell you. >> reporter: some of those same wounds are now being reopened years later as the man responsible for them walks free. . after laquan had been shot 16 times he was left to die in the middle of the street and there were at least a dozen members of the chicago police department who were stand...

The u.s. congress, in 1870. that's right, a black man serving in a congress in a country where he was treated as a second-class citizen, by law. it took nearly 100 years before the voting rights act was passed, that gave him an millions equal rights on, on paper, let alone practice. look, we are at a tipping point. for decades, we were told the israeli government had to take these practices because it was surrounded by a sea of arabs, bent on destroying it. but, most of the major countries in the arab world, have made peace with israel. we're told these measures were made for security, how is ...