PBS NewsHour

Did dashboard video prompt Chicago cop’s murder charge?

Clip: 11/24/2015 | 10m 55s

Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke is being held without bail after being charged with first-degree murder in the death of Laquan McDonald, a black teenager whom Van Dyke shot 16 times. The city is under a court order to release a dashboard video that captured the deadly encounter. Jeffrey Brown talks to Paul Butler of Georgetown University Law Center.

Aired: 11/24/15

Rating: NR

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