The story of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald is told in a devastating new documentary from the Oscar-nominated director Rick Rowley, who speaks about its importance
The grainy dash-cam video dates itself: 20 October 2014. The time code shows it’s just minutes before 10pm and the headlights of the police car illuminate the street. Called on to the scene to respond with Taser backup to a dazed boy walking through a truckyard carrying a knife who was breaking into cars, the car finally pulls up. In the middle of the street, back turned to the camera a young black male walks hurriedly, seemingly trying to avoid something. He turns slightly, almost as if he has decided to walk backwards. Then suddenly, he drops, shot. Lying on the ground, the pixelated footage doesn’t show the fifteen bullets about to pierce his body that will result in his death but there is an occasional...
The grainy dash-cam video dates itself: 20 October 2014. The time code shows it’s just minutes before 10pm and the headlights of the police car illuminate the street. Called on to the scene to respond with Taser backup to a dazed boy walking through a truckyard carrying a knife who was breaking into cars, the car finally pulls up. In the middle of the street, back turned to the camera a young black male walks hurriedly, seemingly trying to avoid something. He turns slightly, almost as if he has decided to walk backwards. Then suddenly, he drops, shot. Lying on the ground, the pixelated footage doesn’t show the fifteen bullets about to pierce his body that will result in his death but there is an occasional...
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