Burger King Manager Near Site of Laquan McDonald Shooting: Police Erased Surveillance Vid
by Josh Feldman | 4:44 pm, November 28th, 2015
The manager of a Burger King yards away from where Laquan McDonald was shot by officer Jason Van Dyke believes that police officers erased the store’s surveillance video.
Jay Darshane told The Chicago Tribune this week that moments after McDonald was shot multiple times, a few police officers entered Burger King and asked to see the surveillance video. He let them look over it and they left hours later.
But when the video was examined the next day, there was a missing 86 minutes of footage, which included the time of McDonald’s death.
Darshane said he testified to a federal grand jury about this months ago, and he insisted that everything was working properly, so it couldn’t have been an error.
He said, “I was just trying to help the police with their investigation. I didn’t know they were going to delete it.”
The Cook County State’s Attorney said this week that there was forensic testing done on the video and it revealed no evidence of tampering.
There have been plenty of questions about videos released from that night, including the lack of audio, which the police attributed to a battery issue.
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