>> A NEW SHOWTIME DOCUMENTARY

TAKES A CLOSE LOOK AT THE

OCTOBER 2014 SHOOTING DEATH OF

17-YEAR-OLD LAQUAN McDONALD BY

FORMER CHICAGO POLICE OFFICER

JASON VAN DYKE.

AND IT LOOKS AT THE POLITICAL

FIRESTORM THAT FOLLOWED.

>> UNTIL THE VIDEO OF THIS

HORRIFIC SHOOTING WAS RELEASED,

THERE IS A ZERO CHANCE OF POLICE

ACCOUNTABILITY.

THAT WAS THE FIRST TIME IN OUR

HISTORY THAT AN ON DUTY CHICAGO

POLICE OFFICER HAD EVER BEEN

CHARGED WITH KILLING A BLACK

MAN, WOMAN OR CHILD.

>> NAMED AFTER THE NUMBER OF

BULLETS FIRED, THE "16 SHOTS"

FEATURES INTERVIEWS AND

ATTORNEYS FOR THE McDONALD

FAMILY AND VAN DYKE AND INPUT

FROM THE ACTIVISTS AND

JOURNALISTS WHO BROUGHT THE

STORY TO LIGHT.

AND JOINING US IS THE DIRECTOR

AND WRITER OF "16 SHOTS" RICK

ROWLEY WHO DIRECTED THE FILM

DIRTY WARS NOMINATED FOR THE

ACADEMY AWARD FOR BEST

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE IN 2013.

RICK ROWLEY WELCOME TO "CHICAGO

TONIGHT."

HOW DID YOU BECOME INTERESTED IN

THIS SUBJECT FOR A DOCUMENTARY?

>> I WAS IN CHICAGO FILMING ON

ANOTHER PROJECT AND I MET JAMIE

KALVEN AFTER THE VIDEO WAS

RELEASED AND HE WROTE THE FIRST

ARTICLES ABOUT THIS WHEN HE

UNSPOOLED EVERYTHING THAT WAS

REVEALED AND IT WAS AN

EXCEPTIONAL CASE.

WE ARE IN A MOMENT OF NATIONAL

RECKONING AROUND RACE AND

INJUSTICE AND THE CASE CUTS TO

THE HEART OF THAT.

WE KNOW MORE ABOUT THE CASE THAN

KNOWN ABOUT ANY OTHER POLICE

SHOOTING IN HISTORY.

>> AND YOU INTERVIEW A LOT OF

THE CENTRAL FIGURES SOME PEOPLE

WHO HAVE BEEN LOATHE TO TALK

ABOUT THIS.

WAS IT DIFFICULT TO GET THE

INTERVIEWS?

>> I WAS SURPRISED AT HOW OPEN

AND WILLING PEOPLE WERE TO

ENGAGE AND I FELT INCREDIBLY

LUCKY.

WE TALKED TO PEOPLE ON ALL SIDES

OF THE STORY AND PRESENTED

HONESTLY OUR INTENTION WHICH WAS

NOT --

WE DON'T WANT TO REDUCE EITHER

SIDE WE ARE TRYING TO YOU HAD

HOW THE INSTITUTIONS AND THE

GROUPS FUNNION.

>> AND THE INTERVIEW THAT OPENS

THE FILM IS THE FORMER FOP

SPOKESPERSON PAT CAMDEN WHO ON

THE SCENE THAT NIGHT GAVE THE

INITIAL NARRATIVE FALSE

NARRATIVE THAT WE LEARNED ABOUT

WHAT HAPPENED.

TELL US ABOUT THAT INTERVIEW?

>> IN MANY WAYS THIS STORY IS A

STORY ABOUT A BATTLE BETWEEN

NARRATIVES.

FOR THE MOMENT FROM THAT LAQUAN

McDONALD WAS SHOT TO THE

VERDICT ITSELF, THERE IS A SET

OF FACTS THAT PEOPLE HAVE AND A

DEBATE OVER THE STORIES.

AND IT'S THE JOB TO FRAME THE

NARRATIVE FROM THE BEGINNING AND

HE IS UP FRONT ABOUT THAT.

HE SAYS THE POLICE HAVE TO BE

THE FIRST TO COME OUT WITH A

STORY BEFORE ANYONE ELSE HAS A

CHANCE TO SO THEY CAN CONTROL

THE NARRATIVE.

AND HE HAS BEEN THE SPOKESMAN

FOR 500 POLICE INVOLVED

SHOOTINGS IN HIS CAREER AND YOU

SEE CLIPS IN THE SECTION WHERE

HE TELLS THE SAME STORY OVER AND

OVER AND OVER AGAIN.

>> AND HE GETS ANNOYED WITH THE

INTERVIEWER WHEN THEY BRING THAT

UP TO HIM.

>> EXACTLY.

IT'S ALMOST SEEMS LOOK A SCRIPT

UP FOLDS.

BUT NOT JUST WITH HIM IT IS A

SCRIPT THAT IS PICKS UP AND

REPLICATED IN THE MEDIA AND IT

BECOMES A PART OF THE DISCOURSE.

>> LET'S LOOK AT ANOTHER CLIP

HERE IS ONE FEATURING FORMER

CHICAGO POLICE SUPERINTENDENT

GARRY McCARTHY AND LAQUAN

McDONALD'S GREAT UNCLE

REVEREND MARVIN HUNTER.

>> I'M SORRY BUT THAT IS A

THREAT.

IF SOMEBODY GETS NEAR YOU WITHIN

21 FEET OF YOU WITH AN OPEN

KNIFE, YOU CAN DIE.

>> AS YOU SAW AND I'VE SEEN,

LAQUAN McDONALD WAS MURDERED.

HIS FAMILY WANTS JUSTICE TO BE

SERVED AND JUSTICE FOR US IS

JASON VAN DYKE BEING CONVICTED

OF THE MURDER OF LAQUAN

McDONALD.

>> JAMIE KALVEN YOU MENTIONED

WAS THE JOURNALIST THAT GOT THIS

GOING AND HE SAID IN THE

BEGINNING HE READY WITH THE --

READ ABOUT THE INCIDENT AND

FLIPPED THE PAGE.

WHAT DO YOU THINK IT IS THAT

SPARKED THE LOOK INTO THIS?

>> IT IS ONE OF THE ENDURING

MYSTERIES OF THIS CASE.

THERE ARE 30-60 POLICE SHOOTING

A YEAR IN CHICAGO.

A SHOOTING EVERY WEEK OR EVERY

OTHER WEEK AND HOW MANY OF THOSE

NAMES DO WE KNOW?

AND IT WAS A WHOLE HOST OF

PEOPLE STEPPING FORWARD AND

BREAKING THROUGH THIS WALL OF

SILENCE THAT IS BUILT AROUND THE

CASE.

WHISTLE BLOWERS AND CIVILIAN

WITNESSES DESCRIBING BEING

THREATENED BY POLICE OFFICERS

AND WHO SPOKE TO US ON CAMERA.

THERE IS THE ACTIVIST WHO SUED

TO FORCE THE VIDEO TO BE

RELEASED WHEN EVERYONE ELSE HAD

GIVEN UP A SUSTAINED PRESSURE

AND ATTENTION THAT LASTED FOUR

YEARS.

>> AND THE CIVILIAN WITNESSES

AND THEY TALK ABOUT BEING

INTERVIEWED BY DETECTIVES THEY

SAY THE DETECTIVES URGED THEM TO

LIE ABOUT THE CASE.

TELL US ABOUT THAT?

>> ALMA IN PARTICULAR SHE WAS ON

THE SCENE IN FRONT OF THE BURGER

KING WHERE THE SHOOTING HAPPENED

AND SAW THE WHOLE THING.

AND SHE SAID DESCRIBES IN DETAIL

SHE WAS BROUGHT BACK TO POLICE

HEADQUARTERS QUESTIONED FOR

HOURS ALL NIGHT LONG UNTIL 3:00

A.M.

THEY KEPT BADGERING HER TELLING

HER SHE DID NOT HEAR HOW MANY

SHOTS SHE HEARD AND BROUGHT UP

THE VIDEO AND SAYING WE HAVE

VIDEO AND THE VIDEO CONTRADICTS

YOUR STATEMENT.

>> LYING ABOUT IT?

>> LYING ABOUT IT, AND THE VIDEO

CORROBORATED HER STATEMENT.

AND THEN TOLD HER IT'S NOT GOOD

TO LIE AND SHE WAS BEING

QUESTIONED BECAUSE SHE MIGHT END

UP GOING TO JAIL FOR PERJURY.

>> AND YOU INTERVIEWED CAROL

MARIN IN THE STORY.

ESPECIALLY HER STORY HOW POLICE

WENT INTO THE BURGER KING AND

SCRUBBED ABOUT TWO HOURS PLUS OF

VIDEO.

DID THAT GET RESOLVED WHAT

HAPPENED THERE?

>> THERE WERE A LOT OF AMAZING

JOURNALISTS IN CHICAGO WHO

BLAZED THE TRAIL WHICH IS WHY WE

KNOW MORE ABOUT THE SHOOTING

THAN WE KNOW ABOUT THE OTHER

SHOOTINGS IN HISTORY.

CAROL MARIN ONE OF HER BIG

REVELATIONS WAS THAT 87 MINUTES

WERE ERASED FROM THE

SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS IN THE

BURGER KING.

>> AN HOUR-AND-A-HALF.

>> COVERED THE TIME THAT THE

SHOOTING HAPPENED AND WE CALLED

THE ENGINEERS WHO INSTALL THE

SYSTEMS AND THAT IS NOT A THING

THAT CAN HAPPEN.

NOT ONLY WERE THE ORIGINAL

COPIES ERASED BUT THERE ARE

BACKUPS THAT ARE THERE.

AND SOMEONE TOOK THEM OUT.

>> TO A T ALL IN THE CASE

BELIEVE THAT MAYOR RAHM EMANUEL

COVERED THE VIDEO OR HID THE

VIDEO OF THE SHOOTING UNTIL

AFTER HE WAS REELECTED.

DO YOU BELIEVE IT WAS A COVER UP

ON HIS PART?

>> THERE IS NO QUESTION IT WAS A

COVER UP.

THERE ARE STILL QUESTIONS THAT

REMAIN.

THE MAYOR NOW SAYS THAT HE DID

NOT SEE THE VIDEO UNTIL AFTER IT

WAS RELEASED PUBLICLY.

WHETHER HE IS LYING ABOUT WHEN

HE SAW IT OR BEING DEEPLY

DISHONEST BY PRETENDING HE DID

NOT KNOW HOW SEVERE THE CASE IS

THAT IS THE ONLY QUESTION.

WE KNOW HIS TEAM HAD THE VIDEO

HE HAD THE VIDEO HIS TEAM HAD

SEEN IT.

THEY WERE WORRIED AND CONCERNED

ABOUT IT.

AND THE CORPORATION COUNSEL WAS

SENT OUT TO PAY A $5 MILLION

SETTLEMENT BEFORE THERE WAS A

LAWSUIT TO DELAY THE VIDEO

RELEASE UNTIL AFTER HE WON

REELECTION.

>> AND THE INTERVIEW WITH ANITA

ALVAREZ SHE CALLED YOU UP AND

WANTED ANOTHER INTERVIEW AFTER

SHE LEFT OFFICE.

WHAT DID SHE SAY ABOUT RAHM

EMANUEL?

>> ONE OF THE GREAT THINGS ABOUT

FOLLOWING THE STORY FOR THREE

YEARS.

WE GOT TO INTERVIEW PEOPLE AT

MULTIPLE POINTS.

ALVAREZ WAS THE STATE'S ATTORNEY

AND AFTER SHE IS OUSTED FROM

POWER SHE MIGHT BE WILLING TO

SPEAK MORE OPENLY.

SHE IS CERTAIN THE MAYOR SAW THE

VIDEO BEFOREHAND.

I DON'T WANT TO PRETEPID LIKE

RAHM EMANUEL IS A BAD GUY IS THE

EVIL PERSON AT THE CENTER OF

THIS.

>> SHE ALSO BELIEVES THAT

EMANUEL POLITICALLY WAS GOING TO

TRY AND BLAME HER FOR THE WHOLE

THING?

>> YEAH.

I MEAN, EVERYONE SEES THEMSELVES

AS A FALL GUY IN THIS.

LIKE GARRY McCARTHY WAS FIRED

IMMEDIATELY AFTERWARDS AND HE

CLAIMS HE WAS A FALL GUY TAKING

FALL FOR THIS.

AND ALVAREZ, THE POLITICAL

ESTABLISHMENT DID NOT BACK HER

UP AND SHE LOST HER REELECTION

BID AND SEES HERSELF BEING

THROWN UNDER THE BUS.

>> DID YOU TRY TO INTERVIEW RAHM

EMANUEL?

>> TRIED CONSTANTLY WE SPENT A

YEAR SITTING IN HIS PRESS

PERSON'S OFFICE TRYING TO

CONVINCE HIM THAT IT WAS GOOD TO

GO ON CAMERA.

THAT IS --

THAT KIND OF LACK OF

TRANSPARENCY TO REFUSE TO

ADDRESS AT ALL THE MOST PRESSING

STORY IN YOUR CITY AT THE TIME?

IT WAS REALLY SHOCKING TO US

ACTUALLY.

>> WHAT IS THE TAKEAWAY FOR THE

NATION?

>> I MEAN, THESE ISSUES AROUND

RACE AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE ARE

NOT JUST UNFOLDING IN CHICAGO.

EVERY MAJOR CITY IN AMERICA IS

IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS RECKONING.

BECAUSE OF THE WORK OF CHICAGO

JOURNALISTS AND THE SUSTAINED

COMMUNITY ATTENTION THAT HAS

BROUGHT TRANSPARENCY IT ALLOWS

US TO SEE STEP-BY-STEP HOW THIS

SYSTEM WORKS THAT THE MAKES THE

CASES DISAPPEAR.

IT DOESN'T WORK EVERYWHERE.

AND ALSO, THIS IS AN

UNPRECEDENTED MOMENT ON SO MANY

LEVELS.

THE FIRST TIME IN THE 180-YEAR

HISTORY OF THE CHICAGO POLICE

DEPARTMENT THAT AN OFFICER HAS

BEEN CHARGED WITH MURDERING A

BLACK CITIZEN AND THEY WERE

CONVICTED.

AS WILL CALLAWAY SAYS THEY WERE

CONVICTED BY A MOSTLY WHITE JURY

IN FRONT OF THE ENTIRE NATION.

IT IS AN UNPRECEDENTED MOMENT.

AND A MOMENT THAT IN APROCESS

THAT EVERYONE SHOULD LEARN FROM.