dayct. 20, 2014 is the laquan mcdonald is gunned down by jason van dyke also van dyke then controls thearrative or blessing he felt his life was threatened. no assault otherwise so this was just par for the course. talk then about how this case develops, how it changed from that night. >> that would have been the end of it ordinarily. in any one of these thousands of other cases where this has happened. but two things happen that were not expected. first, a whistleblower in law enforcement got in touch with an investigative journalist calpine and told him there was a video out there. he was worried it might be destroyed if no one started asking for it the other parallel thing that happened was the family began to ask questions. pastor marvin hunter, the great uncle of laquan mcdonald, when laquan's body was delivered to the funeral home, the funeral home called him up and told him, in the news they were saying he was shot once in the chest but he was full of bullet holes. so they took teachers and took us to an attorney and begin the process of exploring litigation around the case, whic

riveting documentary "16 shots" examines the 2014 shooting of laquan mcdonald by police officer jason van dykeideo making all the difference, sparking some massive city-wide protests, ultimately bringing down the police commissioner, the state's attorney and the mayor, who decided not to seek reelection. the officer in question was eventually put on trial and found guilty of second-degree murder, and sentenced to 6 1/2 years behind bars. but it was the actual circumstances surrounding the shooting that ripped a community down to its core. joining me now is the lead journalist who first reported on the existence of the dash cam video and kept digging for answers. jimmy,ally happy to have you here with me. i watched the documentary, of course you are a key figure in all of this. at least as far as the documentary goes, you kept digging in this case. and it prevented laquan mcdonald from being just another black kid killed, shot by police officers. why did you keep digging? >> you know, the really critical person in terms of this whole story is a whistleblower in law enforcement who reached out t