involved he has been on a hunger strike since wednesday demanding better medical care he was jailed in february and sentenced to 2 and a half years imprisonment for parole violation. we need to get him to the hospital in the specialized hospital he has a fever and a cough we need to do a scan of his lungs because god forbid a corona virus infection could happen in the prison this is quite possible. the russian president vladimir putin has signed a new law which could keep him in power until 2036 the reset of his presidential term allows him to run 2 more times could turn has already been in power for more than 2 decades. fede death toll from days of fighting in sudan's west star for region has now risen to 50 another 150 people have been injured in battles between members of the arab and the saw in the tribes began one unknown armed men killed 2 people from the. day u.n.

peacekeepers withdrew from the area in december after a peace deal between the government and 2 armed groups. more than 800 inmates have escaped from a prison in southern nigeria in what the president's describing as an act of terrorism authorities say gunmen stormed the facility and stayed in use explosives and machine guns to free the inmates well these are blaming a secessionist group for the attack though it denies involvement. here's a quick check of the headlines on al-jazeera the trial for the murder of george floyd is set to resume any moment now more police officers are is set to take the stand on tuesday and it's a day after the minneapolis police chief testified that the officer accused of murdering george floyd broke rules on respecting what he called the sanctity of

life he said derek chauvin acted in a way that was against police training by kneeling on floyd's neck for more than 9 minutes tensions are now deepening over. down with sudan accusing it of breaking international law that's after 2 days of talks between ethiopia sudan and egypt failed to reach an agreement and iran says it's on track to revive the 2015 nuclear as high level talks begin in vienna signatories to the deal as well as the u.s. are attending but american and iranian officials are not planning to meet directly truck drivers entering britain from mainland europe will need to take a covert test within 2 days the government says dr rose will be tested at sites around britain and the move is to contain coronavirus variance thanks for watching al-jazeera we will leave you with the stream coming up next but by. after more than 30 years in power charts president do stevie is no seeking

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take a look at it right now have a look. at this in our crowd was right even on the range of. really happy to point into. the history. i know you. we break out of our program to take you live to day 7 of testimony at the derrick chauvin trial in minneapolis let's listen in to witness testimony. first of all if you feel so we'd appreciate if you could remove your mask more clearly. yes and then begin by stating your full name spelling each of your names. my name is curry yang for.

our last means go y e n g this was for. good morning good morning sir how are you employed i am employee with a police department how long have you been employed by the city of minneapolis i have been with the department for croxley 24 years and what your current position. marker position is i am the crisis intervention training corps neater for the department and your current rank. of sergeants. first i'd like you to tell the jury a little bit about yourself holder you see. i am probably 50 this year. and you indicated you've been employed by m.p.t. for 24 years probably 21 years yes could you please share with the jury your educational background i received my. bachelor psychology in criminal justice i received my master's degree in counseling psychology in my doctorate in general

psychology. when as you complete your doctorate. back in 2014. and when you started after you started with m.p.t. did you go through the academy yes i did describe that experience but your start i started counting me as a cadet in september of 2 actually september of 1906. we had i had to take some additional prodigy courses because of the conduct program and then from the cadet program i went through the academy and to be true after you completed the course work at the academy did you enter the field training program and yes i did a lot of afro i only was approximately 6 months i was 6 months it's been a long time goes on after you completed your field training with your 1st sight i was assigned to my memory serves me properly i believe i was assigned to downtown

precinct. after i finished my training as a patrol officer yes as a patrol officer and how laws did you serve as a patrol officer before being promoted to sergeant. who was a patrol officer vor i would say if not including specialty unit do i was illegal what 10 years would you please describe for the jury some of the precincts to which you were assigned and your and your assignments before promoting certain i was assigned again i was assigned to downtown priest and i was also signed to the police to keep me i was also signed to the house of 2 old school the and 5th precinct people i came to actually 5th precinct you want to get promoted i was assigned to what precinct or my supervisor orientation i what went to a robbery for my supervisor what we were intuition and then a listen 2000 town as a supervisor before i became the crisis intervention training corps to you.

now as a patrol officer have you ever been in a situation where it's been necessary for you to use force yes you ever arrested a suspect yes have you ever arrested a spy suspect who was reluctant to be arrested yes you've had to handcuff people who are struggling it is. and now you're the crisis training coordinator where you assigned as the crisis training court. deciding to join you in where's out ok it's located on the north side. at what we call the special operations center. 41102 point one north. can you please describe your role as the crisis training court as the size and strength courneya are you responsible for collaborating courtney with mental

professionals in community members and civilians to come in tito officers what crisis in crisis the escalation and time i'm also trying officers do what do you mean by crisis crisis is to be in any event situation is beyond of coping mechanism and during that what is beyond their control some time they don't know what to do and it is and we trained it to assist the person to bring them back down to be a queen prices local. could you please share with the jury some examples of types of christ's presence could be a mental health and then as related to music. it could be that. somebody's got to cockroach with example and they're just so affected by that that they don't know what to do and that could be a crisis so that could be an example of a crisis. can intoxication crisis intoxication be

a crisis to us through drugs or alcohol yes. certain types of anxiety could be a crisis yes. does a minneapolis police department have a policy pertaining to a person's crisis yes it does and at a high level can you explain what that policy requires the policy requires what it's safe infeasible that we showed. does the minneapolis police department i'm assuming as the crisis training coordinator you're aware of any training or tools that it provides law enforcement officers to abide by this policy yes does that include training officers to recognize when persons may be a crisis yes some of the signs of crisis types of crisis yes and there is a specific crisis intervention training course that be applets police department

sponsors or reports on down it's training centers are right that is what it is in your role as coordinator you bring the instructors that is going to have you been through the course itself i have been i have been through the course. yes you have said through some of the courses to us now exhibit. 3 which we won't publish at this time contains some training records and those training records indicate that crisis intervention training was offered this into 2016 and also 2018 and i'd like to talk to you about the larger block the 2016 block now 1st i have to ask you do you know the you recognize the name direct sheldon yes how do you recognize i reckon named chelan through training ok you're familiar with this person. would you recognize if you saw yes all right do you see him in the

courtroom today he has a mask on i think i'm assuming that's him. made a record reflect the witness is a done a fight to the phone. record also reflect exhibit 2 and 3 the training records indicate that in 2016 the defend that. participated in a linear course proximately a 40 hour course crisis intervention training. are you familiar with that type of course the 40 hour crisis intervention training course yes is that of course that you've personally participated in as a student that course was delivered to the department to use by me to see a piece of me associate he also uses associations. and can you just in general terms explain what that course covers that requires congress to individual in crisis symptoms and de-escalation strategies that maybe use for interview in crisis

so it's a scenario based training that. the trainer. association brains and professional actors to command and to to conduct crisis in areas where they're in a state of crisis and the officer has to use the you have to you d.s. can strategies to bring him down to pre-crisis level or to help him out. and so the officers are given an opportunity to practice recognizing what may be signs of persons in crisis and respond appropriately yes. i'd like to talk to you about a related concept you familiar with the critical decision making model yes i did how are you familiar with that model i attended that the critical decision making model was introduced to us by the police police executive research forms i

along with some my colleagues we attended a training session that was conducted by a representative from perth or the police exactly sure porn's and we adapted that model to impede the use guy or officers in their decision making process and does the critical decision making model is there an application to crisis intervention yes it does also an application to use of force yes and sometimes those decisions will have to be made contemporaneously yes the senate like to publish exhibit $276.00 the critical decision making will you recognise this document. yes or and this is a critical decision making model with which you're familiar yes or could you please explain based on your familiarity with this next graphic the middle circle

the middle circle what you see in the middle serco our boys neutrality respect in trus those are the pillars of procedural justice that was introduced to the parliament what is procedural justice we see judge us is basically is the legitimacy in our action what what we do are actually jim and that is what has he joined us as well is legitimacy and of that the training center also offers courses in procedural justice as well is that right that is granted yes this critical decision making model is adapted in part from those materials the procedural just curious there's one gives me now going back to the outer part of the circle the 1st step of information gathering you see that it goes kind of a wheel that's supposed to represent critical decision making or thinking is that right then that is what would you please and we've heard a little bit about this critical thinking decision making model already but i'd

like you to discuss how this works in the context of crisis intervention starting with the 1st block. son approach is information gathering we believe that this model has application not only for crisis but especially for crisis that is why it is part of our crisis curriculum and the 1st circle what you see there is information gathered in information gathering is a mere crucial to how what tactics of what decisions we made in information gathering can be based on dispatch or create based on the office of. observation observations of what observation of the scene observation the person could be observation of the environment is going on so some of these observations for example could just be physical observations right officer could look at the person and make some sort of assessment. as to whether or not there's a behavioral crisis yet is. listening is that also important listen is important

yes any other information that an officer would generally assess or to get when considering whether a person is in crisis. even. listening to listen is key all that observation even touch the example of you are absolutely hands on the person you can sometimes sense tensing up and you can tell that maybe the person is in crisis are not so. then going to the next step of taking that information and attention only assessing it what's the threat read through threat risk assessment live where is is the possibility that something bad or dangerous may happen and threat in a sense is the danger and whether that is because of harm or not. with risk you say it's the potential right so it doesn't necessarily mean that the person is being threatened or themselves as threat is

a right that is going to get there it's just the mere possibility of many people could present some sort of everybody present some sort of a risk right yes and it's up to the officer of the information gathering to determine whether that risk small larger elevates to a threat. has been and how does the judge or how does the officer then assess whether or not a threat i'm sorry a risk is small large or could develop into a threat that is up to the officers and digitalis circumstances that information they have and that time. the next step then after the threat or risk assessment authority to act could you please describe how that step is taken in the context of crisis intervention the 042 act is based on policy and also based on say statues in case they want to put individual in crisis and those are some of the authority that we have in hand people in crisis some of those. policies of the

authority could include the use of force policy yes the deescalation policy yes and the crisis intervention policy yes or. the next step then goals and actions please describe the thinking model in terms of crisis intervention regarding goals and actions. go is an action is it also contingency and on based on the information we need to alter may go into action somebody in a crisis is to see if that person needs help it what kind of help does that person you to the hospital as a person and can be. turned over to somebody that has you know thought it to watch over that person so is really to need to go for somebody in crisis we turn to see that person needs help. and then the next block in terms of crisis intervention review reassess could you please describe how that works in this scenario review

reassess as information becomes available we continuously review and reassess the situation to see if technion deescalation or other technique is working it is not working then we have just a technique you know strategies. it could you also then go backwards and adjust your goals actions yes you can though for example if initially the goal is to arrest someone after taking in information if you determine the person needed medical attention could you act on yes and then what would the action be the 1st was indeed a medical attention that would be the immediate goal was if somebody is in the amount of attention then we give you medical attention and then that would also relate to the backwards the authority to act is that right yes looking at the policy and there's a duty to provide medical attention right yes. how

is this critical decision making model imparted to minneapolis police officers in the training program we believe in the application of this critical piece if you meet the models so i introduce this model. with a pool of course to the department in 2018. and you know you've been in the situation where you've had to use force before you're in the field for a long time do you have an assessment as to whether or not this model is useful in the field i believe it's useful that is why we introduce this model and use it to the officers and is it practical it is about the believe it is about goals and can you explain how so i mean some of these situations involving police officers occur fairly quickly that is your is it possible for a police officer to use this critical thinking model in the field when actions are

sorry when what events are unfolding quickly it is possible the reader is in he was in his model it would almost be like. it could be almost like memory and when we talk about fast evolving situations i know they're they do exist they do happen but a lot of the time we converse of that is that a lot of the time we have the time to slow things down and really about really have sentence and we go through this model. and do provide this training because you believe it works. because i believe it works yes thank you i have no further question chris wilson. well you've been listening there to sergeant k.

yang a crisis intervention training coordinator with the main minneapolis police department he's been testifying about the training given to officers especially when it comes to identifying someone in crisis and just how to deal with it now that was questions from the prosecution and the defense that is just setting up to begin their cross-examination now if you are just joining us here on out we're following live the trial of former minneapolis police officer derek sivers who's accused of killing unarmed black man george floyd last year let's continue in a swing in just out in chaos testimony with the minneapolis police department is currently training officers involved in the crisis intervention techniques that's correct civilians as well as the critical decision making that's correct sir. and you were as you assisted the minneapolis police department in developing its policies and procedures surrounding both the crisis intervention technique as well as critical decision making calls. yes sir you said you introduce these policies

with the approval from the. chief or the higher ups right it's have to be approved before we can do this right yes and these trainings and ultimately helped form some policies of the minneapolis police department yes but not the good news is you make the market is not in the policy. but the crisis intervention technique isn't a policy crisis it invasion is in the policy yes ok so you have a long career as a police officer both in the field and also in the training and investigation units and so you have your own personal experiences in dealing with people out on the street as right gives or now are there situations in your own experience where you have to use force on someone and other people observing the use of force don't like what you're doing is or and in fact i believe you would describe sometimes that

the public doesn't understand that police actions can look really bad as good and and but they still may be lawful even if they look at yes or and part of the whole goal of the crisis intervention technique or policies is to not only deal with the suspect but also other people who may be watching act as prime minister and so in situations where citizens or bystanders start to congregate and walk or watch what police are doing you would agree that that could potentially become a crisis for those observers potentially dns and you train officers how to deal with those situations is going to be asserted when we look at the critical decision making policy or model not policy but when we look at the critical decision making model that is what you would describe as

a rapid very dynamic model right it is a it's not just focusing on one particular thing it's assessing many many things that are happening in the context of an arrest is there and some of those things could be the interactions that you're having with citizen observers. yes and the training that you provide there are materials that the department maintains correct that's going to so i'm going to ask the court to just display to the witness. what has been marked as exhibit 122 do you recognize this to be training materials prepared by the. minneapolis police department crisis intervention team usurper art and so i'm going to just go.

so i'm going to have you just look at this this is the material and the training materials that the crisis intervention team present to the officers in this 40 hour training right no sir this is the training that you received this is a journey that i created but it wasn't delivered to shop and all of the other officers ok this is something that you created to train minneapolis police officers yes are but this and this is a more recent model than the $2800.00 model this is a program that we created really as you targeted the recruiting the kid at academies ok so this is separate from what shaaban and the other officers went through i'm ok but some of the information is generally a clickable to all police officers who are trained in crisis intervention as well

as deescalation yes and. officers are trained to look for potential signs of aggression from suspects or crowd observers right yes or and what are some of the potential signs of aggression that officers are trained to watch for. based on this document that you stand here you could be stand utah right into phase raise lloyd's breathing muscle tensing education's pacing problem contact your country's direction gesture so an officer who is making an arrest of a suspect and there is bystanders. watching and growing in their intensity these are the types of behaviors that officers are specifically trained to watch for from either the suspect or observes right yes.

as i was saying before you have been listening there to sergeant k. yang he's a crisis intervention training coordination with the minneapolis police department he was just a they're being cross-examined by the defense and there is a side bar on going so that's when both sides the prosecution and the defense and will have a conversation about whatever it is that they're not agreeing about and because they've been pandemic times that would normally take place with the judge at the side bar but at this point in time it's happening 5 video link and that's why they're all having a conversation with each other now as you can see now sergeant yang was really testifying there about the training that it's given to offices especially when it comes to identifying someone in crisis how to deal with that situation and just to remind you if you are just joining us we are following the trial of former minneapolis police officer derek show than he's accused of killing an unarmed black man george floyd last year you'll recall he is now facing charges including 2nd

degree murder after he handcuffed floyd face down in the knelt on his neck for nearly 9 and a half minutes in may last year that sparked widespread protests not only in minneapolis but around the world this is now the 2nd week of the proceedings in the city of minneapolis and there has been a real emphasis by the prosecution so far on just how mr sharon's actions were very much in contravention of his training and policy so far this week we've also been hearing from the emergency room doctor who treated george floyd when he was taken to hospital as well as the minneapolis police chief chief who really really emphasize that what took place in terms of that detention was completely not in line with police policy now this side could go on for some time and there have been a number of these taking place throughout the course of this trial and they will be will return then to cross-examination of sergeant yang there has been

a very long discussion that's been ongoing this week around just what is acceptable for a police officer.