in hebron and many calling on the boss to resign. the bonnet died on thursday after being arrested and beacon by palestinian authority security forces. stephanie decker has more from the funeral inhabitant and the occupies west. i can tell you that people here are incredibly angry at the palestinian authority. you'll probably see some of the men in the crowd with guns. the people turning off that basically they're now calling with a downfall of the regime. these are chance they've also been calling for as they carried the body through the streets of hebron to the cemetery here for present mahmoud abbas to go. he's been in charge for a very long time in developing an authority, the cancellation of election to cancel those in april elections hasn't been held here for 15 years. this is one of the main criticisms that the people here and also the activists that was killed the, his response to when those elections were cancelled was to call on the european union stop funding to the palestinian authority saying they were corrupt. i think

the leadership had to go that fresh elections had to be held. so this is a sense, really from everyone we have been speaking to you probably to lena can you get those? i know, probably, you know, there's a lot of armed men now we're looking among the crowds. this is a sensitive people. they say we are under a double occupation. it's the privacy authority. they accused of being hand in hand with israel. i was speaking to an elderly gentleman. he said, you know, this is the 1st time in my life that i actually see our own security forces coming into a palestinian home and beating someone to death because they don't agree with our policies. divisions within the european union have been laid bare at the 2nd day of a leader summit in brussels. after a long night of debate, they rejected a proposal from germany and france to hold a summit with russia. poland and bolted countries said it would send the wrong message. we are right now in a negative spiral, and we need to brace for further downturn. so we agreed to push back. when russia

targets the european union on what we stands for when it violates human rights to constrain russia, when it attempts to undermine our interests. and we will engage russia when it isn't our interest to do so to achieve our goals. for example, if we talk about climate change or if we talk about public health data, these are like pictures from the court in minneapolis, that's the judge. in the case of a derick, shaun who is being sentenced the killing all from ga floyd electricity and everyone keep their mouth fun unless they're speaking. alas, for people who are speaking to come up to the electron and use the microphones, please to remove your mask. so that we can hear you clearly and also to maintain the distances that we have set out in the core with that will proceed 1st with the state. mr. blackwell, you may proceed with the victim input data

we have for victim impact statements. we will start with the 7 year old daughter of a joy floyd giana floyd, who will present hers by video me . what do you miss most about your daddy bra survive? all they say. busy yeah, well and when you ask about him, what are you asking about? wow, that's how my day is. do you wish that he was still here with us?

well, run through his spirit. yes. yes. and when you see your daddy again one day, what do you want to do when you see him? oh, what kind of games do you want to play with them? i don't know why we have known and play and a green. yeah. would have been a mess racing night before we were at the bay. my. my dad used to help me, brooke, my c. o, do you miss and help and brush your teeth? oh. have you hope that the world remembers them

all? they help them because the main page would be so if you could say anything to your daddy right now, what would it be? all right, thank you john. i really appreciate you answering questions today to hear from the last few jewish white. brandon williams. just me home brian williams. b r a n d o n w r l a m s. liberty. on monday may

25th, 2000 total. joyce, 3rd for joy period, floor john was murdered by their show in a malicious and i see the display of hey and abuse of power. sheldon keel george. not only the keel george, but he also displayed a total that integration for human life at the diesel. you saw, i saw millions of people across the country in the glow when this to activate a year. one month later. i stand there before you take what the duty of express how georgia did, has impacted me personally and the rest of our family. as i read my brain and thought about what to say today, i came to this conclusion. it is humanly impossible for me to stand here because they articulate the right words that would capture all that we are feeling and where we have felt over this period. so please bear with me as our temp pass, the sun murder of georgia, we have a traumatized of. you may see

a crap. what the food has been of our pain. a trauma will never be seen with the naked or the heartbreak and her goes far beyond any number 2. we could have a cry were received. we cannot express the pain anguish of suffering that our family of friends haven't durst. george's murder, it has been truly on a mass not as nearly unimaginable as the faint decision to take the life of a human being with no regard for the fate that may have all of us. all those who will be seen as today has been town prison. he will have an interest in his family again top and all that he will likely get to spend time with him upon his release. these are our luxury that my younger than giana were robbed of the show that made the made the active decision to kill a father. there'll be no more birthday parties. no graduations. how did they gatherings or other family celebrations? the laughter hooks, guidance, advice since the security and those opportunities to simply offer ever go. they say

time heals all and what are the believe the same is challenging to do so given these are valuable st circumstances before i conclude, i was highlight a few days. george's murder, this trial and everything. and charlie says, we'll try to devastate our families for ever broken. and one thing we can do back is jocelet. it is the request of my family that the maximum penalty for the crowd for which the family was too big to be opposed. on behalf of my family france, community support as i was disbursed, massey is granted to florida. so i was sort of especially like your honor for just for the record this wonderful lady's family here is a hennepin county, a victim african will as well known to the cord. yes,

thank you. just and so you will next a hear from the brother of joyce void, mr. terence for you. mr. point if you could state your full name, spelling of your name. yes. tell us floyd s t r r e n c floyd f l o y d i'm in web was in my brother, or from new york or may 25th. 2020. my brother was murdered.

everyone knows, but devin children, the facts of this case were proven beyond a reasonable doubt and 3 guilty verdicts who have been rendered the situation has really affected me and my family any family member that has went through this, we are part of the attorney of families and it's not, it's not one of those who know fraternity that you enjoy. and just over the last year and months, i actually told you

a few people and i wanted to know from the man himself why what were you thinking? what was going to yeah. well you had me on my brother's neck what. what when you've, when you knew that he posed no direct anymore? yeah, it was hair curved, white at least get up. why do you stay there? a most before my brother was slowly, i was on

a fall with him and we had a long conversation. and as i looked at, i looked at the video of my niece the last conversation, my brother was, he wanted to play days. he wanted to play and play days with giana and my daughter every we started setting it up that can happen. and i noticed the young i still have to explain her because this is history and this is the case everybody knows about. so she's going to find out how to explain that to her and i update does to me harder than even just in here that i have to talk to my daughter. and so, you know about her niece about her uncle,

about the situation that's basically relieving it all over again. years down the law. i'm here on behalf of my family on me on story to come will have for me and my family. please take the mass and maximum penalty. we don't want to see no more slash on the risk. we've been to that already in this to me and my community and my culture. we've been to that are ready smacks on the risk. no, no, no, no, no. because if it was us, if it with the roses reversed, it wouldn't be no case. it would have been open a sec. we'd have been under the jail for murderous somebody.

so we actually are saying penalty for data show. thank you. thank you. our final victim impact statement for the state and come from joyce lloyd, brother, felonious floyd. certainly could begin by giving us your full name and spelling of your names that i have committed. you use your form because you have no time. is that correct? yes. and you may proceed when you're ready. giving us your full name 1st.

fulness floyd phil, p h l o n e. last name law f l y b. and you may receive one year ago. may 25th member. the jaws was murdered by derek silver. and his co defendants in broad daylight would need to have in a minute and 29 seconds out of the truck. and immediately my life is way over. i began to speak to the world for george from the united nations, africa, canada, japan. and so many other countries every day, i have big suggest is to be 3rd, re live in the execution of george,

while others big pleaded for alice, a shelby's to simply just allow dogs to take a breath. i haven't had a real nice sleep because at night me as a class to be have here, my brother be a plea for his life over and over again. even saying big going to kill me please. i'll scream if our mom i have had to step through each day of our dairy. so this trow and watch the video of georgia for hours over and over again for an entire year. i had to really of george being tortured to death every hour at a day, only taking naps and not know what a good night sleep is anymore. i've been lived in my boy's parsley every day so that george's death would not be in vain. on observed peter. okay,

he'll thank you for allow me to share this today. george is like mad. so my family and i most about my niece giana. but me, dana, she nice clothes. i'll make that please man is suitable for them out of the show. then the maximum is possible. so is that he has been found guilty for my family and i have been given a life since we will never be able to give george back. daddy's our daughter's 1st, lo. he will never be able to walk deanna down. i'll a wedding handles magical moment of life like a daddy daughter dance sweet 16 party. seeing her out for prom graduations,

and she will never be able to have any personal memories but her father, with a smirk on his face, intrude in prison. opposite shelven used, excessive force acted against his trained sylvan hair. no regard as a human life. saw this life a stand before you today. actually you to please help us find closure by cave and show me a maximum of soon as possible. making sure he does his time consecutively without the possibility of parole. probation getting out early for good behavior. thank you . thank you sir. mister greg.

thank here i'm here today of course percent thing gives us an opportunity to speak about other matters that i think are involved in sensing and where we are in the criminal justice system in the processing of this case. as a member of an elected office representing the people of the state of minnesota as well as people the local community. i want to say a couple of things. and 1st of all, i want to really thank some of the police officers, minneapolis police department, who under great pressure, great stress, in some extent a parent to their their occupations. what they've devoted their life to stuck to their oath and their commitment as police officers to speak

openly and honestly about policing and the training that is given and received by police officers. those officers didn't hide behind blue off. they came forward. they told us court and those yours what they knew about training and responsibility . and i think they deserve recognition and credit for that. one also like to thank members of the bureau of criminal apprehension. you know, those agents get called in great sacrifices or personalized whatever's things happen. they go, they did that here and under really extraordinary circumstances. completed a very professional and thorough investigation conducting interviews as hard enough, but conducting them in the atmosphere of the city. following the murder of george

floyd even more difficult. and they did. so i think above and beyond the call of duty. and i want to thank them for doing that and behalf of the whole prosecution staff you know, i want to thank the family, the loved ones, the friends of george floyd. they have been through so much more than families involved in murder cases. he's right. it is a, it is a, it's a fraternity. you don't want to be part but they've been through so much more because of the pandemic. and because of security safety precautions that we've had to take, they have been through a lot at a time when they try to grief, like everybody knows the loss of someone, they are going through so much more. and i want to thank them all of them. the

family court thought testimony from flown is floyd courtney ross. either people who are trying to deal with their loss, but they have to very public quick and very trying circumstances through no fault of their own. so thank them, they have all been models of grace and, and understanding and really remarkable, quite frankly ella, i think come back to them again in a little bit. your honor, we have submitted a sentencing brief. i would incorporate that. i guess i would incorporate my comments today end of that member. but i do think there are things that i wanna bring out today in my arguments for hundreds of years. the court had discretion. in fact, there was a trial court decision. one fan should be recognition that the trial court sat

through the trial watched the evidence and saw how it affected people. informed of the court discretion and the legislature passed the guidelines, no legitimate attempt to try and even out sentences. they define the certain presumptive sentences, as we all know for typical crimes for each crime, it typical crime, but they did not remove discretion for sentencing judges. they recognized that nobody is better suited to decide whether this is the typical case represented by that guidelines present offense. or if there are reasons why this is worse than that, in a cave in the guidelines still gives this court discretion. when they are aggravating factors to give a more serious sense than what the guidelines presumption calls for. and as you

know, we are asking you to do that today. as the court found, there are 4 aggravating factors that we have identified. they go beyond a list of just what those factors are. we have not just done our homework and found the list court made good findings, detailed findings about those factors and we think they justify it greatly increased sentence. this is not the typical 2nd degree, unintentional mur. supreme court and our state has said that very recently, even one aggravating factor is sufficient to go twice the top of the range. here we have for 1st one of the court found is an abuse and position of trust and authority. and the court specifically found that mister shelven was acting as a police officer. he had a position of trust and authority. at certainly true. we trust police officers,

we trust them when we need help. we call them for help. we trust that they're going to take care of the problems that they are assigned to deal with, right? we trust we also give them great authority. we give them great power. we give them power to use force that individuals would be prosecuted for using right. we give them a 40 to arrest to the team. and with great power, of course comes great responsibility. so they're not out there by themselves to do this. they're given substantial training. this course all all of that through the trial in general and, and specific to mr. sheldon and the other 3 officers are given training and the use of force, the proportional use of force. the force used has to be warranted by the

threat they're given training on the escalation because we recognize the police officers are called in when people are not having their best day. when people might be affected by mental illness, drug abuse, any number of issues. they're just having a bad day and they're trained for that and should be and they're taught how to use that to de escalate and control situation. their time medical intervention. they're taught to provide medical attention to people who need it. being a police officer is a difficult job. we ask a lot of them. it's a profession, there's no doubt about it, but we give them

a substantial amount of training the most officers do it right. this case wasn't about police officers. all police officers, it wasn't about police in this case was about derrick show and disregard and all that training he received and assaulting mister floyd until he suffocated to death . one of the things that you heard, your honor in the jurors heard that can really encapsulate i think a big a very important issue here. 7 words in your custody. and then you care and the real simple mantra. real easy thing to remember. you're going to take custody of somebody you have to provide care. you have to do it in a carrying way. you can't simply disregard their care. mister sherman abused his position of trust and authority as

a police officer doing just disregarding hollis training is an abuse of that because what did he decide to do? we often are enforced in this criminal justice system to infer people's state of mind by their conduct and their statements. what was derrick showings and game here? what was the plan? seems apparent, the plan was hold him down until we can dump them in an ambulance and no longer haven't be our problem. recall, he said to charles mcmillan, big guy might be on something that's that he held mister floyd down. as mister floyd begged for his life, he had the other officers open that regard. and rather than doing the simple

expedient of putting amount aside, he said, yeah, he was dismissed of to that duty of care we trust that arrest is, will be treated with respect reasonable force and that their medical needs will be addressed and paraphrasing from the court findings that trust was violent, we trust that they will use their authority reasonably. and this was a particularly a grievous abuse of that force. again, paraphrasing the court's findings but typically 2nd degree, murder does not include, does not involve that extent of abuse on a dearly held position of abuse or a position of authority and trust by the community by individuals of the community . your honor found that mister fort was treated by or with by

mister sherman with particular cruelty, i think tortured is the right word. we know that we've all seen, mister floyd does not want to be in the back seat. that's the, that's the, that's the rub. it was needed to get him in that bag. so no matter what and we all saw that once he was pulled out of the back seat, he calmed down. even willing. we went down to the ground. i'm going down. he went down to the ground. not fighting at punching and he was placed initially on his side is already handcuffed. he's placed unassigned recovery position like he should be because he's trying to bring.