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departments, president trump just signed an executive order to reform law enforcement, laying out measuring to incentivize good behavior rather than guidelines to mitigate bad behavior. this was a speech very much in step with the president's law and order messaging. he spent a lot of time praising and defending police. here are the more specific things he says will be included in this executive order. >> as part of this new credentialing process, choke holds will be banned, except if an officer's life is at risk. and i will say we've dealt with all of the various departments and everybody said, it's time. we have to do it. additionally, we're looking at new advanced and powerful, less lethal weapons to help prevent deadly interactions. departments will also need to share information about credible abuses so that officers with significant issues do not simply
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move from one police department to the next. >> let's bring in cnn white house correspondent kaitlan collins to join us here. kaitlan, explain how the white house anticipates that these federal guidelines and these incentive programs are actually going to change local and state departments. >> reporter: well, they're really going to be relying on those local departments to carry these measures out. and they're also counting on congress to fund the new programs that the president was talking about, talking about having those co-responders, people like mental health experts who are going to situations with police officers and de-escalating it. a lot of this sen couragement for police officers to do this. the way they're doing that basically saying you can get credentialed by the attorney general, by the justice department, by meeting certain standards when it comes to training, about uses of force. that reference the president made to banning choke holds.
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basically they will not meet that certification by the justice department unless they only use choke holds in what he said is a life and death situation. though there will be a lot of questions, brianna, about what is that standard for that? what does that mean? it's not an outright ban on choke holds. the other aspect is basically they're incentivizing funding for police departments that do meet this standard but it's really just encouragement for them to meet these standards. it's not saying you're not going to get funding. it's just saying this is how we're going to put you in a line of priority when it does come to these grants that we seek from the federal government. what you also heard from the president was a full-throated endorsement and praise of law enforcement as he was there. you noticed who was in the rose garden and who wasn't. he met with the families of police violence, who have lost loved ones privately beforehand. the president came out and made a commitment to them to pursue change. as he was in the rose garden, he surrounded himself with law
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enforcement officials, police union representatives, because sources have been telling us that he wanted to be very careful about how he was navigating this, brianna, and didn't want to alienate any police support. that's very important to keep in mind when you look at what the president is saying, what this executive order is outlining and suggest police departments do, while leaving most of the heavy lifting to congress. >> kaitlan, thank you so much for that report. let's bring in civil rights attorney and legal analyst areva martin. let's talk about what impact this will have here in a moment and what the president is messaging as his priorities here. what do you like about what you are seeing here and what do you still maybe have questions for? you feel like it's not going far enough? >> i don't like any of it, brianna. i felt like it was a big smack in the face for the protesters that have been on the streets
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the last 18, 19 days calling for big and bold changes to ways that police departments in this country operate. the president didn't address the systemic racism issues at the core of these issues. he comes out, surrounded by law enforcement personnel, talks about his law and order agenda, without at all even applying lip service to the systemic problems that have, you know, a big, bright light is shining on. this is another band-aid on a hemorrhage. this is another carrot that trump is dangling in front of the american public and, quite frankly, protesters are tired of t civil rights activists. we're all tired of this president and his approach to these issues, which is basically a nonapproach. i didn't find anything encourageing about what he did today. if anything, he made mockery, i think, of the whole process that's in place, where people are demanding reimagining our public safety and the way police
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police particularly african-american communities. he didn't speak to those issues at all. >> you heard him there say that there's, quote, that quote, choke holds will be banned except if an officer's life is at risk. what did you make of not only could that be enforced from his standpoint as president, but what that would actually mean if local and state law enforcement entities use that as the standard? >> it's not a standard that can even be followed by anyone. we see in these cases all the time, brianna, law enforcement, police agents, officers defend their actions by saying they felt their life was in danger. all they have to do is repeat that refrain we hear repeated over and over again. and, according to these guidelines, they would be completely justified in their use of choke holds. he's not banning choke holds. he's not changing the way police officers police african-american communities and other communities of color. he's just paying lip service to
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these issues. he's patting his law enforcement buddies on the back, telling them what a great job they're doing and not at all addressing the underlying issues. "the new york times" wrote a great article over the weekend about what happened after 2014 and all the protests we saw following the police murdering of mike brown in ferguson, missouri, and they said tens of millions of dollars was invested in all of these de-escalation, implicit bias, so many reforms we're hearing about and nothing moved the needle on the 1,000 people that are killed every year by police officers and the article basically said what the protesters are saying, that unless we make big and bold changes to the way we police, we're going to be right back here, not -- i can't even say a month from now, because we were right back here over the weekend with mr. brooks in atlanta. trump hasn't done anything other than insult the protesters. >> areva martin, thank you. >> thanks, breonna.
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>> i want to turn now to atlanta where, as soon as tomorrow, we could see a decision on charges for both officers involved in the deadly shooting of rayshard brooks. this is happening as we get a first look now at the disciplinary records of the fired officer who shot brooks, garret rolfe. in 2017, he was reprimanded for use of force involving a firearm. as millions of americans protest this latest use of deadly force, my next guest believes in this case the officer's actions were justified. sheriff alfonso williams, who serves in burke county, georgia, says rolfe acted appropriately and believes that the shooting has been politicized. he joins me now. sheriff williams, thank you so much for joining me today. >> thank you for having me, brianna. >> you know the family attorney in this case says police should have tried to catch brooks instead of shooting at him. what is your reaction to that?
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>> having 30 years in the business, police and law enforcement and 27 of those years having taught use of force and taught hundreds and hundreds of law enforcement officers across the state of georgia and other states, i just think that he's a lawyer. he's not a law enforcement officer. i think that is just a ridiculous statement. we saw in the video that the -- brooks was engaged in a fight with the officers. they were on the ground. when we're on the ground, we have a very high likelihood of being hurt or killed. it's not the place we want to be. this is not a wrestling match. brooks is able to take a nonlethal weapon, a tasera w aw from one of the officers and flees.
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committed two fel nochlt y accounts of officer assaults and needs to be held accountable. they're perfectly justified in running behind brooks to capture him. brooks turned back to the officers and fired the taser. and we all know -- this is the third law enforcement agency i've been head of. every agency i've gone to, i've required every officer who carries a taser to be tased with it so you understand the incapacitation. five seconds. 1,001, 1,002, 1,003, 1,004, 1,005 that the officer will be incapacitated and is still responsible for every weapon on his belt. had that officer been hit he
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still has fighter arm on his side. the likelihood of him being stomped in the head or having his firearm taken and used against him was a probability. and so he did what he needed to do. and this was a completely justified shooting. >> so you think lethal force here was necessary? >> it was very necessary. the fourth amendment allows it. this is the objective, reasonableness standard. there's nothing malicious or sadistic in the way these officers behaved. the law enforcement leaders in the state of georgia, it's very unfortunate, have not come out and stood together on this case. i think it's political and it's senseless. we're sending the wrong message to our black youth. we're telling them that it's okay, that they can run from the police, they can take a weapon from the police, they can fight
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with the police and point a weapon at the police and expect nothing to happen. that is the wrong message to send to black youth. now, we cannot -- we cannot, brianna, put this case with the ahmaud arbery case nor the george floyd case. when i saw the george floyd case, i was outraged. two weeks ago. two weeks ago i was so outrage identity wrote a letter to the governor, the head of the georgia association of chiefs of police and the head of the georgia sheriff's association, and i provided them with seven standards that i think are very necessary to prevent black men from being killed at the hands of police in the way it was done in the floyd case and the ahmaud arbery case. i graduated high school with ahmaud arbery's mother. those were two outrageous, very clear violations of policy and
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law. >> can i ask, i want to ask you a question about the rayshard brooks case. early on, once he was on the ground, one of the things that struck me observing, and you know -- you're inl law enforcement, i'm not -- was how quickly at close range one of the officers pulled a taser out. it seemed like his arm was flailing and then he sort of got tangled and grabbed the taser. one of the questions i had was do you think that that officer would have pulled a taser so quickly on a suspect if they were white? >> i think we have a serious issue in this country with officers, law enforcement officers using force against black persons or persons of color versus other persons. i'm not sure exactly why that exists. i think it's based on your
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experiences, base d on your ignorance, based on whether or not you're learned, based on movies, television, media. there's a little bit of blame to go around with all of us. >> but i just want to zero in on this, sheriff. it sounds like you don't know. it sounds like you are saying perhaps there could be a possibility that maybe that escalation to the use of the taser might not have happened then if it were a white man? >> i'm not saying that at all. >> okay. >> i'm saying what happened in the brooks case is completely justified, 100%. and an officer generally goes to work every day, he's not concerned about whether a perpetrator is black or white. he's there to do a job. he was called there by the employees of wendy's because the guy is passed out at the wheel. and he's investigated for being under the influence of something and is less safe to drive.
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they conduct field sobriety. all officers know this, brianna, when one cuff goes on, a person is going to do one of three thing things, fight, take flight, or comply. in this case, he did fight and flight. they are taught in the academy that you arrest or handcuff quickly, one to two seconds. if not, your life is in jeopardy. and that played out in this scenario. we don't want to fight with anybody. we don't want to be on the ground. the suspect had the ability to hurt the officer. he had the opportunity to hurt the officer, because he took his taser. the officer's life was certainly in jeopardy, and the suspect could have complied and none of this would have happened. >> sheriff, thank you so much for joining us. sheriff alfonzio williams from burke county, georgia. appreciate it.
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>> thank you. next, oklahoma state's football coach is promising change after players objected to his support of a far-right network that pedales conspiracy theories. plus the nfl commissioner says he would be happy to have a team sign colin kaepernick. one of the prominent agents through rosenhaus will join me live. and masks to protect americans yet they weren't doing it at the president's event today. this is cnn's live special coverage. you don't. [grunting noise] i'll take that. woohoo! 30 grams of protein and 1 gram of sugar. ensure max protein. with nutrients to support immune health. ensure max protein. mortgage rates just dropped to near 50-year lows. one call to newday usa can save you $2,000 every year. and once you refinance, the savings are automatic. thanks to your va streamline refi benefit,
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promising after his players objected to a t-shirt he was fishing. the coach doning a shirt for the far-right network that pedales conspiracy theories, one player said he wouldn't take part in anything with the university, slammed the clothing. called it unacceptable. now the two men say they will work together to alter the culture. >> i met with some players and realized it's a very sensitive issue with what's going on in today's society. and so we had a great meeting and were made aware of things that players feel like can make our organization, our culture even better than it is here at oklahoma state. and i'm looking forward to making some changes. it starts at the top with me. we've got good days ahead. >> i'll start off by first saying i went about it the wrong way by tweeting. i'm not someone that, you know, has to tweet something to make change. i should have went to him as a
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man and i'm more about passion. that was bad on my part. but from now on, we're going to focus on bringing change and that's the most important thing. >> now this morning, had you been ard tweeted a statement that said, in part, i'm a young black man that wants change, that will bring better experience for my black brothers and sisters at oklahoma state. it's that simple. i'm joined by veterans sports agent drew rosenhaus to talk about this and other things. when it comes to this oklahoma state situation we're seeing there, one of the things that has so many people buzzing about this is that hubbard did not apologize, right? or excuse me, hubbard apologized. gundy, the coach, did not apologize. we never really heard those words that are so important that hubbard said. what do you think about that? >> i think he should have apologized. he offended his player, and i'm
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sure he offended many other guys on the team. oklahoma state's football team, like every college football team in america is made up of predominantly black football players. for the head coach to wear a shirt of a network that calls black lives matter a fraud in so many words is insulting, is insensitive and requires an apology. i commend hubbard for speaking up, but the head coach did not go far enough. >> i want to talk to you about the nfl, because the commissioner there, roger goodell, is now supporting a team signing colin kaepernick. what a change, right, from weeks ago. let's listen to what he said. >> if he wants to resume his career in the nfl, then obviously it's going to take a team to make that decision, but i welcome that, support a club making that decision and encourage them to do that.
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if his efforts are not on the field but continuing to work in this space, we welcome to that table and to be able to help us and guide us and help us make better decisions about the kinds of things that need to be done in communities. >> this brings up so many questions for me. the first is, what do you think of this switch from goodell? >> it is necessary. colin kaepernick deserves to be in the nfl. four years ago, he was banned by the nfl for taking a stance, to speak up that black lives matter, to fight against police brutality, for the systematic racism and discrimination that blacks have endured throughout our country's history, and he was penalized for this, banished. bring this man back into the nfl. he deserves t he's good enough to play quarterback in the nfl. he's not one of my clients but i'll tell you right now, objectively speaking, the league needs him.
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they need to embrace him. what he did was heroic, he's an activist and he should be praised not punished. give the man a chance to play again. if he can't play any more, physically, from the time off, so be it. give him a chance. what he stands for, the nfl needs to stand for. thankfully, the league needs to take a position where they're supporting colin kaepernick and equality, eliminating racism, oppression and discrimination against blacks. the nfl is made up of 70% black players. it's enough. embrace them! treat them fairly in our society. the nfl has to lead the way. and the commissioner is doing the right thing. but the teams and the owners have to follow his lead. listen to your players and support them. and let's bring true change and equality. >> i guess i would wonder, what team would he go to?
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do you think that there are many teams who would want him to come? is there a logical place for him to go that would be in line -- >> absolutely. >> -- with the message? tell us. >> absolutely, brianna. many teams can use a talented quarterback like colin kaepernick, jacksonville jaguars, cincinnati bengals, new england patriots. they're going with second-year players. you can't tell me kaepernick wouldn't be a great upgrade with those three teams. i can think of more but those are right off the top of my head, clubs he should be playing for right now. give this man a chance. it's much bigger than kaepernick. it's the message he's promoting. please embrace that. if you sign him you're not only doing the right thing by him but you're showing the players in the nfl, the black players in the nfl and people who support them that this is what's right, this is what's required, this is
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what's necessary. this is what is best for the nfl and our society. >> right now, a coalition of nba players, drew, says they don't want to resume the season. they are afraid this will take away from the black lives matter movement. are you hearing similar concerns being voiced? >> the concern i'm hearing from nfl players are about their safety, and their families in the face of covid-19. my clients have said they would like to play and use this as a vehicle to promote change, to use this as a platform to promote social justice and equality for blacks and eliminate police brutality that you've been talking about over so many years that takes place against blacks in this country. my clients that i've visited with, and other players, believe that playing will give them an opportunity to bring that to
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light and to put pressure. give them an opportunity to kneel at the national anthem and make a statement. and i endorse that and support that. i sure hope every owner in the nfl does, every coach and every leader will kneel with the players and use this as a forum to bring about the change that is needed in this country, not playing, in my opinion, eliminates an outstanding forum to bring change and make a statement and to keep this black lives matter movement going forward with great enthusiasm and great exposure, which is what it needs, and playing in the games will do that. >> before i let you go, drew, is the nfl season in question at all because of the virus? >> sure, it is. we have to worry about the safety of the players, coaches, the administration. this is bigger than football. players' safety comes first. if we can play and make it safe, and that's a big if, and
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obviously everybody wants to see the nfl come back, the coaches, players and the fans, of course. the key word is safety and protecting the players and coaches and the administrators and the fans as well. so, let's hope that we can come up with the system that works and we can get back to football and push this very important agenda and make a difference, nothing would make me prouder than to see the very first game every one in football, everyone in the nfl, coach, player, administrator on the sidelines kneeling and pushing for real change in this country to make the difference in the black lives matter that is so important today. >> drew rosenhaus, thank you. enjoyed having you on. >> thank you, brianna. appreciate it. as we learn, it's been two weeks since president trump spoke to dr. anthony fauci about the coronavirus response.
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a closely watched model proje projects there will be 200,000 coronavirus deaths by october 1st. that's a projection and has the potential to be changed.
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a recent study found wearing masks is one of the most effective measures to cut down on transmission, yet this was a scene at a white house event only two hours ago. members of the president's cabinet not wearing masks, not socially distancing. the president also not wearing a mask, not social distancing. when the administration refuses to practice the safety measures that its own coronavirus task force recommends, obviously it muddles the message for americans. some would think why do i have to wear a mask? senior national correspondent erica hill is in new york. it's forcing businesses to make hard decisions. >> reporter: yes, it is forcing businesses to make decisions and some governors saying i may have to think about making this mandatory if more people are flauting the idea of wearing a mask. it's become so political. as we know, this is about science. dr. anthony fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert
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saying again today, brianna, masks are what are going to help here. we're nowhere near herd immune i ity. to protect yourself and to protect others, it's time to wear a mask. >> states are not opening gently. they're opening with lots of crowds, lack of face masks, and when that happens, you don't need too many infection force cases to soar. >> it's those behaviors that could lead to 200,000 coronavirus-related deaths in the u.s. by october according to a key model. science now tells us why the use of face coverings could help slow the spread. airlines taking note, united warning, refusal to wear one could land you on a restricted travel list. speaker nancy pelosi might make them mandatory on the house floor. north carolina with new rules for the entire state. >> we want people voluntarily to do this. we are looking at additional rules to potentially make these
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mandatory. >> nascar pulling its all-star race out of charlotte, citing a new spike in cases. 18 states reporting an uptick in the last week. florida one of eight in deep red. numbers there up more than 50%. >> we're not going back to closing our economy because numbers inch up a couple of days. >> those most impacted are older americans, people of color and pre-existing conditions, including cardiovascular disease, diabetes and chronic lung disease. people 80 and over had the highest rate of infection. children nine and younger the lowest. a separate study estimates people under 20 are half as susceptible to the virus as those 21 and over. what could that mean for getting kids back to school? >> younger people are less likely to become symptomatic, but young people could still get it, could still become very ill, even if they are asymptomatic, they could still transmit covid-19 to other people, too. >> some states including rhode
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island and vermont have said k through 12 students will be in the classroom this fall. though no details on how often or how many kids at a time. ucla's nearly 45,000 students will take most of their classes online this fall. dorms will limit residents and some will be designated for quarantined. athletes at ohio state and indiana university must cite a health pledge as hope dims for a return of major league baseball. >> it's just a disaster for our game. >> the league and the players union still at odds. meantime, usa today reporting several players and staff have tested positive. washington nationals pitcher sean doolittle tweeting in response the timing of this leak is suspicious and gross. some more news in the sports world. new york governor andrew cuomo announcing the u.s. open tennis championship will, in fact, be played as it is every year.
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billie jean king center in flushing, new york, as you might expect, there will not be peck tarts but the governor saying you can watch it on tv. an official announcement with details coming tomorrow, brianna. >> erica hill, thank you for the report. vice president pence ignoringne and skipping the mask as he stopped in at an iowa diner the first day it reopened since the pandemic began. and the backlash a doctor is getting about telling the truth about what's happening on the front lines. usaa was made for right now. and right now, is a time for action. so, for a second time we're giving members a credit on their auto insurance. because it's the right thing to do. we're also giving payment relief options to eligible members so they can take care of things like groceries
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we just saw vice president pence make a stop in a newly open tiern in iowa without the mask that experts recommend. of course, he is in charge of the coronavirus task force. he heads it up, right? this comes as we learn new details about what he's saying about the virus behind closed doors. "the new york times" obtained audio of a private call with governors in which the vice president asked them to tow the
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white house line, that people should not worry about the spike in coronavirus cases. he said this, quote, i would just encourage you all, as we talk about these things, to make sure and continue to explain to your citizens the magnitude of increase in testing and that in most of the cases where we are seeing some marginal rise in number, that's more a result of the extraordinary work you're doing. dr. craig spencer is the director of global health in emergency medicine at columbia university medical center. doctor, first, what's your reaction to that guidance to governors? >> i think that it's frankly just not completely correct. look, you're going to have more cases, if you do more testing. that is correct. does the increase in testing account for the increase in the amount of transmission, the amount of cases we're seeing? i don't think so. we're doing around 450,000 to 470,000 cases on average, per day. we've been doing for the past week. it's pretty similar to the week before.
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yes, increased testing means you'll find more cases but we also are finding that there are just more cases. there's increase in transmission. we know this because in some places the positive percentage, so the likelihood that a swab is coming back positive is growing, which means there's greater community spread. that is what i'm concerned about. that is why cases are going up in some cases and we need to be thinking about that as opposed to trying to just say hey, it's great. we're doing more tests. that means we're finding more. that's not the complete reality here zblie want to show our viewers some pictures from the white house event a short time ago. this was in the rose garden outside, but in these pictures you can see that many of the president's cabinet and the president himself, they're not wearing masks. they're certainly not social distancing. i mean, they're talking to each other and they're all well within the spray zone. tell us what kind of dangerous precedent this sets. >> well, right now what we need is public health leadership.
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we need people like dr. fauci and the cdc talking to americans nearly every single day, giving us an idea of what's happening. in the absence of that, people are going to look to politicians for guidance. what they're seeing right now is the head of the coronavirus task force and the head of the country refusing to wear a mask, even when the cdc and other public health officials are saying we're in the middle of a pandemic. one of the few things we know to help decrease transmission is wearing a mask. what this is, it's luli inlulli people into the sense of complacency and 1,000 deaths a day is going to be our new normal. we're just going to go back to living our life as we did before, without wearing masks or doing things that not only protect us but protect other people. that's the message it sends and i think it's extremely dangerous. >> and we're probably going to see how dangerous here as we move into the fall. dr. spencer, thank you so much. we appreciate you coming on. joining us from new hampshire.
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a spotlight on police brutality and raised questions about when police officers should stop being bystanders and step in. and a black police officers did that. carrie horn stopped a colleague from choking a suspect during an
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arrest and got fired for it. officials claim that horn put her officers at risk. well now more decade later the buffalo city council has voted to ask the state attorney general to reinvestigate the firing. carrie horn is joining me now. thank you so much for being with us today. because now you have a decade later what a different view, right. i want to know what you thought as you watched the video of george floyd? >> it was heartbreaking. because i know that he did not have to die. had one of those officers stepped in and intervened. and from my situation, i understand that i did stop the choke hold and he does live. so for me it was really heartbreaking and i cried for two days trying to understand
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why no one would listen to me. because police brutality is the problem. and i figured out the solution which would be carrie's law. i should not have lost my pension for doing what was right. >> you had served 19 years, right. you were one year shy of your pension. and i see your shirt there. it says george floyd needed carrie horn but you watched the video and there was no one stepping in. and i wonder if you could tell us what it was like for you in that moment to make that decision, what was your thought process when you decided to step in? >> well, i knelt to him and i said craig, you're choking him. thinking that whatever happened in the house, that he would come back to reality and stop doing what he was doing and he didn't stop. so i grabbed his arm from around
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neil mack's neck and they fabricated a story. but i never jumped on his back like they said. i simply grabbed his arm from around neil mack's neck because he was already handcuffed so there was enough officers there to control the situation. >> so what do you think should be done to -- or happen to officers who do not intervene? >> well, like i said, under cariol's law they would be prosecuted because you have the duty to inveen. you could not stand around and watch someone kill someone, watch someone die. you would have to intervene. and it would be a registry so you couldn't go from department to department with a history of abuse. >> so that there is a way to track folks as they move from one area to another.
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>> exactly. >> i wonder for you, you're here, you made a decision at -- at considerable personal penalty to make sure you save the life of somebody and you watch that in minneapolis not happen. i wonder what you think the message, though, was sent -- i'm sure police officers beyond where you work heard about you, right? what message was sent to police officers when you were fired for intervening? >> the message was sent that you don't cross that blue line. and so some officers -- many officers don't. >> you think it has changed, cariol? >> i think that it is changing. i think that i'm here to help change it. so that is why i thought of cariol's law. because i want to be the change.
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i don't want any officer to go through what i have gone through to save someone's life. i lost everything. i had five children and i lost everything but neil mauch did not lose his life so if i have nothing else to live for in life, at least i can know that i did the right thing and that neil mack still breathes. >> could i ask you quickly, are you feeling good about the chance that your good name could be restored and you might be able to receive your pension? >> yes. i hope that the mayor does the right thing because, like i said, no officer should go through what i've gone through for doing the right thing. >> cariol horne, thank you for joining us from buffalo. >> thank you. we're learning about the arrest of a anti-government
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extremist group accused of murdering two police officers. the phish said he was trying to hide among black lives matter protesters and a ghost gun was used.
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hi there, i'm brooke baldwin you're watching cnn. thank you for being with me. the president who champions law
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and order signed a police reform as americas demand change. standing there today planked by lawmakers and bill barr and there he was signing a measure during an event in the rose garden. >> americans also believe we must improve accountability, increase transparency and invest more resources in police training, recruiting and community engagement. that is why today i'm signing an executive orden couraging police departments nationwide to adopt the highest professional standards to serve their communities. >> and even as he called for some changes, the president was very vocal in his support and praise of law enforcement officials. >> i strongly oppose the radical and dangerous efforts to defend and dismantle and zrofl our police departments. especially now when we've acheeched theow