any moment now, attorney general merrick garland is going to announce the results of a two-year long probe into the independence police department. we have live pictures from the news conference that is going to take place. the federal investigation comes in the wake of the murder of george floyd at the hands of police officer derek schavin. >> and he promised that it would be far more reaching and police trainings and accountability. and we have adrienne who is just off camera, and that is why you don't see her, but what do we

expect to hear from a.g. garland? >> we are just inside of the conference room where all of the media is gathered. i wanted to paint a picture here, but we have received a two-minute warning where we will learn about the two-year investigation. it is likely to reflect and mirror what we heard from the state investigation. you may remember that the minnesota human rights investigation also investigated the department and they had a history of discrimination from traffic stops and found challenges with how the training happened within the police department. now, back when george floyd was killed, we saw the nation bubble. we saw protests not only here in minneapolis, but across the country. for those who lived here, and

minnesotans especially and those folks here in minneapolis, what we saw on the national stage is what folks here in this community had witnessed for years. so we will find and hear some of the findings, and hear not only from merrick garland and also mayor jacob fry and police chief brian o'hara, and to underscore, he was not the chief of police at the time that george floyd was killed. ra rahel. >> okay. we will expect that the news conference is to get back momentarily. >> and that is why she is whispering. so we will take you there any seconds, and reeva, to be clear, we may have to stop on a moment's notice if the news conference does stop, but what can we reasonably expect from this? we have seen in the other police departments in other pars of the

country, but none with the attention of minneapolis, but with this consent decree to have the doj oversee a police department, and what does that mean here? >> well, what that means is that this everything that this police department does is to be scrutinize bade monitor appointed to oversee the police department, so everything that is provided to the police officers, and the way they make police stops, and make reports, and every point of policing is going to be under review. i think that what we can expect is a scathing report of the way that the minneapolis police department has conducted itself and engaged in other -- >> excuse me, because the attorney general has just walked in, and we will listen in. good morning, everyone.

with me are the associate attorney general anita gupta, and first assistant of civil rights kristen clark, and bill nelson. i want to acknowledge ben fry, and first chief alexandra, and chief o'hara. on may 20, 2020, george floyd was killed at the hands of a law enforcement officer who was sworn to protect him. as he died other officers failed to intervene. the justice department has convicted four minneapolis police officers for the roles in the death of george floyd. as i told george floyd's family this morning, his death has had an irrevocable impact on to

minneapolis community, on our country and on the world. his loss is still felt deeply by those who loved and knew him and by many who did not. george floyd should be alive today. shortly after i was sworn in as attorney general, i announced that the justice department had opened a separate civil investigation into whether the minneapolis police department, the mpd, and the city of minneapolis had engaged in a practice of unconstitutional or unlawful policing. i am here today to announce the findings of that investigation. i am also announcing that the justice department, the city of minneapolis and the mpd have agreed in principal to negotiate toward a consent decree. since opening the investigation, the justice department has engaged in a comprehensive review of the policies,

training, supervision, and use of force investigations. the review focused on mpd as a whole and not on the actions of any individual officer. we are observed in mpd officers who did their work with professionalism, courage and respect, but the patterns and the practices that we observed made what happened to george floyd possible. as we were told, these systemic efforts didn't just occur on may 25th, 2020, there were ininstances like that reported by the community long before that. the department of justice has concluded that there is reason of cause to believe that the police department and the city of minneapolis engaged in a practice of conduct that violates the 1st and the 4th amendments of the united states constitution. and also reasonable cause to

believe that they engaged in conduct that violates the 1964 civil rights act, and the safe streets act and the americans with disabilities act. specifically, we found that mpd and the city of minneapolis engages in a practice of using excessive force, unlawfully discriminating against black and native american people in enforcement activities, violating the rights of people engaged in protective speech, and discriminating with people with behavioral disabilities and when responding to them in crisis. i will discuss each finding in greater detail. first, we found that the minneapolis police department routinely uses excessive force often when no force is necessary, including unjust deadly force and unreasonable force of tasers.

mpd officers aimed firearms at people when they pose no threat or let alone any threat that would not pose a danger. for example, a mpd shot and killed a woman who had spooked him. the woman had called 911 to report a possible sexual assault in a nearby alley. we also found that mpd officers completely disregard the safety of people in their custody. our review found numerous incidents in which the mpd responded to a person's statement of i cannot breathe with a version of you can breathe, you are talking right now. we also found that mpd officers failed to intervene to prevent unreasonable use of force by other officers. as outlined in the report, years

before he killed george floyd, derek chavin used excessive force on other occasions in which multiple officers stood nearby and did not stop him. second, we found that mpd d discriminated other people in stops. they stopped and search and used force against people who are black and native american at disproportionate rates. the data showed that mpd stopped black and native american people nearly six times more often than white people in situations that did not result in arrests or citation, given their shares of the population. we found several incidents in which the mpd officers were not held accountable for racist

conduct until there was a public outcry. for example, when the mpd stopped a car carrying four somali teens, one officer told the teens, quote, do you remember what happened in blackhawk down when we killed a bunch of your folk? i am proud of that, and we didn't finish the job over there, and if we had, you guys wouldn't be over here now" and as everyone knows this is a reference to the 1990s raid of the special forces in mogadishu. such conduct is deeply disturbing, and it is eroding the community's trust in law forc forcement third, we found that people using protected speech was violated against for example.

may 20, 2020, mpd officers encountered people sheltered a at gas station, and one approached a journalist filming while holding up his press credential shouting "i'm press." the officer forcefully pushed the journalist's head to the pavement, and when the journalist held up the press credential again, he was pepper f sprayed in the face and walked away. fourth, we found that mpd discriminates against people with disabilities with calls of assistance. we will have these calls and findings discussed in further detail. to the credit of the mdc, these changes have already been banned

such as no-knock search warrants. but as the report outlines, more work to be done. the justice department is recommending 28 remedial measures to start a framework to start improving community safety, and build community trust and comply with the federal constitution, and law. as i noted in the outset, in an important form of law that the mpd have signed with the department of justice which will permit the city and the mpd to work with the department of justice and other stakeholders to address the problems that we have identified. this agreement commits all party to with an independent monitor.

we are grateful to city leaders for addressing deep-seated challenges. i also want to take the opportunity to address the officers of the minneapolis police department. your profession is essential. the work that you do on a daily basis is extremely difficult and often very dangerous. your responsibilities are enormous and could not be more important. you are asked to keep your community safe, to uphold the rule of law, and to ensure equal justice under law. for you the succeed, the department must provide you with consistent policies and training that explain and reinforcement constitutional boundaries and responsibilities. it must give you the support that you need to do your jobs safely and effectively. as and they must allow you to

achieve tand we must provide yo the resources that you need to do your job respectfully and lawfully. and for the people of minneapolis, thank you for your partnership throughout our review process. in the investigation, the department met with many community member ps,s, includin people who had grave injuries with encounters with mpd officers and thank you for sharing your experiences with us. we could not have completed our investigation without your contributions. please engage in the issues

ahead. your involvement is critical to our success. and finally to, the career staff of the civil rights division of the united states department of justice and the u.s. attorney's office for the district of columbia who conducted this investigation. thank you for your work which will make minneapolis a better place for all of its residents. today, we have completed our investigation. but this is only the first step. we look forward to working for your durable and mean pgful reform. i am pleased to now turn this over to vinita gupta. >> i want to thank the city and the mpd for their cooperation. i want to express my gratitude

to the many, many members of the community who share their experiences to us during the investigation. we went to investigate the mpd's investigation into the -- you have been listening to merrick garland and officials from the state of minnesota talk about the results of a two-year investigation into minneapolis and the minneapolis police department. what merrick garland announced is that the investigation found systemic problems in the minneapolis police department that made what happened to george floyd possible. patterns and practices that violated the first the and fourth amendments and the civil rights act, and used excessive force when no force was necessary, and discriminated against black and native americans and violated free

speech. it was a sweeping is report. it is a scathing report, and report that will have consequences. i wanted to bring in the senior cnn correspondent evan perez, what did you hear there? >> john, look, everyone expected it to be a blistering report, and that is what it was, a police department according to the justice department's investigation, was providing an unequal service to african-americans and native americans in that community. this is a few of the important findings here. they said that they reviewed hundreds of the police body cam videos and they looked at incident reports and complaints, and reviewed 19 police shootings from 2016 to 2022, and this what they said, a significant portion of them were unconstitutional uses of deadly force. they said that there were shootings of people who were not really before they even were any

threat to any officers, and in some cases, a threat to themselves. if you remember of course, the derek chauvin who is the officer convicted in the murder of george floyd who was kneeling on the neck for 9 minutes, and they looked at 197 times that neck restraints were used between 2016, and 2020, and again, that is a sense that long before george floyd was murdered, this a persistent problem that people in the community had to deal with. and one of the nine flois shootings that they reviewed, the general report of a woman who wanted to report a sexual abuse in an alleyway, and the

officer shot her because he said she spooked him. in the department, the black people were 6.5 times more likely to be stopped by police, and native americans were stopped 7.9 more times than anyone else. so at the end othisf this going forward the department is giving credit to the police there in independence, the city officials who have taken steps to reform the police department. now, going forward, they expect to make more changes. they have banned neck restraints and no-knock warrants, and also, going forward, the city is negotiating with the justice department to have a monitor and court-ordered monitor who is going to be essentially helping the police department to make some of the changes and make sure that some of the training changes to be made stick, and

they are brought forward and to be making department responsive to the people they are to protect. >> and we saw john fry to the left of a.g. garland. now, stay here, as we go to areva martin, and i mean, blistering, and scathing, and what was your reaction? >> just really shocked, rahel. we had some preview from some media reports of the nature of the report that merrick garland would give, but the details are even worse than the media reports. the incident involving woman who was trying to report a sexual assault and she was shot and killed by a police officer, because he was so-called spooked is just unimaginable, and the excessive force, the racial profiling, and the harassing of african-americans and native

americans in this community, and the comment of derek chauvin that he had a history of using excessive force not only with the murder of george floyd, and hearing details and the level of insidiousness that was happening and the blatant attack on native americans on this community is shocking, and appalling, and i guess, if you are looking for the silver that they are in agreement with the justice department to try to bring this positive out of the press conference, but it is sommer, and i would say

>> areeva, please standby, because i want to talk about the consent degree of the justice department to basically oversee what happens there. evan, i know that this exists in more than a dozen jurisdictions in the u.s., right now, but what exactly does it mean practically? >> well, practically speaking, john, what this means is that someone is, you know, usually someone in that community is going to be brought in and receive training, and sometimes the reports are controversial, because it seems that you are bringing in an outsider to sit on the shoulders of the police officers and second-guessing everything they do, and that is one of the things that the justice department is certainly aware of the criticism. they are trying to make sure that these things are limited in time. so that, you are not going to have a police department that is

going to have to deal with and to have some kind of progress and then once the judge reviews process, they will continue the training, and talk to members of the community to ensure that changes that have already been made, and are going to be made going to stick. the morale is way, way down, and this is something that the report addresses in this investigation. they know that, you know, police officers want to do a good job, and they also know that there is a lot of scrutiny there. i think that there is a whole level of frankly low morale that followed what happened in the george floyd case. a lot of people were embarrassed by what happened.

now, that is part of the job here, is how the police officers are being recruited so that the ones that come into the force are ones that are trained, that have the right mindset to provide that service that this community really, really needs obviously. >> evan, standby for one more minute. ar ree is a, you kougs hear about the new recommendations and trainings that a.g. garland was talking about. >> well, the activists that have been involved on the streets including black lives matter, and including some respect to how the policing is taking place in independence, and obviously, from this report, there a lot of work to be done, and cedric anderson with the other agencies

to be represented, and officer cedric has a national reputation being of president obama's task team, and so i am little more encouraged knowing that cedric alexander is going to be working with the minneapolis police department, and a big shoutout to the activists who have been working diligently to bring this to a head. some of the activists have been asking for the department of justice to come in for dekates. and obviously, it is taking the murd er of george floyd to get to this point, but this is an important step forward for the police department. >> and we heard merrick garland talk about the impact of george

floyd's death not just in minneapolis, but around the country. thank you. we have to shift to other breaking news. we have learned moments ago that a federal jury in pittsburgh has reached a verdict in the case against the man accused of killing 11 people at a pittsburgh synagogue in 2018. the deadliest anti-semitic attack in history. there is a verdict. danny freeman has been covering case outside of the courtroom, and where do things stand at this moment? >> well, john, like you said, we just got rate -- late word that there is a verdict now. so, this is a long time coming from that deadly day in 2018. this is the guilt fades and then

depending upon the charges convicted or not convicted coming up in 30 minutes, we will see if the death penalty is on the table. i wanted to run through some of the charges to illustrate to the viewers what we are looking at. robert bowers, the defendant is charged with 63 federal charges and 22 of them capital offenses. we should have an answer quickly when the jury comes out to reach that verdict, because charges 1 through 11 are obstruction of the free exercise of religious beliefs resulting in death, and the others are the use and discharge of a firearm to commit murder and crime of violence specifically related to the 11 worshippers who were killed inside of that synagogue nearly 4 1/2 years ago. there are hate crimes, and several hate crimes resulting in death, and also hate crimes involving an intent to kill, and

i bring it up, because the jurors have been deliberating for about five hour, and there is one question answered so far in regard to intent to kill, and not the capital charges or the hate crimes, but the jurors were asking about obstruction of free exercise of religious beliefs, and the question of whether robert bowers had to be there to have an intent to kill, and because of the definition it does not require knowledge of any specific fact, and it is going to remain on you whether he had intent. so it was a only question not on the capital charge, but the murder charges of 40 through 47, and then they got through all

63, john, and in less than 30 minutes, we should have that verdict here on the pittsburgh synagogue shooting trial. >> and the jurors have heard some really emotional testimony in this trial. >> yes, i has been emotional and grueling. i will say a few things, first, not only was the testimony over the past several grueling, but we heard from the people who were shot, and 9 clfz calls that sh showed and there was a 9/11 prayer shawl, and we heard her speaking to the 911 operator, and we have heard 911 calls from

rose and her mother who were hid underneath the pew to try to avoid the gunman and, andrea, testified that the gunman came over and shot her mother, and then we heard the silence after the gun fire on that 911 phone call, and it was terrifying, and emotional and intense, and that is really capitalizing the events of the event, and you can imagine that some of them have come into the front of the court to make sure they are present to watch this trial go on, and so it is very emotional. >> and so the verdict is coming any minute. we will get back to danny and the courtroom as soon as it comes in. a lot of breaking news this

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minutes we would hear a verdict from the jury in the synagogue shooting, and we are about 15 minutes away from that now, and so i wanted to say that the jury deliberated for five hours and trial was three weeks and this is 4 1/2 hours for the waiting of the jewish community here in pittsburgh, and the larger community here in pittsburgh, because it has been that long to get to this moment since october 17, 2018 when robert bowers is accused of shooting up that tree of life synagogue, and there were three congregations there that day and killing 11 worshippers and we will get an answer of guilty/not guilty to many of the charges. some of the charges, robert bowers, the defendant, is accused of 63 federal charges and 22 are capital offenses eligible for the death penalty. we should know which, and i

should say that we should know if he is guilty of the capital offenses early on, because the first 11 are capital offenses and obstruction of religious beliefs and the other is the use and discharge of a firearm to commit murder during and in commission of a crime of violence and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime. those are the main ones we are looking at, because if he is convicted of those, then it goes to the death penalty phase. it is interesting that we have been listening to the closing statements all day yesterday from the prosecution and the defense. the prosecution really didn't just seek to prove that robert bowers was the one who came in there to shoot 11 worshippers in 2018, but he did so specifically because they were jewish. they wanted to make clear that it is a targeted attack on

jewish people specifically, because that is how they get to the capital charges. the defense did not put up any defense when it comes to did robert bowers commit the crimes. we said that we know that he did this, and not disputing the crimes, but the defense tried to make a picture questioning the motive saying that actually, the reason that robert bowers went into the synagogue to kill the 11 worshippers is not because they were jewish, but he believed and online conspiracy that one of the congregations supported a refugee resettlement group, and this is about his hatred of immigrants and not jewish people, and the prosecution in rebutting the closing arguments yesterday said it is absurd argument, because he went there specifically on a saturday morning to attack jewish people, and pointed to scores of online anti-semitic posts that he had made in the past to drive home that point. so, again, that is what the evidence and the prosecution and the defense said yesterday. again, today in the matter of

minutes, we are expecting to get that verdict from this jury. >> all right. danny freeman, standby, if you will, and alert us if you get more information. in the meantime, joining us is federal and white collar crime attorney caroline annese, and there is no suggestion that he didn't do it, but what this is largely about is the next phase of the trial which is the death penalty offense. if he is found guilty of those counts, and there is another hearing, and this jury selection did go on for some time, and this jury had to be selected very carefully. >> yes, that is true. it is a bifurcated trial in the guilt/not guilty phase, and if he is found guilty on any one of the 22 capital eligible charges,

they will move into the next phase to decide whether or not the death penalty is going to be impose and you are right in what is called voir dire process, jurors, potential jurors were screened for their ability to keep the open mind with respect to whether or not to impose to death sentence. some people are morally oppose opposed to the death penalty. >> what does it mean that it is only five hours. >> i have seen others returned quickly, but five hours is very fast, because they have decide on dozens of charges here. the defense is not mistaken identity, and i did not engage in these acts, and they are specific legal defenses to the 22 capital charges. in order to get the federal charges bumped up to hate crimes, the prosecution has to

show that the defendant did it because of the hatred for jewish people. >> and the fact that it was a federal trial, and also clearly death penalty implications, and it is not something that we see a lot. >> right. specifically because of the hate crime element and motivated by the animus of jewish people, and you heard danny say that the defense is that no, he did not like immigrants and this is a protected class under the statutes and trying to make that distinction, but we don't see murder cases generally charged at the federal level unless they are hate crimes. >> again, we don't know what the verdict is going to be yet, and i don't want to get too far ahead of thing, but if he is found guilty on the capital accounts here, and how will this next phase differ so far, and it

seemed that both sides were trying to lay the groundwork for this next phase. >> right, the next phase is a different evidentiary standard, and the guilt/not guilt is not in question, and so the evidentiary phase will go to the aggravating factors, and this case screams death penalty to me in term of the aggravating factors and we all heard some of the tragic and terrifying testimony of what took place that day, and the prior animus toward the group, and those are aggravating factors and types of things that come in during the sentencing phase. >> and the defendant trying to draw a distinction of the hate of jewish people and immigrants. and so when he had posted that way, and the word danny used is

ridiculous. and ludicrous. >> absurd. i mean, look, i don't fault any criminal attorney for putting up the best possible defenses in court, and that is what their job is. however, in this case, it is pretty clear that defense is going to fall flat in the face of highly contradictory evidence. >> how does hearing from the victims play into the sentencing phase of what we see next, because the community reaction is notable, and danny saying that there is some saying that there is no forgiveness here, and this killer has not asked for it, and unless it is not asked for it, it is not possible to grant it. but no doubt, some people will be connected to this who are not comfortable with the death penalty, and how is that going to be used in sentencing? >> yes. that is going to go to

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welcome back. we are standing by for a verdict out of pittsburgh on the mass shooting a the a synagogue there in 2018. but also this morning at least three people are dead after a tornado tore through a small town this the texan panhandle. this storm chaser video appears to show what looks like at least two twisters on the ground at one point. also take a look at these before and after photos of a cell tower in perton. it looks like it's been folded in half. it's part of the catastrophic damage documented in this small town are wheres and businesses have been levelled. up to 100 patients have been treated since the tornado hit. lucy cavanaugh joins us from texas. day lugt now really revealing the extent of the damage. >> it certainly is. when we arrived here overnight, it was dark. there was almost no people out on the street.

now the cleanup efforts are beginning. there are heavy trucks, machinery, crews are picking up the debris and the rubble. search and rescue teams are out and about here. although local police officers said largely everyone that was missing has been accounted for. but this was a terrifying experience for residents. folks in this part of the country are used to tornadoes. there are several tornado shelters here. a library several blocks away. but the speed with which all this unfolded caught everyone by surprise pit spoke to one. i spoke to one survivor. take a listen. >> was there a moment where you feared you might not make it? >> yes, ma'am. there was a time where i thought that i was going to die and ufs going to leave a lot of things undone. know there's people here who died today. some of the best people i have ever met in my life are here in

this town. wonderful, wonderful people. >> reporter: you can hear the emotion in her voice. this community shocked by what happened. they made it out with their lives, but not everyone did. dozens of people injured, hundreds left homeless. those who are here need almost everything you can think of. power, water, food, electricity, blankets, they need to be able to make it through the come ing days. there are a lot of efforts to help other communities, other counties have sent help here. there are federal resources and state resources as well, but right now it's about picking up the pieces and wading through the rubble. >> so much to do and a long road ahead. thank you. just seconds ago, the jury in pittsburgh in the federal murder trial against the man accused of killing 11 people in a synagogue in 2018, that jury just entered the courtroom. they are about to read the verdict. if he is found guilty on capital

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the breaking news, a verdict in the murder trial against the man accused of killing 11 people in a pittsburgh synagogue in 2018. they are literally reading the verdict right now. this man has been foubds guilty on every count that has been read so far, including counts that have the potential for the death penalty. let's get back to the courtroom. danny freeman is there had they are still reading the verdict. >> reporter: right now as we speak, they are still reading the verdict. we are getting updates from our

reporter inside the courtroom. robert bowers has been convicted of the 22 capital offenses that he was charged with. that's obstruction of religious belief resulting in death. i'll just read the names. those people were all killed in the tree of life four and a half years ago. ro wert bowers is facing capital offenses if their murders. i should also say we're just getting word that robert bowers is also convicted of some of the primary hate crime acts resulted in death. they were attached to this as well. we're getting these convictions as we speak. they are rolling. other capital offenses that robert bow rs was convicted of was the use and discharge of a firearm during relation to a

crime of violence and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence. again, these counts are still coming as we go. that's the headline for now. robert bowers convicted of capital offenses in the synagogue shooting. >> killing 11 people and may their memories be a blessing. keep us posted. thank you very much. >> i want to bring back federal criminal defense attorney caroline policy. thank you for coming back. convict withed on these capital offenses, what happens now? >> not surprising, i would note. i think we all noted before just the amount of evidence here. now, as we talked about before, this is a by forindicated trial. it moves into the sentencing phase. it is a death penalty eligible case on these 22 charges. and now the government will bripg more evidence into play, aggravating factors and the jury will decide whether or not to um pose the death sentence. >> it is very much a painful day

there. we have about 20 seconds left here. when will this all begin? obviously, it's the same jury, so they are not going to take much of a pause. >> we will move immediately into the sentencing phase. they likely were ready for this. it's going to be a lot of the same evidence, but even more emotionally gripping testimony for this sentencing phase. >> this is very painful for that community, with us also very important for that community to get justice. today they got some of it. this man found guilty of every count that we know of,s including the capital murder offenses. he could face the death penalty. caroline, thank you very much. obviously, much more on all of this breaking news. cnn following it from every possible angle. this has been "cnn news central." "inside politics" picks up right now.