mark hamill, our new friend chloe, you can take off your 3d glasses, also i never told you to put them on. this is "nightline." tonight tributes and trials. ahead, remembering a man. now the symbol of racial injustice in america. george floyd dying in custody. today a police chief kneeling in tribute. >> it's time for us to stand up in george's name and kneeur necks! >> now, an entire police department in the spotlight. >> what else would work effectively in minneapolis to change the culture? >> plus, the final moments of ahmaud arbery, as he lay dying, the subject now accused of hurling a racial slur at him. >> while mr. arbery was on the ground, that he heard travis

michael make a statement. [ bleep ]. >> deepening the pain for a grieving mother. >> ahmaud loved. he also was loved by many. >> "nightline" starts right now, with juju chang. >> good evening, thanks for joining us. as the country paused to remember george floyd, tonight marks ten straight days of civil unrest, calling out his death as just one of many black lives lost. now we examine another minneapolis case, another officer's knee to the neck. another death of a black man and what it says about policing in america. >> fill and dough was an amazing man. he was just a laid-back, cool today. didn't know how that end up happening to someone like him. >> lewis hunter has been here before. grieving the death of a black man at the hands of police in minnesota. >> they may not knew each other, but they was two brothers.

>> this week, it's george floyd, but tfour years ago it was his cousin, philando castile, shot byfficers after being stopped for a broken taillight. >> keep your hands where they are. >> yes, i will. >> his girlfriend live streaming the scene while her 4-year-old daughter sat nat back seat. >> he was trying to get out his id and wallet. >> his death helping spark nationwide protests demanding police reform and accountability. those same cries for justice once again echoing through america's streets. >> when do this stop? we got to do better as a country and let black men live. let me live. let my son live. >> in minneapolis this afternoon, a nation in mourning. coming together to grieve george floyd's deat reoned an old w. a powerful moment as the minneapolis police chief knelt

as george floyd's hearse passed by him. ♪ amazing grace >> hundreds in attendance as hayes family shared stories about a father, a brother, a high school athlete who loved lebron james and grew up eating banana and mayonnaise sandwiches. >> he touched so many hearts, because he's been touching our hearts, you know. you come to third ward where we're from, people are crying right now. that's how much they loved him. >> the reverend al sharpton with these strong words. >> it's time for us to stand up in george's name and say get your knee off our neck! >> after calls for justice, there was this dramatic statement. eight minutes and 46 seconds of

silence. >> law enforcement, when it became formalized, part of its original tasks was to engage in the regulation of enslaved black bodies. >> dr. philip fwagoff studies t intersection of racial bias and policing. >> it is the case that we have a pretty straight line from that history up until now. and at no point in time did someone look and say hey, that thing we've been doing is super racist. >> minnesota, one of the biggest gaps. 7% of whites living in poverty versus 27% of blacks. >> too often white communities turn away from that systemic racism. they don't want to see it. it's almost like they don't want to address t it. we cannot turn away. >> tonight all four officers in floyd's case behind bars, facing criminal charges.

chauvin had a history of 18 civilian complaints, now charged with second degree murder. >> in this case, justice is all four of them goes to jail. i can remember being in a courtroom on fill and dough's case. and they sayin' not guilty. gui we can't hear that this time. >> this is not the first time the minneapolis police department has been under scrutiny. a 2015 justice department report of the city's police practices sent serious disciplinary actions against officers, such as terminations and suspensions occur infrequently and recommended strengthening relationships with communities of color. >> we need to get rid of the officers have some of them reapply perhaps, but they have to really be able to weed out the cancer that's in the

department. >> you're talking about firing every minneapolis police officer. >> i'm talking about you need to start over. >> robert bennett is a civil rights attorney in minnesota. he's represented the families of fill and dough castile and several other cases. let's start with your reaction to the george floyd video. >> my reaction on seeing that was of course colored by the david smith incident ten years prior. it seemed like i was watching the same thing happen again. >> david smith was killed ten years ago after an officer placed his knee on smith's back. he was kept on his stomach for at least seven minutes. >> get down on the ground. >> in smith's case, the two officers from the minneapolis police department were responding to a 911 call. >> well, the call was, there was a man doing strange things at the ymca. the officers came, mr. smith was

mentally ill, plus he's on the, he was on the autism spectrum. so he didn't like to be touched, and the officers came and immediately grabbed him. and the fight ensued from there. >> during the struggle, smith tries to flee. >> [ bleep ]. >> and the officers tase him to the ground. that's when the seven excruciating minutes begin. >> hey, you want to talk to us? what's wrong with you? >> smith, lying on the ground remains unresponsive. >> [ bleep ] better not have broke my -- >> smith died a week later, his death declared a homicide, due to mechanical asphyxiation. that was 2010. >> the minneapolis police's own policy from 2002 says the subject shall not be left in a prone position and shall be placed on their side as soon as they are secured. what do you think about that policy, vis-a-vis david smith's

case and george floyd? >> well, it was ignored. in the smith case, the officers weren't even successfully disciplined. >> bennett says criminal charges were never filed against the officer in david smith's case and they remain on duty to this day. the city settled the case with the family for $3 million. as part of the settlement, my understanding that the use of prone restraint was supposed to be retrained within the department. do you know if that took place? >> no, i don't. what i know about training in minneapolis would lead me to believe that even if it was done t was an empty gesture. >> data shows in the past five years, minneapolis police have used some sort of neck restraint technique in at least 164 case. >> so the racial elements of it are baked into where the techniques game from. in some cities they are only

using those techniquesing. >> the minneapolis police department did not respond to requests for comment but said they had deep sympathy for smith's family, but in anile situation where police must restrain somebody there can be unintended results. >> if you have officers who believe that if they break the policy, the worse they're going to get is desk duty, those policies aren't requirements, suggestions. if you really want to change behavior, you have to have policies that say you will behave this way, and if you don't, there will be swift and certain consequences. >> people still on the streets protesting, ten days and counting. for george floyd, fill and doph castile, david smith and too many others we've forgotten. >> what we're seeing is a past-due bill on the unpaid

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ahmaud arbery went out one day for an afternoon jog and never came home. now new testimony about a racial slur from one of the white men charged with chasing him down and murdering him. here's my "nightline" co-anchor, byron pitts. >> it's been three and a half months since ahmaud arbery was chased down by white men while out for a jog. and now new details are add together pain.

according to the lead investigator, the man who shot s him, stood over him issuing a racial slur. >> before police arrival while ar g. mrroun wdbe that he heard travis michael make a statement. [ bleep ]. >> the courtroom left in stunned silence at the probable cause hearing today for the father and son accused of killing arbery. gregory and travis mcmichael. federal prosecutors introducing a possible new motive. racism. >> have you seen any other evidence that he has used that horrible n-word anywhere else? >> yes, many times. one particular one that comes to mind is he loved his job and was out on a boat and there weren't any n-words anywhere. >> prosecutors say he was hunted down by the mcmichaels and their neighbor.

brian was recording. travis mcmichael shot and killed arbery. all three claimed they were trying to make a citizens arrest, saying they believed arbery was responsible for several break-ins in this georgia neighborhood. but today's hearing told a different story. >> the new information paints a broad picture of how long this chase occurred. >> they claim arbery tried to run for his life and was trapped in between the truck and bryant's. >> did he make any admission that his vehicle had any contact with the deceased victim? >> yes, he indicated at one point his vehicle had contact with the victim. >> the three have not yet entered a plea. they urge people not to rush to judgment. the attorney for william roddy bryant. >> we asked court to dismiss the charges. >> the arbery family lawyer broke down in tears outside the

court. >> people were sobbing silently toheels. it's very difficult to hear, excuse me. >> and arbery's mother, wanda cooper walked out of the courtroom. her grief bone deep and familiar to too many black parents around the country. >> ahmaud was kind. ahmaud loved, and he also was loved by many. >> arbery played football, attended south georgia technical college and worked at his father's landscaping and car wash business. he left his mother's home outside brunswick, georgia for a daily jog, eventually running through a mostly-white neighborhood a few miles away. that's when the mcmichaels and bryant began to chase him. >> [ bleep ]. >> the cell phone video taken by bryant shows arbery running, then you see him struggling with travis mcmichael, who was armed

with a shotgun. arbery was not armed. by the time police arrived, the 25-year-old was dead in the street, shot three times, twice in the chest. 64-year-old gregory mcmichael used to work in county law enforcement, first as a police officer and then investigator for the local district person o attorney's office. local police did not make any arrests for two months until the video leaked to the public in may. it immediately ignited a firestorm across the country. >> no justice, no peace! >> and on social media, across racial and party lines. >> major developments tonight in that case igniting national outrage. >> a young, unarmed black man, shot and killed. >> culminating in arrest and murder charges, 74 days after he was killed. as george floyd was memorialized in minneapolis and mass protests continued around the nation, ahmaud arbery's family hopes for change. >> justice looks like at this

point, a change. not just locally, but nationally. i have grand sons that will eventually grow up to be men. and they will have to be protected as well. we need to make sure that authorities that are put in place to protect and serve do what they're put in place to do, protect and serve. >> until then, more grieving. on tuesday, they will stand beside the floyd family at the funeral in houston, sharing in their sorrow. >> i have someone to go through this fight together with. very heartbreaking to see the way his life was ended, very, very heartbreaking. >> what we have learned through this suffering is showing up and supporting each other, it's a link we never wanted to have. >> and tonight, sending a message to everyone chanting her son's name all over the country. >> the words i have are thank you, thank you for standing with

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lynching has yet to be considered a federal crime in america. this february, the house passed an anti-lynching bill. named after emmett till, who was lynched in 1955. but, in the senate, kentucky republican rand paul is blocking the bill, concerned it might allow minor altercations to carry the same punishment as lynching. >> to clue any bodily injury, including a cut, an abrasion or a bruise, physical pain, illness, or any other injury to the body, no matter how temporary. >> that brought impassioned responses from his senate colleagues. >> to suggest that lynching would only be a lynching if

someone's heart was pulled out and produced and displayed to someone else is ridiculous! >> we pass this, it would not only do something substantive to make a difference on the books of the american federal system but god, it would speak to the racial pain and hurt of generations. i do not need my colleague, the senator from kentucky to tell me about one lynching in this country. >> a push for progress amidst a clash of politics. that's "nightline." we'll see you right back here same time tomorrow. thanks for staying up with us, goodnight, america. ♪ ba, da, ba, ba, da, ba, ♪ ba, da, ba, ba, da, ba, ♪ ♪ jimmy kimmel live this is ridiculous. >> jimmy: hello, i'm jimmy. i'm the host of this house. thank you for braving the curfew to be here. although we didn't have a curfew in l.a. tonight for the first

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