hello, every. i'm alicia menendez. ahead at 7:00 p.m. on "american voices." we speak with reverend william barber about the ongoing fight to protect voting rights across america. but first, a special report with ari melber as we near closing arguments in the murder trial of derek chauvin. the trial, the killing of george floyd, airs at 6:00 p.m. eastern right here on msnbc. thank you for joining us tonight for this special live coverage of the pivotal closing of the derek chauvin murder trial. the minneapolis police officer who killed george floyd. i'm ari melber, and i'll be with you live tonight for the next hour. this is the eve of closing arguments as the nation and

really much of the world awaits the jury deliberation and ultimately the expectations for a verdict from the 12 jurors who have been listening to every hour of testimony, over 40 witnesses spanning 14 days. this all culminates tomorrow as the prosecution has its moment to tie it all together, to tell the jury why it should do something that is very rare in the american justice system, convict a police officer for murder committed on the job. and the defense has its final plea, to try to save chauvin's liberty by arguing for his innocence or failing that, for legally reasonable doubts about his guilt. we do not know what the jury will do. nothing that i'm going to report to you tonight, none of our special experts can tell you what the jury will do in the future. that's the point of a system that ultimately puts a person's guilt not in the hands of the government or of professional judges but in the hands of fellow citizens. from our reporting, we do know

what the lawyers will focus on tomorrow. we can tell you all about that because closing arguments must draw on the evidence and testimony presented in the trial itself. so that means the prosecution's closing will indeed hit on these key points. >> mr. chauvin was anything other than innocent on may 25th of 2020. >> the defendant violated our policy in terms of rendering aid. >> 9 minutes and 29 seconds, the most important numbers you will hear in this trial, 9:29. >> i believe that mr. george floyd's death was absolutely preventable. >> he put his knees upon his neck and his back, grinding and crushing him until the very breath. no, ladies and gentlemen, until the very life was squeezed out of him. >> i offered to walk, kind of walk them through it or told them if he doesn't have a pulse, you need to start compressions. and that wasn't done either.

>> do you need a minute? >> you can see his eyes, he's conscious. and then you see that he isn't. and that's the moment the life goes out of his body. >> to many listeners, to viewers, to potentially the jurors, much of that may be very compelling evidence. when we turn to what we know about the defense, well, their closing will surface some of their different rationales for what they argued is reasonable doubt. >> derek chauvin did exactly what he had been trained to do. what was mr. floyd's actual cause of death? the evidence will show that mr. floyd died of a cardiac arrythmia. >> in my opinion, mr. floyd had a sudden cardiac arrythmia, due

to his athrow chlorotic and hypertensive heart disease. >> i felt derek chauvin was justified with acting with objective reasonableness. >> you also took into consideration the heart disease, correct? you would agree that fentanyl is a respiratory depressant. >> there was a crowd, and yes, the crowd was becoming more loud and aggressive. >> there was no evident that mr. floyd's air flow was restricted. >> now, what can we draw from these arguments? well, they reveal that there's no doubt that george floyd was not accused of any violent act that day. that he was not an apparent deadly threat. he died in police custody. those things aren't much in doubt, even between those two sides of this case. so the legal debate over reasonable doubt has turned quite a bit on his medical condition, the scientific cause of death. as well as legally, the nature of the force used. the defense focusing on poking holes. they call just seven witnesses.

think about this in context, compare that to the prosecution that was so thorough, they called 38 different witnesses. now, the jury never heard from the defendant at the center of it all, chauvin exercising his right, legally, not to testify. so this sequestered jury will decide his fate based on what they learned about his actions, about the evidence of his actions, and based on the instructions they have received and theirnderstanding of the law. they have been strictly instructed to focus only on those points. that's important. and to legally understand their obligation put aside the protests and the movement catalyzed by what did occur that day. our special coverage live right now on the eve of these arguments begins with former federal prosecutor jami hodge, and civil rights attorney david henderson. thanks to both of you for joining me. >> thanks for having us. >> thank you. >> i want to -- thank you. i want to begin with david.

we're at this key point, the reason we have special live coverage tonight is we're on the eve of the closing arguments in the deliberation. many different moments have occurred. we asked each oaf for your key moments. david, let's play yours about the paramedic discussing the whole situation and the chance at life. >> were you actively working on him the whole time you were with him? >> yes, he remained in his quote/unquote dead state, and we continued on with cardiac arrest. he's a human being and i was trying to give him a second chance at life. >> a second chance at life. david, why was that moment important to you? >> well, ari, it's important to me for two weezens. it's important in the context of the case, but it's also important for personal reasons. in the context of the case, it puts in perspective exactly what chauvin's intent was. it dovetails nicely with the 9-year-old who said he wouldn't take his knee off george floyd's neck, even when the paramedics

asked him nicely, and it puts in perspective what we can expect to hear in context to the rest of the prosecution's argument. and for me personally, listening to the bystander testimony, what weighs heavily is people saying things like they felt hopeless. it felt like you just can't win. it was meaningful to see someone in a position of authority say, listen, this man could have been saved, and had they done what he recommended, george floyd might still be alive today. >> jami, you pointed us to the pulmonologist testimony. let's take a look. >> so we see here that he reaches 11 of 0 of oxygen at 20:25:41. so at that point, there's not an ounce of oxygen left in his body, in his entire body at 20:25:41. >> so was the knee then lifted off his neck at the point there was no oxygen in his body? >> no, the knee remained on the

neck for another 3 minutes and 2 seconds after we reached the point where there is not an ounce of oxygen left in the body. >> scientific and expert testimony at times can be dry or even hard for the jury to always grasp because we're not all specialists. you point to this moment where if you knew nothing else about this case or if there were no video, and you have the medical expert saying, when we think about, we all know we draw air to breathe, not an ounce of air left in his body. and it continued for three more minutes. walk us through why that was important to you. >> well, i'm a former prosecutor. i know how much the burden really lies on the prosecution to prove all of the elements, and from the very beginning, one of the hardest parts of this case was going to be causation. we knew from the defense opening they were going to attribute that there were other factors that led to george floyd's

killing. but dr. tobin did such a thorough job of walking through the testimony and showing really clearly that this was asphyxiation. this was a loss of oxygen and going point by point, even to the point of where he lost his life. so to me, his testimony is critical for the, one, to make sure that the jury has what it needs to get that top charge, and also, just really recognizing that this was a tragic killing of a person in a way that just was unnecessary. the fact that it went on three more minutes even after that point of loss of life just shows how tragic this was, and hearing that from a medical expert, i think it's really compelling for the jury. >> and as a former prosecutor, i'm curious your view of the way this prosecution was able to summon police testimony. we know from our reporting on

trials that juries tend to be very deferential to police. and while race has been infused throughout this trial for good reason, we know that when people make too many assumptions, you usually end up with misleading stereotypes. for example, we have heard from jurors of all backgrounds that absent overwhelming evidence to the contrary often there is a presumption of legitimacy to police. and yet, here, that presumption was shifted away from a blue line or defending police but to actually having police testimony including the mpd chief going against chauvin's maneuvers. look at this, the mpd chief. >> once there was no longer any resistance and clearly when mr. floyd was no longer responsive and even motionless, to continue to apply that level of force that in no way, shape,

or form is anything that is by policy, is not part of our training, and it is certainly not part of our ethics or our values. >> jami? >> and i can't underscore enough how different this is to have this many police officers testifying for the prosecution. this is not just police experts but his own supervisor, his own training officers, people who know the policies and what is required for the minnesota police department, minneapolis police department. so this is, to me, a big deal that you have officers saying, because what the jury has to understand and why there's often deference in police killings is because it's not from a reasonable person's standing, it's from a reasonable officer. we have this many officers saying this was not reasonable, this was not consistent with our

training. this went way too far and was unnecessary, helps demonstrate that even from a reasonable officer's standard, this is not necessary. and i also think it's really important that the other takeaway from this is that it's going to require more than training to resolve these issues. this is not a training issue. this is much more deeply rooted in understanding the history of policing, most people don't know that the forefathers of what is our modern day policing were slave patrols. so it's going to require deep systemic transformation to prevent the next black person, person of color, from being killed at the hands of law enforcement. i also think the police have to help underscore that point. training is not enough. it's not how we're going to solve this issue. >> and david, on the flipside with the defense kept pushing as well, whatever his other officers thought, something can look, as they got one witness to

say, something can look, quote, awful and still be lawful. take a look. >> sometimes the use of force, it looks really bad, right? >> yes. >> and sometimes it may be so -- it may be caught on video, right? and it looks bad. right? >> yes. >> but it's still lawful. >> yes, based on that department's policies or based on that state's law. >> david, what are they trying to do there in chipping away at prosecution case in the eyes of the jury? >> ari, what i think they're doing is trying to incorporate in the broader argument that they have made throughout the course of the trial. and that regard, it's like any other conversation, the defense had to wait patiently for their chance to talk, and then when they got it, the first thing they did, despite the fact they said they were going to focus on medical causation primarily in terms of trying to rebut the

prosecution's theory, the first thing they did was play the 2019 arrest video of george floyd which just showed prior drug use in connection with an arrest. it was character assassination flat out. but when they're talking about the fact that use of force can be lawful but awful, what they're trying to do is confuse the jury on the issue of whether or not derek chauvin's knee was a substantial causal factor in causing george floyd's death, and just hoping if they can tap into bias that some jurors may have, it creates enough confusion for that person to hold out and cause a hung jury. don't think we're likely to see an acquittal in this case. i think we'll see some form of conviction or one stubborn juror holding out and hanging up the process. >> i'm running over time, but i'll let you both answer that. david saying he doesn't see an outcome where there's 12 votes to acquit in his view. he sees either a hung jury or a

conviction of some kind. jameela, your take? >> i think the jury has more than enough to convict on all accounts. unfortunately, we have been down this road before, and we can't rely on a system that is inherently racist to give us justice. so i'm not -- i'm not for sure. i'm not certain that the jury will come back with what we all believe to be the right verdict. >> and you think acquittal is still possible? >> i think, yes. unfortunately, i mean, i think anything is possible. right? i don't think anyone would have thought it would be possible that we would have an officer with his knee on the neck of a man for 9 minutes to kill him, so anything is possible. and you know, but again, i think if the jury is looking at the elements and looking at the evidence, they have more than what they need for conviction on all counts. >> yeah. and for viewers, as we do the special coverage, what we're

listening to here are two very experienced experts having a good faith disagreement about the spectrum of what's possible in the trial, which is a reminder of why when you put 12 people in a room, even if they're informed and trying hard, you may get a lot of different views which is how this process works. i want to thank you for kicking us off with food for thought. thank you. we have a lot more in the special. how george floyd's killing did spark what we all witnessed and lived through, the worldwide protests. also coming up, one of the nation's leading activists joins me live tonight as we go into the closing arguments. but up next, another minnesota officer indicted for killing another unarmed black man. we look at how rare arrests are in these instances. please stay with us for our special coverage. >> can you just explain sort of what you're feeling in this moment? >> i feel helpless. (vo) nobody dreams in conventional thinking. it didn't get us to the moon.

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welcome back to our sunday night special coverage of this chauvin murder trial. we're on the eve of closing arguments, and even though this case about a minnesota police officer killing an unarmed black man has not yet been resolved, the community was suddenly rocked during this trial by a new incident of a minnesota police officer killing an unarmed black man, daunte wright. ten mimes from this courtroom. graphic body cam video captured what happen and the officer who killed him, kim potter, was charged with manslaughter three days after the incident, which is unusually fast for police involved killings. here's what the lawyers told me. >> i was at reverend al's national action network convention having a panel with the mothers of the movement, trayvon's mother, michael brown's mother from ferguson, eric garner's mother from here in new york, and stephon clark's mother. and we found the news that the

officer was going to be charged in the killing of daunte wright, and it was profound because when you really think about it, ari, it was the blood of their children who helped us get to this point in america. because none of them got due process. these other mothers never got their day in court. >> mr. crump reminding us there's a history to this, and i'm joined by minnesota state representative john thompson. who has been all too close to some of this tragic history. his own friends, philando castile was killed by police, and that's what he said motivated him to get involved directly in civil rights and representation. thanks for being here tonight, sir. >> thank you for having me. >> yes, sir. and i know you're joining us from within your weekend activities and joining us by phone from the car, so i hope you can hear me okay. my first question, straightforward, which is what is important to you and your

community heading into closing arguments and jury deliberation tomorrow? >> pray for us. pray for us here in the state of minnesota. because right now, we're preparing for the worst and hoping for the best with regard to the safety of the people in the state. you know, but we're here because of bad policing. and so, you know, there's a lot of decisions that have been made that could have saved george floyd's life, could have saved philando's life. you know, and we're here again, and by all means, do i not mean this to sound psychic. i'm just back here in the state of minnesota and i know there's going to be another police-involved killing again, probably before the end of this summer.

>> representative, part of what we are covering and discussing requires clarity or requires blunt language. so what everyone can understand what's happening, and part of what's happening is black people, and especially black men, are treated very differently by the criminal justice system, from first contact, which is police where you can end up in a shooting where it can look like an extra judicial killing, all the way through grinding through the rest of the system and what it takes to get an arrest or justice. i say through that my job, not prejudging what's happening this week, but based on our legal reporting of these issues. i want to play a little bit of what mr. crump said. reminding everyone in plain english how quote/unquote hard a case may be if it happens to someone else. >> we know if george floyd was a white american citizen and he

suffered this painful, torturous death with a police officer's knee on his neck, nobody, nobody would be saying this is a hard case. >> representative, your thoughts. >> i think that, after philando was murdered, i was out in the streets with the activists. and i was a protester. and you know, that was 2016. we had legislation passed that provided de-escalation training and implicit bias training, and those were like buzz words here in the state. but if you think about the field training officer that killed diante was ms. potter, the field training officer who killed

george floyd, officer chauvin, so what are you training these officers is what i'm saying to you. then we have legislation that does not want to move on police reform in our senate. they will not hear any reform. i have put bills together to end the statute of limitation on how these murders are -- you know, and body cam policy, and so much policy that would make sense to end this. you know, legislation plays a huge role in what we're seeing right now. so for me, we probably need president biden and vice president kamala harris to come here and actually see what's happening to our people and come from behind the oval offices, man. you have to come and see what's happening to our people here in the state. real quick, i lost my friend in 2016. and you don't know that july 5th of 2016, me and philando talked

about the murder of alton sterling that happened on that day, and the very next day, july 6th, we lost philando in the same manner me and philando discussed outside of the store, and we never -- we keep getting increments of reform here because we have -- this is almost like a police state. everybody, from the chiefs association, the minnesota peace officers association, they get to dictate what reform looks like in the state. and not the legislalegislators. it's almost like the ppp, the police and politicians here in the state. i show up to one of the officer's homes because he has 56 service complaints, 11 successful lawsuits filed against him, and they promoted him to a sergeant, and he's the president of the minnesota peace officers -- the minneapolis peace officers association. so that shows you what's engrained in the culture of policing here in this state. and if you allow me to just say one more thing, make no mistake,

the proud boys, the oath keepers, the three percenters, they have infiltrated police departments all across the state, so it's kind of like an ideal job for some of these white supremacists with this ideology. if they can infiltrate these police departments, they can do exactly what you sigh happening to black men right now in this state. there's no way we have two back-to-back murders, and like, we can't heal. we're trying to heal from george floyd and here we are again, with daunte. that's why i say we'll be here again until we get what reform really looks like is not the peace officers association, like, telling us what it looks like. >> representative, yeah, i hear you on all that, which is why we wanted to give you the floor tonight. >> these are hard conversations to have. >> yeah, i have -- my job here, i have to fit in a break because i have deray mckesson coming up,

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until may 25th, 2020. when the world saw his slow and brutal killing in the video that upended really everything that was happening, including the pandemic's pain and uncertainty and the quarantine rules. and the calls came in fast, clear, and blunt. activists saying it is past time to stop the state's racist executions of black people. >> i watched a white officer assassinate a black man. and i know that tore your heart out. >> charge the cops. charge all the cops. >> these young black men being killed. can you blame my son and anyone else from being scared of the police? >> charge them in every city across america where our people are being murdered. >> now is the time to plot, plan, strategize, organize, and

mobilize. >> i want to make something very clear tonight as we reflect on this trial. if you have seen our coverage during the trial, you may have heard me reference the legal limits on the jury. they have a legal duty to decide only the facts of whether this was a murder or not. they have a duty not to bring in other views about policing or racism. they have a duty to look at only what happened that day. and i can tell you, as a lawyer, as a journalist, that is how it's supposed to be. now, let me tell you something else. that is just for those 12 people. the rest of the population may tackle these wider issues. may decide whether it's time for a fuller overdue reckoning of the racist roots of the prison system as it operates today or demand policy responses to what happened that day. and i can tell you some of this is already occurring. there are states that have

passed new laws making police more accountable in court, with fewer automatic immunity protections. the democratic house did pass a police reform bill literally named after george floyd, but as with so many measures and steps, that was only a small one. it has not gotten anywhere yet in the divided u.s. senate. joining me now for this broader conversation is civil rights and blm activist deray mckesson, cofounder of campaign zero. thanks for being here. >> good to be here. >> deray, you, like me, frankly, work around a lot of these legal issues so i know you understand the clear contrast i'm drawing between what those jurors are instructed to do and everybody else. your thoughts on what everybody else can do taking this all in? >> in some ways, ari, this feels like deja vu. you remember back in 2014 when we started to have these conversations as a country. in 2014, we were convincing people this was an issue. we were like, no it's not just ferguson.

this is everywhere, and people didn't necessarily believe us. now people believe, and a question like then now is what do we do. now, remember, 2020, the police killed more people than every year of data we have except for 2018. in 2021 alone, the police have killed over 300 people as of today. daunte wright is just the first story people have known nationally. we know that training is interesting. the research even says that training changes police officer attitudes, does not change their behavior. body cameras, the research says it might change police officer attitudes. doesn't change their behavior. imagine if you had a job, ari, where you could do whatever you wanted and the worst case scenario was a training. i mean, that's where we are today. so this is the moment for a real scale-back of police power and their scope, and that is on local politicians. it is. it is on mayors, governors, legislators, and city council people. that's where the power is. >> yeah, i appreciate what you're saying.

so much of it is so deeply rooted, both at the structural level of how local government and local funding and local stuff works, and also, deeply rooted in our minds. in 2014, the notion of saying is there even a problem here, and that people that might think they would want to come to the table with you, i don't know, democratic politicians, certain types of liberals, whatever, they still needed convincing, let alone the wider system. reverend sharpton spoke to this very, very clearly at the memorial. i want to play a little bit of that. take a listen. >> george floyd's story has been the story of black folks, because ever since 401 years ago, the reason we could never be who we wanted and dreamed of being is you kept your knee on our necks. it's time for us to stand up in george's name and say get your knee off our necks.

>> deray. >> yeah, so i think he's right. i think the question becomes how. that is where the devil's in the details in this stuff. you look at maryland, and maryland, the police reform package there is one of the most aggressive in the united states. what they did is their ban on no-knock raids is truly the best set of laws about this that has existed in american history. they also developed a new way of disciplining that is citizen rooted and community based that doesn't exist anywhere else in the country. new jersey's use of force policies apply to all police in the state, and that was immediate and swift and it's a good thing. and then you look at places like missouri, and missouri is about to pass a police officer bill of rights that is going to give the police more power. georgia, after they killed rayshard brooks, georgia passed a new bill that gave the police more power. we have seen dozens of states criminalize the right to protest. so i don't want people -- i worry that in these moments, people see the energy and

they're like, well, the change in conversation must mean a change in structures, and let me tell you, i'm in a lot of rooms that police have never been more organized. they deal in fear. and even people on our side get nervous because the police will be like, communities are unsafe, and if you take away our power to do this, crimes -- so we need more elected officials willing to stand up. the last thing i'll say is the biden administration can do a lot today around the federal government. you know, the presidency isn't really a big game player or game changer when it comes to local police outside of money, but border patrol, 20,000 officers, atf, you know, the dea, like, i.c.e. tomorrow, biden could release an executive order reigning them in and he's not. tomorrow, that could happen. no commission, no task force, no legislation. >> all important points, deray mckesson, thank you for being part of our special coverage tonight. >> i want to fit in a break. coming up, we have something very important. i want to share with you more of

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as closing arguments begin tomorrow in the chauvin murder trial, it's vital to keep in mind the wider problems in american racism. which is why activists say their protests continue.

urging everyone to see policing within america's broader problem and original sin. sometimes the big question is worth asking. >> how do we get here? the short answer is as depressing as it is enraging. we have been here, in this position, for a long time. when a society is fundamentally unjust, its injustices build and fortify themselves over time. new developments that occur can routinely flow into the existing systems. take these three flash points right now, the police, the economy, and the pandemic. the first two operate on years of inequality. the third, this coronavirus, of course, arrived as a new phenomenon, but it's swiftly ground its way through old inequalities, housing, health care, and economics, all unequal, and that swiftly turned this technically blind virus into a discriminating killer.

black americans dying at roughly triple the rate of white americans right now from it. the economy re-enforcing the dynamic. we can all see the tens of millions of jobs just eliminated from the virus shutdown. it's obviously not the workers' fault. can we also see that black workers as almost twice as likely to be laid off during the pandemic. and while yes, everyone may be feeling the recession in different ways, can we also see that while 17% of white owned businesses face a decline in this pandemic, the numbers more than double that for black-owned businesses. and months into this, i have another question. can we also see that congress has taken your money for pandemic relief and while some of it did go to health care and unemployment insurance, a significant majority of the $454 billion in relief bills have benefits large corporations with these huge payoffs, with very little accountability. and the 1% is profiting right now, as people go hungry and

march tonight, billionaires have grown 434 billion dollars richer in the pandemic. hundreds of billions. so as we try to understand all this, as it keeps going, protesters know about these facts i'm telling you. you know about these facts. people know where the money goes. people know how the powerful reward themselves and control capital. and as we have a larger debate about a reopening staffed by essential workers who of course do essential labor, can we address the fact that they find their treatment by corporations and the government to be anything but essential? that's why this is also a night to study and listen to people who have been pressing these injustices long before they took over the headlines or shut down our streets. >> if you can only be tall because somebody is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. and my feeling is, white people have a very, very serious

problem. and they should start thinking about what they can do about it. take me out of it. >> toni morrison speaking to america's foundations. or take the author james baldwin who urged american society, white and black, to really face the violence that creates these scenarios. where america's racist roots are fortified by modern law and policing. baldwin arguing, you must understand it to see violence in its proper context, be it police brutally or violence by the state or the murders that ended the lives of a generation of leaders from king to medgar evers to fred hampton. >> we're still governed by the slave codes. what is called the civil rights movement was really insurrection. so one can say that the latest slave rebellion was brutally put

down. we all know what happened to malcolm. we all know what happened to malcolm. we know what happened to fred hampton and mark clark. and so many more. >> that's a little bit of the history as we watch more history unfold tonight, and this admittedly incomplete report has thus far briefly touched on the economy and the pandemic. now, as for the police conduct that set off the wider protests, that history has been with us a long time. the repeated use of excessive force and killing, which begins as incidents but then worse becomes formally legitimized in a u.s. criminal justice system that allows and defends it. now, we can report that to you tonight as a fact because the facts show a vast majority of the allegations against police in these incidents result in no firings, let alone criminal charges.

in the few cases that do lead to a charge, take roughly 15 per year over ten years, that's about ten per year of charges of manslaughter or higher, and the convictions for those very rare charges i can tell you are even more rare. as a a bowling green professor, phillip stenson, that tracks all these incidents, and he found there were zero such convictions in the whole country. if you widen out to a 15-year period of time, five officers in deadly on-duty shootings were convicted of murder. the reason why that's all lob sided on the far right of your screen, is that four of those five were convictions from after 2016. so what little change we've seen came after the black lives matter movement and after the spike in cell phone video recordings. another way to say it, the killing continues. it was rarely ever caught or

punished. and the few handful of changes i just showed you, they have come at the margins when there's a combination of an extremely incriminating video and public pressure and often, yes, people in the streets. so while no law abiding citizen is going to support crime or violence, when we stop and listen to the history and listen to those who risk their lives for social change, while also advocating peaceful methods for change, tonight, as we look over everything that's happening, it is worth listening to how even they put riots in the context of injustice. >> i will continue to condemn riots and continue to say to my brothers and sisters that this is not the way. in the final analysis, a riot is the language of the unheard. that's oven roasted turkey. piled high with crisp veggies. on freshly baked bread! so, let's get out there and get those footlongs.

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