ben crump, your response? >> certaininly. since he made e this plea direcy to me andnd lee merritt, let me respond directly to him. ahmaud arbery was unarmed and defenseless when he was executed in broad daylight. saysurthermore, , since he our calls for his client toto be arrerested somehow put hisis clt inin danger, we want him to know verythe arbery family is relieved and he can be very relieved because the rule of l w has prevailed and that his client wasrrested babased on evidence and probableause, andd hehe has no fearr to worry about his client being in danger because i am certain that hehe s safe in the glynn county jail. and our clients, the arbery family, would wish for him to reremain safafe and stay in the glynn county jail for a long time as they continue to push for justice for their son a ahmd arbery. the video keeps showing ahmaud arbery y going io thisis construction site where a house is being built. but other video has been released that showsws white peoe ovover and over again going into this construction

. >> ben crump, i'm going to read this statement here from the police. this is from the police -- i want to make sure i get the statement in. i'm going to read it. they said, quote, he physically resisted officers. we must review all video. we must wait for the medical examiner's reports. officers' actions and training protocol will be carefully examined after the officers have provided their statements. that's the statement coming from the police union, ben crump. what's your response to that? >> the video tells us all we need to see, craig. you had a man who had a police officer with his knee on his neck for nine minutes. not one minute, not two minutes, not three minutes, not four minutes, not five minutes, not six minutes, not seven minutes, not eight minutes, but nine minutes! he's begging for his life. he's telling them "i can't breathe." yet these officers offer him no humanity. you don't have to go to the police academy to know if your knee is on somebody's neck and they're telling you they can't breathe, that you are using excessive force. so we

he is ahmaud's father, and ben crump, attorney for the arbery family.arcus, i'm so very, very sorry for your loss, sir. tell us a little bit about your son. who was ahmaud arbery? >> he just was a young, very well respected young man. he just loved people, and he was the kind of young man that, if he had a dollar and you asked him for that one dollar, he would give it to you. his heart was bigger than life. i tell you, he just loved people, was a good young man. he just was outgoing with everybody. he just loved the people. he just didn't deserve to go out like that. >> today, again, would have been his birthday. what did he like to do on his birthday? how would he have likely celebrated turning 26? >> hang around with friends and stuff like that, try to put some meat on the grill. he'd just want to be around all the friends. he was a people young man. so those are the things he'd try to do, just trying to keep everybody happy. >> marcus, how did your son want to spend his life? >> working out, training. he always loved to work out. he was a workout fan

joining us now is george floyd's sister bridget with floyd family attorney ben crump. good morning, bridget, good morning, ben. >> good morning. >> bridget, i know you haven't had the stomach to look at that video and i don't blame you. it's really horrifying. would you just tell us how you and your family are doing in this moment. >> me and my family are taking this very, very hard. it's very heartbreaking. it's very disturbing to our peace. we're just doing the best that we can and making sure that we do the right thing, do what he would want us to do. yes, it's very hard, very hard. >> i can see that, bridgett, i can see that. yesterday there was some action taken against those officers, four officers, all four were fired. you have said repeatedly that is not enough. what would be enough for you. >> i would like those officers to be charged with murder, because that's exactly what they did. they murdered my brother. he was crying for help. i don't need them to be suspended and able to work in another state or another county. their license should be taken away, their

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we have seen in cases as ben crump has been working with the national action network.you had the right prosecutor on the right case. i agree the point is the trial. you won't get a trial without an arrest which is why the family wants to see them all arrested. you can charge and have the charges where the jury has the benefit of choosing which charge that they feel is proven. that all starts with the arrest with the prosecutor to deal with this and with oversight. we also must put in real perspective that under president obama's administration of a c consent degree that did not punish police that broke the law. those patterns were dismissed. those agreements in terms of putting the cities under consent decr decrees. we can appeal to the federal government. >> roland -- >> ali. yes. >> one of the things that happens with the protests is a #sayhisname so it doesn't -- the person at the center of it doesn't get forgotten. you will hear eric garner name and george floyd's name. you went to the same school as george floyd. you didn't overlap. make it personal for us about g

in the last few minutes a statement here from ben crump, releasing a statement on the appointment of new prosecutor. they say, in part, in order for justice to be carried out effectively and appropriately it's imperative the special prosecutor has no affiliation with the southeast georgia legal or law enforcement communities. again, that statement just coming in a few moments ago from the arbery family and their attorney ben crump. >>> meanwhile, in just the last few minutes we've also learned that it's not just the white house. word from illinois that a senior staffer, one of j.b. pritsker's senior staffers has tested positive for coronavirus. as a result they are all going to be working from home now. the senior staff to governor pritzker, the governor tested negative, everyone else in his orbit also testing negative. we are waiting on governor cuomo to start his daily briefing. he is in upstate new york. when the governor starts we'll bring it to you live. >>> there's a big coronavirus hearing in the senate tomorrow. but the chairman of that committee is in self-isolation. the top

for more i am joined by california congresswoman sharon bass, attorney ben crump, who is representing the floyd family and nbc news correspondent gabe gutierrez in minneapolis. thank you all for being here. i am going to go to you, first, ben, because you are representing the family and i just want to ask you, what did you make of the press conference today at which the decision at least for now was made that there will not be prosecutions? and what does the family think about? >> it was very sad, joy. george floyd's family who watched the press conference along with me was disgusted. they continue to say, all the everyday you need, all the probable cause you need is on the video. people in our community are arrested every day for far less probable cause than a video showing a man being killed by another man putting his knee on his neck for 8 minutes. and you can just imagine how this must make this family feel every time they are -- wake up another day and he is not arrested. it's an insult to justice every day they're not arrested. and i know the district attorney and the veteran de

lee merit, ben crump there and van jones. let listen in for a moment. >> just trying to breathe while black. he asked like eric garner, let me breathe. i can't breathe. he said it over and over again. and what is so incredibly horrific about this particular video is we see in vivid detail that the police what are supposed to protect and serve him never help him even being asked by lay people, the general public. there was a woman who psaid to e an emt of sorts who said let me take his pulse because y'all are killing him. she asked that over 15 timing during this eight-minute ordeal. people just saying let him breathe. is that too much to ask for for black america to be alive to breathe? and so assistance, lee and i have called this what this is. it is a pandemic that is a national pandemic. we can't just keep looking at it regionally like in georgia, van, or kentucky or minnesota. this is a national pandemic that's affecting all african americans. it is a state of emergency. i was telling you, if we don't address this. in the

amy: ben crump, what force the release of this video this week? and it comes at the same time that georgia has liftedd its lockdown. so there was i immediate protes. it is clear -- it is the protesters and the outcry across the country that have led to this -- to the arrest of the mcmichaels. talk about what forced this videdeo release. and it also was just released on a local website. >> yes,, ma'am.. apparently, a lawyer or a former lawyer associated with the mcmichaelsls, the murderous fatr and son d duo who executed ahmad y,y, released the video.. apparently, he said he released it becauause he felt that it was killers.xonerate these it m makes no sense to o . it is asinine howow they feel ts huhunting party, , this huntitig posse chasing this unarmed young african-american throughouout tt community wass something that would exonerate them. amy, they teach us in first year law school about malice of forethought. that is, what is in the mind of the killer. we believe when they got in that truck with all of that firepower going to confront this

nation on the planet that kills in the car so it's more of us people we are in a crisis position tony ben crump and i announced this morning that we are taking these families the family of george floyd a model be on a taylor to washington d.c. and we want to discuss comprehensive police reform. bringing this case before the united nations human rights council so that we can receive sanctions against the united states for its probation is in continual denial of basic human rights to the african-american community. right now are met our primary goal is to show to ensure that the appropriate charges move forward and so we are not satisfied yet 3rd degree murder is in appropriate charge that means it was an accidental killing like manslaughter the the the partner charge they they levy if i get in my car i get a drug that only intend to kill anybody but it's reckless behavior that could result in somebody's death that's manslaughter this 3rd degree murder but when i apply pressure for sustained period of time to a critical area of someone's throat. that's and it's all about foreseeability it's fores

nation on the planet that kills in the car so it's more of us people we are in a crisis position tony ben crump and i announced this morning that we are taking these families the family of george floyd a model be on a taylor to washington d.c. and we want to discuss comprehensive police reform we're all screwed bringing this case before the united nations human rights council so that we can receive sanctions against the united states for its probation is in continual denial of basic human rights to the african-american community. right now are met our primary goal is to show to ensure that the appropriate charges move forward and so we are not satisfied yet 3rd degree murder is an appropriate charge it means it was an accidental killing it like manslaughter the the the partner charged they they levied if i get in my car again i get drunk i'm only intend to kill anybody but it's reckless behavior that could result in somebody's death that's manslaughter this 3rd degree murder but when i apply pressure for sustained period of time to a critical area of someone's throat. that's and it's all about

nation on the planet that kills in a car so it's more of his people we are in a crisis position tony ben crump and i announced this morning that we are taking these families the family of george floyd a model be on a tailor to washington d.c. and we want to discuss comprehensive police reform we're all spirit bringing this case before the united nations human rights council so that we can receive sanctions against the united states for its provisions and continual denial of basic human rights to the african-american community. which right now are met our primary goal is to show to ensure that the appropriate charges move forward and so we are not satisfied yet 3rd degree murder is an appropriate charge that means it was an accidental killing like manslaughter the the the partner charge they they levied if i get in my car again i get drunk i don't intend to kill anybody but it's reckless behavior that could result in somebody's death that's manslaughter this 3rd degree murder but when i apply pressure for sustained period of time to a critical area of someone's throat. that's and it's all about

these people every day the lawsuit claims taylor was shot at least 8 times the family's attorney ben crump says there was no reason taylor should be dead this was a. war where they are going to. remember searching for. walker who called 9111 police entered had a license to carry he's being charged with attempted murder of a police officer and 1st degree assault according to online court documents he was released for home incarceration and is scheduled for a june 25th court appearance the river city fraternal order of police colleen walker's home incarceration a slap in the face to everyone wearing a badge and a facebook post the union president saying the man violently attacked our officers and was charged with attempted murder after shooting a sergeant louisville mehr greg fisher said in a statement police work involved incredibly difficult situations additionally residents have rights these 2 concepts will and must be weighed by our justice system as the case proceeds the officers have been placed on administrative assignments a spokeswoman for the louisville metro police department said

floyd's family is being represented by civil rights attorney ben crump who called the incident an abusiveexcessive use of force and the firing of the officers a good first step. speaking to cnn overnight his brothers say they are in anguish and want to see the officers face charges. >> they treated him worse than they treat animals. they took a life. now they deserve life. i don't feel sorry for them. they hurt me and they hurt my family. i can't take that back. i can't get my brother back. >> reporter: and the fbi is now on the case. investigators will work to determine if the officers involved should face federal charges. michael? >> all right, thank you so much for that, alex. we are joined now live from raeford, north carolina, by george floyd's sister, bridgett floyd and her attorney, ben crump. thank you both for joining us this morning. bridget, let me say first off, we are so sorry for your tragic loss. how are you and your family holding up? >> sir? >> how are you and your family holding up? we are so sorry for your tragic loss. >> it's pretty tough. it's pretty tough for us righ

ben crump, my friend, thank you very much. please keep us posted on this case and we'll have you back on to keep getting updates. thank you so much. really appreciate it. >> thank you. >> we're going to take a short break. please keep it right there. we'll keep talking about this story on the other side. ory on . how about no no uh uh, no way come on, no no n-n-n-no-no only discover has no annual fee on any card. n-n-n-no-no roundup for lawns is here to put unwelcome lawn weeds to rest. so, draw the line. roundup for lawns is formulated to kill lawn weeds to the root without harming your grass. roundup brand. trusted for over 40 years. don't bring that mess around here, evan! whoo! don't do it. don't you dare. i don't think so! [ sighs ] it's okay, big fella. we're gonna get through this together. [ baseball bat cracks ] nice rip, robbie. ♪ raaah! when you bundle home and auto insurance through progressive, you get more than just a big discount. i'm gonna need you to leave. you get relentless protection. [ baseball bat cracks

and then hope and pray that we are not sitting next to ben crump that day. that's about all we can do. >> moments ago, the minneapolis police chief issued an apology. >> i'm absolutely sorry for the pain, the devastation and the trauma that mr. floyd's death has left on his family, his loved ones, our community here in minneapolis, and certainly across the country and the world. >> much more on this as we watch what's happening on the ground in minneapolis. >>> plus, just in on the coronavirus pandemic, the governor of new york making a move involving masks, the complete opposite of the president's actions. >>> also, a senator who attended the hearing into the u.s. response said he just tested positive for antibodies. what that signals. >>> johnny cash's daughter slams ignorance over not wearing masks as she said her daughter was heckled for wearing one. hey! lily from at&t here. i'm back and while most stores are open, i'm working from home and here to help. here's a tip: get half-off the amazing iphone 11 on at&t, america's fastest network for iphones. sec

to do anything else but to cry this morning and then hope and pray that we're not sitting next to ben crump next one day. that's about all we can do. >> bakari, your father was shot more than 50 years ago. 15 years ago. we're watching it happen ago. where do you find the hope. how do you tell your son and daughter that it's going to get better? >> i don't know. i mean, maybe dante has the answer. i don't know. i tried to keep hope. i try to keep faith. i keep telling my children they can be free. you know, i want my kids to one day be able to grow up and the host of "new day." i want them to be able to be a united states senator or president. but what happens if they get pulled over and they comply? what happens if they get judged by a father and a son who just are on a good old-fashioned georgia lynching? what happened if they're served a no-knock warrant like brianna taylor? how do you raise your children in this america to understand you're free when we see these images of them being gunned down in the street and the knee in the back of the neck for eight minutes like a dog? so i don't h

their attorney, ben crump, calling for first-degree murder charges against fired police officer derekuvin. he was charged with third-degree murder, second-degree manslaughter in the death of george floyd. joining us is criminal defense attorney. with a warm welcome to you. tell us the differences between first-degree and third-degree murder and how much more difficult it might be to prove a first-degree charge in this particular case. >> so first-degree murder has the element of intent. you have to prove that someone ended to cause the death of another person. that inherently is very difficult when you have an intent-based crime, it is hard to prove because you essentially have to understand what the state of mind was for that person at the time the murder was committed. so that's extremely hard to do. but you can do it. the reason why chauvin was charged with third-degree murder is because there is no element of intent. it's just that he engaged in an act that posed a danger to someone that resulted in a death. that was something that the d.a., based on his examination of the evidenc

before anyone other than ben crump. as you look at this case and i'm getting ready to talk to the mother, we still face a problem of policing in this country even during the pandemic. >> that's absolutely right and the police are telling no fewer people during this pandemic than they were killing people before this pandemic. at some point, enough is enough. we can't even get people the stay home for long enough to stop killing us whether it's a jinlg lan vigilante or police officer. we need justice for kenneth walker, ahmaud arbery and every american suffering from the coronavirus and a president who continues to put our lives on the line callously and carelessly. >> all right. thank you both. brett and brittney. i think brittney had a sunday go to church outfit on today. highly respect to me. i'm not sure. >>> coming up. trial by media. a new netflix true crime docu series revisiting six court cases include iing the 1999 pol shooting of an unarmed man which inspired activism against police brutality. after the break, m

ben crump had this to say about the city.e said city leaders need to understand the community's grief for the horrific killing and george demands more than condemnation and personnel action. i'm speaking to the councilman earlier in the show that there seemed to be structural issues, particularly the fact the record of this officer particularly is seeming to have a lot of red flags, i got to say. >> well, let's talk about the very use structural flags that are here in this incident. let's first talk about the city of minneapolis. the city of minneapolis has experienced, you know, these killings before and as a result, the department of justice after the last incident of unrest in the city of minneapolis actually did a study and released a report that provided a whole set of recommendations about how to deal with these kinds of issues and particularly civil unrest. i've read the report and seen recommendations and see no evidence the recommendations have been implemented to try to quail some of the more extreme measures that t

. >> as you are probably aware, ben crump, the attorney for floyd's family, asked this in a "washington post" op-ed. "how many more deaths have not been captured on video? how long has this been going on without witnesses or documentation? is this an outlier or is this endemic? and it starts to feel like genocide." let me get your reaction to those words, congresswoman. who do you think? >> i think there is really no one here in minneapolis and across the country that watches that officer put his knee on the neck of george floyd, as he begs for his life, asking for water, telling him "i can't breathe" over and over and over again, and they're wondering how many times has this happened before, right? every single time we see these actions on camera, we know that this cannot just be the first time this has taken place, and we know that every single time we're asking for justice, that justice is going to be denied for so many others. so this is really a time for us not to only swiftly move to guarantee justice for the family of george floyd, but also to think about the kind of nationwide r

i have been working with the family and attorney ben crump, and president trump called floyd -- the brotherorge floyd and he said to him, he told me, i just talked to him, attorney crump, that he said to the president what he said to the nation, the whole family said to the nation. and some of it will be on "politics nation" with me tomorrow night. they want first degree murder and they want the other officers arrested for murder and i think we cannot forget this prosecutor just yesterday said that there was something in the tapes that may have established that this was not a crime. and today, he makes an arrest. he tried to clean up what he said last night. so the confidence in this prosecutor is very much a -- at a low to all of us involved. i was in minneapolis yesterday, as you know, doing a visual with the mother of eric garner. don't forget, joy, there was a tape of eric garner pleading, i can't breathe, in 2000 -- six years ago. 2014. and they never even prosecuted those officers and it took five years to get him fired. we need an overhaul of the system in terms of policy. we must re

that medical examiner's report, i was glad to hear ben crump last evening say that he's going to get an independent, if you will, autopsy done on mr. floyd so that it can be very clear. we cannot remember a case where we had videotape evidence of almost the entire interaction between mr. floyd and the police up until the time he literally died in the hands of the police. given that, the county attorney, the district attorney, the prosecutor had all the evidence for the most part, that he needed at the very beginning to bring -- to do an arrest of the three officer -- the four officers, and then quickly bring charges. we've got keep a close eye on this prosecutor's office, his conduct in the case. i remember the prosecutor in ferguson who seemed to go to great lengths to try to exonerate the officers, and of course he was defeated at the polls by the people of that area right at the moment he had to run for re-election. >> we're showing some of the video of the total interaction, and again, msnbc, go to the site, we have broken this all down, all the surveillance footage, all of that,

one of the drivers, now suing fedex over alleged wrongful termination and civil rights attorney ben crumpr. lundy's attorney who brought this case. mr. lundy, you put this out and upwards of 7 million people have looked at this on social media. what happened? >> first of all, i want to say thank you, reverend al, for allowing me to be on your show to give my side. in a nutshell, i deliver -- my route is in the leesburg, georgia, area. and so we ride up to this residence, pull up to this residence house. you can see he has like gravel/dirt driveway. so when i pulled up in the driveway, the right side of my tire kind of got over in his grass and we delivered the package. and so as soon as we delivered the package, he proceeded to storm out of the house just cursing us, you mother fers, you black mother fers, what you doing? get the f off my grass. he was making his way around to me and proceeded to just keep cursing and i was looking at him like what is going on here? he is like you on my f'ing grass. i was saying to myself, you know, what is going on here? and then i said to him, i said, s

boyfriend kenneth walker who was not named in the warrant were in dead national civil rights attorney ben crump join the family's case, this execution of a search war where they are they were searching for custody, the family is now suing in park claiming that glover had already been arrested by the time police got to brianna's but court documents show his time of arrest 12 hours after the deadly raid the suit also claims walker fired at officers injuring one in self-defense because he believed the apartment was being broken into this sometimes breaking a job for me and we are ready to sit >>we also have the right to try ins and how her based on glover and walkers histories. the war unspecified officers did not have to knock aggie our challenges lmpd initial claim the officers did announce themselves. >>saying they change their answer when witnesses said otherwise he calls it a botched investigation. >>kaitlin rust to reporting for us tonight, louisville. metro police said it would not comment on a pending investigation. >>i wanted to show people that. it wasn't about. >>whether you look like a

and this attorney ben crump writing, "we are one step closer to getting justice for automatic ahmaud.ual circumstances in the way police seemed to not really investigate let alone arrest anyone for this shooting on tape, but that now it has widened beyond the two individuals who were most directly involved in the shooting and involves, again, this additional individual who shot the video and may have been otherwise involved. felony murder as we were discussing earlier in our broadcast is an aggressive stance the prosecutors sometimes take when they believe and they believe they can prove that an individual set out to commit one felony premeditated and ended up committing acts or engaged in a conspiracy where others were, yes, murdered. all suspects, all arrestees are legally innocent until proven guilty. this is a story we will continue to cover for you. we have a lot more on tonight's broadcast when i come back. dcask flonase sensimist. nothing stronger. nothing gentler. nothing lasts longer. flonase sensimist. 24 hour non-drowsy allergy relief it's not just a sandwich, far from it.

and the attorney ben crump and i have been asked to speak and do a eulogy at the funeral. and the family will be speaking and a local pastor in houston to try to give comfort to a family who wakes up one morning and all of a sudden their cousin, their count uncle, their brother taken from them, on videotape. and then told no, we have to wait to see if we can charge the people. the family wants first degree nurd and want the other three officers to be arrested. we support the family if that. >>> i don't know if you are able to see what we have up right now. side by side, thousands of people in new york city at 30 rock. in miami, another huge crowd. repeated over and over again. let me ask you about your eulogy. we won't know when you deliver your words what is going to be the ultimate outcome of the law. we don't know if there will be convictions. but when you look at these pictures, what can you say about this man's legacy, about george floyd's legacy? >> i think that part of what i will say is that you can't bring him back. george, we can't give the family back. but georg

don't have a camera, but when i look at this case today, and i've been talking with attorney general ben crump, proud of the representations of the victim's family, it reminds me of the eric garner, they had a tape and the officer wasn't prosecuted because you must have prosecutors who are going after the law. we see in minneapolis, they fired these policemen, but you can't have an equation when you lose your life and they just lose their job, they must pay in my judgment with a real criminal investigation and from what we see, i don't see how you defend holding your knee on someone's neck seven minutes and the other officers standing around not stopping you from doing it. it's the pedestrians around saying stop. not the officers. what kind of people would be hearing people pleaing for his life. i. >> frank, i don't understand, maybe you can explain to me what the tenants in law enforcement, the offense was a nonviolent one, forgery, eric garner was selling cigarettes, how does a nonviolent interaction end in murder? >> well, you're right, the minneapolis police officers responding here seemed

started getting the calls yesterday and i spent all day yesterday into the night talking to attorney ben crumpwho's going to represent the family here, it was so reminiscent of the 2014 case of eric gardner, a case we still involved with that family in national action network. i can't breathe and the policeman choked him until he died. i agree wholeheartedly these policemen should have been fired. good. but they should be arrested and charged. at what point when you are holding a man down, knee in his neck, causing him to not breathe and him pleading for his life, at what time does that turn into intent? even if you may argue, and i don't know if i accept it, but if you may argue that was not his intent when they grabbed him down, it became intent at some point. and that gives you enough of a probable cause to arrest them officers today because at some point he intended not to stop inflicting that deadly pain on this gentleman. and at some point those officers standing around intended not to interfere and enforce the law. and intent and probable cause is the basis of an arrest. >> and, so, wha

up next in our look at authors discussing race in america is civil rights attorney ben crump, his talkfrom last year's book festivals focuses on race in the criminal justice system. >> it was ben franklin who said democracy is like tools in a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. [laughter] you don't have to be a rocket scientist to know how that boat is going to go. he said liberty is making sure is well armed to protest that boat. in the communities of color to be able to protest about to give them the information and diplomacy to be able to protest to prison pipeline to protest their racist jim crow laws like stand your ground to be able to protest voter suppression, be armed to protest environmental racism that would find the children in south-central los angeles have a third of the lung capacity of children growing up in santa monica, california. make sure these young people are well armed to protest the industrial complex where minorities who go to prison, often times people go to prison and they're concerned about losing their constitutional rights where minorities, especially

jason riley it up next in our look at authors discussing race in america is civil rights attorney ben crump. his doctor must use boston book festival focuses on race and the criminal justice system. >> it was ben franklin who said democracy is like tools and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. you don't have to be a rocket scientist to know how that vote is going to go. but he said liberty, liberty is making sure that lamb is well armed to protest that vote. with open season i endeavored to help the young lambs and communities of color be able to protest, to vote, to give them the information and armed them with intellect and diplomacy to be able to protest the school to prison pipeline, to be able to protest the racist jim crow laws like standard ground, to be able to protest voter suppression -- stand your ground. to protest bimodal racism that would find that children in south central los angeles have a third of the capacity of children growing up in santa monica, california. makes it easier for people to protest the prison industrial complex where minorities, you go to prison, ofte

ben crump represents taylor's family. >> this was a completely unnecessary and unjustifiable killingf an innocent woman. these police officers botched the execution of a search warrant. >> reporter: attorneys say nothing illegal was found in taylor's home. they say when they busted through the door, taylor's boyfriend, kenneth walker, started shooting and injured an officer. hisam wker was prottime. >> h been licensed for a few years. he intended to protect his home from what he thought was a break-in. >> reporter: walker is now out of jail but charged with attempted murder of a police officer. >> best case scenario for me is for a thorough investigation to be done where these charges are dropped. >> reporter: the mayor says this investigation has to help rebuild the public's trust. >> as we go through issue after issue where we see communities of color involved in incidents like this, as a country, we need to do much better. that includes my city as well. >> reporter: it is worth noting that an adrian walker is named in the search warrant, but any link between him and kenneth walker

. >> reporter: ahmaud arbery's father marcus and his attorney ben crump say they're encouraged by the william roddie bryan, the man who recorded the cell phone video of arbery's death. >> you can look at the video for yourself and see that the evidence fits the crimes that he has been charged with. >> reporter: kevin goff is the attorney for bryan. he has not spoken to the media since his client's arrest but held a press conference earlier this week. >> mr. bryan has committed no crime and bears no criminal responsibility in the death of ahmaud arbery. >> reporter: travis and gregory mcmike alwere arrested and charged with murder and aggravated assault in the february 23rd confrontation. they both claim self-defense. according to the police department, on the day of the shooting, arbery was spotted walking around an open construction site and the mcmichaels pursued him in a pickup truck. bryan's attorney says when they passed his home, bryan got in his own vehicle and followed in an effort to check out the commotion. >> he was unarmed at the time of the shooting, and he was not in com

. >> reporter: ben crump is an attorney for arbery's family and says this text potentially speaks toarger conspiracy. >> we now know that this was an organized effort to confront and capture ahmaud arbery. >> reporter: gregory mcmichael's attorneys defended their client saying there's more to the story than what was seen on the video of the shooting. >> the truth will reveal that this is not just another act of violent racism. >> reporter: ahmaud's father said it is clear what happened to him the day his son was shot and killed. >> my son was lynched. lynched by a racial lynch mob. ain't nothing he can have that can show it wasn't a lynch mob. >> reporter: we've reached out to the glynn county police department about that text message but did not hear back. special prosecutor joyette holmes told the arbery family that the death penalty is still on the table for theo bond at t hearing. anthony? >> omar, thank you. >>> the first tropical storm of the year will skim past the outer banks of north carolina later today. tropical storm arthur is sliding toward the state with winds up to 45

. >> reporter: fellow arbery family attorney ben crump says this shooting bears some similarities to another one of his cases from 2012, trayvon martin. >> this killing was completely unnecessary and unjustified. and like so many people advocated in trayvon martin's case, people should not try to take the law into their own hands. >> reporter: it's worth noting a florida jury acquitted trayvon martin's killer, george zimmerman, of murder. and florida's laws are different than georgia's laws. now we reached out to the mcmichael family, they did not want to talk. also, the fbi says they are aware of the case, and they have been briefed. gyle? >> once again the video tells a very different story from the story that we were told initially. very glad that the video exists. thank you very much. >>> ahead, protecting mass transit riders and workers from the outbreak that threatens the future of public transportation. why new york's subway system voluntarily shut down overnight for the first time ever in its history. >>> first, it is 7:18. time to check your local i mean i came here i didn't

ben crump the family's attorney. this is a statement he put out about the family's charges.e want a first degree murder charge and we want to seat other officers arrested. we call on authorities to revise the charges to reflect the true culpability of this officer. how high would the bar be set to try and get first degree. that's something you envision being possible and what about the other officers involved? >> yes. so the other officers are certainly being booked at. you can get a sense this is a holding charge. what i mean by that is they needed to make an arrest. and they need to do it swiftly. they have charged. they can go back and adjust those charges at any time. now, with respect to the degree that they are charging. keep in mind that first degree, there would have to be facts that show that this officer prior to engaging with george had the intention of killing him and set about action to satisfy that intention. the second degree charge requires an intent to kill, that doesn't have premeditation. what that means is that he still had the intent to kill at some poin

crump, the attorney representing taylor's family. and he also represents the family of ahmaud arbery. thank you, all, for being here. beno start with you on just the specifics on this case. police are claiming that they announced their presence when they entered this apartment, which i understand to have been the wrong apartment, where this -- and say they announced their presence. that is a bone of contention. whether they announced their presence. and was this also not the apartment and was the person they were looking for not in custody? >> joy, when you think about the changing stories of the louisville police department, you really have to scratch your head. they kept saying they announced themselves. they identified themselves. jus days ago they announced it was a no knock warrant and they did not have to identify themselves or announce themselves, but just imagine, joy, if you're home sleeping in your bed, it's 1:00 in the morning and suddenly you hear something rumbling at the door. they called 1 -- 911 and then a battle ram bust open the door and den evkenny tries to protec home and wife and the police unleash

joining me now is benjamin crump, attorney for the family of george floyd and ahmaud arbery and i'm going to not go first to my long time friend, ben. i'm going to go to keith ellison first. this is your state. it is just one state that is in turmoil right now. do you believe that the arrest and charges against this one officer, officer chauvin and eel read just a little built of what they are and this is cut one from my producers and this is the complaint against eric chauvin. the defendant had his knee on mr. floyd 8 minutes and 36 seconds in total. police are trained that this type of restraint with a subject is in a prone position is inherently dangerous. it was a defrayed indifference to him. i'm going to hold on. governor tim walls is holding a press conference right now. let's go to that and we'll come back. >> with foex bent on destroying property with no regard for safety of minnesotans and certainly no desire to make a statement other than wanting destruction and chaos. i want to thank the minnesotans who abided by the curfew. i want to thank our responders who are out there protecting our cities as they were taking incom

and then there are some grave concerns about the autopsy report which is why the family's lawyer, ben crump, has indicated there will be an independent autopsy report. what does this speak to? this speaks to the fact that for some reason the criminal justice system, the prosecutor's office, the system and the people who are to hold police officers accountable have not swiftly and effectively done their job to this point. and i believe that we cannot allow anything that's happened to take the focus off of the need for there to be justice for the memory of mr. floyd and actual justice with respect to the perpetrators of this heinous, awful act of violence that took this man's life. arthel: you know, mark right now i want to play sound from minnesota governor tim walz. let's listen. >> this is the moment where we start but every time we get to this place we never start the process to make sure it doesn't happen again. and that commitment amongst leaders in our community, watching this happen across the united states, watching another name be added and for those of us who are old enough to rodn