we looked at 2014 to 2020, high-profile cases from michael brown to eric gardner.nd freddie gray, saw him dragged like a rag doll and thrown in the back of a truck and he was the only one convicted in a federal trial. the jury hung in south carolina despite the evidence both when you see a national conviction. it's so rare. what does it actually take to convict a police officer for killing -- particularly killing a black person when people don't sympathize with the dead and they sympathize with a cop. especially not to give police officers a break. sometimes jurors say well, i think the cop did it, but he's just trying to do his job so i don't want to punish him and then there they're sympathetic to defense like chauvin. we know his defense will be to put george floyd on trial and make it sound like he's responsible for his own death so they're going to claim that chauvin didn't actually kill george floyd, but that floyd died from natural causes and illegal drugs in his system and they'll say that chauvin that mr. floyd resisted arrest and that chauvin used reasona

to end the use of choke holds that killed eric gardner and george floyd. i urge all my colleagues to join me in voting to pass this long overdue bill. to join me in this work to make this country a safer, more just place for all of us. i urge a yes vote. joip the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from new york reserves. the gentleman from ohio is recognized. mr. jordan: madam speaker, we reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio reserves. the gentleman from new york is recognized. mr. nadler: i yield 45 seconds to the distinguished gentleman from texas, mr. doggett. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. doggett: death and destruction at this capitol from recent trump instigated violence shows the result of insufficient policing. the deaths of george floyd and breonna taylor, and in my area michael ramos and too many more for misconduct show the result of insufficient justice. the name of this bill, justice in policing, indicates that this bill is not about removing the police, it is about removing th

eric gardner's mother has been speaking to our correspondent, and she said she wants to support floyd's> even when i met them face-to-face, i told them, even though you have a video, just like i did, don't think it's a slamdunk. when you get in the courtroom, they will throw everything at you to make you feel like your brother was the criminal instead of the man that murdered him. >> it is interesting you say that, because george floyd's brother said yesterday said that this is a slamdunk. the man was kneeling on his neck on the video seen around the world. you don't think it is that easy? >> no, it isot that easy. it was proven in my case. they tried to blame my son for his death because of his size. you see how large george floyd was my son was a large man. they said because his heart was enlarged. they tried t blame the murder on the people who they murdered. but no matter what you are saying about them, with these conditions that they have, if you didn't step in his neck, if you didn't choke my son to death, he would not have died that day. and that is what we must remember. >> ther

police officer here currently we're seeing it with rodney king here in ninety's many many years ago eric gardner in other cases there was video evidence of what happened and those officers walked with a slap on the wrist all walk free without any consequences whatsoever so it is hard because of course the whole system of policing in the united states is very specific and the protections for police officers are immense this is changing right now that is also a result of the george floyd case or the case against their children now and the death of george floyd that is that politicians police departments are under pressure to change the law to change accountability laws for police to make it easier to go after these so-called bad cops we know that the city of minneapolis settled a lawsuit with the floyd family and paid 20 $7000000.00 no you know it's impossible to put a figure on the life but do we know how they came up with the sum of $27000000.00 and do we know why was this the nails before the trial. all we know is that it was negotiated and apparently very well negotiated the lawyers of the flo

police officer here criminally we have seen it with rodney king i mean ninety's many many years ago eric gardner in other cases there was video evidence of what happened and those officers walked with a slap on the wrist all walked free without any consequences whatsoever so it is hard because of course the whole system of policing in the united states is very specific and the protections for police offices are immense this is changing right now that is also a result of the george floyd case or the case against their children now and the death of george floyd that is that politicians police departments are under pressure to change the law to change accountability laws for police to make it easier to go after these so-called bad cops we know that the city of minneapolis settled a lawsuit with the floyd family and paid $27000000.00 now we know it's impossible to put a figure on a life but do we know how they came up with the sum of $27000000.00 and do we know why was this the nails before the trial. all we know is that it was negotiated and apparently very well negotiated the lawyers of the floyd

police officer here criminally we have seen it with rodney king i mean ninety's many many years ago eric gardner in other cases there was video evidence of what happened and those officers walked with a slap on the wrist all walk free without any consequences whatsoever so it is hard because of course the whole system of policing in the united states is very specific and the protections for police officers are immense this is changing right now that is also a result of the george floyd case or the case against their children now and the death of george floyd that is that politicians police departments are under pressure to change the law to change accountability laws for police to make it easier to go after these so-called bad cops we know that the city of minneapolis settled a lawsuit with the floyd family and paid $27000000.00 no you know it's impossible to put a figure on a life but do we know how they came up with the sum of $27000000.00 and do we know why was this in else before the trial. all we know is that it was negotiated and apparently very well negotiated the lawyers of the floyd fam

police where was the good police when george floor was killed where were the good police waiting eric gardner was killed why wasn't it anyone who intervened to save a life i mean is it is it is the as you are a suspicion that it is institutional i should say that though andrew cuomo denies the sexual harassment allegations and then your involvement some kind of initiative also in new york about getting a police justice absolutely we have a very strategic form of activism. we fight industry still a lot of protest but we also fight in the halls justice not in the last 5 years since our inception we've passed 5 he's the legislation there's a bill being introduced in new york city council call the power act basically here in new york well if the lease officer receives receives a complaint from a civilian that goes to the civilian complaint review board however the members of this ward are appointed by the mayor the politicians and the police commissioner 60 percent of the times when they found that there was a wrongdoing in it elevated it to the highest level of education which is the police comm

to end the use of choke holds that killed eric gardner and george floyd. i urge all my colleagues to join me in voting to pass this long overdue bill. to join me in this work to make this country a safer, more just place for all of us. i urge a yes vote. joip the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from new york reserves. the gentleman from ohio is recognized. mr. jordan: madam speaker, we reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio reserves. the gentleman from new york is recognized. mr. nadler: i yield 45 seconds to the distinguished gentleman from texas, mr. doggett. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. doggett: death and destruction at this capitol from recent trump instigated violence shows the result of insufficient policing. the deaths of george floyd and breonna taylor, and in my area michael ramos and too many more for misconduct show the result of insufficient justice. the name of this bill, justice in policing, indicates that this bill is not about removing the police, it is about removing th

many of these atrocities, miscarriages of justice dating back to trevon and michael brown and eric gardnerthese cases. and we know the playbook is let's assassinate their character. they have a trace amount of drugs in their system or some unknown health condition. but you're right. this takes the cake. they are actually trying to say part of the reason derek chauvin did what he did to george floyd in torturing him to death was because of the bystanders. the people who were exhibiting humanity for a human being that you were killing, and you're going try to blame them? why do they do that, as they say in the neighborhood? how does that make any sense at all, don? so that's why they have to convict this killer because there is no other word. don, i can only imagine if the roles were reversed and it was george floyd who had his knee in derek chauvin's neck and he was digging down, what would we call george floyd? we would call him a monster, an animal, a thug. but because this guy had a badge, i think some of america is still giving him respect when he doesn't deserve any respect at all. >>

. >> if this legislation had been law of the land several years ago, eric gardner and george floyd would have been alive now, brionna taylor would not be shot in her sleep because no knock warrants would have been unconstitutional. >> woodruff: lisa what is expected when it goes to the senate? >> desjardins: well, it looks like this bill as it was passed in the house probably will not go intact. but there are significant parties in interest on this year. author of a different bill last year he is in negotiations he says he's interested in talking to democrats in the house. they say they are trying to come up with something that everyone can agree on. i will tell you i had one of my longest conversations ever with lisa murkowski of alaska about this topic. there are certainly a dozen republicans in the senate who want to pass something. can they agree, hard to say but this is an issue that may have a chance in the senate. we'll see. >> woodruff: lisa desjardins followig all of these important issues on capitol hill. lisa, thank you. >> woodruff: protests erupted again this week in lebanon

that's the playbook, ari, whether it's trayvon martin or michael brown or 12-year-old tamir rice or eric gardnerstract them by attacking their character then maybe they won't pay attention to the facts, but 50 million people saw the video of george floyd being killed and we believe that they will focus on the facts. >> ben crump, you have been with the family. you've worked on these issues for a long time including the inception of this incident and then case. i appreciate you coming on the beat. i'm sure we'll be coming back to you, sir, when your time allows. >> thank you so much for having me, ari. >> yes, sir. thank you, ben crump. >>> coming up, there is a friend of the beat that's going to give us an important message. i'm talking about carole king on vaccines. g about carolein kg on vaccines alright, okay. how's that? is that how you hold a mirror? [ding] power e*trade gives you an award-winning mobile app with powerful, easy-to-use tools and interactive charts to give you an edge, 24/7 support when you need it the most and $0 commissions for online u.s. listed stocks. don't get mad. get