george floyd is being put on trial.u ever feel george floyd was being put on trial when it was actually derek chauvin who was on trial? did you feel that way, nichole? >> yes, especially after when i could actually look at what was being talked about in public eye and such. >> was it character assassination? lisa? >> i believe so. >> why? >> i've heard comments that george floyd may have been led a life less than stellar, so why are we -- why are we putting him up and honoring him because of his past choices in life, which have absolutely nothing to do with it -- with the situation. and it makes me upset. it angers me that people can judge him based on his decisions he's made and his struggles in life, which has nothing to do with this. everybody has a right to live and have dignity and -- >> did that play a role into did his life and what he did -- did that play a role? >> not for me. >> in the decision? that didn't even come up in our deliberations. >> the defense brought it up a lot. >> the overdosing, i mean that wa

floyd. he violated department policy and procedures. he didn't feel and sense the humanity of george floyd and that's what you have got to change. we have got to humanize people, despite the differences and ideologically racial differences, we have got to call folks to see the humanity and one another. that and only that is going to stop the george floyd situations that we continue to see escalating and rising across the country. guest: be -- host: legislation efforts have been made to change these issues. it passed the house but didn't make it through the senate, some elements banning chokeholds and no-knock warrants and other things as well. where do you think is the legislative component, on the federal or state level, to make reforms? guest: i actually think it's more local rather than state or federal and i truly believe that local communities hold the answers. most policy and practice when it comes to law enforcement is dictated and determined at the local community level because most communities are different from one another dep

floyd. he violated the department's policy and procedure. he didn't sense of the humanity of george floyd and that is what we've gotyd to change. we've got to humanize people despite the differences and ideological political or racial differences. we've got to cause folks to see the humanity in one another because that and only that is going to stop the george floyd situations that we continue to see escalating and rising across the country. >> host: being in washington, d.c., you know as well as anybody that legislative efforts have been made to correct some of the problems and there is legislation that george floyd act of 2021 that passed the house didn't make it through the senate some of those elements permitting racial profiling and chokehold and other things as well, what do you think of the legislative component whether on the federal or state level to make reform? >> i think it is more on the local level, which is why i truly believe that local communities hold the answers. most policy practice when it comes to law enforcement is dic

floyd, and attorney benjamin crump.od evening to both of you. thank you for joining us tonight. this is the second year without your brother on his birthday. what are you thinking about today? >> i'm just thinking about how much i miss my birthday and how i had to explain to his daughter about him, you know, being murdered because she sees the same thing that everybody saw around the world. george was suffocated. he couldn't breathe. and mr. chauvin continued to leave his knee on his neck for over nine minutes. and the fact that this is not a mistake, this is a pattern because things are constantly happening over and over again. people are being murdered by police officers. it's a shame. my family, every day we wonder why we have an empty chair at the table. we just wonder why george had to be taken away. we can't deal with it, but we're trying to stay focused as hard as we can, and we're going to keep fighting. >> ben, you know. you've spent a lot of time with the family, and this case has consumed your life. it's beco

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floyd's dying moments, gloated about how police could legally shoot black children. discussed turning fire hoses on protesters, prompting debates about whether the tactic would work, because wild animals like water. it's all written down. . >> yeah. the big shocking point in terms of reporting this. we knew there was a culture of this in firehouses. that has been true for years. what we learned in the process of this reporting is how ingrained it is, but actually in the written training manuals of the firehouse. one of the training for management said it would suffer as new members who are minorities orpheums come in. that wasn't changed until 2019. that is part of what we saw here in addition to the text messages, the jokes about hosing protesters that enraged some of the black firefighters who decided enough has been enough. . >> we will come back to the text messages incident to follow up one more time on this training manual. this was written in the 1990s. it wasn't disused until two years ago. >> exactly. it was written in 1999, which is already shocking that wo

both occurred in the floyd case. we don't have original jurisdiction. notof all offices are the same. some may. we stepped in and we tried to do our duty. since then a lot of the counties have called us when the police accountability, we have officer involved deaths and we decline some after receiving them and reviewing the cases we have declined to charge some offices because we thought the facts and the law were not there but we have charge others as well. in fact, in the middle of the floyd case there was a tragic situation worked a 20-year-old was shot and killed when the officer confused a taser as a gun. and so that case cases goil on november 30. we're working hard on that. but i think all of us play one role or another whether it's convening conversations which we can do, or play that role of prosecutors last resort, or are just a voice for fairness and justice. we all i think of that role to play and all of us one time or another havean been considered n the course of a tragic situation where an officer used force. i let my colleague speak for

george floyd's brothers, philonise floyd is with me. attorney ben crump as well.so much. philonise, i asked the jurors if they had a message to you and to derek chauvin. this is what they told me. >> anything you guys would like to -- anybody would like to say to the floyd family? >> we feel for you. we're sorry. we hope as a group we did the right thing. >> absolutely. >> is there anything that you -- any one of you would like to say to derek chauvin? anybody? >> why? >> what were you thinking? >> why? why? why did you do this? why didn't you get up? that's been the question on everybody's mind. why did you stay there so long? why? >> philonise, what's your message to the jury? >> i just want to thank them so much for being able to withstand what they've had to go through. nobody could ever anticipate the things that's going through their mind and the things they're going through in that courtroom because i went through it, but i didn't have to make that decision that they had to make. it seemed like the video had all the proof. i just want to thank them for real

and when people see that video, they don't to see george floyd's light being snuffed out. you know, they see actually the centuries of brutality and racism in this country. america has been here before the rice riots of the 19th sixty's on the streets of los angeles. in the 19900, in ferguson, missouri. mm. at in minneapolis to die. oh and the message is to sign up for black america, the land of the free as never felt truly for it. ah. this deep well spring of anger of actually goes to a centrally unresolved question in the united states, which is at the core of the foundation of this country, which has been founded on slavery and genocide. murray, why see from us he's country will even white supremacy on to learn good for the black will legal inferior ross on the bus. she arrested the santa barbara veteran color from the rear wife in the fro supremacy law of the law of the land. and we've had overcome white filling supreme blood, filling inferior g. even the plan for your room even will be fair. lou, we've heard george floyd woods here in australia and prisons. i meant th

lou, we've heard george floyd woods here in australia and prisons. i meant they were david don gay junior, his last words in 2015 before he died to the hospital ward of sidney's long by prison. oh, the coroner found lack of oxygen while he was restrained, was a contributing factor to his dead. oh, but it has taken the death of a black man in america to wake us up to what happens here? oh, the blank people die here in custody. and that the numbers keep rising and we failed to stop us. i don't believe actually the government have learned anything more than how to hide operational deaths in custody from the world. and that's what we're trying to expose here. we need to expose globally what's happening here in australia because we resonate with people like george floyd, we resonate with those families. we resonate with, you know, various testing capacity around the world that are going. i'm same. similar is your lab results. you're thinking about it through the here, the flavor who sent free play masses of palatine masses, they became br. angry kilo $500

floyd was not the only man who died unjustly at the head of the state. what happens is it was really a spark for the entire nation to reckon with our history with race. in north carolina, we have a long, problematic and sordid history of race issues and what the governor asked me, i was honored with a task force on racial justice. we had public defenders, criminal justice reform advocates, community leaders, mayors, policymakers and cherubs and chiefs of police. we had line, prosecutors, we had the full array of -- line officers, prosecutors, we had the full array. through july and december, we came up with a report that i am very proud of. 125 recommendations. the government was very clear this was not about of report you stick on a bookshelf. it was always about identifying recommendations and then implementing them. that is what we have been doing this year. we just had a meeting at the governor's mansion on reform legislation that impacts the way officers are recruited. it impacts how they are trained and a variety of new accountability measures to m

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about 300 officers, a third of the force, have left the department since george floyd's killing.ns of intentional slow-downs in service. and body-camera video published this month shed light on the department's response to protests after floyd's death. >> you guys are out hunting people now. it's a nice change in tempo. >> yep, agreed. >> [bleep] these people. >> police chief medaria arradondo defended the department this week. he held a news conference that 'yes' supporters said violated a city policy forbidding employees from engaging in political activity. >> as your chief of police i would not be in favor of this ballot amendment. that does not have to do whether you have an r, or a d, or an i behind your political affiliations. that is based, again, on the realities on the ground that i see, and that our men and women are experiencing every day, including the victims of crime in our city. >> the issue of public safety has dominated an election in which all 13 seats on the city council are up for grabs - as is the mayor's office. the minneapolis mayor's race is getting nation

for many george floyd didn't happen, you know what i mean?it shouldn't have happened. obviously george floyd being killed shouldn't have happened. i'm talking about the whole thing that came out after george floyd's death, they're downplaying that. we are living in an alternative universe with mark zuckerberg, tucker carlson, the "wall street journal" and certainly the sentiment that has surrounded this case. >> when we learned about the jury, they are racially diverse. let's listen to some comments about whether they thought that was an important factor in the deliberations. >> this was about, you know, obviously the death of a man, but i'm sure you knew the whole racial aspect of it. you're very diverse, and nobody was afraid to share their feelings on that? >> not at all. race wasn't even ever mentioned in the three and a half weeks that we were in that courtroom, and it was never mentioned during deliberations, i don't believe. >> i think we got here because of systemic racism within the system, right? because of what's been going on. tha

>> well -- and the floyd family, but your episode was very therapeutic for america.pre-trial blitz there is. that was shown in this interview. there should be this episode in all the law schools in america. they show the movie "12 angry men" to show to the jury. i think what you did here shows that people can follow the law as instructed to them by the jury and base their decision on the evidence. >> felonus, the jury says they're still feeling the impact. i'm sure you can relate to that. >> i can relate to that at all times, because the people who we love, we carry with us at all times. i gave a speech today here in verma and it's 96% caucasian and 6% african-american. when i tell you that people were clapping and jumping up and down when they seen me, it made me feel good, and people were asking me about the jurors. they were asking me about you on cnn. people were anticipating me when i came, but that lady, i can't remember her name, the juror, she said that george was in custody, but they didn't care for him while he was in custody. >> she said they were in the c

that's not helping u they're thinking that it's helping us, because they witnessed george floyd beingdid. they may be thinking, "hey, you know what? let's un-guilt ourselves." >> reporter: but the "yes" campaigners insist they are a multi-racial coalition with strong black leadership. >> we have to make sure this passes. for our children. for our elders. we have to make this step forward, so we have something sustainable. >> minneapolis has become, what? in some sense, the epicenter for race and policing in america >> reporter: hamline's david schultz says the election will have wider implications. >> if the ballot initiative were to pass, this is going to be a central issue between the democrats and republicans as they fight for control of congress. >> reporter: in what normally would be a mundane municipal election, city officials say that with several days to go, early voting tallies have already exceeded turnout from four years ago. for the pbs newshour, i'm fred de sam lazaro in minneapolis. >> nawaz: and fred's reporting is in partnership with the under-told stories project at t

you recall the unrest in minneapolis last spring after george floyd's murder. we were all there.ew body camera videos captured five days after that murder in which minneapolis police officers are heard to deride black protesters. one officer said he appreciated that his peers were, quote, out hunting people, capping it off with a, quote, eff these people. one video shows an officer firing rubber bullets into a crowd of people screaming that they are unarmed as the people screamed they were unarmed. he's firing rubber bullets. the people of minneapolis will soon vote on a ballot initiative that will mandate that the city have a police department as we know it. to those opposed to this measure, how do you video videos like these and say that more training is just the answer when you have people that have these kind of attitudes on the force? >> reverend al, it is the intellectual justification of discrimination when you see videos like this and then you have a legal doctrine of qualified immunity to say that what those officers did was legal, and no recourse for the citizens. we mu

and by sunday morning, that bronze bust of floyd was splattered with paint. for juneteenth. >>> the coach for one of the teams in the national women's soccer league is out of a job this morning paul riley, who has coached for the north carolina courage and other teams was fired after a dozen women told the athletic he was verbally abusive there were also allegations of sexual coercion. following the bombshell report, the league postpone all upcoming matches. two players spoke to nbc news about the culture of the league. >> we need more structure, standards, policies, background checks we need to be treated with basic human rights >> this obviously is affecting you deeply why are you so emotional >> what are we saying to young players, 12 or 13 years old, about what we are going to allow to happen to our athletes? >> paul riley has denied all allegations saying i've never had sex with or made sexual advances towards the players the national women's soccer league did not respond to our request for comment. >>> former president trump is fighting to tweet again.

and when people see that video, they don't to see george floyd's life being snuffed out. you know, they see actually the centuries of brutality and racism in this country. america has been here before the rice riots of the 19th sixty's on the streets of los angeles. in the 1990. 0, in ferguson, missouri. mm. at in minneapolis today. and the message is the same for black america. the land of the free as never felt truly for it. mm hm. mm. this deep wellspring of anger, of actually goes to was a centrally on resolve question in the united states, which is at the core, the foundation of this country, which we've been founded on slavery and genocide. bad reason why she very much he's country will even white supremacy on to london for the black will legal inferior rosencross on the bus to rush the santa barbara federal kula from the rear wife from the fro supremacy law of the law of the land. oh and we've had overcome quite filled in supreme blood, filling inferior even the plans go wound even lower. the fair lou we've heard george lloyd's words here in australian prisons. the

five days after george floyd was murdered.rt documents that night this particular police unit was driving down lake street in minneapolis clearing out people who were not adhering to the curfew with 40 millimeter non-lethal rounds. those court documents show that after that was over as part of a debriefing minneapolis police commander said this. >> it's a busy night. what a -- it's nice to hear that -- tonight it was nice to hear. we are going to find some more people instead of chasing people around, we're going to hunt. you guys are out hunting people now and it's just a nice change of tempo. >> yep [ bleep ]. >> these people. >> now, for context, may 30th was maybe the most forceful response from police that we had seen up to that point, at least from our crews on the ground at the time. that had been after multiple nights in a row of buildings burning, that night an 8:00 p.m. curfew had gone into effect. by the way, this video comes from more than two hours of body camera video that was released tied to the case of a man n

some discussed hunting people as the people protested george floyd's death in 2020.tell us what this video shows us. >> reporter: this video was captured on may 30th, five days after george floyd was killed. the unit was traveled down lake street clearing out protesters past consider view with non-lethal rounds. here's what an officer of the minneapolis police department said following. listen in. >> [ indiscernible ] we're going to find some more people. instead of chasing people around, we're going to hunt. you guys are going to hunt people now. a nice change of tempo. >> yes, agreed. >> [ bleep ] these people. >> we're rolling down lake streep. [ bleep ] the first we're seeing with a handful of 40s. >> yes, sir. >> is that a good copy. >> hold on [ bleep ]. >> all right. >> what are we doing with these people? what are we doing with these people? >> shooting them with 40s. >> those officers used 40 millimeter non-lethal rounds. meanwhile this body cam video that we just showed you is a clip from two hours worth of body camera video that was released by an attorney

but george floyd was stopped by derek chauvin over the alleged use of a counterfeit $20 bill.rough the roof, we were facing a massive crisis, food insecurity was at its peak. instead of getting people resources and making sure that we were protected, we lost our jobs, homes, health care, instead they chose to invest in police. when someone called the cop on george floyd he was met with the level of brutality that police regularly and routinely use in black communities. the idea that you could train is woefully insufficient. abolitionists are interested in reducing the reason why people need police in addition to reducing the incarceration state . which means at a national level sweeping legislation to make sure people have not just food or housing security, but quality investments in those institutions. and while we fight for student debt cancellation, universal health care, why we fight for universal childcare and daycare so that people in vulnerable situations can go to work, go to school, choose to have work that gives them dignity and excitement. that is the kind of work w

and then i think george floyd kaofpbt breathe. i didn't want to watch it. i had to force myself to keep looking. you want to turn away. you want to look anywhere else really. even when you look away, you still hear him crying and moaning. and it's just -- it's like an ongoing might they're. you keep seeing the video. i'm just tired of seeing it. i don't want to see this video ever again. >> i had a big gasp. i have never experienced anything like that before. i don't think any of us have. it was very, very traumatic. and it just hurt. it just hurt my whole soul, my whole body. and i felt pain for his family. it was very hard. >> after that first week, i did go down to 38th and chicago and i did pay my respects. and for me that was a closure, or at least i thought it was going to be a closure. seeing everything. you know, we saw everything cordoned on videos. but actually being there and seeing it felt really, really, really real to me. it helped me kind of close the door a bit. but i think it will be with me forever. >> such human