>> we wanted to tell george floyd's story. not the story of his death what the story of how he lived in america. you could tell readers a little bit about the country in which he lived and the struggles he had as he came of age in america. an america that has moved beyond the days of jim crow and colored water fountains and blatant racism but still suffers from inequality, discrimination, systemic racism that often happens behind the scenes, often happens behind closed doors and underneath the surface and wanted to showcase how that operated in george floyd's life. everyone saw how he died, under the knee of a police officer that happened to be white. there are many ways that racism takes place that is not quite as visceral, not quite as emotional, not quite as evident as someone dying under the knee of a police officer and we wanted to showcase how that happens in our school systems, prison systems, housing systems and show the george floyd was a human being. he had his ups and downs and highs and lows but he was a human bein

we found that in george floyd's life. one of the things we wanted to do was show he was not this anomaly, he was represented of millions like him who were stuck in some of these prisons far away from their families and the state is paying millions of dollars to lock these people up and the recidivism rates and all of the challenges we see among a number of people in these populations has not gone down. rehabilitation gets thrown out of the window. because of the profit motive, people are being held without treatment or any of the things that might cost money to make them better and all of the profits being stripped out and sent to corporations and sustaining some of these dying towns. it is important to look at the reality of what is happening in some of these prisons and think about those things when we think about what to do with our policing system and broader criminal justice system. [applause] >> we have just a few minutes left and we have covered a lot. i would like to end on a hopeful note for everyone tuning in. w

and in an answering this if you can speak a little bit to the of george floyd's death. thank you for this question and thank you to this entire crowd for coming here. my coauthor and i have been really gratified to see many people are still interested in these subjects and still willing to have these conversations, even though we've seen backlash to this kind of discussion of backlash, these kinds of books. so i really appreciative of of your attendance and so to the question why did george floyd's death three years ago spark the kind of reaction that it did? i think there are a number of different factors. if you were to rewind the clock back to may of 2020, we were in the middle of, a pandemic that was scary for a lot of people. and people were stuck at home. people were not allowed to have the normal diversions that we normally have in life concert arts and sports games and, you know, the kinds of gatherings that we normally have. and so when the video of george floyd's death ended up running on news news feeds, we had to sit and pay attention and watch and it wasn't

george floyd was a bigger person. it is not surprising after learning about derek chauvin's history in policing that he decided to use this technique. it did not have to be out of a personal grudge he had with george floyd. it was just how he behaved. it was the kind of officer he was. we did not find any evidence that he was doing it out of personal spite. even though the two men moonlighted at the same nightclub and work security at the same nightclubs, there was no sense they had a personal grudge or personal relationship of any kind. derek chauvin was the kind of police officer who could do this kind of action whether or not he knew someone. >> vicki, carolina, good afternoon. >> both the caller before hand and he just answered my question. did the police officer know george floyd at a nightclub that they worked at? >> you are right, he just answered that call so we will move on and talk to dan in new jersey. dan, you are on book tv. >> i was really shocked because if you remember, the officer had his knee on mr.

in fact, the george floyd act goes further than d.c. went. d.c. did not touch qualified immunity which was something that was dealt with in the federal legislation. i also wanted to correct one other piece of misinformation that was left by the gentleman from georgia, who said that it's against the law under the d.c. law for a police officer to touch someone's neck. that is not the definition of the law against chokeholds and neck restraints. it requires the use of any body part or object by a law enforcement officer against a person with the purpose, intent, or effect of controlling or restricting the person's airway or severely restricting the person's breathing. that does not involve just touching a person's neck. i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from kentucky is recognized. mr. comer: reserve. mr. raskin: how much time do we have left, mr. speaker? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from maryland has 16 minutes. from kentucky has 19 minutes. mr. raskin: i now am happy to yield two minutes to the gen

we found that in george floyd's life. one of the things we wanted to do was show he was not this anomaly, he was represented of millions like him who were stuck in some of these prisons far away from their families and the state is paying millions of dollars to lock these people up and the recidivism rates and all of the challenges we see among a number of people in these populations has not gone down. rehabilitation gets thrown out of the window. because of the profit motive, people are being held without treatment or any of the things that might cost money to make them better and all of the profits being stripped out and sent to corporations and sustaining some of these dying towns. it is important to look at the reality of what is happening in some of these prisons and think about those things when we think about what to do with our policing system and broader criminal justice system. [applause] >> we have just a few minutes left and we have covered a lot. i would like to end on a hopeful note for everyone tuning in. w

did garrett foster was killed protesting the murder of george floyd and a 2022 the port-au-prince unanimouslyfloyd be pardoned for a drug charge in which a crooked cup planted drugs and yet you now have this situation. explain. >> i should be clear, the officer involved in the arrest and felony conviction of george floyd 20 years ago was -- has admitted to lying in the search warrant that is disputed whether or not drugs were planted stuff that officer is currently pending charges for murder and related and here's county. at here is the upshot. garrett foster was killed by daniel perry while protesting the killing of george floyd. about six months ago, the texas board of pardons and parole unanimously recommended governor abbott pardon george floyd for a 20-year-old drug conviction out of houston. the politics of that looked bad for greg abbott, conservative circles, and he used his power and influence to have that recommendation withdrawn on procedural grounds. now without announce or a scintilla of appellate review, without a sentence even having been issued, governor abbott has made his de

incidentes, tres aÑos despuÉs el exagente usÓ una tÁctica similar cuando matÓ a lo afroamericano george floydso excesivo de la fuerza en todos incidentes diferentes, el primero acude a la casa de un joven de 14 aÑos de edad una llamada de una disputa domÉstica, despuÉs de media hora en el lugar se dirigiÓ con otro agente a la habitaciÓn del joven, le dice que estÁ bajo arresto mientras chauvin golpea repetidamente al menor con una linterna de metal y despuÉs los somete con una rodilla en su cuello por mÁs de 15 minutos. tambiÉn en respuesta a un incidente domÉstico este vÍdeo muestra que la arrastrÓ fuera de la casa desposada, y luego tambiÉn pone su rodilla en el cuello de la vÍctima por mÁs de cinco minutos. >> nuestra ciudad se disculpa con ustedes, me disculpo con ustedes. viviana: los vÍdeos salieron a la luz tras aprobarse un acuerdo de compensaciÓn de 7 millones y medio de dÓlares para el primer caso y de 2 millones para segundo caso, de los sobrepuesto demandas civiles contra chauvin. >> es evidente que existÍa una tendencia previa lo que le pasÓ a george floyd, ocurrieron consorte de

quite frankly after the murder of george floyd that turned out to be the case.ome. it hasn't changed. it has amplified. as my mom has said, my mom told me after i came back from law school and got a job at a large law firm my mom told me to stay in this neighborhood. i asked her why. she said to me, just like you benefited, people need to see you in this neighborhood such that they know that just like you elevated yourself, they can do the same and they can do it right here in this community. >> thank you for that, mayor turner. i want to build on something mayor turner touched on, mckenzie came out with a study, that america's racial wealth gap between black and white is costing us trillions of dollars of lost economic productivity. mayor lightfoot, you made investing a key priority. can you talk about the work you have been doing to lead on pay equity? >> it is great to be here with my fellow big four mayors. we love and respect and support each other, in times of triumph and tragedy or other challenges, every single day. the biggest four cities in the country

nicholls and we thought after the death of george floyd that america work to some reckoned some moment when we can start to see each other as one start to heal, start to address systemic racism, what happened and why didn't we fulfill that so-called pledge, a commitment to do better? it's the americans theater of race. that's what we do. you know, i mean, we see the ugliness, we see the horror. we clutch our pearls, we cry crocodile tears. baldwin, echoing emerson, says sentimentality is the mask of cruelty. richard wright said he wanted to draw character that didn't get they didn't call for crocodile tears. so you cry your crocodile tears and you say, oh my god, that's horrible. and then you'd go back to your lives. and policing never changed. in fact, in the midst of it all, in the midst of hundreds of thousands of people risking their lives after george floyd was lynched, and they risked their lives in the midst of a pandemic that was that swung low death whole. that's right. in a way. what did we hear? we started hearing the rhetoric of law and order from the 1980s, start hearing t

what saw in memphis, what we saw with george floyd two years ago, what we see from time to time and imake a point, though, about what we see from time to time the 60 million encounters between american police and citizens every year estimated in in an average year, were about a thousand individuals who are killed by police officers during the course of those interactions, a thousand out of 60 million out out of that number. i think in 2020 or 2019, the last year, we had figures there were about i think, fewer than two dozen unarmed blacks. yeah, no question. positive. 13 unarmed black men killed police in about 15 whites, unarmed, who were killed by police. but in the vast of those thousand deaths, the police are responding to force being directed against them. that results each year usually in the death of 50 or 60 police officers who were killed in the line of duty while armed suspects. so that what has been amplified in the world we live in today, beginning with rodney king back in the 1990s with that first video that we had the early incident certainly in the civil rights movement

chauvin is currently in prison for killing george floyd after putting his knee on floyd's neck from more than nine minutes years before that murder. two other citizens in minneapolis complaints showing had used the same kind of force when he detained them. they survived and sued the city. i spoke with one of those citizens zoya code in 2021. my name's oia close. and i'm all i've got and you will not take my life like that. i told you they will not take my life. she said. she complained with police and they didn't do anything. cnn's natasha chen has more details on this case and settlement. natasha what can you tell us? yes. sarah. the minneapolis city council yesterday voted unanimously to settle these two lawsuits. ultimately awarding john pope $7.5 million and zoya code $1.375 million. these two incidents happened in 2017 after the settlement yesterday, the two people through their attorney decided to release body camera footage of what happened and we're going to show you some of it and i have to warn you. it is disturbing to watch. we're going to start with what happened with john po

. >> for the past billet was overturned george floyd and do you want to see that bill for the vote or. [inaudible]. >> what we cannot block it would have the right to bring it up for this bill which the president has already said that he has vetoed has some very reasonable reforms and it does not go as far as the george floyd built doesn't expect will be able to block it. >> thank you everybody. [background sounds]. [background sounds]. >> high school students participated in this year cspan student camp documentary competition where we asked the question, if you are newly elected member of congress, which issue would be y

and then with -- george floyd accelerated the process. so we're constantly reforming. michael moore, the current and ypg chief. -- he is committed to -- there is an issue back in the 1990s but rodney king [inaudible] we. something that's well-known to you in los angeles. [inaudible] that reform is ongoing. >> chief more, the states have been called the laboratories of democracy, maybe the lapd is the laboratory of police reform. can we have reform and enforcement at the same time? >> absolutely. and thank you for the opportunity to be a guest here today. and when you're a mentor, and -- as well as zev yaroslavsky, you are true leaders and public policy and in america. reforms and enforcement, it's another example of a question, is it too binary? reforms are about a safety of a democracy of a people that don't trust institutions. law enforcement is certainly one of them. reforms are in regards to all types of matters. it's not just the policing is somehow going in the wrong direction, no matter what is going on. it's a matter that punishes a public or suppresses or oppr

as you mentioned, that was three years before the murder of george floyd.to speak that he used against george floyd, placing his knee on the back and necks of those two individuals. the men that you're looking at there was just 14 years old at the time. his name was john pope. derek chauvin was doing this as he was trying to take him into custody. now notably this is on the civil side, but derek chauvin pleaded guilty to depriving mr. pope of his constitutional rights back in 2021. in that plea agreement, chauvin admitted to having his knee on his neck for more than 15 minutes, despite the 14-year-old being facedown, handcuffed, and not resisting. >> and just to be clear, he's okay now? do we know where mr. pope is now? >> reporter: yes. pope is okay now. he is now an adult. so that's why we are releasing his name and acknowledging his name. he is okay now. he did have to get stitches based on that interaction. >> and the settlement for $9 million with the city, how did that come about? >> reporter: well, i got off the phone with the attorneys here. they sa

in fact, the george floyd act goes further than d.c. went. d.c. did not touch qualified immunity which was something that was dealt with in the federal legislation. i also wanted to correct one other piece of misinformation that was left by the gentleman from georgia, who said that it's against the law under the d.c. law for a police officer to touch someone's neck. that is not the definition of the law against chokeholds and neck restraints. it requires the use of any body part or object by a law enforcement officer against a person with the purpose, intent, or effect of controlling or restricting the person's airway or severely restricting the person's breathing. that does not involve just touching a person's neck. i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from kentucky is recognized. mr. comer: reserve. mr. raskin: how much time do we have left, mr. speaker? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from maryland has 16 minutes. from kentucky has 19 minutes. mr. raskin: i now am happy to yield two minutes to the gen

the bigger story and first of all the individual story of george floyd. just the deeper things and many people said that that interest has waned, the progress is too dependent on people paying attention and yet i'm still thinking about how do we live in a nation within a nation. what is the right way forward, my father who was an activist who died in 2020 said we have to hold different values. we can't just aspire to that privilege. and yet how do we do that. the good thing about the point we are at now is nobody should be accumulating stuff. it is not good for the planet is not a good way forward. but for most black people i know they are still trying to get there. but like daniel says we are already there. it's a huge mind shift. i want to stop here i think this is a good place to stop and ask if there are any audience questions, not comments, but questions for any of the authors appear. they are coming around with a mic so hold on a>> about guns. you mentioned guns but where does guns fit in all this? i am a professor here at usc i have nothing else to

there have been reforms in the aftermath of george floyd's murder. those ills are not the basis of policing but we are called upon to address. in los angeles, we look at the shared responsibility. we need to find alternatives in america that are not polycentric. we have the right amount of resources from mental health. and all the other ills that we see in society. we are the 9110 social services. most social services in los angeles shut down at 5:00 but those social service problems continue. quick steve, we have been reading and seeing about raising crime rates. if there is nothing on your local news, they will find some. what pentagram is it? -- what kind of crime is it? >> the rise in crime is real. it is not nearly as bad as it was in the late 80's and early 90's. we have seen for people living today their world is one that lives in great fear because of the world of the 21st century. in the 1990's, it was crime that police dealt with. in the 21st century, the responsibilities of police expanded dramatically. he floated dramatically. terrorism b

in 2020, he pinned george floyd to the ground with his knee killing floyd. this sparked nationwide protests for racial justice and police accountability, actually sparked protests across the world. he was convicted two years ago. and in his appeal, the attorney argued he was denied a fair trial and argued the judge should have moved the case. but the justice said justice was served. >>> melanoma. new cancer vaccine technology is being tested for melanoma. it grows fast and spreads and can return after removal. the vaccine is uniquely designed for each patient. one person said the decision to take part in the trial was easy. >> i have a belief in science and it's just really cool that something on a vaccine level could be targeted to an individual's case or situation. >> ahead on "nbc nightly news," what trials have shown and what this drug has in common with the covid vaccine coming up at 6:30. >>> after a tense game one, what is going to happen tonight in game two? the warriors and kings, this is a live look at the golden 1 center in sacramento. hopefully t

officer and convicted murderer derek chauvin for more than $8.8 million in prison for killing george floydyou remember he put his knee on floyd's neck for more than nine minutes, well, three years before that to other people in minneapolis, complained that covid had used the same kind of force when he had detained them. cnn's natasha chen brings us the details. camera and victor. the minneapolis city council on thursday unanimously voted to approve these two settlements for john popedi pope $7.5 millid code $1.375 million. now, these two incidents happened both in 2017 and the two people through their attorney decided to release the body camera footage . we're going to show you some of it and have to warn you that it's very difficult to watch. we're going to start with the video of what happened with john pope. he was 14 years old at the time, and you're going to see police arrive on scene for domestic disturbance call. here's what happened in your stomach now what i say, go playing to your not kill my son, please. i feel myself. and now you're seeing officer chauvin with his knee on pope'

chauvin is currently serving a sentence of more than 20 years in prison for the murder of george floyd. that happened in 2020, and of course , these two incidents were three years earlier, the minneapolis mayor apologized on thursday and said if the supervisors had done their job and fired chauvin in 2017 george floyd would not have been murdered. natasha chan. thanks so much, all right, coming up new details about the investigation into donald trump's handling of classified documents. federal prosecutors are looking into how his lawyers were paid. and if those lawyers did anything to influence witnesses, that's next. when you find your reason to go on. let it pull. you passed the doubt, pain and past your limits matter what we go on bio freeze. why are these bad? if i would have used kayak to book our carbon could have saved on our trip instead of during our trip. kayak search one and done. you've been counting down the days training for months preparing all year long, and now it's finally here. national griddle week and everyone knows griddle week is better on a black stuff from tail

in the case of george floyd.e watched that happen in real time live and then we watched it during the trial, and i was there for all of it. mr bennett. you said the problem far exceeds what mr chauvin was doing. can you tell us what this settlement means for the city of minneapolis, but more importantly for the citizens? of minneapolis. well first of all, thanks for having us, uh the what i meant by that was that these 2017 incidents, which involved other officers and john's case. up to, you know, a dozen other officers at given points in time. sure that the there's the problems with the minneapolis police are cultural and systemic and that the. show and felt very comfortable doing what he was doing, which is clearly criminal and unconstitutional. in the presence of these officers who didn't do anything. they didn't . they didn't intervene. it didn't report him. they didn't do anything. and that was true in all three incidents and i think shouldn't make the citizens of minneapolis i think that the you know what f

>> there is a real awakening about policing in the last couple of years since the murder of george floydlifornia. it is very much at forefront. and at looking at police reform and that they support that. at the same time, you can't have democracy if you don't have the rule of law and you can't have rule of law if you can't enforce those laws. right now, our police forces, they are struggling. there are fewer and fewer people that are willing to go into doing that dangerous and difficult work. and there needs to be think a more comprehensive understanding of how do we make sure that while we pursue our values and we do have clear values that would happen to george floyd is not acceptable and that we recognize that there are institutionalized ways that we have been dealing with the crime that are not necessarily in our best interest or consistent with our values. at the same time as we make those reforms, we need to make sure that it is safe for people to walk in our streets, for businesses to be able to operate. there san adjustment that we're going through right now. >> when you look out

which the president has said he has vetoed has reasonable reforms and does not go as far as the george floydl. thank you. [inaudible conversations]

george floyd has opened people's eyes as little more than it was.t now, people have sort of settled back into how they were. and so it's not on the agenda any more. there's certain issues that bring it to the forefront and george floyd's death did but people i think have settled back into normal. last month there was another landmark report into the metropolitan police force which again found evidence of systemic racism and baroness lawrence said she wasn't surprised at this finding. it's no surprise because it's always been there. i don't know how many more inquiries and how many reviews you need to have to say the same thing. and still no changes and still denials. so it was no surprise. listening to the excuses, that we do all we can, which is not true. officers are able to be as brutal as they want and nobody holds them to account. and until that happens, there's no way the police are going to move forward. and they have to not do it behind closed doors, they need to be seen publicly what they're doing for people to accept that they're going to

[applause] after the tragic murder of george floyd, there were protests across america, many of thoseurned violent. little rock was no exception. i witnessed the violence when i said our local law enforcement is not getting the job done. therefore his threats to people, they were burning ill doings, and i said enough is enough. called the state police out, called the national guard out, and i said we are going to enforce the law. that night, we arrested 70 violent criminals, guess what happened? the violence stopped. you enforce the law, you enforce the law. [applause] i did that as united states attorney and we need to set that example across america. today we have a struggling economy in which you are hit by high interest rates and high relation. it is all the root cause and comes from excessive federal spending in washington dc. we need to slow it down, we need to get a reign on it. we need to get back to spending normalcy so you don't get hit by inflation and high interest rates. [applause] america needs to be strong. right now we are struggling in america because we are perceived

the second part of the book is about the moment we're in, which looks at the george floyd moment and how that was a global moment, not just in the us. it looks at the pandemic. the title of that chapter is from 1619 october 19. and it looks at the history of black people when health and how health is always being compromised. it looks at the 1918 pandemic, for example, and how that echoed in the 2019 pandemic. there's a chapter on symbolic them and the changes, the symbolism, if you will. and i could talk later about the high school we went to, which when i wrote the book, i had no idea this is these are issues that he and i had no idea about. but once you know, the you know, the you know. and then then there's the last chapter on voting rights and in one of the joys of this book is i get to talk about my grandmother in her efforts around voting rights. one thing that's i mean, you've some of the book up. well and what really strikes me also about the book is how you posit the slave autocracy of the. 19th century in which harriet tubman grew up with and escaped. and the assumptions o

so we knew when george floyd happen and when the corporations stepped up.investment, not at token investment. don't tell us this is the new diversity person you hired and now that box is checked. and so that means there's equity because we had somebody whose title says equity. that's not what equity is. >> mayor lightfoot -- [applause] >> surges to build on the point i think mayor bass made. what i will say is from my perspective is that black folks, we need to be united. because we are not united they are going to divide us and we will constantly be conquered, right? so i been made for the last four years. my time is winding down but what i saw and what i see is the people in my neighborhood who are starved for resources, there are areas of my said that looks like the fires of 68 just got put at the black folks have represented those areas ever. why is it, what is it that we've taken so long for ourselves to wake up? if we are content with crumbs, our people will never ever prosper. so yeah, absolutely we need to hold them accountable when you can hold our

general de estados unidos a investigar al luego de que textos racistas, después del asesinato de george floyd racismo y violencia. >> los residentes exigieron una acción inmediata, se exige una auditoría a dichos hechos. >> en oakland la moratoria tiene fecha de dealojo, los propietarios dicen que están por perder sus hogares, porque hace 3 años no reciben pagos, pero la moratoria dice que no pueden ser desalojados si no están muy atrasados, pero pueden hacerlo bajo la regla causa justa. >> el voto final esta programado para el 2 de mayo. >> si usted esta pasando por una situación difícil, hay organizaciones que pueden ayudarle, como caridades católicas llame al número en pantalla. >> y si vive en condado santa clara y alameda, también. >> (información en pantalla). >> en auckland, se espera que hoy trabajadores de supermercado () voten para afiliarse a un sindicato, se enfocan los empleados en la seguridad, ante la criminalidad, también buscan estabilidad económica, la compañía no ha dado su opinión al respeto. >> autoridades de san mateo, inauguran uevo complejos para personas que vivan en

david: after the george floyd murder, i thought many people in the white business community said, ok, we've got to do much more to get blacks on boards. senior positions in corporate america. has that really happened or is there just talk about that? bob: the sad secret is while white companies have announced they will put $1 million into diversity and investment in black business. but among the people i know and a lot of people say i got money from here and there and other places, it is not really happening. i saw something in the media that said there has been something like $50 billion of pledges made, but less than 5% of that has ever been implemented. to me, it is a real sad story, because it is not happening. and i would know, because no one has called me. now, i have been successful, as you know. the only thing i have done that with, david, and i am most proud of is the partnership i created vanguard, fidelity, and alight -- created with vanguard, fidelity, and alight to create a 401(k) portability business called portability network, whose sole purpose is to keep black america