katty: let's go to melvin carter, the mayor of st.sota, the city neighboring minneapolis. thank you for joining us. you are outside that minneapolis courtroom as the verdict was being read out. you had a day to think about that verdict, what's your reaction? mayor carter: there are two core reactions. yes i was out there when that enormous explosion of celebration happened. in one part of my brain i feel celebratory and glad that the trial concluded the way that it did, but at the same time it's a very sad statement and we have to be surprised and celebratory that someone could be convicted for ultimately committing a murder in broad daylight in the middle of the street on global television. that and it of itself says a whole lot about the state of our country right now. katty: i'm sure you have a lot of deangs with the police department in st. paul, i wonder what impacts you think this ruling will have on the members of that police force, on the white members of that police force in their day to day dealings with black and brown amer

paul mayor melvin carter also reacted to the not guilty verdict in the derek chauvin trial. they spoke to reporters for about 30 minutes. >> good evening, minnesota and good evening to those of you across the united states. i am tim walz, i have the privilege of being the governor of minnesota. i will be joined by the mayor of st. paul, melvin carter, and be joined by questions at the end of the statement by john harrington, commissioner of the department of public safety. last may 25, the world watched in horror as george floyd's life and humanity were taken from him with a knee on the neck. the pain and anguish of the floyd family was bared to the world, as was minnesota's pain and anguish, and obvious failures, especially when it came to race and policing. a short time ago, police officer derek chauvin was found guilty of murder of george floyd, and was taken away. and sentencing will soon follow. it is an important step toward justice for minnesota. the trial is over, but here in minnesota, our work just begins. this is the floor, nothing of where we need to get to. i wa

i'm melvin carter. i'm the mayor of the city of st. paul, minnesota. minnesota's capital city. i have read many times and heard many times -- >> we'll go now to vice president kamala harris. joe biden is there as well. let's listen in. vice president harris: this verdict brings us a step closer and the fact is we still have work to do. we still must reform the system. last summer, along with senator corey boork and representative karen bass, i introduced the george floyd justice in policing act. this bill would hold law enforcement accountable and help build trust between law enforcement and our communities. this bill is a part of george floyd's legacy. the president and i will continue to urge the senate to pass this legislation. not as a panacea for every problem, but as a start. this work is long overdue. america has a long history of systemic racism. black americans and black men in particular have been treated throughout the course of our history as less than human. black men are fathers and brothers and sons and uncles and grandfathers and friends and neighbors. their liv

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paul mayor melvin carter also reacted to the not guilty verdict in the derek chauvin trial.

melvin carter is the mayor of saint paul which along with its neighboring minneapolis form the state's twin cities. he's also the first african-american to hold that office and he joins us now. mayor carter welcome back to the "newshour" and thank you for making the time. so derek derek has been found guilty on all three counts. what was your immediate reaction when you heard the news. >> reporter: you know, thanks for having me on. i was one of the people outside the hennepin county courthouse today as the verdict was read, and i was speechless. the crowd out there was, of course, waiting on pins and needles to try to see what the verdict would be. someone shouted guilty, and a sigh of relief, it was as though oxygen was provided to the room, to everybody in that space for the first time in quite a long time. we know that we have much more work to do. we have another trial here. we'll see a trial ultimately for daunte wright, and we have a lot of work to do in our legislave session as well. but today, this is an important milestone. >> reporter: you know, mayor, you and i spoke the da

paul, melvin carter, and be joined by questions at the end of the statement by john harrington, commissioner of the department of public safety. last may 25, the world watched in horror as george floyd's life and humanity were taken from him with a knee on the neck. the pain and anguish of the floyd family was bared to the world, as was minnesota's pain and anguish, and obvious failures, especially when it came to race and policing. a short time ago, police officer derek chauvin was found guilty of murder of george floyd, and was taken away. and sentencing will soon follow. it is an important step toward justice for minnesota. the trial is over, but here in minnesota, our work just begins. this is the floor, nothing of where we need to get to. i want to thank you folks involved in this, and this trauma that has spread from 38th and chicago, across our state, our country and our world. i would like to thank minnesota attorney general keith ellison for the remarkable work he and his team did. it made us proud and it made us leave for today, and we need to hold that thought, that justice is pos

amna: mayor melvin carter joining us tonight, thank you for your time. . k you. -- mayor carter: thank you. judy: we take a broader look at this issue with chuck wexler, executive director of a washington, d.c. based think tank, and janai nelson, associate director counsel for the naacp legal defense and education fund. thank you for being here. i want to start with you, chuck wexler, someone who has studied the police, has seen time and again police found not guilty in cases like this, cases where someone died. how are you reacting right now? chuck: this case was a defining moment for policing. this was so agreed just. the use of force was so clear and so clear cut that for the last 11 months, first of all, the condolences go to the floyd family, number one, but for every working cop that saw that video over and over again, they thought to themselves, what was that cop thinking? that has taken a toll on the country. it's taken a toll on communities across the country. there's not a police chief, a cop i know of who did not want this police officer found gu

paul, minnesota, melvin carter. thank you so much for being with us. will you just talk a little bit about how concerned you are about whether there will be violence if derek chauvin is not convicted? >> you know, my biggest concerns and thanks for having me on this morning. my biggest concerns are making sure that everyone in our community knows that there is justice in our justice system for them, that the value of black and brown lives can be asserted and a point within our criminal justice system and that as members of our community are traumatized by again not just watching the video of george floyd's murder, not just all of the events of this trial, but the retraumatization that we've experienced in the last week with the killing of daunte wright that we have safe, healthy places and ways to process that trauma. we're seeing an enormous amount of protests and amazing, power. , peaceful protests of people who want to say, want to them the world, that those two men, in particular, should still be alive and we have to have a justice system that's ca

senior legal analyst laura coates and mayor melvin carter of st. paul, minnesota, thank you both for joining tonight. so, mayor, you say the most disturbing experiences that you've had with law enforcement have been in minnesota. tell me about that. >> thanks for having me on. sure, just growing up in st. paul in minnesota and then going to college in florida, obviously driving georgia and alabama and new orleans and all over that kind of deep south, as a young person i was pulled over quite frequently. i drove a 1984 monte carlo with whitewall tires. it was amazing in ways only a 17-year-old boy can appreciate and got pulled over and over and over and over. my father, i was really intrigued about the conversations with the police officers who was taulking befor, because my father was one of the first african-american police officers, so the plates would run back to my father who at the time was in internal affairs, by the way, and of course, well, i'll tell you what, we're going to let you go this time. but having those experiences over and over a

. >> reporter: and the last person you heard from was mayor melvin carter. he's the mayor in st. paul. and i think it's important to underscore, first, obviously, he's a black man. he's also the mayor. but he's also the son of a former officer. his father served the st. paul police department for nearly three decades, so he has a different lens, a different experience. he is letting the world know, this is not an attack on polices. this is a call to action, to change policing, and not just here in the twin cities, but across the country. a >> that is really good context. you also have an interesting lens. you've lived in this area. so watching these small business owners board up, watching the police prepare, i guess, what is it like for you to see the city in this way? >> it feels like, here we go again. the twin cities -- i lived here for seven years and i still adore the twin cities. a big piece of my heart is here. my family is here. and right now the world is seeing the ugly part of minneapolis, the ugly part of the twin cities, especially following the shooting death of dau

let's go to those who are watching through their windows, people like santa paula mayor melvin carterleadership. you'll be needed no matter what the outcome is. what does that mean to you? >> this is a time to be in leadership, chris. a heavy time for our entire community. and what we're focused on here is this memory, this notion that no matter what the outcome of the trial, no matter what the jury decides. our work is the same moving forward. the cycle, this deadly cycle that we keep seeing stops. that we don't add another name tom list. not in america and not in minnesota. and we're committed tom. we're moving forward no matter what the jury decides. >> let's see what your message is for both sides. one is, this is grossly exaggerated, the media, the left. if you look at the numbers. yes, you have some bad outcomes but these are high crime areas, criminality, and this is about defending the police who have such a hard time in these communities and they're demonized. if george floyd had just complied. what do you say? >> that's what we always hear. if he had just done this. if he ha

paul, minnesota, melvin carter. mayor, i want to first get your reaction to the charges against officer kim potter, second degree manslaughter. >> well, good morning, and thank you for having me on. obviously a second degree manslaughter charge isn't as satisfying as something heavier. daunte wright is gone forever and there's no incredible even pretending there's a reason why. even if we assess she meant to tase him, we have to ask, is shooting somebody with 50,000 votes of electricity a reasonable expectation over a traffic stop over license plates? so with the deliberate actions, a more weighty charge would be more satisfying. but this is up for a jury to decide and we know how difficult it is to hold a officer for taking a black life. so they will go for a prosecution they could make stick over an acquittal for a weighty charge that ends up being thrown out. >> all of this is happening around your city. tensions couldn't be higher. i know you put a curfew in place. what else are you doing to keep your community

paul, minnesota, melvin carter. thank you both very much for coming to "the sunday show."ng to bust protocol, mr. mayor and go to the vice president of the city council to andrea jenkins and ask you this. you know, madam vice president, let's put up element five. this talks about what minnesota or minneapolis has done in regard to quote/unquote defund the police, which is really reform the police. >> yes. >> diverted $8 million are the $179 million police budget to other city services. this is key, vice president jenkins. what are those other services? >> good morning, jonathan and good morning, mayor carter. happy easter to you both. one of those services is we created and put more resources towards the office of violence prevention which seeks to create community based responses to violence and group violence and trying to really intervene before violence happens. we also are implementing a mental health response to be able to respond to, you know, mental health crises where we see a really majority of people that are being harmed and fatally, you know, killed in the han

carter. before he left the president sat down with craig melvin, anchor of craig melvin reports at 11:00 here on msnbc. >> andrea, president biden insisted last night and this morning to me, that he believes that the american people want $6 trillion in new spending and are okay with the idea of having wealthy individuals, corporations, pay for it. the president is leaning into this idea of bigger, bolder government. we heard that last night. we defended it this morning. we heard his view of the government. we spent time talking about taxes. i also asked him about tim scott's comments, the junior senator from south carolina provided a response to the president's remark. tim scott contended america is not racist. i talked to him about that. you could make the argument that president biden's first 100 days have been defined by the pandemic and what is happening at the southern border. i asked about the president's pledge to reunite children with families that had been separated under the previous administration. our polling has been that not one child has been reunited. we talked about that. and

carter. before he left the president sat down with craig melvin, anchor of craig melvin reports at 11:00 here believes that