kind of an issue and we will resume with that questioning strongly well in the meantime lieutenant mesereau had described the training that he was given about nick restraints pointing out that officers on actually practically to the use of legs in that chris trains we are now into the 2nd week of the trial of former minneapolis police officer derek shaven he's facing charges including 2nd degree murder after he knelt on george for its neck for nearly 9 and a half minutes last may well they've just taken a little bit of a break we are now currently in recess in terms of the trial would be coming back to that as soon as it resumes but for now let's bring in alexis heard she's a law or lecturer at columbia law school and a former senior counsel at the end legal defense and educational fund she joins us now from new york alexis you yourself used to be a criminal defense lawyer what do you make of the line of questioning that we've been seeing so far here. thank you for having me and good evening good morning in new york what we're seeing here is not a question of officer former officer shoguns