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captain pruitt, i want to start with you and kind of get your raw reaction to what we just watched. >> it's ridiculous. okay. so my first reaction is, if i didn't know that this actually had happened, i would have thought it was a "saturday night live" skit or something. look, first of all, a citizen has a complete right to pull over and stop where they feel most comfortable. police officers are actually trained in that, that give them the benefit of the doubt and give them some grace, maybe they don't feel comfortable. maybe it's not a well-lighted area, let them stop somewhere, where they feel safe. that's okay. secondly, when i walk up to the car and do see there is a tag in the window, as far as i'm concerned, stop's over. what else do you want? thirdly, the supreme court has ruled that it is okay to ask people to step out of a car for officer's safety but at no time did these officer ever articulate why they were asking a leiutenant to step out of his vehicle. they treated him like trash. they talked to him like he was not a man period but a man who serves his country. he was in

captain pruitt, let's start with you. you think the chief will be when he takes the stand, and do you think the defense, in cross-examination, will bring up those comments that he made to the media? >> well, i certainly hope he is as direct as he was in those comments. those comments mean everything to policing. it means everything to a community that has been traumatized by this incident. they wanted to hear from the leadership, and the leadership laid it out. this goes against everything that we are. it goes against our teaching, our training, it goes against the ethics of policing. and again, i certainly hope that when the prosecution questions him that he says those same things and that he digs down into why he says those things. ethics for policing is very, very important, very serious, and i dare say if mr. chauvin had taken it seriously, mr. floyd would be alive today. >> captain, i want to get your reaction to a moment that we heard from the trial this week that really stood out. let's play that. >> what is your,

and sonia pruitt, member of the law enforcement action partnership. ladies, welcome, thanks for joining us. melissa, i want to start with you. i want to talk about closing arguments specifically. what we can expect from both sides tomorrow. >> well, i think we've already seen a little bit of what we'll expect from both sides. last wednesday the defense made a motion for an acquittal from the judge on the ground the prosecution had not proven his case so in arguing that motion we got to see what both sides are going to say, a preview, if you will, next week when they make their closing arguments. but i expect the prosecution to hammer home the three pillars of this case. the video testimony, the eyewitness testimony and then that expert testimony, hammering for the jury that you can believe what you saw because it is backed up by what other people saw and concluded as well. the defense will try to poke holes in that, to inject some reasonable doubt that in fact it was mr. floyd's pre-existing conditions and drug use that were contributinging factors in

joining me is sonia pruitt with themontgomery county, maryland. good to see you.polis and talking to black people there and one of the conversations that came up was this idea that, you know, parents of kids, generally, but parents of black kids, often give them a set of instructions or directions to keep them safe in interactions with the police. and when those interactions occur, sometimes those kids are held responsible either for the way they dress or the attitude they displayed to authority. and there are people saying to me they wonder whether this trial of george floyd's killers will make a difference. will parents rethink the idea that maybe my kids dressing or behavior isn't to blame for how things go wrong sometimes in their interactions with police. i wanted to get your thoughts on that. >> good morning. so how your child dresses, how they wear their hair, the brown, chocolate, vanilla, blackness of their skin, they are not to blame for that. and it's unfortunate we sort of -- we inherit this psychological trauma, this emotional trauma. it comes from sl

joining me is the founder of the black police experience, sonia pruitt with the monte dei paschi county police department in maryland. also with me is former federal prosecutor, paul butler from georgetown school of law and author of the book "choke hold" poliing black men. let's start with what happened in chicago. there are people calling for a -- i don't know how police have to think about this, a balance between the fact that they got a phone call in the middle of the night about shots fired, people call 911. police get dispatched, there appears to be a gun or guns in the area. that video is hard to parse, but in the end it looks like a man with his hands up was shot. police are saying that happened in a fraction of a second. he showed a gun, he put his hands up and he got shot. his mother is asking why did you have to shoot to kill or in his chest? talk to me about how realistic that is that that could have unfolded differently. >> good morning to everyone. it is very realistically that that could have been handled quite differently. i want to highlight this argument that you hear

the fact conclusions about what happened but this medical examiner viewed the body shortly after mr pruitt was killed and that's what we should trust and what you find is that there were complications they keep drilling down on this word complications so he's trying to convince one juror in this one juror that that a substantial cause of death with drugs or something else and not the the neck the the prosecution on the other hand has to stick with its theory and say ladies and gentlemen this is a simple case you saw the video you heard the experts there's no reasonable explanation except that mr floyd died from pressure being applied to his carotid artery his neck professor many thanks indeed for that could talk to so little sullivan that and then you can massachusetts. because applied for u.s. approval for the vaccine for 12 to 15 year olds the from say that phase 3 trials for younger teenagers have proved effective the company's plan to file similar requests across the world in coming days let's go live to washington d.c. now to see as mike hanna is there mike tell us more. well basicall

five casualties in the back, or we could have a hand created go off in a little cafÉ outside our pruittare. and bang we would have casualties. or all the sudden choppers would start coming up from our hotel. which was between the air force base and us. it was a green island kind of space. so the days were long. but they were quite times in the day. and that is when we sort of re-hung iv's. we make sure we had enough needles we can ensure we had enough blood and we ran low a lot of times and there were a couple of times that we actually drew blood from the hospital personnel. look >> what we are living conditions your quarters like? >> while my husband full pull that one off so there was nurses coach over there and the five-storey building. then there was the enlisted coach which is a three story part of our compound. you know west more and abrams lived in our compound. right outside my triage area. i'll tell you about general abrams leader. and then there was the hospital. then there was a little nurses hooch here. then there was the massachusetts -- which was basically for -- . my husb

let's get more on this from sonia pruitt, a retired captain of the montgomery county maryland policeted, what message will it send out, do you think? i message will it send out, do you think? ~' message will it send out, do you think? ~ .,, ., message will it send out, do you think? ~ ., , ., ., think? i think those of us who have been waiting _ think? i think those of us who have been waiting for— think? i think those of us who have been waiting for so _ think? i think those of us who have been waiting for so long _ think? i think those of us who have been waiting for so long for - think? i think those of us who have been waiting for so long for what . been waiting for so long for what justice looks like, that will be a positive step in the right direction. but like one of your guest said in the clip you just played, it'sjust one guest said in the clip you just played, it's just one step. we guest said in the clip you just played, it'sjust one step. we have been waiting so long for officers to been waiting so long for officers to be held accountable for policing and abuse of power i

aurtie pruitt is the ceo of the new journey political action committee and he joins us to explain. >>nt was simply because she has brown skin. president biden is trying to inoculate himself against attacks, after all of the images have come out, after all the mistreatment of kids at this border, after the surge, he needs someone brown so he can ward off criticism. it's simply that fact. what other reason is there? is she some kind of border expert? has she spent years at the border? she won't even go to the border. ainsley: so how does this affect the children that are legally here, that are black and hispanic? does it hurt them? >> of course it hurts them. politics is simply the allocation of resources, right? if you think political science 101 course it's one of the first things you learn. politics is allocation of resources and resources are finite. it's not that we don't care as americans, but guess what? if you have $5,000 per student, and you doubled the amount of students, now you have $2,500 per student. that's the problem. that's the problem with biden's policy. it ignores ma