it. doesn't even have the opportunity he's saying he'll get up and get in the car isn't given the opportunity to do this not resistance that's compliance at least an attempt to comply force must be reasonable it must be reasonable at the point it starts at the point it ends and all points in between officers are required to reassess the situation re-evaluate the situation to take in the information and react. defendant didn't do it. the defense has made the argument that the crowd justified defendant's use of force like the blame should fall odd the bystanders for displaying concern over a man's life what. if this was a distraction and there was some concern. the defendant doesn't appear too concerned it wasn't the bystanders fault

a 19 year police veteran. a field training officer. with over 800 hours of training not be distracted by the comments of a 17 year old or being filmed by some civilians there's a policy about filming they understand that civilians can fill them. they know that it's right there this isn't something new or earth shattering or or even particularly noteworthy. sergeants stagger you recall him from l.a.p.d. used to patrol on skid row he talked about people throwing rocks and bottles this is their fault phones they're expressing concern they're not doing anything this is not a justification for for assault for murder. defense suggest in their cross-examination that reasonable minds can disagree. or that some

of the witnesses don't line up exactly where the 1st began or what exactly she's done don't get caught up in there don't miss the forest for the trees. consider the testimony as a whole officer after officer after officer got on that stand raise their hand told you the chief of police. that this conduct the $929.00 violates the use of force policy violates the department's core values be violated his duty of care he failed to render aid remember commander now inspector keady blackwell who was in charge of all training looked at this and said i don't even know what this is i don't know what this modification is this is and how they train this is that the

rules. lieutenant mercer. looked at this and he said without equivocation not an m.p.v. trained tactic it is not we don't train are people to do this you can present a 1000 hypothetical situations you can talk about what didn't happen all day long into next week when you talk about what did happen on that day at that time that's what they said use of force unreasonable supervisor sergeant lugar the force should have ended right after mr floyd was on the ground his supervisor said that. lieutenant zimmer. the oldest serving i should say the most years of service on the minneapolis police department longest serving correct myself longest serving member of the department what he said he looked at this he said

this was totally unnecessary totally unnecessary and use of deadly force not reasonable only reasonable force is authorized sergeant steiner expert witness los angeles police department is trained thousands of police officers he looked at this this is objective lee an reasonable force professor stone professor stone former police officer university of south carolina law school professor this use of force was unreasonable it was disproportionate and a violates national standards the experts agree because the force has to be reasonable but it starts it has to be reasonable when it ends and what is happening if you look at the bottom of george floyd is

handcuffed and on the ground. what is he saying he's saying i can't breathe 27 times within the 1st 4 minutes and 45 seconds of this encounter he's saying. the defendant continues to kneel on his back and neck continue the dangerous restraint george floyd says into the restraint at 820 to 24 my stomach hurts my neck hurts anything everything hurts defendant heard that he heard those words was george floyd resisting when he was trying to breathe well you know and the defendant heard it and he acknowledged it and all he did was mock him . it takes a lot of oxygen to complain. that's what he said it takes a lot of oxygen to say that. when george floyd if his final

words to the defendant please i can't breathe i can't breathe crying out for help but the man through the man in uniform. the defendant stayed right on top ignored it continue doing what he was doing facing the crowd grinding his needy twisting his hand. i think he's passing out of a certain way and so's officer can't can't find a pulse you know. the greatest skeptic of this case among you how can you justify the continued force on this man. when he has no pulse. no pulse. continued. the restraint continued grind twisting pushing down crushing the very life out of him it wasn't too late it could have ruled him over perform c.p.r.

no he continued past the point of finding a pulse past the point where the emulates arrives past the point where the e.m.t. is get out of the ambulance what's the goal what's the plan here what are we trying to accomplish. this was a counterfeit $20.00 bill allegedly. what is going on why why hold him that long past that point past that line that was crossed. unreasonable force unreasonable. not proportion excessive it violated policy violated law it violated everything at the minneapolis police department stood for is not lawful use that phrase. awful but lawful

force that is not lawful it's it's just off. so the defendant is guilty of 2nd degree murder he's guilty of 3rd degree murder he's guilty of 2nd degree manslaughter all of them because this was not a justified use of force you cannot justify this use of force it's impossible that if you apply the rules not if you apply the standards. that a sworn officer to protect and serve a sworn officer that oath that they take. at the beginning of my comments i talked about george floyd's life how he was surrounded by people who cared about him. surrounded by familiar faces people he could look out to in the crowd. that had his death he was surrounded by strangers.

they were strangers but you can't say they didn't care. you can't say that. these people were randomly chosen from the community people from the community randomly chosen by fate and they were coming from different places and they were going to different places and they had different purposes all random members of the community all converged by fate at one single moment in time to witness something to witness 9 minutes and 20 seconds. of shocking abuse of authority to watch a man die. and there was nothing they could do. because they were powerless they were utterly powerless because even they respected the match even

seeing this happening they try it cried out and 1st pointed out here you can get up off him became more and more desperate as they watch this go on and on and on and there was nothing there was nothing they could do all they could do all they could do was watch and gather what they could gather their memories gather their thoughts and impressions gather those precious recordings and they gathered those up and they brought them here and they brought them here and they got up on the stand and they testified in the bore witness to what they saw they bore witness to this outrageous act and they told you about it and they gave you what they have their thoughts their impressions their memories they gave you those precious records so you can see this you can see this from every signal. they gave

that to you they were powerless to do anything that they gave it to you randomly selected people from the community. you got a summons in the mail and here you are. all converge on one spot now . our system. we have power the power actually belongs to us the people. and we give it to the government in trust for us to hold and to use appropriately and sometimes we take it back sometimes when something is really important we reserve those decisions for herself the state we have power. we cannot the judge has power.

but he cannot convict the defendant. that power that power belongs to you you have that power in only you have the power. to convict the defendant of these crimes. in so doing and in so doing declare that this use of force was unreasonable it was excessive it was grossly disproportionate it is not an excuse for this shocking abuse that you saw with your own eyes and you can believe your own eyes this case is exactly what you thought when you saw it 1st when you saw that video is exactly that you can believe your eyes it's exactly what you believed it's exactly what you saw with your eyes exactly what you knew it's what you felt in your gut

it's what you now know in your heart. this wasn't policing this was murder the defendant is guilty of all 3 counts. all and there's no excuse. thank you. members of the jury we're going to take a 20 minute break in just for your information and we'll also take a 20 minute break after the defense argument before the state's rebuttal and the final instructions i. want you all just their english. hennepin county judge peter cahill just adjourning the court says closing arguments are being made in the closing arguments of the trial of derek chauvin and of course

the eyes of not just all of the united states but much of the world is on this trial as the prosecution made very clear step by step arguments. and statements about what 2nd and 3rd degree murder charges were as well as 2nd degree manslaughter the definitions the elements of those charges have been broken down both verbal and in graphic form as you saw on that address which lasted around about one hour 30 we apologize to our viewers of some of the colorful language being used by the prosecution there. not in control of that but certainly food for thought as we joined a correspondent who's following the trial for us an unusually unusually. long closing arguments to start with certainly from the prosecution john what did you

make of it. well it was a powerful point by point. condemnation of the actions of derek chauvin the lawyer steven walked through each of the charges and each of the elements and he had little boxes to check you know in order for 2nd degree murder to apply to this case. george floyd needs to be dead checked he needs to have been assaulted by the. defendant check. and that assault needs to result in his death check and he did that with each of those charges and he summarized saying these are all things of which derek chauvinism guilty and then he concluded with a line of prosecutor in his another prosecutor in his opening remarks stated and that was you can believe your eyes all throughout this trial the prosecutors have

been telling people everything you need to know about what happened to george floyd and what derek show been did there is in the video it's in the 9 minute and 29 2nd video that we saw from darnell of frazier that's the most popular one but it's also when the police badge cameras it is in other bystanders video videos and the hardest thing i think for the defense to refute here is going to be just that amount of time in 9 minutes and 29 seconds the fact that officer show not only didn't give c.p.r. to george floyd after he was clearly not showing a pulse but that he didn't allow others to and he kept his knee on floyd's neck until paramedics carted his lifeless body off it was powerful prosecution now we're going to hear the defense from erik nelson he is the defense attorney who was on the prosecutors have been switching off to one of the other he's been the one guy

up there arguing for the defense after that we expect to have a redirect by yet another prosecutor that is jerry blackwell but this was a pretty long in the thought of cold and powerful recitation of the prosecution's case. they obviously have the road sort of experiences understanding of how the cold system works within the respective countries in the united states. we saw it's not just pull testimony you might say it's given in these instances but visual aids as well how you've covered many trials similar to this all of the same sort of see how unusual did you find the proceedings yourself. i thought they did a pretty effective job of just using enough information in order to help the jury

summarize in their favor you had. some visual age tape a certain point in order to show things like. grinding his on george floyd neck and and forgive me so hell if you're hearing soloing behind me that's because all the buildings around us are boarding up in anticipation of this verdict here but yeah they do use the visual aids but they use them in a limited enough form so that they they don't overwhelm the jury with data what they're trying to do they can only draw from the evidence that has been presented in the trial in these closing remarks they can offer new evidence so those charts are really just a summary in one case you saw a circle of police officers all saying that in that chart saying that the force was excessive that's the kind of chart that the jury is likely to

refer to in the end we hear you loud and clear no problem but we will continue to a check in with you throughout the proceedings the day. john 100 in minneapolis for us let's also joined by michael steele he's a professor at lowell university thomas also joins me from minneapolis has been listening in to what's being said professor it's good to have you again on the program you see watching what the prosecution's closing summary is how effective do you think it has been in terms of trying to disseminate the very complicated case that this can be for a jury of all research millions. i think it was fairly effective you know if it did take more time than i expected i thought oh in being in about an hour and it went longer than that in the risk is that you're going to lose focus if that happens it took a while to get to the core narrative 25 minutes before he really got to what

happened step by step and that surprised his team which was you can believe your eyes certainly made sense i thought that he might have used the video more to emphasize than to actually walk them through as they did in the opening but maybe they began that would be redundant if they did that the witnesses that he brought up in his closing were interesting of course dr toben who was a very credible witness but he also brought out dr fowler for example dr fowler saying that she should have done administer and especially charles no one in the 9 year old girl. coming back to nome a few times each talking about their eyewitness testimony and really bringing it back to the emotional core of the case of course all of this again focused back all of the defendant and what might if you use

a phrase of sort of that character assassination the prosecution were very good in bringing everything back to what he did whether it was the positional asphyxia whether it was not listening to the bystanders whether it was his own body language or even not listening to his colleagues he made a pointed if you as you say took quite some time to get to it but he made a very pointed gesture to make sure that everything still came back to what derek show vun did or did not do. yes and he also really tried to work through the narrative to show that george floyd was being compliant nearly all of the time and explaining the one point in time when it was pretty clear that he wasn't going which was when he won't get into the police car and it was pretty fascinating to watch the prosecutor focus on that and talk about how george wade was a big man you know i've been in small spaces and in didn't want to get in there and

so i think he was really responding to something that he suspects jurors might think through which is why didn't he just cooperate and the response that we got from the prosecution in passion to go to the evidence was that pretty much he did he was compliant and there was a line in there and they used pin compliance techniques on someone who is complying it brought back to mind that testimony about ending that interest outwards which is something that i think the jurors will really be able to relate to and a power for way and no matter of i'm sure you've observed hundreds of trials in your career you teach law to the next generation of lawyers in the the u.s. how do how interesting and how important is it in this particular case watching look at as many millions are to teach the fact that you've got to try and keep the jury's focus on the case or not lose them did the states actually

do that in your opinion. i suspect he did in part because they've got a good jury are reports to this jury and only in the hallway and let's face it this thing about criminal law it's not boring we're not talking about a monday in contract dispute but terrible things that happen on the streets not far away from where those jurors are sitting. and he did make a point of bringing it acted out reality regularly not. going too far our own explaining theory or definitions but instead reading it in the core of the experience over and over and over and i think even though it probably was longer than some people will it mean it he did likely keep interest jury because less bigger tougher you are on the program thank you very much for

a picking what has been a very complicated case for us and joining us from minneapolis thank you. and of course let's just take you back to minneapolis there where these the latest pictures where we're seeing the prosecutor steve session of course speak to the jury just a few moments ago i think he dropped one of his visual aids there. it was very impassioned and yet before tickle walk through really of what happened on may the 25th 2020 when derek show. started to arrest george floyd and the rest as we saw happened just a reminder those of course the judge has said that show violence trial is in the middle of a 20 minute break we're going to take a few minutes now to to bring you some of the day's other news of course we'll go straight back to minneapolis where the proceedings receive again hopefully very shortly. so off to russia now wealth already there say opposition leader alexina

valley has been moved to a prison hospital the kremlin critic has been on hunger strike for several weeks protesting against his jailing on what he says are politically motivated charges russia rejects all foreign concerns about the valleys health and warns his supporters that planned demonstrations on wednesday will be considered illegal eve foreign ministers say they're not considering punitive measures against the kremlin at the moment. not being a request for how widespread its fall short of russia from the lads from all other e.u. member states why did they mean there is no move on to feel of a more changes to russia this can change the situation is the way i'm explaining. that smith has more from moscow. the prison authorities in russia say alexander van has been transferred to a prison hospital it's about 90 kilometers away from the penal colony or colony

where he's serving 2 and a half year sentence for parole violations now they say he's also receiving the vitamin therapy by his own consent the valley started his hunger strike on march 31st of this is now day 20 and since then he'd only been drinking water is via his wife visited him last week in prison she said he'd lost a lot of weight he had difficulty speaking he's suffering from spinal problems and he's on the weekend is our allies said his life was hanging by a thread and the valley supporters are also called for nationwide protests from on wednesday evening they were calling for 500000 people to sign a petition after which they would have these protests there just slightly short of that but because of these failing health they believe it's much more urgently needed to have these protests to bring attention to his circumstances the police

service in russia today has warned people that they shouldn't attend those protests on wednesday 70 deca her small from burly worry of foreign ministers have been meeting. they're going to start by discussing the expulsion of russian diplomats from the czech republic and the retaliatory measures measures that moscow has taken they are going to discuss the health conditions of alexina valley we had a strong statement from the e.u. yesterday saying that novelli should be allowed access to his own doctors doctors that he trusts and that his health conditions is fully in the hands of the russians that they hold russia responsible for his his situation that he should be released and they're also going to be discussing ukraine and the russian troop buildup along ukraine's borders and they will be joined by ukraine's foreign minister as well now he has been pushing. the you for more pressure but i think certainly initial reports coming out of the e.u.

that we will not be expecting any form of new sanctions announced today we are expecting a virtual press conference in about 3 hours from now so we will have to wait and see what they come up with but certainly the indications at the moment probably strong statements rather than actual new sanctions being imposed authorities in cape town say a large fire that's ravaged parts of table mountain has not been contained the slopes above the newlands neighborhood has been in flames since sunday cape town university has been evacuated as often breakouts in this part of south africa during periods of drought robyn adams has more from. city officials say they've managed to contain a massive fire at on table mountain which is of use aging since sunday morning has impacted thousands of people in the area of had to evacuate their homes and devastated more than $400.00 acres of land further compounding these firefighting efforts has been the fields when smaller than 70 kilometers per hour which is also

led to the suspension of a coffee water bombers have not been able to take in and around the table mountain area officials are now still investigating the origins of this fire but there have confirmed that at least one suspect has been administered for alleged arson there's been a mess of outpouring of support from all of the public have taken in a lot of the students from the university of cape town for thousands of them living on campus who had to find alternative accommodation hotels in the area have also opened their doors to these students at the fire department which is right in the city of kut done about one kilometer from where the fire was taking place a little earlier maybe the nations have been lit by the public will just be walking in and bringing i talked to firefighters bringing in for food water bringing in supplies firefighters have said they're not out of the woods yet and the will of the winds will be moment that over the coming days as investigations continue into the source the origin of this massive fire on table mountain. a monitoring group in

me in my eyes warning the military will continue to torture and murder pro-democracy activists if the international community doesn't act the assistance association for political prisoners made the plea after state television broadcast images of 16 knees with sides of what it called harrowing abuse meanwhile supporters of a newly formed pro-democracy government rallied in dar way on sunday the national unity government says it should be included in crisis talks with neighboring countries it's criticized an invitation issued to issued by the regional bloc s.c.m. for the military their leader to attend the special summit in jakarta on saturday. credit virus infections over reached record levels in india nearly 274000 cases were confirmed on monday and more than 1600 deaths.