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erik: you need to hold people accountable. leadership across the country need to spend more time looking at the individual officers that are having complaints against them. police chiefs need to focus on making sure their police departments are well trained, not just in densive tactics or firearms, but in community policing and understanding who their community are and making sure they are held accountable every single day for what they do. charlayne: wanda, what do you think of the defund idea? wanda: i think what has happened with that statement, defunding the police, it has gotten caught up in political ramifications that have gone on in this country the last five years. the real essence of it, defund has been co-opted -- the real meaning is, there has to real accountability. those are not things they can just come to one training session for a week. there should be community involvement, redress, follow-up. >> some people are using the narrative of abolish the police. i am not a proponent of that. defund the police, in a l
erik: you need to hold people accountable. leadership across the country need to spend more time looking at the individual officers that are having complaints against them. police chiefs need to focus on making sure their police departments are well trained, not just in densive tactics or firearms, but in community policing and understanding who their community are and making sure they are held accountable every single day for what they do. charlayne: wanda, what do you think of the defund...
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>> it seems that the cards they have to play, erik karlsson is trying to poke holes in to how much of a role derek chauvin played in george floyd's death. now, i'm not a lawyer and i'm not going try to read you the legal instructions on the counts that he is facing on second degree murder and third degree manslaughter. it comes down to the degrees of culp ability that he plays. it may be between a manslaughter or a second degree murder, depending on how much jurors believe that chauvin was involved in george floyd's death. how much did george floyd a's compromised heart play in even though it, yes, dr. baker said, it was the actions of the officers that precipitated this dying, but, jurors are going to have to decide how much of chauvin's role is responsible. >> brett, one last question for you, as we head in to the weekend, we start looking ahead towards what is going to happen next in the trial. how much is minneapolis paying attention to this trial? how closely is this being watched in the community? it's definitely getting a lot of attention. i walk through downtown minneapolis ev
>> it seems that the cards they have to play, erik karlsson is trying to poke holes in to how much of a role derek chauvin played in george floyd's death. now, i'm not a lawyer and i'm not going try to read you the legal instructions on the counts that he is facing on second degree murder and third degree manslaughter. it comes down to the degrees of culp ability that he plays. it may be between a manslaughter or a second degree murder, depending on how much jurors believe that chauvin...
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these stories it's always that the victim was in controlled, rodney king seem like the tasmania devil, erik gardner was the person who was in control of the situation when he was choked. walter scott had frightened the police officer by fighting back against the taser. the black victim had superhuman strength and frighten the black -- the white officer. they tried in the face of this video, they tried to fight it in the face of even a nine year old couldn't see. i've said before he is looking at is like that because he doesn't think anything will happen to him and he didn't think anything will happen because most often it doesn't. so this happened to be the time that because of the length of the video i think and because of the pleas of george floyd, because of the crowd of people just trying to save his life which is the most heartening part of this, ordinary people, knowing right from wrong and refusing to leave and bearing witness. it did not work. >> quickly, in the cold and then i'll go to you ibram kendi, do you feel given the fact that this death precipitated these protests in a sort
these stories it's always that the victim was in controlled, rodney king seem like the tasmania devil, erik gardner was the person who was in control of the situation when he was choked. walter scott had frightened the police officer by fighting back against the taser. the black victim had superhuman strength and frighten the black -- the white officer. they tried in the face of this video, they tried to fight it in the face of even a nine year old couldn't see. i've said before he is looking...
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in 2014, here in new york, there was of course erik gardner, the former police officer putting gardner in that chokehold, he was then sworn by officers who fell to the ground and his final words were i can't breathe. and yet, the grand jury decided to indict the in the officer, he did not even go to trial. one year later there was the incredible case of walter scout, we covered that case. he was pulled over for a broken taillight, after a brief interaction he ran. the officer put three bullets in his back. the killing was recorded on a cell phone, the officer was charged with murder. but a judge declared a mistrial because -- he was convicted on federal charges of second degree murder. those are some of the examples, we could liselotte more. no one should have any illusions about the outcome of this trial being in any way decided. david henderson is civil rights attorney has been following the trial and he joins me now. i guess first your thoughts on that note as someone who has practice as a prosecutor and a civil defense attorney about the in determines factor? >> well chris, from th
in 2014, here in new york, there was of course erik gardner, the former police officer putting gardner in that chokehold, he was then sworn by officers who fell to the ground and his final words were i can't breathe. and yet, the grand jury decided to indict the in the officer, he did not even go to trial. one year later there was the incredible case of walter scout, we covered that case. he was pulled over for a broken taillight, after a brief interaction he ran. the officer put three bullets...
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. >> police ooivrd that officer as erik stillman, a lawyer representing him says the officer feels horrible but was justified in using deadly force. cnn's ryan young joins me now. and ryan what more do we know just about the status of the case and what the victim's family is saying. >> well, brooke, as you can understand this has been very tough for everyone who is involved. i've talked to veteran police officers today who work here in the city of chicago who patrol the streets and say a lot of them are even heart broken at this reality, the reality of the fact that gun violence is so pervasive in the city that they felt like this was a justified shooting. but at the same time their hearts are broken for the fact that a 13-year-old was lost. as you show the video and watch it and so many different ways if you watch if full speed, you sort of miss certain details. and of course the chicago police department started spotlighting parts of it so you could see the weapon that they say the teen had in his hand. now all this happened because of the fact that there was a shot spotter technology in
. >> police ooivrd that officer as erik stillman, a lawyer representing him says the officer feels horrible but was justified in using deadly force. cnn's ryan young joins me now. and ryan what more do we know just about the status of the case and what the victim's family is saying. >> well, brooke, as you can understand this has been very tough for everyone who is involved. i've talked to veteran police officers today who work here in the city of chicago who patrol the streets and...