reporting that the white house for the last few weeks had been trying to figure out how they were going to try and mark the day and ultimately they decided to have the private sit-down between president biden and members of the floyd family, and president biden taped a message, and his first visit from his home during the pandemic was to floyd s family, members of his family in texas, and he talked by phone with the floyd family during the chauvin trial. give us a sense of what we expect to see later from the white house today and how they are marking this moment? the president was hoping for a legislative celebration, jeff, in addition to, of course, the celebration of life and this movement that has grown out of the memory of george floyd, but the white house inviting members of his family to come and meet with the president and vice president behind closed doors so they could have a, quote, real conversation. this is not something where we are going to see all of them come before
peaceful rally tonight. what is it we need to do to get laws passed to address an issue that begs of it being addressed? yeah, well, welcome back to minnesota, reverend. i think that s one thing. you said it. there is going to be a lot of folks gathering. the floyd family is going to be speaking, and minnesota activists. we watched a year ago as george floyd s humanity was taken in front of the world. and it s forcing minnesota to have these hard conversations. we know that some of these things are not unreasonable at all, no-knock warrants. we saw donte wright be killed for an air freshener or tabs. right as we were expecting to get a little bit of justice in the chauvin trial. so these pieces of legislation that have been authored, mostly by the people of color and indigenous caucus which are right in line with what minnesotans want to see. they want to see accountability. they want to make sure that the situations of george floyd and dante wright aren t done again. they brought th
msnbc legal analyst, and esteemed guest. neal, thank you for being here. you were a special prosecutor in the george floyd case so i know you re very limited in what you can specifically say. but can you tell us what these three are facing and what action you re taking? yes. so alex, thanks for having me on. as i say, i m extremely limited in what i can say. i m just going to talk about the public record and just say, i argued in court on thursday that the three other cops should be charged with third degree murder, not just manslaughter. that s a request we made back to the court in february, in the trial court, before the chauvin trial. the trial court rejected it both with respect to officer chauvin as well as the other three defendants. we then brought that up to the court of appeals with respect to chauvin and got the third degree murder charge reinstated. and now the question before the court of appeals is whether or not these other three cops can be charged with third degree m
An attorney for one of the former Minneapolis police officers charged in the death of George Floyd alleges that a medical examiner was coerced to change their findings.
Updated: 4:01 AM MDT May 9, 2021 Dakin Andone, CNN Members of George Floyd s family on Saturday praised the news that four former Minneapolis police officers will face federal charges in connection to his death, saying they were very grateful. Floyd s nephew Brandon Williams said during a news conference held not far from the Houston apartments where his uncle grew up that the indictments meant the world to his family. If you saw that video, it s self explanatory. We all know that it was a murder and a torture in broad daylight, Williams said, referring to bystander video that showed the officers restraining George Floyd in late May 2020, with one kneeling on his uncle s neck. We all know that his civil rights were violated. But this gives us hope, he said. This lets us know that there is change on the way if we keep pressing and mashing the gas for people in leadership to pass laws. We need police reform. There s no way the color of your skin or your race