To death as he tried to drive away from police the video showed him fleeing, not attacking. just those last two videos were part of six police shootings that came within 24 hours of the chauvin verdict in the floyd killing which was deemed a murder. this is all within the last year. all points on the chart, the literal chart you see of america s policing problem. now, these are the facts that many were trying to bury after the chauvin verdict. these facts are the sad rebuttal to that conservative s rhetorical question i showed you earlier. how many black unarmed people were killed by police officers? it s a massive distraction. mr. vance says it s a distraction. by the way, he s running for the united states senate, so people can assess his record. it s not a distraction. like a lot of propaganda, that bad faith formulation by mr.
Brighter things to come. now, i just want to pivot a bit because you put out a statement after the direct chauvin verdict they referred to the decision is not justice, but accountability. you went on to say that black lives must matter, in quote, a country that has never lived up to that promise i want to flip that statement on its head somewhere because we know that transgender folks, particularly women of color face a disproportionate threat of violence. according to the human rights campaign, 2020 was a record setting year for murders of a gender nonconforming people with 44 killed. but 2021 a slated to break even that record with nearly 30 people killed. but what you don t have often within the black community itself are the kind of mass demonstrations that led up to the chauvin verdict as the
Federal level, we ll keep going from incident to incident. this is winning around with the chauvin verdict, but we haven t won the fight. reverend al, thank you. the usa today s susan page, thank you very much for being on this morning. let s get now to mayor bill de blasio, who is joining us now. he has a bill announcement to make exclusively with us about new york city public schools. mr. mayor, thank you. what s the news. mika, it s good news. new york city public schools, 1 million kids will be back in their classroom in september, all in person, no remote. wow. that s the news. parents, kids, everyone s been waiting for to know, we re going to be back strong, ready, safe, covid is plummeting in this city. i m happy to say. we re almost to 8 million vaccination doses since day one and it s just amazing to see the