Crowd, the group of people that have gathered around and were watching affected the officers in their use of force . So i kind of go back to the Situational Awareness issue is that, yes, the officers are dealing with mr. Floyd, but theres also other factors for them to consider. And in this case the crowds started to grow in size, started to become more vocal. So now officers are always trained to deal with, right so what threat is the biggest threat . Is the suspect on the ground in front of me in handcuffs that we have relatively controlled or is it the unknown threat posed by the crowd that could go from verbal to trying to interfere with my arrest process in a matter of seconds . Did you factor that into your analysis of this case . I did. How so . I could see that officer chauvins focus started to move from mr. Floyd to the crowd. To one point i think officer chauvin felt threatened enough he withdrew his pepper spray canister and gave verbal commands to the crowd to stay back, so
Apologies for keeping you from the big show and the big star. D. Lemon starts right now. Ohio is tough. Its really, really tough. Damn. You know, we were you were really actually, to be honest, lets let the audience in. We heard about this story on social media while we were covering the chauvin verdict last night. The initial reports didnt seem right. It was so interesting for me, as emotional and personal for these are for you, you were cautious about it. You were saying, huh. I want to see this one. I want to see this. Because there was a lot of emotion and understandably so. You have a 16yearold kid that is gone. Yeah. Its a hard one. I do not know how to explain this to someone in a way that doesnt make somebody very angry. Were dealing with a lot of emotion right now. Im going to talk about that in a moment. Its real. And you have to take that that part has to be taken into account. Theres a lot of anguish, but we have to be fair about what happens when Police Arrive at scenes. I
Card cardiac arrhythmia due to his hypertensive Heart Disease, and can you write that down multiple ways, during his restraint or residual restraint by the police, and his significant contributary differences, he would have the toxicology, the fe fentanyl and methamphetamine, and theres exposure to a vehicle exhaust, so potentially Carbon Monoxide poisoning. Lets discuss what we have heard today, cedric alexander, and laura coates. It was not Derek Chauvin, it was something else, and this medical expert, a former medical examiner in the state of maryland, he is saying its all of the above but its not officer chauvin in his view. Well, you know, as a prosecutor you look at this and how they have pretempted all of these things, and its not the first time we are hearing about drug use and its not the first time we are hearing about any of these conditions and the prosecution did a great job of preemtinge powerful expert testimony to counter what is being said right now, and hes saying dur
Situational awareness issue, is that, yes, the officers are dealing with mr. Floyd, but theres also other factors for them to consider. And in this case, the crowd started to grow in size, started to become more vocal. So now officers are always trained to deal with right, so what threat is the biggest threat . Is it the suspect on the ground in front of me in handcuffs that we have relative control or is it the unknown threat posed by the crowd that could go from verbal to trying to interfere with my arrest process in a matter of seconds. Did you factor that into your analysis of this case . I did. How did it how so . I could see officer chauvins focus started to move from mr. Floyd to the crowd. To at one point i think officer chauvin felt threatened enough that he withdrew his pepper spray canister and gave verbal commands to the crowd to step back. So, just to kind of wrap up, could you summarize the final opinions that you have made in this case . I felt that officer chauvins inte
Addition, in an interview with sundays american voices special report with my colleague, dr. Fauci was asked about the controversial decision to pause this vaccine. Well the j j vaccine is clearly a highly efficacious vaccine, and i think the pause, which some people may have taken as a real concern, the pause should underscore have seriously we take safety. Because the risk of this is extremely low. There was another important announcement from the cdc director concerning vaccines and in expecting mothers. They recommend that pregnant women receive the covid19 vaccine. I encourage people to talk to their doctors to determine what is best for them and for their baby. A lot of people have been waiting for that very announcement, meanwhile calls for transparency are growing days after wednesdays Deadly Police involved shooting. This one in elizabeth city, North Carolina. Andrew brown was killed when deputies tried to serve a warrant, witnesses tell of the ap that one deputy shot him seve