Will we use this as a moment to say we will not do what other cities have done and, in fact, well get better than weve been . What i can tell you, if you sit in your homes tonight instead of burning your home to the ground, you will have time to properly plot, plan, strategize, and organize and mobilize an effective way. Two of the most effective ways is first taking your butt to the computer and making sure you fill out your census so people know who you are, where you are. Next thing, exercise your political bully power. Go to local elections and beating up the politicians that you dont like. You have a prosecutor sent your partner to jail and you know it was bull [ bleep ] . Put a new prosecutor in there. You want a senator that put s marijuana through . Do that. It is not time to burn down your own home. That was part of killer mikes impassioned remarks as protests turned violent in atlanta. This morning, the u. S. Is a nation in crisis, amid a Global Pandemic and record unemployme
Were monitoring all of this. This is of course what has been going on in the wake of the killing of george floyd. But as you look at these scenes that may be familiar, let us be very clear about the facts. Tonight one thing is very different. At this hour most of the officers last night involved in that killing were uncharged and at large. Now, tonight here you have it. These same officers, three of them now in custody as murder defendants. Their new mug shots just released tonight. Prosecutors charging these three officers with felony murder. For aiding in the, to put it in the legal terminology, the unintentional murder of mr. Floyd. They also call it felony murder. This altogether are all four officers who were involved in that fateful arrest and killing. Prosecutors also enhancing charges against the main officer who led, pinning floyds neck until he died. He now faces seconddegree murder charges. Each of these individuals that you see on your screen now face up to technically 40 y
That itself is quite rare in police cases. Two, you need to know tonight that all three other officers in the arrests have been hit with new murder charges, aiding the unintentional murder in the seconddegree for their role in backing what we see here, what we all in mesh has been processing, which is how the main officer chauvin was strajing the air. Peaceful onlookers pleaded to stop, to spare the life that was clearly dying in front of everyone in broad daylight on tape. Three, another fact that you should know as all of this occurs tonight. This legal news didnt come from the local d. A. Minnesota, like most states, still uses local d. A. S to patrol the police. But this news that im reporting to you right now, todays news, it came from a more independent authority, state attorney general Keith Ellison. You could hear him speaking there. This was the press conference. This is different. And as everyone says, what should america do differently or not, you should know factually that