important and it s gonna have a tremendous impact on policing. you know, for the past several years, there has been more and more focus on this duty to intervene through various trainings. one started in new orleans called ethical policing is courageous. and it s been modified a bit from georgetown law. abel, think it stand force active by stander for law enforcement. but there is more training now that if you see something like that taking place, you have an on obly gagz to intervene, to stop it and i think the george floyd situation is a perfect example of why that should take mace. i know there will be a lot lotte of arguments two of them were rookies, third one on crowd control but there is no excuse for not intervening over a 9 1/2 minute period. and of course, we know from trial testimony they actually did not inform the person who was interviewing them about the loss of consciousness immediately or the ideas of not knowing what the result of the
like imagine being that person on the bottom of that pile of people trying to breathe as this person is kicking you over and over and over and over. it s a blessing that person is still alive. i mean i can t help but react to that. and why aren t we seeing this coverage the way that we should be? yes, russia is hugely important, but we ve been talking to truckers who have been covering this to our reporters have been so great on the ground, we ve been telling the whole stories as much as we can gather there. i don t understand why the other media don t tell the story. if we had protesters traded like that there would be a rioting in the streets. remember the summer of 2020. i don t like to conflate things because george floyd situation was a murderer and he was not a protester, but the mind s eye can t block that out when you see someone under all of those people pinning that body down in the person s suffering you guys.
better and you didn t do better. that s negligence. but it is really an uphill battle and as you say, the prosecutor has to convince this jury beyond a reasonable doubt and here he is in a cardigan with a cross pendant looking like a grandmother crying. do you think this case was overcharged? there was pressure because of the george floyd situation and the charging, do you think they might have hit too high with the charges and maybe should have charged her with something easier to prove? that s always a question for the prosecution and especially so here. as you know, the chauvin chal trial was going on as this happened. there were people calling for something to hold her accountable. there was the reluctance of the chief of police to denounce or condemn her and led to public outcries. there was a lot of public
street, they don t a george floyd situation. they don t want sharpton to come to l.a. you are one disputed arrest away from chaos. the democrats have not put the prosecutors in position to convict and imprison. what is the purpose of arresting if the prosecutors aren t going to convict? you can t believe gavin newsom or george gasgone or laurie lightfoot. trace: and jason said put these people s feet to a fire and he is under a recall. the sound bite of the san francisco mayor. watch. it s time that the rein of
speech it was not all hands on deck, the mayor was there, the head of the police department, a lot of city leaders. the one person that wasn t there was district attorney jessup bodine. you can at all the additional police officers you want but he s not on board with this, for him not to be there is a statement in and of itself you can arrest all these people but if they are just out on the street the next day the crime problem isn t going to be solved. todd: great point with regard to the da but what was the first thing you mentioned? increased police presence. if you didn t do what you did in the middle of 2020 to defund the police are responsible botched political movement that tried to get rid of police in cities across the country would likely not be seeing the images you are seeing on your screen right now. it was in overresponse to what they saw in the george floyd situation. it was a proportionate response and as a result cities across the country that had nothing to do with th