Well, George Floyds brother went to washington today with a simple message stop the pain. He delivered that message in a historic hearing of the House Judiciary Committee which is now considering the most comprehensive Police Reform legislation ever introduced to congress. He described the pain that he is now trying to stop other families from feeling, but he knows the pain will be with him for the rest of his life. Floyd described what its been like for him and what its been like for the rest of George Floyds family to watch his big brother murdered on video with a police knee on his neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds. I just think about that video over and over again. Felt like 8 hours and 46 minutes. Hurt seeing my brother plea for his life, watching that officer just put his knee on his neck. Just every day just looking at him, being like anywhere, thats all people talk about. The rest of my life thats all ill ever see somebody. Just look at the video. Kids have to watch the video.
It has been terrific to watch because even in all of this turmoil there has been a lot of it. Theres been music. Theres been art. Well see what this looks like when were through it, but there is some creativity going on in all this mess. Thanks. All right, lawrence. Thank you. Well, George Floyds brother went to washington today with a simple message stop the pain. He delivered that message in a historic hearing of the House Judiciary Committee which is now considering the most comprehensive Police Reform legislation ever introduced to congress. He described the pain that he is now trying to stop other families from feeling, but he knows the pain will be with him for the rest of his life. Floyd described what its been like for him and what its been like for the rest of George Floyds family to watch his big brother murdered on video with a police knee on his neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds. I just think about that video over and over again. Felt like 8 hours and 46 minutes. Hurt seein
Baltimore, democratic congressman from maryland and candidate for the senate chris holland. I know you just hosted 13 mayors in the city of philadelphia and it occurs to me the problems you all face are so complex, the question i want to ask, can government at any level reverse the trends that were here to discuss, and if the answer is yes, why hasnt that happened . Well chris, i am sorry, congressman, the short answer is yes, but it requires governments at all levels of working together in concert, local, state and federal. Government can do a lot of things partnered with people and certainly our corporate communities and thats part of what we were discussing with our cities united convening, the second of its kind. We had not only the governments, mayors and City Council Members and representatives from 40 other cities but we also had our fill thaupic community and corporate parties there. Local government cant do it by itself itself, and we can do a lot of things but what we are rea
Killed. The fatal events that led that confrontation. Browns family wants answers. With the individual getting down on his hands and knees, raising his hands in the air, and saying dont shoot. This is a universal call for i surrender. And can i hear mys voice right now as i speak saying dont shoe shoot. Yet, still, the officers stepped to him and shots him. Lets go now to fox news mike tobin live in ferguson with the latest. Mike . Latest development here is that it is raining now. That ought to work to thin the numbers here at ground zero. Ground zero for the demonstration. That is the property in front of the quick trip store where the demonstrations from formed up every night where the big clashes clashes with police have been. Police are watching this with a will the of tension as they have every night since the shooting. The difference being that a fresh wave of emotion was injected into the situation here tonight. A lot of that coming from the police. The statement from the polic
Happened. President Barack Obama Says a federal investigation has been launched and attorney general eric holder will visit ferguson on wednesday. He also called for everyone to take a deep breath. A community in ferguson that is rightly hurting and looking for answers, let me call once again for us to seek some understanding rather than simply holler at each other. Lets seek to heal. Rather than to wound each other. As americans, we have to use this moment to seek out our shared humanity that has been laid bare by this moment. Its very important to point out the Missouri National guard now here to try to keep a lid on the violence. And another journalist, we should tell you, was handcuffed and arrested late this afternoon. We witness it all. And there were some very tense moments with police out here on the streets today. My cnn crew and i got caught up in some of it. Take a look. We were out here doing a live shot for the situation room when police came around the corner and told us