first assistant united states attorney ann billson. i want to acknowledge mayor jacob fry, counsel president andrea jenkins, community safety commission cedric alexander, and police chief ryan o hara. thank you all for joining us today. on may 25th, 2020, george floyd was killed at the hands of a law enforcement officer who was sworn to protect. as mr. floyd died, other officers failed to intervene. the justice department has since convicted four former minneapolis police officers for their roles in the death of george floyd. as i told george floyd s family this morning, his death has had an irrevocable impact on the minneapolis community, on our country, and on the world. his loss is still felt deeply by
minnesotans especially and those folks here in minneapolis, what we saw on the national stage is what folks here in this community had witnessed for years. so we will find and hear some of the findings, and hear not only from merrick garland and also mayor jacob fry and police chief brian o hara, and to underscore, he was not the chief of police at the time that george floyd was killed. ra rahel. okay. we will expect that the news conference is to get back momentarily. and that is why she is whispering. so we will take you there any seconds, and reeva, to be clear, we may have to stop on a moment s notice if the news conference does stop, but what can we reasonably expect from this? we have seen in the other police departments in other pars of the
their show. minneapolis, you re right, recruiting is down. there s a lawsuit against jacob fry, but nobody talks about the business owners in that area and i have. business owners where this all played out in the surrounding neighborhoods are completely left at the mercy of absent police presence which means they are the victims of crime. ilhan omar was a prime player in minneapolis while they are and the squad get their protection, corey bush spent over $355,000 on her personal, they don t care about the neighborhood. so the people who the police officers will not because this is not going to end anytime soon, and it is going to get worse because these people are criminals, they are animals, and right now, the people paying the price of those people in the neighborhood, not the bad
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