so the hope is that this verdict will show that police reform is necessary and that there maybe needs to be more consideration on police deescalation training. specifically, before they even get to the stop. what are we stopping people for? does a traffic stop need to end in the killing or murder or death of an unarmed person? so there s going to be a lot of push and i hope for police reform in those efforts. shaq bruster, kristen gibbons, thanks to both of you. coming up during this holiday season we re going to talk about the senior citizens already so many isolated because of the pandemic seemed like they were getting visitors again, having more interaction with the community, now omicron, what we can do to help.
have been found guilty. joining me shaquille bruster and kristen gibbons. shaq, let me start with you, what are you hearing from activists, wright s family from people who day in and day out were at that trial? there s still that sense of surprise you hear. you saw that reflected in the moments after the verdict was read where there was an uproar of cheers outside the courthouse, people hugging, singing, then inside the courtroom you saw the emotion from the mother of dante wright, the woman on the phone with him seconds before he was shot and killed by kim potter and when the verdict was read exclaimed a cry in the courtroom. i want you to listen to what we heard from her this morning explaining her reaction to the verdict. justice would be daunte being home. justice would be no more names being yelled in our streets.
strip their access in some way which is locking them in the rooms and not allowing them to use the bathroom. kristen, help us understand the use of rico here. how does this apply to this case when we are talking about sex trafficking? yes, you know this was really interesting because this seems as an all type of sex cases where you have someone like r. kelly and weinstein, someone in a big position of power utilizing their resources to sexually abuse women. the racketeering statue, the one that are coming. prosecutors were able to show there was enterprise and there was a circle around r. kelly allowing him to engage in this type of activity for decades. the prosecutors did not need to prove each of the enablers had
the criminal intent, each of the enablers knew what r. kelly what he was doing. these enablers were recruiting these women and restricting them and not permitting them toll use bathrooms and bringing them to concerts and flying them all over the world but it was r. kelly committing the crimes. kristen gibbons, thank you so much. still ahead, dr. fauci will be our guest at the top of the hour. it has been almost a year since the 2020 election and texas is moving ahead with an audit of the results. it s a move that former president trump pushed for, even though he won the state. but, governor greg abbott is saying about that. after a year of push back, the obama presidential center
five to eight minutes here. i want to bring in sports journalist mary pylon, author and host of twisted. along with kristen gibbons, an msnbc legal analyst. i want to start with you, mary and go back to the live shot of the room. we just saw somebody leave, she was so overcome, the gymnasts sitting here, there is a deep toll mentally and emotionally, mental health was a big focus for simone biles. she talked about this kind of all playing into everything, can you talk a little bit about that piece of it, right? the toll that this has taken on those young women sitting in the room right now? yes, the psychologist might use the term retraumaization. these women had to repeatedly