minneapolis community, on our country, and on the world. george floyd should be alive today. floyd s murder in may of 2020 prompted global protests against police brutality. in pennsylvania robert bowers has been convicted of carrying out the deadliest attack ever on jewish people in the u.s. jurors must decide whether to sentence bowers to death or life in prison without parole. cnn s danny freeman reports. reporter: silence in the courtroom friday morning as judge robert colville read the verdicts, 63 federal charges, guilty on all counts, 22 of those charges punishable by death. the your agreed with federal prosecutors that the man who killed 11 jewish worshippers in october of 2018 targeted them specifically because they were
the president was in connecticut talking about gun control. the speech was fairly standard. something a little bizarre at the very end. take a listen. and it s the least consequential part of this whole meeting for you. i promise. all right. god save the queen, man. god save the queen, man. it s unclear what the president was referring to or if it was some sort of joke at the end. the president shuffled off stage right after that. we will see if he clarifies his comments when he gets back to the white house tonight, bret? bret: okay. mark, thank you. you bet. bret: breaking tonight, the justice department says it has uncovered evidence showing minneapolis police and the city have engaged in racial discrimination and the use of excessive force. the new report comes after more than two years long probe launch in the may of 2020 death of george floyd. senior correspondent mike tobin has the story from our midwest bureau.
request to block justice department access to the recovered documents until a special master could review them for potential executive privilege. a ruling that even surprised legal conservatives. the opinion, i think, was wrong, and i think the government should appeal it. it s deeply flawed in a number of ways. reporter: the government did appeal cannon s ruling and the 11th circuit court of appeals overturned it. if she now oversees trump s federal criminal trial she only has to take small steps in order to throw this thing off track for the justice department by delaying it until we re past the election, and trump, of course, hopes that if he manages to get himself elected again, this case goes away as he would direct his justice department to drop it. reporter: but a former colleague of cannon s in private practice disputes accusations that she favors trump. i don t think she has any bias at all. i know she would do the right thing. reporter: the judge was nominated t
it s deeply flawed in a number of ways. reporter: the government did appeal cannon s ruling and the 11th circuit court of appeals overturned it. the now jeefr sees the criminal trial. she has to take small steps by delaying it until we re past the election and trump of course hopes if he manages to get himself elected again this case goes away as he would direct his justice department to drop it. reporter: a former colleague of cannon s private practice disputes accusations she favors donald trump. she doesn t have any bias at all. reporter: the judge was nominated in may of 2020, confirmed later that year. during her confirmation hearing cannon thanked members of her family, including her maternal grandparents, who she said had to flee cuba in 1960, and her mother. to my loving mother mercy, at the age of 70 had to speed the
department access to the recovered documents until a special master could review them for potential executive privilege. a ruling that even surprised legal conservatives. the opinion i think was wrong, and i think the government should appeal it. it s deeply flawed in a number of ways. reporter: the government did appeal cannon s ruling, and the 11th circuit court of appeals overturned it. if she now oversees trump s federal criminal trial she only has to take really small steps in order to throw this thing off track for the justice department by delaying it until we re past the election and trump, of course, hopes that if he manages to get himself elected again, this case goes away, as he would direct his justice department to drop it. reporter: a former colleague of cannon s in private practice disputes accusations that she favors trump. i don t think that she has any bias at all. i know that she would do the right thing. reporter: she was nominated in may of 2020 confi