Derek Chauvin trial: Live updates - The Washington Post washingtonpost.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from washingtonpost.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
By Antoinette Bueno This video is unavailable because we were unable to load a message from our sponsors.
If you are using ad-blocking software, please disable it and reload the page.
Embed Code Now playing
Crump made a virtual appearance on
The View on Wednesday and told co-host Joy Behar that Clooney emails him from time to time because the 59-year-old actor is engaged in social justice matters and wants his children with his wife, Amal Clooney 3-year-old twins Alexander and Ella to live in a better world. Crump said Clooney had a suggestion on how to respond to Chauvin s defense lawyers suggestion that drugs caused Floyd s death in May 2020 rather than Chauvin kneeling on his neck for 9 minutes and 29 seconds.
George Floyd’s family, told the hosts of
The View that
George Clooney suggested
Derek Chauvin “get down on the floor” and let someone kneel on his neck for 9 minutes and 29 seconds if he is so confident that external factors ultimately killed Floyd.
During an interview on the ABC daytime show Wednesday,
The View’s
Joy Behar asked Crump if he is hopeful that the Chauvin trial will end in conviction, questioning why the outcome of this case would be different than similar cases before it.
“Joy, that’s a very deep question. In my heart, I believe that Derek Chauvin will be convicted for the killing of George Floyd, but the American legal system has broken my heart before,” Crump replied. “When we think about so many cases that we have come to know as rallying cries for Black Lives Matter, but what I think is different about this case, Joy, is this video is so graphic. It is so horrific. I think people all over America who have been watching this tri
George Floyd s brother Philonise, attorney Ben Crump reflect on Monday s testimony in Chauvin trial
Reporter Steve Jefferson spoke to the pair after they left the courtroom Monday and walked through downtown Minneapolis with their fists raised high. Author: Diane Sandberg (KARE11), Steve Jefferson Published: 5:11 AM CDT April 6, 2021 Updated: 5:11 AM CDT April 6, 2021
MINNEAPOLIS At the Hennepin County Courthouse on Monday, jurors heard testimony from several of the prosecution s expert witnesses, including Katie Blackwell, a former trainer for the Minneapolis police department, emergency room doctor Dr. Bradford Langenfeld, and MPD Chief Medaria Arradondo .
Philonise Floyd, George Floyd s brother, was in court on Monday, along with civil rights attorney Ben Crump. Reporter Steve Jefferson spoke with the two men on Monday evening, after they were recorded leaving the courthouse in downtown Minneapolis with their fists rais