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We spoke with the chief remotely, discussing the events of may 25, the video that ignited it all, and the police response, which started with a lie. So as i understand it, there was something released to the press, that george floyd had resisted arrest and that he had im going to read this, died after a medical incident during a police interaction. Chief Medaria Arradondo that was preliminary information that was absolutely an official police statement. However, that was not accurate. Stahl so, it makes you wonder, doesnt it, that if there hadnt been that video that someone took on their phone, that wouldve been the end of it. Arradondo and our communities have said that for for many years. When these incidents occur, if theyre not captured on video, are their voices going to be taken as as as truthful . And and that cuts to the very core of why we have, distrust in our communities, quite frankly. Stahl it was a 17yearold who recorded this nowinfamous video showing that truth. George floyd wasnt resisting arrest. He died after a Police Officer, Derek Chauvin, pressed his knee into floyds neck for nearly eight minutes. George floyd please i cant breathe. Stahl floyd said i cant breathe more than ten times. Arradondo when i saw that video, it was probably, in my 30plus years, the most heart wrenching, emotional image that i had ever seen. Stahl officer chauvins demeanor, he was so relaxed. He was just it seemed, so confident, that he was going to get away with this. Arradondo well, whatever he might have expected, he did not receive that from me. Stahl i am going to read you something about your own policies related to neck restraints, and it says that the officers can use neck restraints, nondeadly force, defined as compressing one or both sides of a persons neck with an arm or a leg, without applying direct pressure to the trachea or airways in the front of the neck. Arradondo that policy does not state that you apply your full, entire body weight with your knee on an individual whos not resisting, cutting off his air. That would not be anything id condone, or was anything intended in in in that particular policy that you read there. Stahl and you just, ibeliev. Arradondo absolutely. Stahl but youre going to keep the policy of allowing neck restraints . Arradondo no. Those are banned, absolutely. Stahl the lawyer for the other officers is saying they were rookies and they were just following the instructions of the senior officer. Arradondo i dont craft policy or make policy based on years of service. I expect, and our community expects, your humanity and your moral compass to rise above. And so, if you fail to phly, yreeither verbally or t sho. Testt acro theountry hiouve had too much to drink to be driving. Stahl . Another black man was shot by a white officer in atlanta, and 24 hours later, the Atlanta Police chief resigned. We asked chief arradondo. Did you ever consider stepping down . Arradondo no. I i did not consider stepping down. When George Floyds death occurred, my minutes and my hours and my days were consumed with really trying to to keep this city held together. Stahl the killing of george floyd was not the first incident in the twin cities that triggered rage in the black community. In 2015, another white officer killed 24yearold jamar clark, setting off 18 days of protests. The officer and his partner were never charged. I told him not to reach for it. I told him to get his hand off it. Stahl one year later, Philando Castile was killed during a traffic stop over a broken taillight, with his girlfriend and daughter in the car. The officer was charged with manslaughter, but was acquitted. In 2018, thurman blevins, 31, was killed by two white Police Officers who opened fire as he ran away with a gun. gunshots no criminal charges were brought. But, in a striking comparison, in 2017, justine damond, a white woman who had called 911, was killed by a black officer, mohamed noor. He was convicted of thirddegree murder and manslaughter, and is serving a 12. 5year prison sentence. By last months killing of george floyd, chief arradondo said the minneapolis black community had had enough. Arradondo within a few hours, we had both protests becoming more violent, we had large groups of individuals who had overrun security around the precinct; we had largescale looting, fires, shots being fired. Stahl you know theres some complaining that the police backed away. They didnt protect property. Stores were going up in flames. People were running in and out of stores unhampered. It all broke down. What happened . Arradondo so, yes, there were absolutely businesses that we could not respond to. But we had to tend to people that were being assaulted shots being fired. And so preservation of life, for me as chief, is going to always be the number one priority. Stahl so that was a policy that night. Let the looting happen . Arradondo as devastating as it is, i did not want us to have a series of funerals because of people being fatally wounded or hurt. Stahl the Property Damage in minneapolis is estimated at more than 100 million. Black lives matter black lives matter sta protestors are calling for reforms including dismantling or defunding the police department. I heard somebody say, look, we have to get rid of the Minneapolis Police department. We just have to get rid of it. It is so broke. It cannot be fixed. Arradondo each and every day, i hear from Community Members who rely upon us, who are saying that we cannot afford to take away a Public Safety mechanism when we still have a lawless society. Now, they also say we need good policing. We know its broken. We need to make changes. Our community has every right to. Stahl a week after the George Flloyd killing, the chief went to the site, which has become kind of a shrine. Arradondo i wanted to pay my respects to mr. Floyd. And it so just happened that again, thats my neighborhood. I i grew up a block away from where he died. Shl he grew us house in the 1970s, one of nine children to parents who instilled in him he said a respect for public service. Chief, were you ever stopped . Were you ever pulled over just because youre black . Arradondo yeah, yeah. In my experience, that that shouldnt be shocking. We are a society, we are a group of beings that have implicit bias. And and that is that that occurs. Stahl when did it occur with for you . Arradondo i think it was just driving you know, through the the the city streets. And this happened years ago. It occurs. It does occur in this country. Stahl i want to ask about your own children. Hlver worried yes. Thejust wt out for a walk or went in their car, that they would be stopped just because of the color of their skin . Arradondo unfortunately, ive had to have that same talk that many black fathers have to have with their sons, about what to do if you happen to be stopped by the police. And the conversations when im having that with my son, and other fathers have had that with their sons. Its about survival. Stahl its telling that 13 years ago, Medaria Arradondo and four other black Police Officers sued the department for racial discrimination. In their complaint, they said that every African American officer received a hate letter signed k. K. K. Through interoffice mail. The case was settled for 740,000. Youre the chief now. You brought this suit. And were talking about the same things. Arradondo it is not the same. The fact that im sitting before you today as chief, i think, is indicative that some progress has been made. Stahl among his reforms are ending lowlevel marijuanaoughey camera requirements. The minneapolis black communits population, but only 11 of the nearly 900member police force. The vast majority of the white officers dont live in the city, but in the suburbs. Is there racial animosity within the force itself . Arradondo im im not seeing that right now. But we also have to attack and address the systemic challenges and barriers that exist in that. Stahl the chief says those barriers protect police against charges of misconduct. Officer Derek Chauvin had at least 17 complaints against him, but only received two letters of reprimand. Chief arradondo says he is stymied by the contract he negotiates with the City Police Union and has broken off talks. The contract has allowed officers who are fired or disciplined to bring that to arbitration. Ive seen some statistics about this arbitration youre talking about. You fire someone, and eventually it it that Police Officer brings it to arbitration. And in nearly half of those cases, half of those cases, that Police Officer is reinstated. Half the officers whom you fire, you have to take back and put out on the street. Arradondo thats correct. If we have even one who is allowed to come back, that sets us back. That erodes that confidence. That erodes that public trust. Stahl is the bottom line that you cannot weed out the socalled bad apples, and you cannot fully discipline to the extent you want to, because of the Union Contract . Arradondo it is problematic, absolutely, yes. And so i cannoood fa work with a contract that that diminishes my authority as chief but also erodes that public trust that our communities need so much right now. Stahl and you have suspended the negotiations. Arradondo i, as chief, am am stepping away from that. I am taking a deliberate pause. Stahl the unions president , robert kroll, was named in chief arradondos own civil rights complaint 13 years ago as someone who made racist statements. The president of the police union, robert kroll, has defended the officers in this case, and hes called the black lives Matter Movement a terrorist organization. And i just wonder if his attitudes, his outlook, is having an influence on your police force . Arradondo he absolutely is an influcer. And ive continued to have very serious conversations with him. And he and others are going to have to come to a reckoning that either they are going to be on the right side of history or theyre going to be on the wrong side of history, but or they will be left behind. Or they will be left behind. ticking five decadesofcovering race and policing in america. I have some questions id like the ask you. At 60minutesovertime. 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Thanks sofi for helping us get our money right whitaker nearly 70,000 americans die each year from drug overdoses, mostly from opioids. As 60 minutes has reported, the explosion in both the demand and supply of pharmaceutical opioids began with the aggressive marketing of narcotics to treat chronic pain. Tonight, we reveal the story of the powerfully addictive, fast acting opioid, fentanyl. Our yearlong investigation, which concluded just as the coronavirus was spreading, uncovered the playbook of sales practices that triggered an explosion of prescriptions. We will introduce you to two insiders on different sides of the law a top opioid salesman whose rise and fall spanned the epidemic. But first, federal agent Greg Tremaglio, who in 2003, saw the crisis coming and tried to stop it. Greg tremaglio if youre going to intentionally, knowingly break the law, your profits have to be so significant that when the f. D. A. Comes knocking and they hit you with the 425 million penalty, youre still smiling. Youre sad in front of them, but when you walk out the door, youre smiling. Youre smiling because you just made a billion dollars worth of profit. And its worth it to them. Its worth it. Whitaker when Greg Tremaglio looks back at the carnage caused by the rise in the use and abuse of opioids, one early case sticks in his mind. In 2003, he was the Senior Special agent assigned to the undercover arm of the food and drug administrations d. C. Office of criminal investigations. His target cephalon, one of several Drug Companies doing business in ways that brazenly flouted f. D. A. Regulations. Whitaker they werent afraid of the f. D. A. Tremaglio why would they be . Back then, you only received a misdemeanor. Nobody was prosecuted. Whitaker so theyre willing to take that slap on the wrist because the benefits are so great. Tremaglio yes. Whitaker profits are too big. Tremaglio way too big. Ug whitaker at the time, when a violating f. D. A. Regulations, federal prosecutors typically would negotiate corporate settlement agreements without holding individual pharmaceutical executives accountable. But agent Greg Tremaglio hoped this time would be different. His investigation revealed cephalon was violating strict f. D. A. Laws on drug promotion with three drugs, including a synthetic opioid, actiq, a dangerous, fastacting fentanyl, sold in lollipop form, for easy absorption through the mouth. The drug is 100 times more powerful than morphine, intended for severe cancer pain only. Tremaglio these drugs are so powerful that they received approval by f. D. A. For their indicated use, which was strictly for Cancer Patients with severe pain that have a tolerance level to other opioids. So morphines not ing fo them anymore, and theyre in still in severe pain. And they need something thats going to give them a recovery immediately. Thats what this lollipop is. Whitaker for people in endstage cancer. Tremaglio yes. Whitaker a doctor can prescribe things offlabel. So what was wrong with what they were doing . Tremaglio yeah, in the in the f. D. A. , we call that the practice of medicine. We give medical doctors the ability to prescribe whatever they thinks going to help treat their patients. But thats with the understanding that the medical doctor is getting presented with accurate, factual information from the drug sales rep. They are not being groomed to promote drugs offlabel. Whitaker the f. D. A. Approved labeling for cephalons fentanyl drug actiq, also called the package insert, tells doctors and patients who should take actiq and how it should be used. The document carries the weight of a legallybinding agreement between the f. D. A. And Drug Companies, limiting how sales reps can promote a drug. Pushing a drug for patient groups not listed on the label, spreading misleading information, or publicizing a potentially deadly drug as less dangerous than f. D. A. Evaluations indicate, is called offlabel promotion, and its against the law. Tremaglio profit over patient health, we call it. Doesnt matter what the drugs indicated use is. If