Help restore order. All this as we are just minutes away from restarting the third week of the murder trial against former minneapolis officer derek chauvin with the prosecution possibly bringing its final witness to the stand today. Of course, the defense would then follow. We re in minneapolis following this latest police involved shooting. Adrian, what do we know about the circumstances of this encounter? why wright was stopped. And then what exactly followed? you know, there are so many questions this morning. We do know there is a lot of physical damage and emotional damage. I ll start with the physical, jim. Behind me, you see this nail shop destroyed. To the right, the same is true with this men s clothing store. If you look inside, you ll notice all the shelves are empty. People in this community took over. They started looting. They destroyed businesses. After they learned about that traffic stop on sunday. We know police say they were attempting to make an arrest of daunte wr
Warrant or warrants and that they tried to then arrest hem. That is when a scuffle ensued. And the police chief has just said the officer accidentally fired her gun instead of her tazer. The police chief did release the full bodycam video. We re playing part of it for you. It s very difficult to watch. So just a warning. It s disturbing. But important for transparency in this case. Ste p out. I shot him. During this encounter, however, the officer drew their handgun instead of their tazer. We drain with the honged on the dominant sides and taste tazer. If you re right handed you carry the hong on thehand z and tazer on et lester. As i watched the video and listened to the commands it s my belief the officer had intention to deploy the tazer but instead shot mr. Wright with a single bullet. This appears for me for in the officers reaction in distress after this was an accidental discharge that result fld let tragic death of mr. Wright. I asked the bca to conduct of an investigation into
of daunte wright, a 20-year-old, young african-american man. my hearts go out to his family and to all those who are impacted by this tragedy in our community. and while we await additional information from the vca which is leading the investigation, we continue to support members of our community as they gather peacefully admits our calls for transparency and accountability. let me be clear. we will get to the bottom up s. we will do all that is within our power to make sure that justice is done for daunte wright. we are going to continue to meet with community leaders to hear their voices. in fact, we did that this morning. the chief and city council members, and other elected officials from the state and city staff, city manager, we had a meeting earlier with to hear their voices in this time. we are also going to continue to conduct press conferences and share information with the public. as i stated, we plan to show the body camera footage. we are going to conduct a comm
this entire thing, his statements about not being able to breathe, the silence after he lost consciousness, the statements of the bystanders, the law enforcement officials who testified and of course the last person we heard from was the dynamite pulmonology expert. if you balance all that, it s the prosecution s case that had those moments. the defense case really not memorable to move the needle so you ve got to wonder how the defense at their closing is going to try to undermine at their final boit of the apple all the things the prosecution was able to accomplish in this trial. and the most dramatic things that happened today, the most significant things from a rule of law perspective or how the trial would go forward perspective happened with the jury not in the courtroom and that happened in a pre-trial session this morning, chief, and let s start with the defendant s decision, his constitutional right, if you re on trial in the united states of america you do not hav
defendant s use of force during that time period need to be reasonable within the entire time period? yes. reporter: one of the more significant exchanges came when special agent james ryerson took the stand, an agent with the criminal burro of apprehension that led the investigation into the events of may 25th. the defense played him video from the scene. publish exhibit 1007 and i m going to ask you, sir, to listen to mr. floyd s voice. [ inaudible ] did you hear that? yes. did it appear mr. floyd said i ate too many drugs? yes. reporter: prosecutors played a longer clip from the same vi video. having heard it in context, are you able to tell what mr. floyd is saying there? yes, i believe mr. floyd is saying i ain t do no drugs. so that s a little different that you were asked about when you saw a portion of the video, correct? yes, sir. reporter: a key moment as one of the defense s main theorys is floyd died largely from drugs in his system com