prior arrest and assailing his character. the wright family together with the floyd family today held a press conference with attorney ben crump. wright s grieving mother described the moment she called to see if he was okay only to find out he had been fatally shot. i never imagined this is what was going to happen. i just thought maybe he was being arrested and then when i called back, the girl that he had in the car answered the phone and it was on a facetime and she said she was crying and screaming and she said that they shot him and that she pointed the phone towards the driver s seat and my son was laying there unresponsive. my lord. that is the last time i seen my son. that s the last time i heard from my son and i have had no explanation since then. daunte wright s aunt expressed outrage over the loss of her nephew who left behind a 1-year-old child. they murdered my nephew. she killed my nephew. my nephew was 20. did y all not see my little great nephew?
longest serving minneapolis police department officer who testified that chauvin s force was unnecessary. chauvin has plead the not guilty to second-degree unintentional murder and third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter charges. with the first week down what are the takeaways? joining me to discuss is joey jackson, criminal defense attorney and form er new york state prosecutor and james gillian a special agent who, by the way, is in the dissertation phase at st. john s university with a doctoral focus on police force. writing an essay for new york post you acknowledged that chauvin s conduct was repugnant and criminal. you predicted a guilty on manslaughter. now that you ve heard a week of testimony, do you stand by that? west michael, firstly, no doubt, this was a devastating week of testimony in the presentation of evidence for the prosecution. after watching almost every second gavel-to-gavel of the testimony this week, i came away with a couple of takeaways
of the democrats case. what do we expect today? do we expect new snefd what will be their closing argument? they have eight hours today to make this case. we don t expect them necessarily to use all of that time but essentially you can expect more of this compelling discussion about what transpired on january 6th. and how the former president was directly involved. i think that was really the thrust of their argument yesterday as they showed some of that compelling video evidence. many of those clips never seen before. two u.s. senators who i think maybe didn t recognize how close they came to being confronted by a mob. senator mitt romney was shown in one of those videos being redirected to turn around so that he would not confront that mob. when we talked to him yesterday, after seeing that footage, he said he had no idea just how close he had come. that gives you a sense of just how startling this new footage was for u.s. senators sitting in that chamber yesterday. jim
republican united states senate continues to spew. ahead, we ll hear more of the testimony from the police who were defending the capitol from trump rioters on january 6th. plus, tiger woods is said to be awake, responsive and recovering after crashing his car and undergoing emergency surgery. doctors say the injuries to his legs are severe, but are they career ending? we ll also update you on the race to vaccinate the country as vaccine makers say more doses are on the way. and republicans dig in on a few of president biden s cabinet nominees. senator john cornyn says president biden needs to big someone to who not bashed people on both sides of the aisle. interesting. irony. it s a good point to make. very long time. definitely should not happen. john cornyn supported a guy for do we have to state this? for well over four years that promoted the most damaging conspiracy theories i would say in never said a word. perhaps in the history of the united
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