Policeinvolved shooting that led to the killing of donte wright, a 20yearold young africanamerican male. My heart goes out to dontes family and to all those impacted by this tragedy in our community and the world over. While we await Additional Information from the bca, which is leading this investigation, we continue to support members of our community as they gather peacefully amid our calls for transparency and accountability. Let me be clear. We will get to the bottom of this. We will do all that is within our power to make sure that justice is done for donte wright. We are going to continue to meet with Community Leaders and 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 the community to hear their voices in this time. We are also going to have continue to conduct press conferences and share information with the public. As i stated, we
Crowd, the group of people that have gathered around and were watching affected the officers in their use of force . So i kind of go back to the Situational Awareness issue is that, yes, the officers are dealing with mr. Floyd, but theres also other factors for them to consider. And in this case the crowds started to grow in size, started to become more vocal. So now officers are always trained to deal with, right so what threat is the biggest threat . Is the suspect on the ground in front of me in handcuffs that we have relatively controlled or is it the unknown threat posed by the crowd that could go from verbal to trying to interfere with my arrest process in a matter of seconds . Did you factor that into your analysis of this case . I did. How so . I could see that officer chauvins focus started to move from mr. Floyd to the crowd. To one point i think officer chauvin felt threatened enough he withdrew his pepper spray canister and gave verbal commands to the crowd to stay back, so
Transparency. But one other thing, when i listened to her resignation, she was not remorseful. She did not apologize to the community. She did not apologize at all. And thats one of the most important things. If we want to fix the problem, weve got to deal with wrong doing and she did not apologize. So, in short, she needs to apologize and she needs to be fired. She needs to be fired and we would call on you, mayor, to also ask that charges be pressed. Yes. We know that the Washington County attorney is supposedly going to investigate the case, but he has ties to Police Unions as well, so that means calling on the governor to call on the attorney general to bring charges against this officer just as they did mohamed noor, who also claimed to have accidentally shot a civilian. Immediately. You want peace on the streets, we need to see justice. Absolutely. This case needs to be given to appointed to the attorney general, and so i am calling on the governor to exercise his authority and t
And the world over. And while we await Additional Information from the bca, which is leading this investigation, we continue to support members of our community as they gather peacefully amid our calls for transparency and accountability. Let me be clear. We will get to the bottom of this. We will do all that is within our power to make sure that justice is done for dante wright. Were going to continue to meet with Community Leaders and 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 the community to be able to hear their voices in this time. And were also going to have continue to conduct press conferences and share information with the public. As i stated we do plan to show the body camera footage. Were going to conduct a Community Press Conference Following this as well. So that we can talk directly with leaders of our community and orga
We begin with a warning for every Single Person around the world. Despite more and more people getting vaccinated, the number of people with coronavirus is rising. The World Health Organization says the pandemic is at a critical point. Just yesterday the global death toll from covid reached three million. Since then another 11,000 people have died from the virus. Three Million People, thats about the entire population of chicago. Each of those three Million People have a face, name, and family that could not be the there with them as they passed. While they have seen many milestones come and go, this number unimaginable. In michigan, the third wave is so severe that hospitals are running out of space to treat new patients. Theyre leading the u. S. In any cases with 10,000 cases reported this weekend. The Health Care Facilities here in the state of michigan. They are exceeding the numbers and that is the case right now in beaumont mehealth. Officials say they continue to see infection n