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well good evening everyone, laura, coats and this is cnn tonight. tyre nichols, laid to rest tonight. the 29 year old who was just trying to get home, beaten beyond recognition by police officers, just about 80 yards from his own front door. the horrific scenes live on camera, the da down in memphis, says up to 20 more hours of including audio from after the meeting, and after the ambulance takes them to a hospital has yet to be released. but apparently it is forthcoming. tyre nichols s mother grieving and calling for the passage of the george floyd justice in policing act. i just need whatever that george floyd needed past. we needed to take some action. there should be no other child, that should suffer the way my son and all the other parents here have lost their children. we need to get that bill passed. because if we don t, that blood, that next child that, guys that blood is going to be on their hands. no one wants to be a part of. all the mothers or, impacted ....
Is monumental. so much so that a man that was filed by an assassin s bullet is now raised 19 feet above the highest monument on the sacred ground of washington, d. c.. a representative of this nation s best ideals. in that city, because of his efforts, black police people, black fire people were able to gain employment. what reverend sharpton underscored today, that brutal paradox, is at the very progress made by to dr. lauren luther king junior has now been undercut by an act of vicious, if you will, renunciation of the very fundamental structure of democracy, and of racial loyalty. the win, which displaced those together is especially important. here were five black cups who beat to death a black man. as vice president kamala harris said, at the hands and feet of black man who were up stencil brothers to this black man, who struggled which vladimir luther made possible there very jobs, undercut the people that he ....
Loved. it is a jarring reminder of how complicated these issues are. i want to get deeper into that. you mentioned the phrase racial loyalty, and in fact, reverend sharpton spoke about the insulting nature of it being five black men. in addition, of course, and it should be not lost on anybody, i know it s not lost on you as well, the power dynamic of an abuse of power, and those that are powerful, and also who are black. listen to what he mentioned about the particular insult of it being black men. listen. there is nothing more insulting, and defensive to those of us the fight to open doors, that you walk through those doors, and act like the folks that we had to fight for to get you through that door. you did not get on to the police department by yourself. the police chief did not get there by herself. people had to march, and go to jail, and in some, they lost their lives. to open the doors for you, how dare you? how dare you act like that ....
The original george floyd justice and policing act. as the vice president of the united states, we demand that congress pass the george floyd justice in policing act. joe biden will sign it. we should not delay, and we will not be denied. it is non negotiable. what was your reaction to you saying that. to be honest, i did not watch the funeral. i spent today doing things that were emotionally fulfilling for me, because i knew that if i went there, i would be set back to eight years ago. almost nine years ago. i didn t hear her say that, but that is what we need. myself, i ve been working on plenty of campaigns. we have the eric garner chokehold act signed into the new york state legislation. you can go to my website, www. we can t read that net. it gives you an entire list of what we did last year. this is what we need, this is what we needed her to say. this is what we need to show. we have strong people with, us and we need the and keep america safe to act. that was a need, and b ....
Put them there. for them to undercut us is a stripe that is especially brutal. let s be honest. in minnesota as, well with george floyd, look at the multiracial fact. two whitecaps, an asian cup, and a black cup killed a black man. here s the point, you can have multiculturalism and diversity that is not just. that was an act of diversity, in minnesota, and yet it was not towards justice. this was an act of racial progress by having black men on a force, but it was not towards justice. this is why martin luther king junior said that it is not white versus black, it is right versus wrong. dr. king said, let us not replace black supremacy with white supremacy. people thought that he was off of his rocker, that he was being exaggerating the case. he understood at the end of the day, that those who willed and possessed power will be tempted to brutalize those without that power. what we saw in this case was that men were using their badges and guns as pretext to exercise the lethal force, ....