This week, house democrats, with the support of floyds family, reintroduced that act to create federal Police Reform. This is something that is a priority, this is demanded, and if you want to wait for someone like this to hit your front door and then you will be proactive, you have a problem. As democrats reintroduce that bill, President Joe Biden issued a Statement Saying President Biden also said he signed an Executive Order to implement aspects of the George Floyd Justice in policing act. If that legislation makes it through congress this time, it would address issues ranging from Policing Practices to accountability of Law Enforcement. If passed, it would lower the Criminal Intent Standards to convict a Police Officer for misconduct, limit qualified immunity as a defence to liability in a private civil action against a Law Enforcement officer and limit the unnecessary use of force and restricts the use of No Knock Warrants and chokeholds. Earlier, i spoke with representative Sheil
they say mr. king s conduct was not only unprofessional, it was a crime because it ignoring his education, his training, his experience, his oath, his very humanity, mr. kueng directly contributed to the death of george floyd. and we also heard from kueng s attorney while saying his client does accept the consequences of this action, you really saw him point out the leadership, saying it is about training, saying it is clear that leadership learned nothing and forgot nothing. they failed mr. kueng, they failed mr. floyd, and they failed the community. now, hallie, this is not the end of the criminal proceedings surrounding george floyd s murder. there is an additional officer, this is an officer who was engaging with the public during that exchange, as derek chauvin had his knee on george floyd s neck on the screen there, tou th a. o the officer on the left and instead of taking a plea agreement, what he is doing is letting the judge in this case take all of the evidence into
keung, and lane and thao. all three have pleaded not guilty. omar jimenez joins us live from outside the courthouse. update us on the elements so far. reporter: yeah, just a few minutes ago we just entered the lump break, but the dame has been dominated by openings statements. as you mentioned, they are all facing at least one charge they were deliberately indifferent to george floyd s medical situation and that kueng and thao failed to intervene. the department of justice said
purchase something at the cup foods with a fake $20 bill. while explaining his attempt to put floyd into the squad car, king said he struggled and at one point, he said, quote, floyd s legs kind of collapsed without reason. king testified training taught him if someone can talk, they can breathe. and he admits he laughed when chauvin said, quote, it takes a lot of oxygen to talk. he says that was a reference to a previous field training call they made together at a hospital. he described it as a brief moment of levity. and here s another exchange between keung and the prosecution. take a look. prosecutor saying, quote, you didn t do anything to get mr. chauvin off of mr. floyd when paramedics arrived, correct? he agrees. and sertich also said, you didn t move out of the way, either? and kueng also agrees.
displaying, quote, erratic behaviors and he also talked about his attempts to place floyd in the squad car saying, quote, his legs kind of collapsed without reason. king s defense attorney asked if he could tell how much pressure officer chauvin was using and that was in response to the knee on floyd. and king s response was no, sir, i was unable to tell. kueng did testify there was an unofficial rule for seniority on scene that day. chauvin was the most senior officer. also blaming actions on chauvin was the officer who wrapped up his testimony yesterday saying his role that day was crowd control. and here s that testy exchange, ana was referring to. on cross-examination, in the first six minutes of restraint, and we re going to put this on the screen for you, did you tell officer chauvin to get off mr. floyd at any point?