First Court Appearance today, four days after she shot and killed 20yearold Daunte Wright. In chicago, authorities released Body Camera Video that shows a 13yearold Boy being shot and killed by a Police Officer on march 29th. Well have more on those stories Coming Up, but first a Big Day in the chauvin trial. A trial that many of you have been closely following on live national tv for more than two weeks. The 45 witnesses from Police Officers to forensic scientists to George Floyds own brother all culminated today with the defense resting its case after just two days of testimony. Without putting chauvin himself on the stand. We did hear from him for the first time today, however, in a pretrial hearing in which he availed himself of his fifth amendment rights. Have you made a Decision Today whether you intend to testify or whether you intend to invoke your fifth Amendment Privilege . I will invoke my fifth Amendment Privilege today. You may also recall from Yesterday Defense Witness dr
Derek Chauvin Trial resting their case. We can now confirm chauvin never took the stand. Potter is out on bail facing up to ten years in prison if convicted. Meanwhile, Wrights Family speaks out about what they have been going through this week, about what they think justice should look like. They spoke in a Press Conference today. My son was very much loved. We loved him a lot. And the way he was killed, he did not deserve that. These young black men being killed, can you blame my Son Or Anyone else from being scared of the police . I do want accountability, 100 accountability. But even then, when that happens, if that even happens, were still going to bury our son. This is the ritual, the process i have reported on i mentioned to you when we deal with these stories. There is the law. The evidence, the criminal justice process. And then there is the Human Beings as we hear from a mother forced in this time of grief to also try to be an Activist Or Advocate to get what they say will be
credited the state s new democratic senators with that success. in a few minutes i will be talking with senator raphael warnock, but we begin with the emotional message that biden and harris delivered just moments ago after concluding a meeting with members of the asian american community in the wake of tuesday s deadly shooting spree which left eight people dead, including six asian women. the president and vice president spoke about those shootings and addressed the fear and the trauma within the community. waking up each morning the past year feeling their safety and the safety of their loved ones are at stake. they have been attacked, blamed, scapegoated and harassed. they have been verbally assaulted, physically assaulted, killed. hate and violence often hide in plain sight. it s often met with silence. that s been true throughout our history, but that has to change. because our silence is complicity. everyone has the right to go to work, to go to school, to walk dow
centers and more increase in testing. it s going to help us accelerate our nationwide evidence to reopen schools safely. last week i directed allstate®s, tribes and territories to make all adults eligibly vaccinated to later than may 1. while this is a time of optimism, it s not a time for relaxation. i need all americans to keep doing your part. wash your hands, stay socially distanced, keep masking up as recommended by the cdc and get vaccinated when it s your turn. none of this is political. it s all science-based. but now is not the time to let our guard down. that s science-based as well. and the last week, we have seen increases in the number of cases in several states. things may get worse as new variants of the virus spread. that s why we need to vaccinate as many people as quickly as we possibly can, because the best thing we can do to fight back against these variants we will do. we have to beat this virus. we have to. and we will. but we ll do it by setting aside