we have civil rights attorney robert pattillo standing by. we are going to go to mike tobin on the ground. it is a snowy night. robert, i think you re ready if you re up with us. i m ready. shannon: robert, what do you make of this? we have this officer, we saw the video. to the police s credit, it was released quickly so people could have as much transparency as possible. the officer, kim potter, decades of service, has resigned, saying it was best for the community and best for her fellow officers. we await potential charging decisions. what are you looking for tonight? what i am seeing is the protests from last year have been effective in changing local policy with regards to policing. often, if you go to the trayvon martin shooting, the breonna taylor shooting, the george floyd killing. one the issues that caused these protests to escalate was a lack of transparency by police department, lack of accountability. we also saw with ahmaud arbery y three months for the c
the conviction can be a giant step forward in the fight against systemic racism. although he insists it s not nearly enough. knee on the neck. we can t let his words die within. keep hearing those words. we must not turn away. we can t turn away. we can t turn away. let s go straight to minneapolis, we re live on the streets. good morning. a different morning in minneapolis and the country. reporter: indeed, john, a calm and quiet morning. was taken into custody wearing handcuffs derek chauvin is waking up if prison today, a place he could spend the next 40 years of his life and as he wakes up in prison members of the floyd family say they were finally able to sleep. after more than ten hours of deliberation members of jury. reporter: the jury deciding the fate of the former minneapolis police officer who held his knee on george floyd s neck for more than 9 minutes last may. we the jury unintentional second degree murder find the defendant guilty. reporter: de
it is a right for a second night. to clear protesters outside the station. a novel awful simply was never declared, large protests, mostly peaceful. griff jenkins in washington, the officer involved could face shooting, the washington county prosecutors will not say whether they will charge her after she and police chief tim gann resigned yesterday two days after the fatal traffic stop, the resignation letter, the 26 year veteran wrote this. it is in the best interest in the community, and this served as the union s president, part of the negotiation team and training, on the day of the shooting, called an accident after her gun, rather than her taser. now right s family is demanding she be held to the highest standard. he pointed the phone to the drivers seat, my son was lying there unresponsive. i love you. my nephew s blood is on your head, police should no longer be armed when mentioning traffic stops. i don t believe they should have weapons, and make a
greg: so, the justice system worked. we the jury in the above titled matter as the count one, unintentional second degree murder while committing a felony find the defendant guilty. we the jury in the above titled murder count two third degree mur perpetrating a dangerous act find the defendant guilty. we the jury in the above entitled matter ground three, cup pba negligence creating an unreasonable risk find the defendant guilty greg: now this verdict is a great relief. i say that for cynical, sad, selfish reasons. because i knew if it went the other way, my city would be in flames. i know chauvin is guilty, but i wonder if it s normal for a country to be so worried about unrest no matter what the outcome of the trial is. i know i was. because i ve seen this before. so what has the media learned from all this? nothing. so we are some racist country. we arrested a white cop for killing an unarmed black male under crazy circumstances. the white cop went to jail and went
minute but first protests erupting and, thus, ohio after a teenage girl there is shot and killed by police around the same time the chauvin verdict came down. marion rafferty is live as they released body camera footage from that incident. good morning. protests erupting in columbus as body camera footage is released in the deadly shooting of a teenage girl. [crowd chanting] what you are seeing was the scene outside the columbus police department tuesday after body came footage was released, it should an officer approach what appears to be a fight between girls, one girl appears to be trying to stab another and the officer then fires four shots. the video then shows the aftermath with shocked onlookers and the victim on the ground. the teen s family identified her to local media saying she had been in foster care. the police chief defending the use of force, promising a thorough investigation. deadly force can be used to protect yourself or the protection of a third p