And to the judge in the chauvin case says congresswoman maxine waters may have given the defense something for an appeal that could even overturn the case. We have fox team coverage tonight, chad pergram on the hill, with the joe biden administration and other capital leaders are saying about to the comments, but we start with matt finn in minneapolis, the jury has the case and attends minneapolis awaits. Good evening, matt. Hi, bret, the jury is expected to deliberate until 7:00 p. M. Tonight and it was a very long day in court, hours and hours of closing arguments. Right now this area is relatively calm, there is a growing presence of demonstrators outside, but in general this area has been calm for days and weeks now. We have been saying that downtown minneapolis area feels like a ghost town. The early days of the lockdown last year, businesses in this area are boarded up. Around the corner we can see more businesses and corporate offices putting up boards in the final hours, bret.
We have breaking news in the derek chauvin murder trial. For the first time, we can report right now this jury is deliberating the fate of former minneapolis police officer derek chauvin. And deliberating right now whether to convict him of murdering george floyd. That s the first time we can say that because we are at this point in the process. 12 citizens sequestered, they re behind closed doors where they re supposed to legally remain until they can come to a good faith, unanimous decision. That s what they re charged to do. The state needs a unanimous ruling for a guilty verdict. The defense if it wants to find one way out has to just get one juror to hold out. Gets you a hung jury or mistrial. The defense can try to get unanimous acquittal. Many americans around the world are awaiting the verdict from this jury. This is the final instructions they got from the judge. During your deliberations you must not let bias, prejudice, passion, sympathy, or public opinion influence your dec
time. good morning, i m laura jarrett, it s thursday, april 22nd, 5:00 a.m. here in new york. for nearly a year we have talked about a reckoning on racism and policing in this country but what has really changed? the conviction of former officer who killed george floyd, derek chauvin, sparking renewed calls by some for reform. pleas that complied account daily reminders of why black communities feel unsafe. andrew brown jr. fatally shot while deputies in elizabeth city, north carolina, were serving a warrant on thursday morning. the deputy is on administrative leave now. there is body cam footage that has not yet been released. we are not going away until we get some cooperation, until we get some transparency. what are they hiding? we are feeling pain right now. we are hurting. we are tired. we are tired. it happened a day after a black teenage girl was shot and killed in columbus, ohio. body cam footage appears to show ma khia bryant lunging at another girl with a k
pretty happy about that. that is all in on this thursday night good evening, alex chris, i m all in favor of robust transparency in terms of health and everything as it regards our public officials and especially our president it s painful t oh, it s the worst. and in public. it s such a vulnerable moment for anyone that trips. and then the recovery and then it s on stage anyway, it s just it s funny. he gots back air force one ande said i was sandbagged. literally, it was a big sandbag. thank you, my friend, as always. in july of 2021 joe biden had been president for half a year, but the last days of the trump administration were still very much being reported on. the ways in which trump had tried to overturn the 2020 election in an series of escalating maneuvers which ultimately resulted, of course, in thed, attack on the u.s. capitol. so it was during that summer, july of 2021, when the new yorker published this exclusive story. you re going to have a
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