of what derek chauvin did to george floyd. even when derek chauvin threatened her with mace, darnella frazier held her ground and she kept recording. she then posted her video on facebook, and the police lie instantly began to crumble. >> probably close to midnight, a community member had contacted me and said, chief, almost verbatim, chief, have you seen the video of your officer choking and killing that man at 30th and chicago? and so once i heard that statement, i just knew it wasn't the same milestone camera video that i had saw. and eventually, within minutes after that, i saw for the first time what is now known as the bystander video. >> darnella frazier changed the police chief's mind about what happened on that street and the next day derek chauvin was fired. when darnella frazier testified during the trial, she testified she wished she did more. >> when i look at george floyd, i look at my dad, i look at my brothers, i look at my cousins, my uncles, because they are all black. i have a black father. i have a black br

george floyd, we did it. justice has been served. derek chauvin was sentenced to more than 20 years in practice. all four former officers are facing federal civil rights charges for depriving george floyd of his constitutional right to be free from the use of unusual force. in june he was awarded a special pulitzer prize. coming up, a teenage girl who many met on the program five years ago is now closer to achieving her dream of becoming a doctor and joyce will tell us how it is going next in tonight's last word. is going n tonight's last word. and wait for back and forth e-mail, or a call to be rescheduled for the third time. orrr... you could use slack. and work faster with everyone you work with, together in one place. slack. where the future works. ♪♪♪ my name is austin james. as a musician living with diabetes, fingersticks can be a real challenge. that's why i use the freestyle libre 2 system. with a painless, one-second scan i know my glucose numbers without fingersticks. now i'm managing my diabetes better and i've lowe

they are violating george floyd's constitutional rights. so, it's absolutely about the omission there and not the action. john: one juror was excused after saying he was worried about the influence of race in this case, and he couldn't be impartial. what role does race play in the prosecution of these charges? angi: yeah, i was actually very disappointed in the statements of the judge in response to that juror who raised concerns about race, because, as we all know, race is absolutely at the heart of the underlying incident that gave rise to this trial. so, even while race is not relevant to the charges, the judge responded by saying race in no way, shape, or form has a part in this case. you know, that, to me, is a delusion. that is aspirational, perhaps, for him to say that, but it's not the truth. and i think there shld be an acknowledgment that this case was the springboard for the racial reckoning, as people called it, after george floyd's death. race is always a factor, and it's absolutely going to play a role in the minds of these ju

they chose not to protect george floyd, the man they handcuffed. the charges here failing to render medical aid to george floyd as he lay on the pavement gets to the key issue you heard from that juror, don. that is what we expect prosecutors to continue to talk about that when george floyd was not a threat to those officers they were responsible for him. certainly as we saw in the state trial this didn't warrant the type of force that ultimately took his life. >> josh campbell, appreciate it. we'll be right back. >> thanks. ("this little light of mine") - [narrator] in the world's poorest places, they're shunned, outcast, living in pain. you can reach out and change the life of a suffering child right now. a surgery that takes as little as 45 minutes and your act of love can change a child's life forever. please call or visit operationsmile.org now. thousands of children are waiting. for people who could use a lift new neutrogena® rapid firming. a triple-lift serum with pure collagen. 92% saw visibly firmer skin in just 4 weeks. neutrogena® for

they chose not to protect george floyd, the man they handcuffed. the charges here failing to render medical aid to george floyd as he lay on the pavement gets to the key issue you heard from that juror, don. that is what we expect prosecutors to continue to talk about that when george floyd was not a threat to those officers they were responsible for him. certainly as we saw in the state trial this didn't warrant the type of force that ultimately took his life. >> josh campbell, appreciate it. we'll be right back. >> thanks. pressure. they may not be able to take just anything for pain. that's why doctors recommend tylenol®. it won't raise blood pressure the way that advil® aleve® or motrin® sometimes can. for trusted relief, trust tylenol®. i'm jonathan lawson here to tell you about life insurance through the colonial penn program. if you're age 50 to 85, and looking to buy life insurance on a fixed budget, remember the three ps. what are the three ps? the three ps of life insurance on a fixed budget are price, price, and price. a price you c

david: so let's talk about george floyd. you have lived through the civil rights revolution in the 1960's. and we had the post-civil rights efforts in the 1970's and 1980's. it seems as if not until george floyd was murdered that some people in the corporate world take seriously the discrimination and other challenges african-americans face. was it your perception that george floyd had an incredible impact? darren: i think what was different was that first, we were all at home as a country. and secondly, this was fully videotaped. from the moment he was put on the ground until his last breath, and that it was photographed, that it was videotaped, and that the perpetrator was fully aware that he was killing someone and clearly assumed he could do that with impunity. i think that is what we, the average american, found so appalling and so antithetical to our values as a people. and so, it had a huge impact far beyond the issue of policing and civil rights to the boardroom . david: you think it will be -- do you think it will b

was it your perception that george floyd had an incredible impact? darren: i think what was different was that first, we were all at home as a country. and secondly, this was fully videotaped. from the moment he was put on the ground until his last breath, and that it was photographed, that it was videotaped, and that the perpetrator was fully aware that he was killing someone and clearly assumed he could do that with impunity. i think that is what we americans, the average american, found so appalling and so antithetical to our values as a people. and so, it had a huge impact far beyond the issue of policing and civil rights to the boardroom. david: do you think it will be enduring? there is a big effort to have more african-americans and women on board what do you think it will last, or is it for a short time after the george floyd murder? darren: there is no doubt that some of the rhetoric from some ceos was performative. but i believe we are seeing a real paradigm shift, where we understand that diversity in the boardroom is more than one. i am a

>> well, first of all, just on the murder of george floyd, i mean, it was profoundly disturbing. you know, when you're educating 96% black and brown, as an organization, you know, the way we as educators think about it is, "that could have bee one of -- george floyd could haveeen one of our black and brown boys." right? but our history curriculum has always been inclusive. you can't study american history without all of the cultural groups. you can't undetand american history without understanding u.s. slavery. so, long before george floyd, we sought to tell the american story in all of its glory in a rigorous historical way. the thing that i don't do and won't do is turn history into a certain kind of polemic. right? this is not the place, it seems to me, to accomplish all of our political goals. we are teaching kids not what to think but how to think. and so what i object to is sort of ideologically trying to turn out students of a certain viewpoint. that's not our goal at success. so the terrible murder of george floyd didn't -- didn't move us to a different content and curric

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looking back at themo george floyd moment. what is the lasting effect of this historical flashpoint? >>nk i think what is lasting what i think that horrific image of george floyd suffering of that intervention of his deceased mother and that is in my mind the way and it until has never been forgettable for a generation of people exposed to that. >> that has stayed in people's minds. but what is the femoral with unanimity that we see in the beginning this indictment that so shocking to see the police union come out which they almost never do. and of the o political spectrum it is indefensible. but as time has gone on. and then with a statement about the bigger truth. and then that critical race period calling critical race theory is anth example of that. and then to reckon with. and lott 1962. and those various other communities and the publication among the editors and elected officials. and that fell back into a baseline and then finger-pointing and disagreement and distant you annuity. >> and look at the political argument i

we saw former police officer derek chauvin, convicted for killing george floyd. we also saw kyle rittenhouse was acquitted. you said that verdict in wisconsin was an example of "the treacherous role of white supremacy and privilege play out in our system. we saw the mcdaniels father and son convicted in the killing of ahmaud arbery. from the criminal justice perspective, what do you make of these trials that america's just watched? does it reflect change? >> all of it is convoluted, quite honestly. we have over 3000 law enforcement agencies across the country, from my understanding, and 3000 different standards of review and accountability. we have district attorneys across the country who are elected who think about ahmaud arbery's scenario. a district attorney who colluded with those who murdered ahmaud arbery, as opposed to representing her district. there are reforms that can be made, that look at individual cases, isolated incidents. what i am more concerned about, what are the systems in place to ensure that justice is blind and that all of us are afforded

- george floyd case in other cases of this nature? yes, and that changes _ cases of this nature? yes, and that changes much _ cases of this nature? yes, and that changes much broader . cases of this nature? yes, and i that changes much broader than these individual cases or these verdicts, but instead, that that change is one of systemic in nature that are really reimagined all of these systems and seeks equity for all. let's get some ofthe equity for all. let's get some of the day — equity for all. let's get some of the day was _ equity for all. let's get some of the day was my _ equity for all. let's get some of the day was my other - equity for all. let's get some | of the day was my other news now. opponents say he doesn't have authority to impose the rule without going through congress. they say it will save lives. judgement is not expected for several days. later remains ready to talk to russia but warned the allies would impose a heavy price for any further russian aggression. austria's chancellor karl nehammer has tested positive for coronavirus. the a9—year—old, wh

he told someone he felt they were not going to help george floyd which made him emotional. he didn't like what he saw in which he described in particular to the prosecutors, he looked dead. to which he responded, why did he look dead to you? and he said he was not moving. the prosecution really seemed to be trying to paint a picture of thao as someone more concerned about the bystanders and who was filming as opposed to what was happening behind him. part of the charges he is facing is that he was deliberately indifferent to george floyd's serious medical needs at the time. during cross-examination, the defense got martin to acknowledge that thao asked that co-worker to move first before that shove happened and also got martin to admit that he believed he felt floyd was on something at the time in regard to some sort of drug. now, as i mentioned, we've moved into the next witness. today though, jurors have seemed more engaged than we've seen them throughout the week as i mentioned, we are three witnesses into what is expected to be a four-week drive. >> thank you. >>> break

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they are accused of violating george floyd's civil rights during his arrest back in 2020. joining me now, nbc shaquille brewster is outside the courthouse. and also with me, a civil rights attorney, former prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst. shaq, i'll start with you outside the courthouse. give us a break down of the jury and the charges these former officers are facing. remind us why derek chauvin is not included in this case. >> derek chauvin last month accepted a federal plea deal. a prosecutor told me that derek chauvin will hang over this trial like a ghost. this is about him kneeling on george floyd's neck for nine and a half minutes and the actions the officers didn't take, the three other officers defending actions they didn't take. two of them are being charged with not intervening, by violating george floyd's rights by not intervening when derek chauvin was using excessive force and all three are facing deprivation of rights with the color of law, the instance of not providing medical attention to george floyd and that resulting in his death. we know that based

. >> first, george floyd's niece is shot in her texas home and >>> back now with singer jason drulu, he appeared to punch and shove one of the men at the casino, after the men called him -- >> a developing story in houston involving the family of george floyd, his niece is in the hospital after being shot and now, police are facing questions about their response time. >> this morning a little girl shot in her houston home has been identified as the niece of george floyd. the man who's murder at the hands of minneapolis police officer derek chauvin set off a national movement, she is now recovering from her wounds. >> my daughter don't know, i can't explain it to her. >> somebody sprad the apartment with bullets early new year's day, the family believes the home was targeted. it's the same apartment seen here where george floyd's family gathered last year to watch the derek chauvin verdict. >> we have a hit right here. and we have a hit here. >> the gunfire punctured her lung and liver, breaking three of her ribs and she was sleeping at the time. >> my daughter jumped up and said, dad

we saw him what you might call, probe at, should we turn george floyd on his side? we train officers that, and you may have to ratchet that up with the acronym probe, alert and action. it's a tool to first probe, but if that doesn't work, you have 0 to alert. if that doesn't work, you have to take action, including physical action. >> but if someone three or four days on the job goes up and leans into derek chauvin and says, hey, chief, i don't see him responding. hey, chief, maybe we should roll him over, and doesn't get the response that they're looking for, would you go as far as to say they've got an obligation to yank derek chauvin off george floyd's neck? >> eventually, hey, if you don't move him, he could get hurt. then challenge, you need to take your knee off his neeck. if that doesn't work, absolutely take action. we've seen that until other industries. hospitals have trained nurses to speak up to doctors when they're about to operate on patients. airlines have done this, college students, training students to speak up. the law requires it, and we should r

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what kind of gave us the final push was when george floyd was murdered. we were taking a moment of silence in our moment of prayer, and i wanted to play a spiritual i had recorded a couple years ago with cello and violin, and it created a bit of a stir in the congregation, not whole congregation, but a few people that felt like it was inappropriate use an african spiritual. so that got me to really thinking because i was trying to string together, you know, the violence of, you know, the enslaved people and their enslavers, and string that to the current history, which is, you know, resulted in george floyd's death. and it was -- it made me think. so i just kept thinking and thinking, and as i was starting to pay my c cli license, which is church music copy right licensing program that allows you to use music online, i started to think, well, you know, if i could just pay royalties for these spirituals it would be less complicated. >> and these spirituals have been used over and over again, and no one got royalties. you know, jeremy, the original composer

sound of george floyd gasping for air. the look on the police officer derek chauvin's face callously snuffed the life out of another human being on camera. watching video of it was the first time many americans witnessed true racial injustice with their own eyes and realization america's broken policing system could no longer be ignored finally set in. this quickly turned into worldwide outrage. led protests and boy costs calls for police reform, confederate statues torn down and unexpected conviction of the police officer who killed george floyd. the george floyd justice and policing act was one of the most comprehensive actions on police reform in u.s. history. but that hope faded into frustration when the policing bill fell victim to bipartisan bickering just like voting rights and climate change legislation, but just because congress has all the ground to a halt, change is still happening at state and local levels. remember these three former minneapolis police officers, thomas lane, jay alexander kueng and tou thao, p

the kasen terse on the police murder of george floyd in 2020. on tuesday the court heard emotional people. >> reporter: day tussauds a lot of repeat witnesses in the state trial of derek chauvin in 2021. charles mcmillan. he was a bystander to what happened in may of 2020 and george floyd under the knee of derek chauvin. he testified in the chauvin trial through tears that he felt helpless to what was happening in front of him. this trial he also broke down in tears as he described what he saw and that while he was watching things unfold he felt floyd was going to die. when the prosecution pushed him on whether he saw any form of medical assistance being given to floyd, he responded emphatically, no. we heard from chris martin whose manager initially called police because martin reported floyd had used a counterfeit bill. he saw officer push one of his co-workers when they tried to get a closer look at what was happening. he also testified that he did not think that anybody was going to help floyd and that made him emotional as he felt floyd loo

they chose not to protect george floyd, the man they handcuffed. then went on to tell the jury, you'll see the ambulance arrive, and it wasn't the defendants that got chauvin off of floyd, it was those first responders. now, i should also mention all of these former officers have pleaded not guilty to these charges. their defenses ranged from, well, the video and what the crowd saw didn't tell the full story of what happened, that they tried to do something but were shut down by chauvin. and that they were deferring to the senior officer on the scene in chauvin. i should also note chauvin is not a defendant in this trial. he was initially supposed to be but pleaded guilty to his charges last month and now his proceedings will be happening separately. >> omar, do we expect any of these three former police officers to testify during the course of this federal trial? >> reporter: as we heard from thomas lane's attorney in opening statements, lane is expected to testify in his own defense over the course of this. remember, he's not charged with failing

i wonder now that a few months as fast, whatever it's been or more when you look back at the george floyd moment and it's of course you covered the trial that came out of that. what do you think is the lasting effect of that summer and what's seminal? >> i think what is lasting, what i think will be lasting is that horrific image of george floyd suffering and calling out for the intervention of his deceased mother. that image is in our minds in a way that i think has never been forgiven for a generation of people exposed to that . >> those photographs in life magazine. >> that has just stayed in people's minds. what i think is ephemeral is any sort of unanimity about around what that image means. we see at the beginning this indictment which was so shocking to see police unions come out, police unions denouncing the actions. people on the right side of the political spectrum incorporated thiswas indefensible . it was just the cold-blooded murder of someone on a street corner in minnesota, in minneapolis but compile that on the idea that this represented some bigger reality, a statement ab

a violation of george floyd's civil rights. we have a quote here from those opening statements, where the prosecutor said, these three cpr-trained officers stood as chauvin killed the man, slowly, in front of their eyes. they chose not to save mr. floyd. she went on to say, they watched as mr. floyd died a slow and agonizing death. for the defense, you heard some of their strategy. they're pointing the finger at george floyd. they're saying that his resistance, his drug use, made his death more likely. that there was much more than that body camera video and much more than that witness and that bystander video to the story. for the attorney of officer king, they're focusing on the training, saying that officer king was at a disadvantage, because of the failed training and the poor training in the words of that attorney, of the minneapolis police department. and then lane's attorney called him a gentle giant. you really got the sense that he was trying to personalize his client and said that he did care about the medical attenti

in the custody of the defendants, they watched as george floyd died a slow and agonizing death. a lawyer for one of the former officers, officer tou thao, argued his client's actions were not criminal he said the death of mr. floyd is indeed a tragedy. however, a tragedy is not a crime. the trial comes about nine months after a jury convicted their former colleague, derek chauvin, of murder and manslaughter video showed him kneeling on george floyd's neck for more than nine minutes as floyd said dozens of time he could not breathe. a lawyer for one of the officers said he plans to show the jury chauvin called all the shots and that his client did everything that he could with the training that he had. let's bring in david henderson, civil rights attorney, cnbc contributor. david, how difficult a case is this particular one for the prosecution to prove >> you know, shep, in terms of proof, this is not a difficult case if we've learned anything from watching january 6thth prosecutions, he's cautious, he's meticulous. but persuading a jury is something different altogether. >> the

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post obama time during the george floyd moment. when you first encountered obama as a political presence and you write about this in one of the pieces in your book, i think it's called barack ask. what were your hopes and to what degree were they dashed to if you look back on it now? >> the thing that was interesting about obama was the no precedent. he wasn't the product of some immediate trauma. there hadn't been a kind of sympathetic move for recompense. he just emerged out of nowhere at a moment when even the people who study race and the political scientists and sociologists, the historians, nobody was looking at the american society saying we're at a moment where we can anticipate a breakthrough of this magnitude. he just showed up. so because he upended so many expectations, i think people have this idea that he couldn't, there was nothing he could do. so there was a picture of him outside the superman museum where he's kind of posing with his hands on his hips like superman does. you imagine like maybe, this guy can do some

>> what is lasting is that horrific images of george floyd suffering and calling out for the intervention of his deceased mother has undermined the way and it till had never been forgettable for the generation of people exposed to that. >> so that has stayed in people'sle minds. but what i think is ephemeral. >> and we see at the beginning the indictment that is so shocking to see policing, which they almost never do and to denounce the actions on the right side of thesp political spectrum and then to have the cold-blooded murder in minnesota and in minneapolis but as time has gone on the idea is represented from a bigger reality or a bigger truth of race has come under dispute and the conversation around critical race theory is an example of that. so for part of the summer the country was willing to reckon with what james. baldwin is putting on the table in 1962. and those in the publications among editors and elected officials to bring that back into the baseline. the finger-pointing andnd disagreement and where we are now. >> looking at what's going on now january 6 how do we understan

there is coverage around race in terms of what we saw in protests in the streets after george floyd's death, or coverage of police killings, what we have tried to do at ap's look for, what is the discussion of race in any subject area? what is it vis-a-vis the pandemic or education or housing or economics? i think that is a really positive change in the discussion we are having. any issue we are talking about in this country, there is a racial component to it. there is an inequality component. we have tried to put that at the forefront of the coverage, and it has sparked some fascinating conversations. and really, crucially, it has lifted up new voices within the newsroom. we have really seen, particularly younger reporters, really empowered, tried to push us to think about these stories in a different way. it has affected the conversations we have when we are hiring staff. what i think our responsibility is is to make sure those changes we are seeing are sustained. that this is not something we are doing just because we are still so close to what we saw happening in this country afte

where are we in terms of george floyd's legacy? >> in the sum of 2021, george floyd's death brought together a wide swathe of political interests, moderates, suburbanites, even people in the suburban league opened their eyes systemic racism exists in policing in a number of institutions across the country but we have seen in the last year and a half things have shifted and a backlash to the protests that we saw that brought a lot of people together, the largest civil rights movement since the 1960s, that brought together so many different people. now we are seeing a splintering, seeing the pushback, seeing people try to take advantage of the fact that some americans aren't comfortable with the kind of conversations and changes that are being sought and when it comes to things like critical race theory, that has been exploited, the idea that people are learning about the origins of the country and some of the sins of the past has been exploited by a number of people who wanted to take political advantage of the fact that they see th

george floyd saying dozens of time he could not breathe. let's bring in cnbc contributor and former detroit police chief isaiah mckinnon. you know, it looks like the way police approach suspects is actually what's on trial here, along with the individual officers themselves. >> there's no question and it's important for what the training commander said that the world and the jury knows that we're not taught to do those kinds of things. and this is an anomaly that what happened there and let's hope this is the last time we'll see one who reacts or the four that react that way >> beyond the training, though, doesn't common sense play in here i know that they were subordinate in some way to derek chauvin, but still, common sense. >> one of the most important things as a law enforcement officer or anyone else in these kinds of jobs, i have always said, is common sense. my father always said you can't teach common sense that's important to recruitment process we have. what kind of person do you want to be a law enforcement officer or to be one w

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work to do in '22, like voting rights, and like george floyd justice and policing and like making sure we do not allow the states rights movements in elections. but we also have to bring our communities to respecting each other and dealing with gun violence. one of the most interesting plays on that this christmas season was when i saw a right wing congresswoman attack kwanza, a celebration started in the african american community in the late '60s, i was around 11, 12 years old. it is seven principles that talks about unity and collective work and responsibility and faith and purpose. anybody can look up the principles of kwanza. that's what we need to deal with violence and gang-related activity in our community. i've been leading kwanza ceremonies since i was a teenage preacher, in fact, somebody sent me a new york times article from 1971 where 16-year-old reverend al sharpton conducted kwanza, that's me. we need to stop attacking things that need to be lifted up. kwanza is one of them. talking about lifting up i also want to say the legacy of archbishop desmond tutu, i was able to