6/21/2020: The Chief, The Opioid Playbook
60 Minutes
CBS News
3.8 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Lesley Stahl interviews Minneapolis' Police Chief Medaria Arradondo as the department still reels from the killing of George Floyd. A Bill Whitaker investigation uncovers drug companies' playbook to push opioids, and how law enforcement has scrambled to hold pharma executives accountable for fueling the opioid epidemic. Those stories on this week's "60 Minutes."
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| 0:32.6 | The president of the police union, Robert Kroll, has defended the officers in this case, |
| 0:44.6 | and he's called the Black Lives Matter movement a terrorist organization. |
| 0:49.4 | He and others are going to have to come to a reckoning that either they are going to be on the right side of history |
| 0:56.5 | or they're going to be on the wrong side of history. |
| 0:59.6 | But, or, they will be left behind. |
| 1:04.7 | What's the key to being a successful salesman in the pharmaceutical, |
| 1:10.0 | especially the opioid end of the business. |
| 1:12.6 | The key to success, the less of a conscience you had, the better. |
| 1:18.0 | 60 minutes spent a year investigating the playbook of sales practices that triggered an |
| 1:23.3 | explosion of powerful, addictive opioid prescriptions. What we found was seedy and outrageous. |
| 1:31.3 | I think sometimes white-collar criminals are more dangerous than violent criminals. |
| 1:39.0 | I'm Leslie Stahl. I'm Bill Whitaker. I'm Anderson Cooper. I'm John Worthy. I'm Scott Pelly. Those stories and more |
| 1:47.1 | tonight on 60 Minutes. On Memorial Day, a white Minneapolis police officer knelt on a black man's neck |
| 1:59.8 | until he was unresponsive. The killing of George Floyd |
| 2:04.1 | sparked the protests we've seen around the country. With Minneapolis on edge and under scrutiny, |
| 2:11.3 | the pressure is on the city's police chief, Madeira Aredondo, a 30-year veteran and the first black man to head the mostly white |
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