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60 Minutes

6/7/2020: Nation in Crisis, A Long Siege, Failure to Protect

60 Minutes

CBS News

Society & Culture, Tv & Film

3.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Sherrilyn Ifill, the president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, talks to Bill Whitaker about the killing of George Floyd and what its aftermath means for America. Scott Pelley looks at a report on the reopening the city of San Antonio, Texas amid coronavirus and the consequences of the lockdown. An Oklahoma law created to protect children from abuse punishes people deemed guilty of failing to stop the abuse. But Sharyn Alfonsi finds that several sentences were more severe on women than man abusers. Those stories on this week's "60 Minutes."

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0:00.0

We keep saying this is happening because we're being thrown back in time.

0:09.3

We keep saying this is 2020.

0:11.2

How can this be happening?

0:12.2

People are so shocked.

0:13.4

It can be happening because we haven't dealt with this.

0:16.1

And so we'll constantly feel like we're being thrown back in time.

0:20.6

Cheryl Lynn Eiffel is the president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.

0:25.5

As you'll hear tonight, few Americans have more insight into the pain, protest, and raving

0:32.2

are being felt in the country today.

0:34.8

What we have seen now is how fragile a democracy is.

0:40.3

San Antonio is America's seventh largest city.

0:44.3

Like the rest of the nation, it's beginning a high-stakes experiment in reopening.

0:49.3

We talked with business owners about the city's unique plan to get people back to work

0:54.6

while attempting to raise public confidence.

0:58.2

The unanswered question, if you cleanse it, will they come?

1:02.7

Do you think it's too early to open or too late?

1:07.9

Is her case that unusual case where they got it wrong?

1:12.5

Was she that one in a million?

1:14.3

Unfortunately not.

1:15.6

What have you learned?

1:16.8

That one in four women sentenced for failure to protect

1:21.8

receive a harsh of sentence than the actual abuser.

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