Amanpour: Laura Coates, Donald De Lucca, Regina King, Kemp Powers and Dorothy A. Brown

Amanpour

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4.2 • 929 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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All eyes are keenly focused on the long-awaited trial of Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd. Today, doctors take the stand for the defense, arguing that Chauvin acted beyond reasonable force and police procedure. Former federal prosecutor Laura Coates and former police chief Donald De Lucca unpack the evidence being laid out and how what we learn in the trial could shape police training and reform going forward. Then actress Regina King and screenwriter Kemp Powers explain how the historic events depicted in the Oscar-nominated "One Night in Miami" have a special resonance in the aftermath of George Floyd's death. The film is a fictional imagining of a night in 1964 when legends Malcolm X, Sam Cooke and Muhammad Ali came together. Continuing the discussion of race, Dorothy A. Brown, author of, "The Whiteness of Wealth," joins our Michel Martin to explain how even the American tax system isn’t free from racism. Her book compiles decades of research and anecdotes, highlighting how the tax system impoverishes black people. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Amman Paul here's what's coming up.
0:08.0	You swear or affirm that we encourage you that the testimony
0:12.0	testimony about it will be the truth
0:13.4	that has not the truth.
0:14.6	Hanging in the balance, justice, racial reckoning and policing.
0:18.8	All at stake in the trial of Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd. We get the legal and police
0:24.7	perspectives. Then... Yes, attaches Marcellus Clay, is the new heavenway
0:29.8	champion of the world for all right here. Director Regina King and Playwright 10 Powers
0:35.2	talk about bringing four black icons to the screen
0:38.5	for one night in Miami.
0:40.8	And so just because there's no box on your tax return that says race doesn't mean
0:46.8	race is an implicated. Emory University professor Dorothy Brown tells our
0:51.5	Michel Martin how the tax system impoverishes African Americans. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London. The trial so far of
1:16.2	Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd could trigger wide-ranging police
1:20.6	reform and new training. The first week saw heart-wrenching
1:24.6	testimony from people who witnessed Floyd's death on the 25th of May last year.
1:29.4	This week prosecutors have been making the case Chauvin acted outside reasonable police
1:35.3	procedure when he restrained Floyd.
1:38.0	And today medical experts took the stand.
1:40.9	Dr Martin Tobin is a pulmonologist and he described a dramatic length the effort that George
1:46.8	Floyd was making to breathe while he was pinned down with Chauvin's full body weight on his neck.
1:53.0	Over on the right image you see his knuckle against the tire.
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