An emotional first week in Minneapolis
1 big thing
Axios
4.0 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning. Welcome to Axios Today. It's April 2nd, and we made it to Friday. I'm Nila |
| 0:09.2 | Buu. Here's what you need to know today. Why some Latino voters chose former President |
| 0:14.4 | Trump. Plus, a monster movie brings people back to the theater. But first, the emotional |
| 0:20.4 | week in the show in trial is today's one big thing. |
| 0:29.7 | Today the first week of testimony in the trial over the death of George Floyd wraps up in |
| 0:33.5 | Minneapolis. Axios' local Twin Cities reporter Torrey Benout has been paying attention |
| 0:38.6 | every day. Torrey and I picked three moments from this week that showed just how emotional |
| 0:43.4 | it was, and we wanted to begin where this whole story started at the convenience store. Here's |
| 0:48.9 | former cashier Christopher Martin. I was going through your mind during that time period. |
| 0:53.5 | I disbelieved. Thank you. Why guilt? I thought I would have just not taken the bill. It's |
| 1:02.7 | kind of an avoided. Torrey, he was the one who accepted a fake $20 bill from George Floyd |
| 1:11.0 | before he died. What to you was the takeaway from that testimony? |
| 1:16.5 | He said that his policy was that his pay would have been docked if he hadn't called the cops |
| 1:23.3 | or if he hadn't done something to stop this potential counterfeit bill. This really speaks |
| 1:28.9 | to the guilt again, this sense of he wished that he had done something more in the moment. |
| 1:34.7 | Of course, he was a teenager just reacting and following his stores policy. But the testimony |
| 1:39.2 | from Christopher also reignited some criticism over cup foods, which has definitely been |
| 1:45.0 | the center of scrutiny because of its role in this whole incident. Some neighborhood activists |
| 1:50.4 | and community activists have actually called for it to close altogether. I wanted to hear |
| 1:55.3 | from another witness for this week, off duty firefighter Genevieve Hansen recounting this |
| 2:01.2 | exchange with an officer on the scene. He said something along the lines of if you really |
| 2:08.5 | are a Minneapolis firefighter, you would know better than to get involved. What did you |
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