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The Lead with Jake Tapper

Attorneys: family only shown “snippet” of video from police shooting; Sources: Biden to announce new mask guidance tomorrow; Biden administration touts COVID accomplishments, vaccine rollout;

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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3.51.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Family attorney calls fatal shooting by deputies an “execution”; Death certificate in Elizabeth City, NC shows Andrew Brown Jr. died of gunshot would to head, shot by others; Elizabeth City, NC prepares for protest tonight as Andrew Brown’s family views body cam video of fatal police shooting; AG Garland announces DOJ investigation into police practices in Louisville, KY; “Qualified immunity” in policing bill sparks debate over when police can be charged or face lawsuits; Democrats to pass George Floyd Policing Act by May 25; Sen. Tim Scott leads GOP efforts to strike deal on George Floyd Justice in Policing bill; Official: U.S. to begin sharing AstraZeneca vaccine doses soon; Fauci: life will get more normal even before herd immunity; Fully vaccinated Americans may be able to visit Europe this summer; More than one million new COVID cases in three days in India; Poll: Americans hesitant to get J&J vaccine after brief pause; Biden’s top COVID official: Trump’s WH had no plan for vaccine distribution; Sources: Trump advisors urge him to make a vaccine PSA;  Conservative news outlets spread baseless claim Biden wants to reduce red meat consumption by 90%;  Firm hired to conduct AZ election audit owned by active promoter of “stop the steal” movement;  Conspiracy theorist who thinks COVID was created so Trump would lose speaks at Minnesota GOP event;  GOP Rep. McCarthy defends Trump’s handling of insurrection; Gov. Hogan: a “whole lot of crazy” going on in Washington; Iran’s FM criticizes revolutionary guard; Says the military “rules” Iran;  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

A North Carolina family, now asking what police might be trying to hide?

0:06.5

The new two-hour lead starts right now.

0:09.9

Breaking just minutes ago, the family of Andrew Brown, Jr. claiming they were only shown

0:13.6

a snippet of the video showing the moment their loved one was killed by a police.

0:17.6

Why wasn't all the footage shown?

0:21.0

New signs of normal, the Biden administration said to announce new mask guidance as more

0:26.2

vaccine shots in arms might mean more freedom but is the vaccine effort about to hit a wall

0:32.5

and shots in arms, money in pockets, CNN talks to Biden's COVID team about the effort

0:37.5

to overwhelm the virus, including an interview with Dr. Anthony Fauci as you've never

0:42.2

quite heard him before talking about Donald Trump.

0:50.7

Welcome to the lead, I'm Jake Tapper and we start with breaking news in the National

0:54.4

League.

0:55.4

Today were moments ago, the family of Andrew Brown, Jr. in North Carolina, just watched

0:59.0

the body cam video showing the final moments of their loved one's life and it was not

1:03.5

what they expected.

1:04.8

The family's lawyers say that they were only allowed to view a 20-second clip of the body

1:10.1

camera video.

1:12.6

One body cam, 20 seconds in a execution.

1:20.4

And so with all due respect, I know there were a lot of people who thought last week's

1:24.0

verdict was justice and I told you then it wasn't justice because we still can't get

1:29.2

justice on accountability today.

1:32.2

Anticipating unrest, the her has already been a state of emergency in Elizabeth City,

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