Chauvin Guilty On All Charges
What A Day
What A Day
4.8 • 166 Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2021
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murdering George Floyd, yesterday, and now faces up to 40 years in prison. The verdict represented a rare moment of accountability in a country where law enforcement officers who kill rarely get convicted. We discuss the verdict, along with reactions from elected officials, activists, and Floyd’s family in Minneapolis.
And in headlines: drug regulators in the EU approve distribution of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine with a warning label, Birmingham, Alabama pardons 15,000 marijuana convictions, and religious leaders in Georgia call for a Home Depot boycott.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, April 21st. I'm Hila Hughes. |
| 0:08.7 | And I'm Gideon Rezek and this is what a day where we just remembered the courts can |
| 0:12.4 | sometimes work. |
| 0:13.4 | Yeah, it doesn't mean our country's fixed, but it is better than nothing. |
| 0:17.1 | Yes, thank you to the jury. |
| 0:25.7 | On today's show, we're going to jump straight to the latest with the big news of the day. |
| 0:29.8 | Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has been found guilty, guilty, guilty |
| 0:33.8 | for the death of George Floyd. |
| 0:36.0 | Here's Judge Peter K. Hill reading the jury's verdict yesterday. |
| 0:39.3 | We the jury in the above entitled matter as to count one unintentional second degree |
| 0:43.4 | murder while committing a felony, find the defendant guilty. |
| 0:46.6 | As to count two, third degree murder perpetrating an eminently dangerous act, find the defendant |
| 0:51.4 | guilty. |
| 0:52.4 | As to count three, second degree manslaughter culpable negligence, creating an unreasonable |
| 0:57.0 | risk, find the defendant guilty. |
| 0:59.4 | This verdict agreed to this 20th day of April 2021 at 1.45 pm. |
| 1:04.6 | Yeah, the jury reached its decisions relatively swiftly after a three week trial. |
| 1:08.8 | They deliberated for only about 10 hours in total. |
| 1:11.7 | Chauvin looked unemotional as the verdict was read. |
| 1:14.5 | His bail was revoked and he was led out of the courtroom in handcuffs shortly afterwards. |
| 1:17.9 | It was all over very quickly. |
| 1:20.2 | Right. |
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