DOJ details racial discrimination by Minneapolis Police Department
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown
CNN
3.2 • 865 Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2023
⏱️ 81 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Happening now, the gun men in the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in US history is |
| 0:07.6 | convicted on 63 federal charges including capital offenses that could lead to the death penalty. |
| 0:15.0 | We'll get reaction from the CEO of the Pittsburgh Synagogue |
| 0:18.0 | where 11 worshippers were slaughtered. |
| 0:21.0 | Also this hour, three years after the police murder of George Floyd unleashed widespread |
| 0:26.8 | protests, the US Justice Department now says excessive force and racial bias |
| 0:32.4 | have been routine among Minneapolis police officers. |
| 0:36.0 | We'll discuss the disturbing report with Floyd family lawyer Ben Crump. |
| 0:40.8 | And amid fierce fighting in Ukraine, a senior military officer is warning that new Russian air and ground strikes are slowing Ukraine's counter-offensive. |
| 0:50.0 | The Ukrainian ambassador to the United States joins us with an update on the state of the war. |
| 0:56.0 | Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. |
| 1:00.0 | I'm Wolf Blitzer, you're in the situation room. In Pittsburgh tonight, the gunman in the 2018 synagogue mass shooting is waiting to learn if he will be sentenced to death. |
| 1:16.0 | A federal jury delivering a quick and decisive verdict against him just a few hours ago. |
| 1:22.0 | See as Danny Freeman is outside the courthouse in Pittsburgh for us, Danny, |
| 1:26.0 | it was a rather emotional moment inside the courtroom |
| 1:29.0 | when jurors found the defendant guilty on all 63 counts. |
| 1:35.9 | Well if it really was an emotional moment, you know, we've been hearing from some members of the |
| 1:39.2 | Jewish community here in Pittsburgh who said that they did feel a lot of relief when that conviction |
| 1:44.6 | came down but I have to say just to describe the tone inside of the courtroom at |
| 1:48.4 | that moment it was also silent as they were reading those first charges and those first guilty verdicts. |
| 1:54.8 | It just goes to show you how intently this community has been paying attention to this trial |
| 1:59.4 | and to this case really for the past four and a half years since October 27th 2018. |
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