DOJ probe uncovers disturbing abuses by Louisville Police Department

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 9 March 2023

⏱️ 80 minutes

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U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland issues a scathing critique of the Louisville Metro Police Department after the Justice Department’s nearly two-year review of the botched raid where police killed Breonna Taylor in March 2020. The report found Louisville police officers used excessive force against Black people. Plus, tears on the Hill as one Marine recounts the chaos of the Afghanistan withdrawal. Veterans and service members describe what went wrong and warn about the disaster still building. 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	Families of the kidnapping victims in Mexico are now revealing how that tragedy unfolded
0:07.6	the lead starts right now.
0:10.3	She watched her friends die, a woman's dramatic story after armed men kidnapped her and
0:15.7	her friends and relatives in Mexico.
0:17.7	Today we're learning more about what happened on that horrible day.
0:20.8	Also cops describing black citizens as monkeys as animals, calling them boy, the justice department
0:26.7	today singling out police in a major U.S. city for racist and abusive practices.
0:32.7	And Tesla under fire.
0:35.2	New questions about itself driving feature after yet another crash, plus an investigation
0:40.1	into Tesla's steering wheels on one model, steering wheels that can apparently fall off.
0:50.8	Welcome to the lead on Jake Tapper.
0:52.0	We start today with our world lead in new heartbreaking details about the kidnappings
0:56.0	of those four Americans in Mexico.
0:58.2	We're learning from one of the survivors today, Latavia, Washington, McGee, that her cousin
1:03.7	and her friend were the two victims killed in the attack.
1:06.9	She says the two were immediately shot.
1:09.0	When gunmen approached their car, she watched them die.
1:12.3	The autopsy of those two victims, Shaheed Woodward, the cousin and Zindel Brown, the friend,
1:17.8	were finished this morning and their remains are expected to be returned to the U.S. soon.
1:22.6	Today Mexico's president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obelador, pledged to see the investigation
1:27.6	through and to get to the bottom of exactly what happened.
1:30.4	CNN's Diane Gallagher starts off her coverage today with more details on where this group
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