Welcome to Beg to Differ, The Bullworks Weekly Roundtable discussion featuring civil conversation

across the political spectrum from center left to center right.

I'm Mona Charon, syndicated columnist and policy editor of the Bullwork. I'm joined by our regulars,

Damon Linker of the Week, Bill Galston of the Brookings Institution and the Wall Street Journal, and Linda Chavez of the Niskannon Center.

Our special guest this week is Norman Ornstein, resident scholar at the American

Enterprise Institute. Thanks one and I want to issue a thank you to Sarah Longwell who sat in for me last week.

I was recuperating from getting the COVID vaccination and yes it was the J&J actually

but that's the way it goes I feel fine fine, I'm not worried, and onward. I feel lucky actually to have been immunized.

So it's been a very tough week regarding police violence in the city in a small town near

Minneapolis Brooklyn Center a young man Dante Wright was shot to death in what

looks to have been an accident that is the cop used to her weapon instead of a taser but it comes at the worst

possible moment with the Derek Chauvin trial coming to its conclusion.

So Damon, the trial of Chauvin has cast a pall, arguably over the country.

But these other cases, the one with Dante Wright and another one, Karen Nizario,

a young Army medic who was pepper sprayed in an incident in Virginia

actually that we didn't know about.

That happened in December, but that has just come to light.

I argued in a column, those two were distinguishable. They were not just like Chauvin, but tell me what your impressions are.

Well, in my view from the beginning about the George Floyd

killing by Officer Chauvin has has been like I think most Americans that that seemed incredibly egregious that no matter what

drugs he may have been on to be pinned under an officer's knee for nine minutes,

saying repeatedly that I can't breathe,

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