Ep. 432 - The Prosecution was very good on Day 1 of the Derek Chauvin trial

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Let me unpack and explain Day 1 of the trial of the disgraced police officer Derek Chauvin. From their opening statements forward, the prosecution did a very good job yesterday. I also think that Donald Williams will turn out to be a star witness for them. Not only did he witness the entire thing, he testimony was full of expertise and painful honesty.

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0:00.0	Yesterday was day one of the Derek Chauvin trial.
0:08.4	It was a painful day for millions of Americans who, for the very first time, actually watched
0:16.3	the entire video of George Floyd being murdered and no doubt after watching the murder, millions
0:25.1	of people, for lots of good reasons, just could not bring themselves to watch it when it
0:30.7	was first released.
0:33.3	Millions of people came to the same conclusion that millions of us came to ten months ago,
0:39.6	that this was, in essence, a slow motion lynching.
0:43.9	I want to talk about day one of the trial.
0:46.6	Day two is already underway.
0:48.1	I'm watching now.
0:49.1	I want to tell you what I thought went really well for the prosecution, what I hope that
0:55.8	they'll do, and I want to tell you some of the dirty tricks we already see from Derek
1:00.1	Chauvin and his defense attorneys.
1:02.1	Let me unpack and explain it.
1:03.7	This is Sean Kane, and you are listening to...
1:06.1	The Breakdown.
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