Family & friends say final goodbye to George Floyd; New videos emerge of deadly police encounters; How Camden, New Jersey disbanded and rebuilt its police force; Republicans largely silent after Trump tweets conspiracy theory about elderly man injured by Buffalo Police; W.H.O. walks back comments asymptomatic spread is "very rare";
The Lead with Jake Tapper
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🗓️ 9 June 2020
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Floyd remembered as man who will change the world; Violent crime in Camden dropped 42% since 2012 police overhaul; Las Cruces, NM: Officer charged after using chokehold on man who died in police custody; New videos emerge of deadly police encounters; Bass River, NJ: Video shows state trooper shoot black man after scuffle in traffic stop; Trump tweets conspiracy theory about 75-year-old man hospitalized after being shoved by police; Lawyer for Buffalo man injured by police slams Trump's accusations as "dark, dangerous and untrue"; Top Senate Republican refuses to answer if Trump's conspiracy theory tweet was appropriate; NY Gov. Cuomo: Trump's conspiracy theory tweet is "reprehensible"; W.H.O. clarifies asymptomatic spread: "There's much unknown"; NYC Mayor: New Yorkers shouldn't have "undue expectations"; 19 states increasing cases; 7 states are steady; 24 states declining; D.C. National Guard: Some troops got virus during protests;
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the lead. I'm Jake Tapper and you have been watching family and friends |
| 0:06.4 | saying a final goodbye to George Floyd in Houston, Texas at the Fountain of Praise Church, a home-going celebration, it was called, |
| 0:16.0 | remembering Floyd and the legacy he leaves. A friend, a mentor, a father, a death, his family says, a death that will not be in place. a form of both the police and the United States of America at large. As Floyd's |
| 0:36.4 | brother put it, George Floyd will change the world. It certainly seems a |
| 0:42.4 | possibility. Let's seems a possibility. |
| 0:43.4 | Let's bring in CNN political commentator, Bekari Sellers, also the author of the new book, My Vanishing |
| 0:49.5 | Country, a memoir. And Bekari, we heard from many of George Floyd's friends and family but also |
| 0:55.8 | from people like former Vice President Joe Biden. |
| 0:58.8 | We had a eulogy from the Reverend Al Sharpton. What is going to stand out to you most when you remember this day? |
| 1:07.0 | Well, first, my prayers go out to the family, |
| 1:11.0 | and I think one of the things that stood out most about this ceremony is that it wasn't just one family that had been affected by this type of racial violence. |
| 1:19.0 | But you had a collection of families, you had the family of Amade Aubrey and Brianna Taylor. And so just those |
| 1:25.1 | families coming together and it's a really, really awful club that we have in this country. |
| 1:31.0 | I mean when you have to reach out and surround yourself with others whose young people |
| 1:35.8 | have been killed by racial violence, just think about that state that we're in in this country. |
| 1:41.9 | But let me just tell you, Jake, that was the best introductory |
| 1:44.8 | music you've ever had to your show, to the lead. I mean that type of worship music, that |
| 1:49.3 | phrase music. This was a home going celebration. |
| 1:53.0 | You know, I always like listening to going up yonder and some Marvin sap and all of those things. |
| 1:59.0 | That's what you got from this because as George's daughter stated, her father is going to change the world. this |
| 2:05.0 | because George's daughter stated, her father is going to change the world. It was a lot of pain, but it was also a call to action. |
| 2:08.0 | And I think that's what people need to understand. |
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