Fired officer who knelt on George Floyd’s neck charged with murder

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 30 May 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Derek Chauvin, the fired Minneapolis police officer, who was seen in a video with his knee on George Floyd’s neck is charged with third-degree murder and also faces a charge of second-degree manslaughter. The death of Floyd has sparked outrage across the country. Ben Crump, the Floyd family attorney, joins AC360 to react to the charges against Chauvin and to the protests throughout the country. Plus, Cornel West tells Anderson Cooper “we are witnessing America as a failed social experience.” Airdate: May 29, 2020 Guests: Benjamin Crump Cornel West 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	And good evening. There are demonstrations going on right now all across the country,
0:05.9	people on the streets in the middle of the pandemic protesting the killing of George
0:09.2	Floyd in Minneapolis with the police officers neon his neck. That officer today was charged
0:14.3	with third degree murder and manslaughter. He and three others have been fired. We have
0:18.4	live reports tonight from Minneapolis and nationwide. There's a lot to get to on a
0:22.2	store right now. I've seen in Shimon Prokipez in New York outside the Barclay Center in Brooklyn.
0:27.3	Shimon, what's the demonstration has been like here in the in New York?
0:32.9	It started very peaceful Anderson. There are thousands of here now by the largest demonstration
0:39.4	that we have yet seen here in New York City. And it was relatively peaceful. And then within
0:43.8	the last hour everything has changed. The police have moved in. They put barricades behind
0:50.2	these barricades. They're trying to get the protesters out the other way. There are police everywhere.
0:56.4	You can see a woman there. We've taken away with a raster continuing to make arrests here.
1:03.8	Really the last 40 or so minutes we've seen this here where police have been moving in and you
1:08.7	could see more police officers running. But this has significantly escalated here in the last 40
1:16.2	minutes. And as you can see we are being pushed back as well as protesters and police here
1:24.6	right now. Police challenging the protesters. We've seen pepper spray from the NYPD here at some
1:32.1	of the protesters. Seeing officer with his pepper spray now out. And now we're seeing bottles,
1:39.1	water bottles, glass bottles being thrown at police. And here are the police now coming in again
1:45.6	chasing people down as they're throwing bottles at them. But this started peaceful Anderson.
1:52.4	But something changed. And then the police who mostly were not, did not feel any kind of threat for
2:01.5	a while. They let the protesters go. Then all of a sudden everything changed. And police moved in
2:08.6	with riot here. They were wearing helmets. There you see another bottle just being thrown.
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