Growing Questions About Deadly Police Shootings of Two African Americans in Two Days

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

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3.2 • 865 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Family, civil rights leaders pay tribute to Daunte Wright, unarmed black man killed by police; tearful mom: “he should be burying me”. Columbus police release additional body cam video of black knife wielding teen fatally shot by police. North Carolina law enforcement facing growing pressure to release video of deadly shooting of black man during warrant serve. Recent police shootings reignite debate over race & use of force. Democrats push to make it easier to prosecute cops emerges as sticking point in policing bill talks. Biden sets ambitious goal to cut U.S. carbon emissions 50% by 2030 in dramatic shift from Trump administration. U.S. coronavirus death toll tops 570,000 with almost 32 million cases. Navalny’s doctors call on jailed Kremlin critic to end hunger strike after he was sent to civilian hospital. 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	Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. I'm Will
0:09.7	Blitzer in the situation room. In Minneapolis, family family friends and civil rights leaders
0:14.3	are paying tribute to Dante Wright the 20-year-old unarmed African-American man who was
0:19.9	shot and killed by police near Minneapolis during a traffic stop 11 days ago.
0:25.2	His mother lamenting and I'm quoting her now, he should be burying me.
0:29.8	Meantime, there are growing questions about the deadly police shootings of two other
0:34.0	African Americans in the last two days. In Columbus, Ohio police have released
0:38.6	additional body camera video with the fatal shooting of 16 year old Maciah Bryant who appears to be
0:44.6	holding a knife and lunging in another girl. And in North Carolina, pressure on
0:49.4	officials is bounding right now to release body camera video of the encounter between law enforcement
0:55.1	and 40 year old Andrew Brown Jr. who was shot and killed as deputies were serving a warrant.
1:01.1	All of this raising troubling questions tonight
1:04.0	about race and policing in America.
1:07.3	Let's begin our coverage this hour
1:08.8	with the funeral of Dante, writes the immense,
1:10.8	Adrian Broadness is in Minneapolis for us.
1:13.0	Adrian, a very, very emotional tribute.
1:17.0	Wolf tears fell faster than Dante Wright's mother could wipe them away.
1:25.0	She told the hundreds of people inside of this church who came to say goodbye to her son.
1:30.0	No parent should lose a child. No freedom.
1:38.0	Dante Wright's family said
1:40.0	to him on his grandmother's birthday.
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