The trial of Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd is underway.

Lawyers for the defendant, Derek Chauvin, caught on video nonchalantly killing George Floyd told the jury,

quote, you will learn that Derek Chauvin was doing exactly what he'd been trained to do during the course of his 19-year career, unquote.

Today we discuss the trial.

We also look at other grotesque features of the American police state and more.

We need a new system.

We need a new society.

We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago, but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. Welcome to today's episode of In The News, our Tuesday show on the Socialist program with Brian Becker.

It's March 30th, 2021. This is an in-depth look at the biggest stories in the news right now, today, and this week.

We look beyond the headlines and expose the distortions in the corporate-owned media.

If you enjoy the show, please support this independent programming by going to patreon.com

slash the socialist program and subscribing.

We can do this show with you, but not without you. I'm Nicole

Roussel here with Esther Evarim, Walter Smilerick, and our host, Brian Becker. S3iVarum is also the host

of the radio show and podcast On the Ground at on thegroundshow.org. Please make sure to check out

on the ground, which comes out weekly on Fridays.

Brian, what do we have in store for our listeners this week?

Well, we have another important and packed week.

There is a change, though, and I want to make sure that everyone understands that for this week and this week alone,

Professor Richard Wolf, who normally joins us every Wednesday for our segment on the biggest stories in the economy, will be unable to join us. He has a personal scheduling conflict.

So Richard Wolf will be back next week. But on Thursday, in the real story, we're going to do

a deep dive with Eugene per year from Breakthrough News.

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