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Laura Coates Live

Interview with Philonise Floyd

Laura Coates Live

CNN

News

3.92.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Chris goes one on one with Brother of George Floyd, Philonise Floyd. 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

Okay, I'm Chris Cuomo. Welcome to Primetime. We have breaking news on our watch. Many

0:08.9

apolis streets are filled with screams for justice upon word that no charges have yet

0:14.3

been filed in the death of George Lloyd in one of the most obvious and ugly injustices ever

0:20.2

captured on video. Minnesota's governor has activated the National Guard and the mayor

0:25.5

declared a local emergency after two nights of what you're looking at right now. Escalation.

0:32.0

It is a rebellion or a riot depending on whom you ask. Either way, don't miss the symptoms

0:39.1

for the sickness. What you're seeing in Minneapolis started for a reason, the video of Floyd's

0:46.4

death, and it is disturbing. I'm supposed to tell you to look away if it's too much for

0:52.5

you. But I say too many are too quick to dismiss the reaction on these streets because

0:58.8

you don't absorb the reality. So maybe we all need to look at a video like this and

1:05.6

let it sink in. What you see is what it is. A black man, Monday, handcuffed, a white

1:13.0

cop kneeling on his neck, another cop, another cop doing nothing for minutes. What is Floyd

1:20.7

doing? Some of it is there. Pleading, I can't breathe, begging that he would comply, begging

1:29.0

for his mother, and then he died. Floyd's family has called for murder charges against the

1:35.4

four officers involved in his arrest. The officers were fired quickly. The question now

1:41.1

is, were there actions too much to keep them as police, but not enough to be crimes? Here's

1:47.8

the US attorney for Minnesota tonight. I cannot emphasize enough how important it is

1:55.6

that all your ducks are in a row before you make that charging decision, but you can't

2:02.0

undo what you've done if you rush. But if you take that time, you're going to do it right

2:07.9

the first time and you're going to get it done the first time. The Hennepin County prosecutor

2:14.0

is asking the public also to be patient. That video is graphic and horrific and terrible

2:22.3

and no person should do that. But my job in the end is to prove that he violated a criminal

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