MN officer charged with third-degree murder, manslaughter; Charging doc: Officer had knee on Floyd’s neck for 8 minutes, Floyd was non-responsive for nearly 3 minutes; Trump fails to mention George Floyd or Minneapolis protests during Rose Garden statement; 15 states trending up in cases; 10 flat; 25 seeing a drop;
The Lead with Jake Tapper
CNN
3.5 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Prosecutor “anticipates” charges against officers involved; Fires, protests in Minneapolis as outrage spreads across U.S.; Floyd preliminary autopsy: “No physical findings that support a diagnosis of traumatic asphyxia or strangulation; 8pm curfew announced for Minneapolis; Trump calls protesters “thugs”; uses historically racist phrase “when the looting starts, the shooting starts”; Trump’s pattern of racist remarks continues with “thug” tweet; Charlottesville “fine people” on both sides, told Reps. to “go back” to where they came from; CA Gov Newsom: L.A. County can reopen restaurants & salons;
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| 0:00.0 | This is |
| 0:02.0 | is CNN Breaking News. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome to the lead. I'm Jake Tapper and we begin today with |
| 0:08.0 | breaking news in our national lead. |
| 0:10.0 | Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is now in custody and |
| 0:14.3 | is being charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter for the killing of |
| 0:19.1 | George Floyd. Chauvin was the officer who kneeled on the neck of Floyd an unarmed black man for more than eight minutes as Floyd begged that he could not breathe. |
| 0:29.0 | Soon after, Floyd obviously had been killed, The charging document spelling out that Floyd |
| 0:34.6 | was non-responsive for almost three minutes before Chauvin removed his knee from |
| 0:40.4 | Floyd's neck. The prosecutor in the case also saying that he anticipates |
| 0:43.9 | charges for the other police officers involved. This comes as new video of |
| 0:48.6 | the incident has emerged and I want to warn our viewers this video is graphic it appears to start earlier |
| 0:54.3 | than the video many of us have previously seen you can see in the video that it |
| 0:59.3 | looks as though three officers are holding Floyd down not just officer |
| 1:03.5 | Chauvin. CNN has reached out to the Minneapolis Police Department and the |
| 1:07.6 | Floyd family about the video. We have not yet received a response. We will bring |
| 1:12.1 | that to you when we get one. Let's go straight now to |
| 1:14.3 | a scene and Sarah Sidener. She's live for us in Minneapolis and Sarah we're |
| 1:17.0 | learning more about what happened from the charging document. Tell us more. |
| 1:21.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:24.0 | Look, you had mentioned it and I just want to kind of go through a bit of it for you right now, Jake. |
| 1:28.8 | The new details that we're seeing from these charging documents, but these you could count out yourself it says |
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