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MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video) - 01-27-2025-225309

MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video)

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4.412.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Through her unique approach to storytelling, Rachel Maddow provides in-depth reporting to illuminate the current state of political affairs and reveals the importance of transparency and accountability from our leaders. Maddow works with unmatched rigor and resolve to explain our complex world and deliver news in a way that's illuminating and dynamic, connecting the dots to make sense of complex issues. Maddow also conducts thoughtful interviews with individuals at the center of current news stories to provide important perspective.

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0:00.0

Thanks to you at home for joining us here tonight. Really happy to have you here. So this is Jasper County, Indiana.

0:05.0

It's a mostly rural county in northwest Indiana. The closest big city is Chicago, but Chicago is like 80, 90 miles away.

0:14.0

Yesterday, around 4 in the afternoon in Jasper County, Indiana, a sheriff's deputy pulled over a car in a traffic

0:22.2

stop. And we don't know what the traffic stop was for. And we don't know yet exactly

0:26.7

what happened during that traffic stop. But something happened during the traffic stop

0:32.2

that made the sheriff's deputy decide that the man he pulled over is someone who he should arrest.

0:41.0

Now, the man who was pulled over by the sheriff's deputy, according to police, he had a gun

0:45.8

with him at the time he was pulled over. And again, according to police, when that sheriff's

0:52.4

deputy decided that he was going to arrest that man,

0:56.2

there was then an altercation of some kind. There was a fight of some kind.

1:00.9

And the sheriff's deputy ended up shooting that man and killing him.

1:05.7

Now, the sheriff's deputy is on leave while the incident is under investigation.

1:09.1

There's a lot that we don't know.

1:16.6

For example, the police are saying the man who was shot was armed, that he had a gun with him when he was pulled over. We don't know if that's relevant to the altercation. We don't know if the sheriff's deputy knew there was a gun.

1:22.6

We don't know if the guy pulled the gun on the officer. We don't yet know the details of what happened. But we do know that the man who was pulled over is dead now. Police say he resisted arrest. The sheriff's deputy ended up shooting him as he was resisting arrest, per the police's description of the event. We also know that that man who got shot in that traffic arrest yesterday in Indiana, just

1:46.4

last week, he was pardoned by Donald Trump for his crimes on January 6th.

1:52.6

The man had apparently traveled to Washington for the January 6th event with his uncle.

1:58.2

His uncle got two and a half years in prison for assaulting law enforcement with a

2:02.8

dangerous weapon. He was seen with an upside down flagpole, appearing to hit an officer with it.

2:09.0

His nephew, the man who was killed yesterday when that sheriff's deputy tried to arrest him

2:14.0

in a traffic stop, the man's nephew ended up serving six months for what he did on January 6th.

2:20.9

He got out of jail in July. He was then on supervised release until last week when his conviction and all the terms of his release were wiped off the slate by an unconditional pardon from Donald Trump.

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