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Anderson Cooper 360

Police Chief: Chauvin “absolutely” violated neck restraint policy

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

News

3.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo testified that former officer Derek Chauvin’s actions were “in no way, shape or form” proper and “absolutely” violated the department’s neck restraint policy. Former Washington DC Police Chief and Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey joins AC360 to discuss the police chief’s testimony. Plus, Michigan recently added more than 8,400 new Covid-19 cases in one day, the most since December. CNN Senior National Correspondent Miguel Marquez brings AC360 into a Michigan hospital that’s fighting its third coronavirus surge.   Airdate: April 5, 2021   Guests: Charles Ramsey Miguel Marquez 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

Good evening Republican lawmakers to clear Warren major league baseball after baseball moves

0:05.3

the All-Star game from Atlanta over George's new voting restrictions.

0:08.8

That is just ahead, but we begin with more with important testimony in the trial of fired

0:13.4

Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin taking the stand today, the doctor who tried

0:17.9

but could not save George Floyd's life and the police chief who told jurors that what

0:22.1

Chauvin did to Floyd went against Department policy training ethics and values.

0:26.7

He's seen as Omar Jimenez joins us with our coverage.

0:32.7

The start of week two of testimony and the current Minneapolis police chief takes the stand

0:37.6

in the trial of Derek Chauvin, his former officer.

0:40.9

Do you have a belief as to when this restraints, the restraints on the ground that you view

0:45.8

should have stopped?

0:47.8

Once Mr. Floyd had stopped resisting and certainly once he was indistressed and trying to verbalize

0:58.4

that to continue to apply that level of force to a person proneed out handcuffed behind

1:12.7

their back, that in no way she performed as anything that is by policy, is not part of our

1:23.6

training and is certainly not part of our ethics or values.

1:27.5

In late May, chief medaria Arradondo fired Chauvin and the three other officers involved

1:32.4

a day after the incident.

1:34.5

He wrote a letter weeks later reading in part, Chauvin knew what he was doing and what

1:39.1

happened to Mr. Floyd was murder.

1:41.8

So is it your belief then that this particular form of restraint, if that's what you, if

1:48.4

that's what we'll call it, in fact violates departmental policy?

1:53.1

I absolutely agree that violates our policy.

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