Police & protesters clash after Breonna Taylor grand jury decision; One-on-one interview with Cindy McCain; New CNN poll: Americans split on whether Trump’s appointments made Supreme Court better or worse; Senators challenge top public health leaders on virus response
The Lead with Jake Tapper
CNN
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🗓️ 23 September 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
No officers charged directly with Breonna Taylor’s death; New Covid cases trending up in 22 states; Fauci and Sen. Paul spar over herd immunity; CDC: thousands of flights may have been exposed to Covid; Redfield grilled over controversial CDC testing guidance; Surgeon General: “the virus doesn’t care about your politics”
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| 0:00.0 | This is CNN breaking news. |
| 0:04.0 | And welcome to the lead. I'm Jake Tapper and we're going to start with breaking news in our national lead. |
| 0:08.5 | Right now there is a very heated face-off going on between protesters and police in Kentucky were a grand jury |
| 0:15.4 | this afternoon indicted and the state attorney general charged one police |
| 0:19.6 | officer after the deadly police shooting of Brianna Taylor in Louisville back in March |
| 0:24.1 | but Taylor's family and those protesting are angry that no officers have been |
| 0:28.6 | charged with killing Brianna Taylor. Their lawyer is calling the decision by the Kentucky Attorney General |
| 0:35.0 | quote outrageous and offensive. The scene in Louisville is very tense in the last few minutes |
| 0:40.7 | it is escalated with large crowds of demonstrators filling |
| 0:43.8 | the streets and facing off against law enforcement officials police using |
| 0:47.8 | batons on the crowd even appearing to push down some protesters there's some |
| 0:52.2 | reports of pepper balls as well. The city |
| 0:54.7 | will go under a curfew at 9 p.m. this evening, we're told, with the National Guard on standby. |
| 1:00.1 | The grand jury did indict former Detective Brett Hankison on three charges of wanton endangerment. |
| 1:06.8 | That means he endangered people in other apartments when he fired 10 shots. |
| 1:11.7 | It's an action that got him fired back in June. The other two |
| 1:14.2 | officers who fired shots have not been charged and the attorney general says |
| 1:18.0 | his investigation found that their use of force was justified. |
| 1:23.3 | CNN's Chamon Prokebus is on the ground in Louisville, Kentucky. |
| 1:26.0 | And Chamon, a lot of disappointment among individuals who thought that there would be harsher |
| 1:30.5 | penalties for the officers who killed |
| 1:33.3 | Brianna Taylor who had done nothing wrong. What's going on where you are? |
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