Putting police on trial

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🗓️ 9 April 2021

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Summary

This week in the Derek Chauvin murder trial, officers and medical experts testified on the cause of George Floyd’s death. And why it’s so hard to prosecute police officers.

During the second week of the Derek Chauvin murder trial, prosecutors focused on two subjects: how the former officer’s tactics, denounced by fellow police officers on the stand, did not align with his training; and what was happening biologically to George Floyd in the key moments before his death. Holly Bailey reports from Minneapolis.

Brown University associate professor Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve on the interdependence between prosecutors and police officers – and why it means that officers rarely face consequences in excessive-use-of-force cases.

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0:35.8	It's Friday, April 9th.
0:40.4	Today, what happened this week in the Derek Chauvin murder trial and why it's so hard to prosecute police.
0:52.9	So, Holly, when we last heard from you about the Chauvin trial, you talked about how
0:58.4	we were hearing a lot from the bystanders who were at the scene when George Floyd died.
1:04.7	For the past week, since then, what is the theme of the testimony that we've been seeing?
1:09.8	Well, the prosecution shifted their case into two different subjects.
1:15.3	Holly Bailey is a national correspondent for the post.
1:18.8	The first was it went into Derek Chauvin's policing and so we heard from and what was a really
1:26.5	striking few days of testimony. Just several Minneapolis police officers, including the police
1:33.2	chief Madera Arradondo, taking the stand and talking about Derek Chauvin and how the maneuver
1:40.5	that he performed on George Floyd, the knee to the neck, the knee to the back,
1:45.2	and holding him in a prone position for nearly 10 minutes was not anything that was
1:52.0	according to Department policy and it wasn't a trained move. And then they went into the investigation
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