Today on Velshi protests against police violence erupted overnight in cities across the country.

In the shadow of the Derek Chauvin trial, multiple other police killings are driving people into the streets, demanding justice.

Plus, the very first flip in the Capitol Riot case will have the latest on the central character agreeing to cooperate and why he may

have to go into the witness protection program for doing so. And watch what happens when we no

longer have a president who's beholden to elicit meddling by foreign adversaries. Velshi

starts now. Good morning. It is Saturday, April the 17th. I'm Ali Valshi. We begin today's show,

bearing witness, multiple police killings, all caught on camera. In the end, one looming

question, will this cycle ever come to an end? After more than three weeks, the trial of Derek Chauvin is nearing its conclusion, and now the waiting begins.

A verdict could very well come within the next week, meaning that at this time next week, after a trial which has exemplified the bearing of witness, America could be a very different place. Or perhaps not. About 10 miles

north of Minneapolis, in the town of Brooklyn Center, there was another night of unrest as

demonstrators took to the streets outside the police station for the sixth straight night following

the police killing of Dante Wright, a 20-year-old black man, where the officer, a 26-year veteran on the force,

says she mistook her handgun for her taser before fatally shooting right.

The now former officer, Kim Potter, has been charged with second-degree manslaughter.

The Hennepin County Medical Examiner's office has classified Dante Wright's death as a

homicide. A short clip of a body cam video released this week shows Wright tried to get back in his car

as Potter shouts, taser. Then she shoots Wright with her handgun and can later be saying, quote,

holy expletive. I just shot him. The situation last night was mostly peaceful

early on, however, tensions escalated later into the evening, with some people reportedly

throwing bottles and other objects at police and others attempting to breach the security fence

that's been established outside the police station. Officials later declared that part of

the situation a riot,

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