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Morning Announcements

Thursday, April 1st, 2021

Morning Announcements

Betches

Politics, Daily News, News, News Commentary

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Today’s episode covers a number of headlines including the third day of the Derek Chauvin trial, Matt Gaetz' response to the DOJ investigation, Biden's additional actions to combat violence against AAPI communities, and COVID vaccine updates for teenagers ages 12 to 15. Then, we move over to New York's marijuana legalization, Russian hackers suspected of stealing thousands of State Department emails, and two Capitol police overs suing Trump over the January 6th riot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Today is Thursday, April 1st, and you're listening to The Morning Announcements.

0:07.1

I'm Sammy Sage.

0:11.2

Date booths an extremely emotional day where the prosecution brought more witnesses and

0:14.9

showed new body camera footage of Floyd's arrest.

0:17.8

They showed Officer Leane confronting Floyd in his parked car with a gun, telling him to

0:21.8

put his hands up without saying why.

0:24.2

In the footage you can hear Floyd saying, please don't shoot me man, I just lost my mom

0:28.0

man, plus several minutes of the officers trying to get Floyd into the car as he struggled

0:32.6

and said he was claustrophobic.

0:36.3

The footage also heard one witness, 61-year-old Charles McMillan, urging Floyd to cooperate

0:41.3

and saying that he can't win.

0:43.6

You can also hear Chauvin telling McMillan that we've got to control this guy because

0:47.4

he is a sizeable guy, looks like he is probably on something.

0:51.6

On the stand, McMillan broke down emotionally upon seeing the footage.

0:55.4

McMillan also revealed that he had interacted with Chauvin around the neighborhood five

0:59.4

days before Floyd's death.

1:01.2

He said that he had seen him in the community prior and that he had said to Chauvin,

1:05.2

Officer, at the end of the day, you go home to your family safe and let the next person

1:09.4

go home to their family safe.

1:11.8

We also saw security footage from inside cup foods and heard testimony from the clerk

1:15.9

who interacted with Floyd over the counterfeit $20 bill.

1:19.7

The clerk who's name was Chris Martin explained that if you were found to have accepted a counterfeit

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