Trial, Day 5: The dashcam and Diamond Reynolds

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🗓️ 6 June 2017

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

The jury is seated, the defense and prosecution have made their opening statements, and the first of the witnesses take the stand -- including the woman who brought this case to the attention of millions.

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0:00.0	The first trial of the former officers charged in the killing of George Floyd is underway.
0:06.0	Police officers are rarely prosecuted in such cases and the world will be watching.
0:11.0	The Minnesota Public Radio Newsroom which has followed this
0:14.3	case in detail from the beginning will bring listeners updates on this
0:18.3	monumental trial and the consequences it holds for the city and the country.
0:24.0	Listen to in front of our eyes, wherever you listen to podcasts.
0:30.0	This is 74 seconds. I'm Tracy Mumford. I'm here with Reham Fashir.
0:35.9	Reham, we're in day five of the Horano Yana's trial. He's the officer who shot and
0:40.9	killed Philando Castile during a traffic stop last July.
0:45.4	So after a week of jury selection, the trial got off to a really fast start today.
0:50.1	Yeah, it did.
0:51.0	The final jury was chosen.
0:52.4	The prosecution on the defense made their opening statements, and Diamond Reynolds was called to the stand. This was a huge day.
0:58.8	Yeah, a lot happened today. So let's just talk really quickly about the final jury and who is sitting on it.
1:04.4	Well, after they narrowed it down to 23, they began striking jurors.
1:08.7	The defense first wanted to get rid of an 18-year-old Ethiopian-American woman who said she didn't know a lot about the
1:15.1	criminal justice system but that she could follow and understand the rules of the
1:18.6	trial. The state challenged that strike and asked the defense to provide a non-racial reason.
1:24.1	We talked about this last episode.
1:26.7	The defense then argued that she wouldn't be able to understand a very complicated case and
1:31.3	therefore she wouldn't contribute to jury deliberation.
1:34.8	The judge didn't buy it.
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