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The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell
Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW
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🗓️ 17 June 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Now, it's time for the last word with Ali Velshi in for Lawrence. |
| 0:03.3 | Good evening, Ali. |
| 0:04.3 | They didn't take their last opportunity to rethink, think a bill that they had a veto |
| 0:08.2 | proof majority on. |
| 0:09.2 | I loved your conversation with Philip Atiba Gough, though, about Minneapolis. |
| 0:12.8 | He made an interesting point. |
| 0:13.8 | He said, if you're worrying about police forces that are bad in America, Minneapolis doesn't |
| 0:18.9 | top 50, doesn't crack the top 50. |
| 0:22.8 | But he said, if you go three consent decrees at a time, which is kind of roughly the |
| 0:27.2 | average these days, there are very few under the Trump administration at all because |
| 0:31.1 | the Trump administration simply didn't believe in that sort of thing. |
| 0:33.7 | It's going to take us decades or millennia to figure this out. |
| 0:38.6 | millennia. |
| 0:39.6 | It's, you know, he was right in saying it's better than not having them, but it's a slow |
| 0:44.7 | process. |
| 0:45.7 | I believe the technical term is drop in a bucket, but that doesn't mean it's not worth |
| 0:49.3 | talking about. |
| 0:50.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:51.3 | One of the things that did make Minneapolis interesting, though, is that the fundamental |
| 0:53.4 | problem on that police force was the union chief. |
| 0:56.9 | And that is the case in many American police forces. |
| 1:00.7 | The police chief, even at the time of George Floyd, the mayor, the governor, they were all |
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