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Welcome to TYT. I'm Anna Casperian joining us today is John Iderola because it's Wednesday

and I'm super excited to have you on the show there's so much to talk about John it's been since Friday

you know we last Friday I was on your show and that was when protests were really beginning to get larger

in the country in response to what happened to George Floyd and the stories definitely developed a lot

since then so I'm excited to have you on the main show. Yeah I'm excited to be here always fun I'm already

missing the days when Trump's biggest like threat to the American people is trying to get them to drink

bleach now he's bringing the tear gas to them I like the passive Trump more than the active clearing

out crowds Trump so it's been it's been an exciting time in America. Yeah well Trump is not to be

referred to as Trump anymore he should be called bunker boy for the rest of time only because

it gets under his skin probably more than anything we will give you an update to that story later on in the

show. I wanted to do a little more you know positive coverage today because there have been some

positive updates to the George Floyd story to the protests so we'll get to that we also have some

lighter stories related to the protests which I absolutely love you don't want to miss that either

but first why don't we start off with what I'd argue is the biggest development when it comes to the

prosecution of the cops involved in the George Floyd murder. So Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has

elevated the charges against Derek Chauvin that was the cop who murdered George Floyd in broad daylight by

killing on his neck for nearly nine minutes straight. Now not only will his third degree murder charge now be elevated to a

second degree murder charge the three other cops who were there on the scene are also facing charges so let me give you the details on that from some local news reporting.

The other former three officers by the way they've all been fired we all know that on the scene have been charged with each

have been charged with aiding in a betting second degree murder while committing a felony and with aiding in a betting second degree murder

manslaughter with culpable negligence both charges are categorized as unintentional felonies so you know I want to

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