allows us to rededicate ourselves to the real societal change that will move us much further along the road to justice. i m not talking about the kind of change that takes decades. i m talking about real change, concrete change that real people can do now. i m talking to lawmakers. at this historic moment, there is so much legislation around the country in city councils, county boards, state legislatures and congress that is still waiting to be passed. if these bills were passed, they would make the deaths at the hands of law enforcement officers less likely, would improve police community relations, would restore trust and therefore cooperation, improve the lives of officers who want to protect and serve and make everyone safer. every one of these bills at every level of government is critical for helping our
0 for them. all right. our coverage also will continue. the breaking news, derek chauvin, former minneapolis police officer has now been sentenced to 22 and a half years for the murder of george floyd. our coverage continues now with jake tapper. this is cnn breaking news. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper, and we start with the breaking news in our national lead. just moments ago we heard former minneapolis police officer derek chauvin s sentence to 22 and a half years in prison for the second-degree murder of george floyd in may 2020. and announcing his sentence, the judge acknowledged the pain of the floyd family and their struggles over the last year. he also said his sentence was based solely on legal facts, not on emotion, not on sympathy, not on public opinion. prosecutors had asked for chauvin to serve at least 30 years, while chauvin s defense team argued that chauvin should get probation or a lighter sentence. chauvin, of course, was convicted on three charges in a
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with the family in and out a lot. and the overwhelming just for the record the overwhelming majority of the protests in minnesota were very peaceful. that s correct. and the overwhelming majority of those were calling for peaceful protests. that s exactly right. so this effort by some to criminalize all of the protesters is an erroneous claim. there are those that will take advantage of it. to be very clear, we ve caught them and prosecuted those. those that came to commit arson, they weren t there about george floyd. they weren t there for justice. they were there to cause that that was a small percentage of them. we have to figure out how do we strike that proper balance to create safety amongst folks who are out there, because it is the folks in the street that are bringing change in the state house. it is the folks in the street who are keeping the pressure up to make a difference. and for us to not allow them a safe place to do that will make it more difficult to chang
have an epidemic of gun violence that is unfolding. you both i think almost an acceptance of violence in black communities, gun violence in black communities at the same time that we see ongoing police brutality. so what i say to my constituents is that we have to use our power to not just talk about this, but to get policy change. and then we have to build our power a so that we can get the real change that we need over the long run. do you have hope that there can be some meeting of the ground with a solid meaningful legislation passing the senate, and that we will get past the impasse that whatever senator scott is trying to get his colleagues and himself to do and yet come with something that really means something of substance in terms of addressing this real problem. but you have to have hope, or you don t have the momentum. you don t have the energy to keep on trying and to keep on working. i believe that senator scott is