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Pursuit of meaningful change both in the wake of george floyd step and in the midst of a larger legacy of Racial Injustice in this country. I want to thank you all for joining and i want to thank jean henning for her organizing the series. Let me introduce the moderator of todays roundtable repressor Christy Lopez. Professor lopez joined our faculty in january 2017 right after completing a federal investigation of the Chicago Police department will goodwill serving of the Department Just a Civil...

Transparency through Data Collection, and Reform Police training and policies. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to House Resolution 1017, the amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the committee on the judiciary, printed in the bill, modified by the amendment printed in part d of report 116 436 is adopted and the bill as amended is considered as read. The bill as amended shall be debatable for four hours equally divided among and controlled by the chair and Ranking Member of the ...

The distribution list dedicating for written materials the members might want to offer as part of the hearing today. If you would like to submit submit seven materials, send them to the email address distributed to your offices and we will distribute them as quickly as we can. In light of what is going on in the world today, i ask everyone in the room where a mask at all times, except when you are speaking. Other then if you are a speaker, when you are speaking, i witnessed when you were speakin...

The House Committee on the judiciary will come to order. Without objects in the chair is authorized to declare recesses of the committee at any time. We welcome everyone to this hearing on policing practices and Law Enforcement accountability. I thank all of our members and witnesses for participating, both in person and remotely. I appreciate all the work that went into making use of this room and the technology we are using possible. Before we begin i would like to remind members we have estab...

[murmuring] the committee will be in order, we will now proceed with questions. I will begin by recognizing myself or five minutes. On may 25, in the twilight of memorial day, Derek Chauvin of the Minneapolis Police held a need to george mr. Floydonless neck, pleaded for release, repeating the words i cant breathe. Mr. Floyd, i am sure you have seen the video. Can you think of any reason why officer chauvin would need to hold his knee on your brothers for over eight minutes . I dont know why he ...

Overnight, protests across the country including one in washington outside the white house were largely peaceful on a day when george floyd was honored at a Memorial Service in North Carolina where he was born. We will have more in a live report and we will talk to the mayor of st. Paul, minnesota, who is the son of a Police Officer, about the practical changes that may come of this moment. Later in our spotlight, harry smith looks at the history of protests in america, turning energy in the str...

Rest of the country letting more businesses reopen. Why some experts are worried as cases increase in parts of america. And the world through spike lees lens. We talk to the oscar winner about his new film on the vietnam war and what it means to do the right thing in a new era of protest. Hes got lots to say. First, heres todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. This is the most horrific tragedy ive ever personally observed. George floyd is going to change the arc of the future of the United...

The House Committee on the judiciary will come to order. Without objections, the chair is authorized to declare recesses of the committee at any time. We welcome everyone to this hearing on policing practices and Law Enforcement accountability. I thank all of our members and witnesses for participating, both in person and remotely. I appreciate all the work that went into making use of this room and the technology we are using possible. Before we begin, i would like to remind members we have est...

Asleep, remember, and was clearly startled, reached for a gun. A gun. He had a legal permit to carry. When he did, police shot him to death. It all took less than 15 seconds. His mother spoke to my colleague. Just minutes ago. I want everybody to know that my son is going to make sure that everybody across the United States is going to be able to sleep on the couch without having to be worried about being executed by the police. Yes. Yes. Friday, minneapolis mayor announced a moratorium on no kn...

Asleep, remember, and was clearly startled, reached for a gun. A gun. He had a legal permit to carry. When he did, police shot him to death. It all took less than 15 seconds. His mother spoke to my colleague. Just minutes ago. I want everybody to know that my son is going to make sure that everybody across the United States is going to be able to sleep on the couch without having to be worried about being executed by the police. Yes. Yes. Friday, minneapolis mayor announced a moratorium on no kn...