Of 4 Police Officers being fired for what appears to be a strangulation death of a suspect who was africanamerican the story is already making headlines all over the world and and this is the image thats already become iconic take a look at this picture right there this is really an important image and there you see it you see you see the officers knee with what appears to be his full weight pressing down on the suspects neck while the suspect is on the ground and handcuffed with this is say the officer held his knee on the suspects neck despite pleadings from the suspect and from bystanders for their part the officers are heard on the video suggesting that they tried to put the suspect in the cruiser but they were unable to do so. Also as we look at this image its important to note that the reason that this suspect is being arrested is because a merchant called police accusing him the suspect now identified as george floyd who you see right there with the officers knee on his neck trying to pay with a 20. 00 bill but the merchant believes it was counterfeit so thats what started all of this ok what i want to do now for you strange show you part of the actual video and look this goes on for quite some time ive watched it many many times and its tough to look at and the reason i find it tough to look at and i think the reason even though im not showing you the whole thing youre going to find it tough to look at is because it seems on its face the feeling you get as you watch it is that its cruel but its just extremely cruel to see a man suffering like that but if the officer is holding his knee down on floyds neck we can repeatedly hear and its clear that we hear him saying many many many times i cant breathe i cant breathe sir i cant breathe he says it let me play part of this video for you so you could hear yourself. And you could almost see the officer right you could you could almost see him there taking the weight off of his ankle and applying it on the suspects neck they held him down for a process of approximately 5 minutes thats according to witnesses thats according to Police Officials who have come out today and now its also important to note i think this is important that the maneuver that is the maneuver that is being used by the Police Officer with his knee on floyds neck that you just saw right there and said no way sanction by any Police Procedure and thats why when the when the police chief of minneapolis saw this video that we just showed you he saw the entire thing obviously many times he immediately called the f. B. I. And turned over the investigation to the f. B. I. And to the state bureau of criminal apprehension said within hours all 4 Police Officers on the scene were fired. Still as you might imagine the anger look at this frustrations in the air touched off by this incident it remains palpable thousands of people interestingly both black and white some sad some angry came to the area from where where where where mr floyd lost his life and theyre there to protest many of them ask why this type of incident continues to occur time after time in america where more often than not the suspect or the victim is africanamerican. Were going to drill down on this for you on what police did and also what they failed to do here on the news of rick sanchez where we believe its time to do news again. 5 minutes after the hour of 5 pm on the east coast of the United States of america and here is our list of the questions we think you will be asking tomorrow d why would no one in a uniform recognize a suspect in the process of dying a major space x. Launch cancel whats next and what kind of nasa astronaut tell us about why it was scrubbed and how important this launch is. So lets begin though with the question that Many Americans continue to ask themselves why does this keep happening why do we continually have to report on and students that seem to depict Law Enforcement officers in america treating africanamerican suspects suspects differently than they would treat other suspects and where in cases like this one and its one in minneapolis that i just showed you that treatment often results in the suspects death. We have an. Coming up here what police may have done wrong maybe what they should have done right but we want to start now with the facts of the story 1st and here to bring you that is our 2 correspondent Michelle Greene start. Hundreds of people packing the streets of minneapolis Holding Signs that say black lives to Matter Police responding with tear gas. The spark to these protests was the death of a man named george floyd which occurred as a Police Officer handcuffed floyd pinned him to the ground and kept his knee on it for at least 7 minutes in a video that made the rounds on social media and in the news floyd can be heard saying i cant breathe officer and begging dont kill me. By standers tell the officer to let floyd briefing hes not responsive right now hes not even moving and checked his pulse but the officer keeps his body weight on floyds neck until he stopped and for at least. 3 i. Could breathe. Breathe. Well floyd died in Police Custody its unclear at this point if lloyd die due to suffocation choking or Something Else the Police Statement however says that floyd appeared to be suffering medical distress and that he died after being transported to the hospital for now the medical Examiners Office says that autopsy results are quote pending further testing and investigation minneapolis mayor jacob phrase stated that the incident does not reflect the values of the Police Department as for the 4 officers involved in floyds death they were at 1st relieved of duty status with pay but as the. Mayor then announced they had. When fired i believe what i saw and what was wrong at every level no charges have been filed against the. Family said they want him charged with murder. All right so there you have it joining us now is overtired u. S. Marshal matthew fog marshall thanks so much for joining us sure we appreciate you sharing your expertise with us which is really important right now lets start with this so i heard the i watch the video many times you probably have to and i heard the alter say that they tried to put him in the cruiser but they were on able to put them in the cruiser does that explain what they did then by holding him down in the way that they did can you make us understand that or make sense of that for d us. Right rick ive been to the nets the federal Law Enforcement training cynical george ive trained but Law Enforcement officers around prince ive been on the job for 30 years theres no place in our training where. To take your knee and put it on smythe neck you can subdue them you can hold them down but. The way this guy he. Did in a man is saying i cant breathe it takes me back there and god in new york hes saying i cant and the guy that chokehold outlaws out of this particular. Thing that he did put its knee on the neck there is nothing we have. So we are right. In the fact that that man is saying i cant breathe you know it really bothers me is that. The of the round and watch this they knew. But i didnt mind it a one off to stand in that he wanted down and man let up but he didnt because he didnt want other people to feel like that well we saw no theres no theres nothing to not training that allows that and what happens is it just shows that disregard for life procedures. How we should be doing things and what happens is a lot of these also one of jobs they get all the training and i always say yes but you know i like training this is how we do it here i have 2 questions for you the 1st one is explain to us what they should have done ok you have a large maybe hes physical but a lot of people are you cant get him into the cruiser what are you supposed to do that. You hold them down like they were doing and. This wasnt like it was somebody had a gun or something and sometimes you want to have to you know youve got to have some type of promise a shot in sort of mitigate the circumstance down to where the person gets up and you walk when you get off the vehicle and get out the car it was like that man was really. Good all. The way so the problem is the problem is that the the knee on the neck that youre saying having him down is not a problem putting your knee out of his neck minutes thats the problem. When hes saying i cannot breathe when the moment he said i cant breathe the oxygen. Off of his neck should have back the way he kept saying to the point the way to make him stand i cant even if they say for some reason or another that a particular one causes for us that something this will still behave in x. Is nothing less than a. Minute it should be aggravated assault and the police should have shot of these officers right away because in a command environment the only way you can keep control and you have to have swift action it doesnt mean necessarily you can be the victim which they should be but the bottom line is it should be swift action ok should have been shot but there is i mean considering the history of these types of things this is swift action within hours they were fired within less than a half hour the police call the f. B. I. And told them to investigate and now it looks like the into the this is different than other cases weve seen though isnt it martial. Law. I dont know if this is different but it said new york would mind me of the same thing the case of bad what would it mean to say he was injured in the us has just grown to want to sing or when were getting these cases where people tell you youre being held here are hurting me and i have since i dont care so i think what happens here is thats what everybody is looking at the man told him many times i cant breathe you are hurting me and also just didnt care at all doing what you did excellent conversation thanks for your expertise thanks for sharing that information with us we appreciate it marshall. And you know this is the news of great sanchez where we bring you the story sure out today every day whether youre watching us on regular t. V. Or on the portable t. V. Were so glad youre there and were going to be right back. To International Memorial awards are now open for entries. 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Already yes we are steve christakis is joining us now to talk about the world of sports a little bit of a more somber perhaps newsies subject today given that after today seem to be recognizing our lead story the whole country is talking about its not just the bron james of the world its everybody this incident that happened with an officer holding his need to africanamerican mans neck in minneapolis apparently causing the mans death at least thats what it appears to where it has a lot of people talking and its salient in the world of sports because its well youre seeing a lot of former n. F. L. Star quarterback collin kapur next image being plastered all over social media in the past 48 hours since this happened with as you mentioned lebron james one of the main superstars right now currently in the world in the sports world and he put it on his own instagram and it speaks volumes its a very powerful image showing what you describe as that. Officer putting his knee on the neck of george floyd there and ultimately killing him you know interesting as i look at that i cant help myself i apologize for doing this and interrupting you but you know whats funny as i look at the juxtaposition of that picture look at that picture steve wright they both guys are on their knees yes both men are on their knees and one of them is on his knee because hes trying to make a point about something he thinks is wrong right the other one is on his knee. Holding his knee over the throat of a africanamerican man that he may have had something to do with his death exact thats that thats that its really its bone jarring to look at that it really is just 3 simple words added to this is why it speaks volumes and of course a broad captured caption to it saying do you understand now or is it still blurred stay woke because basically. Started this movement back in 20152016 hes been blackballed ever since from the n. F. L. He hasnt played a snap in almost 4 years now and its arguable that you know people could argue whether hes good enough to play in the n. F. L. Or not but its no surprise its no secret that the owners do have some sort of coalition about not picking him up on a team and i was a vendetta against exactly we could have put you on the team because you spoke up he silently knew and either way to be fair to him and whether you agree with his cause or not he did so in the tradition of others like mohammad ali there. Who when mohammad ali finally passed and in his later years we cherished him as one of the greatest americans who ever lived but when mohammad ali said im not going to go to vietnam because those folks in vietnam have never called me the n word. He was put in prison i mean he was literally jacked up for that and you know what today we call him a brave and courageous man who took a stand who at the time he lost his ability to fight right right yeah he was sanctioned by. Boxing and they essentially said youre basically banned from boxing youre not going to boxing and that was kind of the capper and it kind of you know muhammad ali is one of those trailblazers and cabernets carrying that torch on saying you know believe in something if even if it means sacrificing everything which he ultimately has because like i said he hasnt been able to play in the n. F. L. And that was his career he was really good he made it to the super bowl we all know this about college happening and everybody wants to focus on but actually putting his delivery is not very good but thats what. As it was during the National Anthem is why so many critic no no no im saying it takes them too long to throw a football you know not have a Quick Release ok lets go back what he said more to. The fact that he wouldnt deal doing a silent protest during the National Anthem rubbed a lot of wrong people wrong way and a lot of people critics would say hes disrespecting them because it was never about the because thats what happens in America Today youll have fox news saying this guy is a monster he should never have done that then you have the other side on the left essentially trying to say that you know every Police Officer in the world is bad just because there are some bad cops out there which there are all cops are bad and the whole industry of policing in america as is racist which is also not true so unfortunately we live during a time and you know we this is weird that you and i have this conversation you know the news guy and the sports guy but we live in a time in america where were so fragmented because we have a guy trying to make a pitch trying to make an audi you know a message and. Which is viable in of itself and worthy of criticism and then you have Police Officers who are obviously viable but worthy of criticism when we will do that its all either this or that with nothing in the middle right and thats where we should live in the middle its just people should try to understand what like le bron posted in that picture he posted that is why that exact image of the white officer on that africanamerican mans neck killing him subsequently is why i callate happened it took that stance and other athlete is why did i cross that this must be just a fly in that whatever sure its the split screen of the officer and these other athletes took to twitter as well i mean its going across and people are outraged obviously and when somebody like le bron is a superstar to put on social media others follow suit and people need to be outraged by this for others too when you have a platform like that i think as athletes its good to you know voice that opinion so other people kind of wake up and be like you know what this does need to be looked into this isnt right maybe copper didnt go it will get another shot this year maybe i doubt it but maybe this will open the door either way ranks good conversation thanks that was smart. Ok we have an opportunity now to do some kind of special bat is a former International Space station commander leroy chiao and were so glad that we have im here because of whats going on right there there is the walkway that theyre going to try and remove the astronauts from these 2 poor guys have been sitting there for quite some time they were i why did they take so long to get them out of there after theyve scrubbed this launch. You know and ive been through a lot more on my 3rd Shuttle Mission we scripted a number of times it just takes time to see to be able and you know make it you know make sure that it should see t