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good afternoon. justice for one is justice for all. upon behalf of the over 66,000 mostly african american lawyers in this country and globally, we must support the passage of the george floyd justice and policing act. we don t have a choice. unless we want to see the carnage that we ve seen happen over and over and over again. and that s not acceptable. so, please call your senator and impress upon everybody in your community that we ve got to do this. we ve got to pass it. thank you. thank you. all right. we re going to just do this one time for his family back in houston and north carolina who couldn t be here, we re going to all raise our fists and say, say his name, gianna come up here, do you want to say his name and put your fist up. ....
House correspondent monica alba. still with us, msnbc correspondent trymaine lee, apologies to you for cutting you off to go to that. there was a connection between what you were reporting and that was the family of george floyd and that powerful moment where it was described that the president played with the daughter of george floyd, gianna floyd there. and checked on the family. basically what we were hearing from before we interrupted you. talk to us what this family means, this collective family means and the change we re beginning to see in the country. reporter: ayman, thank you so much. rightly so, so often we talk about the big picture, we talk about the 18,000 police departments all across the country, many of them need something sort of reform. we re thinking about the 200 black people killed by police between the day george floyd was murdered and the day that chauvin was found guilty. we think in terms of big pictures. what we saw right now it s about ....
on behalf of roxy, little baby and my partner, the president actually interacted and played with gianna. she had an absolute ball. it s a super happy day seeing her come out, she s still smiling. if everybody can come together, democrat or republican, pass the bill. if you care about the people, just get it passed. now, we will hear from tony ramenucci. good day, i think what s important commemorating the one-year date of george floyd s death. we need this bill passed. here s why we need it passed we need to protect lives as opposed to take life. we need people saved on the streets of our country as opposed to being unnecessarily shot by police. that s what s so important about this day. that s why i m so proud to be standing with the floyd family today, being a representative ....