Former Attorney General Eric Holder talks to Lawrence O'Donnell about George Floyd's death and expresses his concerns about Attorney General Barr stepping in to supervise the investigation. Aired on 5/28/2020.
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Holder On George Floyd's Fatal Arrest: It's 'Taking Me Back' To Ferguson | The Last Word | MSNBC
As a former police officer, the arrest of George Floyd was an absolute tragedy. Based on what is shown on the videos, there was clearly excessive force used in making the arrest. Those officers should be held to account, not just fired. They should be arrested and tried, which was more (unfortunately) than Floyd got.
Thank you for talking out about this. We need more like you, Sir.
Carl A you don’t need to idolize the government. Wake up. People die because of idolatry like yours. It’s insanity. Just stop.
@ken evans they must be related to u
@C J you sound TOO stoooopid! My Floyd did NOT have a fair trial. Better yet, NO TRIAL. Are you BALL-LESS? why am i asking the obvious…I SOUND LIKE CJ NOW!!!EEEEEEWWW
@Charles L Jones 👏👏👏👍👍👍😡female USAF
This reminds me of the Watts riots.
I didn’t see any roof Koreans with uzis in minnesota 😆
Make Minneapolis Baltimore again!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVxeW1WLWpY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g89L8wVK6BY
Nah buddy I know for a fact with empirical hard data that the Republikkkans are responsible and push for slave labor quotas in the private prison industry. In my former private practice in Washington D.C. I was privy to some information…
Unrest been happening since the Boston Tea Party.
Not anything like it ! The whole country is out of work and hungry now. It wasn’t like this then.
Officers taking a 5th why not put them in cuffs & put a knee on their neck till they talk.
John DeMarco Jr all cops are either insane with evil power or going along. Better??
@Petronius Arbiter
Thats the kinda commentary that makes me have no sympathy when they waste a jogger
Put the knee on their neck until they DIE.
@John DeMarco Jr yea ALL PIGS.
That’s funny cuz Cops will go down the list violating your civil rights to get you to incriminate yourself. But when they’re the suspect, they do everything in their power to cry violation and demand their civil rights not be compromised. Surely, video evidence is more concrete than a psychologically forced “false” confession
These headlines are great. “Fatal arrest” I believe you mean murdered by pig MSNBC
This reminds me of wag the dog
Guilt by association. The other police should be arrested as well.
Yup ,JUST like they do NIQQAS,ifu was there then U in trouble, period!!💯💯
I basically agree but I don’t think they should be charged with murder. Well… I suppose it COULD in theory be a “felony murder” where they were apart of the other cop’s “crew” and a murder was committed by one of them, meaning the ability to convict them of some kind of murder charge. In fact, you would basically have to charge them with a HIGHER charge than the officer who killed them is getting, which would be preposterous. I’ve heard some suggest probation and they did already lose their jobs. I want to hold them accountable, but at the same time, they may have looked the other way but that doesn’t really make them just as guilty. It’s tough.
The only question i ask myself is “WHO IS NEXT ? “cause this situation has been going on for a longtime but nothing has been done
Lots of hollow words from people who have the power to make a tangible change, I think the protests/riots were a long time coming.
Thierry Ngah 😢😪🤧😤😡🤬🤯
Obama Signed the “BLUE BILL THAT PROTECTED THIS POLICE WHILE THEY BRAKE THE LAW AND VIOLATE HUMAN RIGHTS!
@Karen Shelton 😢😢😢😢
Karen Shelton Obama’s Presidency was covered by slick words. We were warned against believing in people like him.
There is “probable cause” to make the arrest now.
Then what? See my previous comment.
Video evidence is everything. They have it, they saw it, it was murder. A 4 year old could see that.
Fred Pearson arguably though a 4th grader shouldn’t see it considering that it’s a dying man right lol omg
@Th3MadDabb3r 4th graders should see so they are aware that the pigs are their enemies.
There was video evidence for the Rodney King assault, too.
This has happened before.
The media will drop the story as soon as it stops generating views.
True
Hmm I dunno they have 3 more min they can squeeze out of this. 1 being when they release the fact there was resisting and 2 riots when he’s charged with less than murder.
I don’t think the can now the riots have started if they all of the suddenly stopped this story I’m sure the good ..👺👺👎 president will reminds us on his famous Twitter fued how stupid a acting president threatens to close down soicial media at a time of a global major pandemic when information is key to keeping updated on were the hotspots are. What does he want the world to get more waves of infection come on me trump u only have tell November to show us you care. Stop picking fights with Twitter. He had way more cash than you lol does that upset you
Can u imagine all the enemies trump has made since comming to power ohhhh wait tell November when he goes back to just plain old business man .. I wonder how many billionaires will use trump tower then.. hehe wait and see
So NBC getting information from a Gun Runner….
a bush gun runner…do a fact check
The Officers belong jail, just like a civilian would be. Double standards.
DOUBLE MINDED MEN WITH DOUBLE STANDARDS! Believe they are ABOVE THE LAWS!
This needs to be war. This government is all insane. It’s not just the cops, it’s everybody. They are against people.
DD_Ranch Texas that’s not true, all governments are above the law. They just use their system to destroy the people & if they get caught, they get themselves out. This system is not just broken it is insane & must be changed before the violence to confront it becomes out of control. The system needs to admit that it is the only criminal here.
Petronius Arbiter: I said nothing about governments being above the
law. You must be responding to someone else………
Only corrected the mistaken notion that cops are not civilians.
@Douglas Berard you’re stupid.
Uncivilized the whole reason for covid-19
Prosecutor: We’re gonna have to build this case….
Social Media: “Here’s the tape”
Case Closed
The entire system works to grow the system by destroying people’s lives.
Myron Smith people almost always: ok
So build the case AFTER YOU ARREST THE SUSPECT OF MURDER !!!
@Judith Wake District Attorney: I’m sorry maam, that’s not how our injustice system works. If you have any useful information you’d like to share, here’s my card. That’s the number to my disconnected line, you wont be able to reach me there. Thank you for your concern, thoughts & prayers.
@09lowkey exactly
Them cuffs was to tight from the beginning, then 3 officers hold our brother down 1with his knee on his neck. His body was hurting.😢
😭
Not the first offence of using excessive force by the SAME officer:
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Holder on George Floyd: it’s taking me back to Fast and Furious. Those were the golden days. Memories. Gang bangers with machine guns paid for by hard working Americans. Aaahhhh
Thanks for deleting my comments YOUTUBE – YOU’RE PART OF THE PROBLEM, TOO🖕🏽
Jan J
Abbreviate or shorten words having to do with Skin color. Razist the z instead of the C uh Chna. For the virus cv19 or Mexican beer flu. Unsure what you tried to say but list some I’m not sure YT likes.
I’m sure what was said was something really inspiring. 😂🤣😂🤣
When the FBI comes in and says that we are going to take as long as we want to investigate a videotaped murder it is time for the FBI that clearly wants riots that will hurt Trump to be disbanded and have all FBI buildings imploded.
No, Ferguson was a false narrative about “he had his hands up” that you and Obama legitimized.
This was real unprovoked police brutality that ended with death.