>> A lawyer representing one of the cops who murdered George Floyd in broad daylight. Officer
Lane to be specific, is floating a potential defense of the cop and so, what is that defense
likely to be? This was reported by the Los Angeles Times and it gives you a sense of
how defense attorneys like to use any trace of any substance.
In the victim's system in order to have reasonable doubt or provide a seed of reasonable doubt,
so the defendants don't get convicted. So Earl Gray, yes, that is his name, is the attorney
representing Officer Lane. And he tells the Los Angeles Times, none of these guys, even
Chauvin actually killed him.
He killed himself, this is the direct statement from the attorney. The Times reports that
free to speak publicly since a judge lifted a gag order on all parties in the case. Attorney
Earl Grey said he plans to argue that Floyd died from an overdose of the powerful opioid
fentanyl and an underlying heart condition.
Gray was also by the way, part of the legal team that won the acquittal for the cop who
shot and killed Philando Castile. Which is honestly not a good sign but he does plan
on using the toxicology reports and the autopsies to help build his case. But really, both the
toxicology reports of the autopsy can be used by the prosecutors as well.
Because Floyd was pinned to the ground, there's no question about it and he was heard saying,
I can't breathe six times. Chauvin knelt on Floyd's neck, by the way for nine minutes
and 30 seconds. Which is 44 seconds longer than prosecutors initially alleged, so that's
actually a new piece of information here.
And the autopsy conducted by the county medical examiner's office found that the death was
caused by cardiopulmonary arrest while being restrained by law enforcement officers. A
second postmortem examination led by Dr. Michael Baden, an expert hired by the Floyd family
concluded that he was killed killed by asphyxiation.
So, I have some more details Cenk, but I wanted you to jump in.
>> Yeah, he killed himself by having a throat and once we crushed his throat, well, he died.
So, I guess that's his fault, right? For needing oxygen to live, so that is a horrible defense
and they actually do have a good defense, believe it or not, not Chauvin.
But I'll explain that in a second, but look you are not doing yourself any favors. If
you're a lawyer for those cops and you tell people, whatever, yeah you saw with your own
eyes. 9 minutes of 30 seconds of that guy kneeling on George Floyd neck and you saw
him die with your own eyes.
Because of it, live we all saw it, no don't believe your lying eyes, it was George Floyd's
fault, he killed himself. Okay, it's too barbaric for words, so now what on God's green earth
could be their defense? Well, there's a mild defensive of Lane and I don't even think it's
mild, I'd be surprised if he was convicted.
I'm not saying he should or should not be convicted, I'm just saying that it is very
hard to convict overall and very hard to convict a cop. And Lane did ask Chauvin to get up
off his neck, which is bad news for Chauvin. Because even his fellow cop was like, get
off his neck, and so that's going and they try and call them an ambulance.
So Lane has a much better case than Chauvin does. Now, when it comes to Chauvin, their
best defense is, and the lawyers are starting to do this, they're like, this is in the training
manual. They have pictures from the training manual of cops kneeling on people's necks.
And that's what I've been telling you for over a decade now, we keep arresting the cops.
And they get surprised when they get let off because their defense is, what do you mean?
That's my job, my job is to kill people who I feel like killing and they told me to target
Blacks and Latinos. I targeted Blacks and Latinos, they told me to kick the living crap
out of them and kneel on their neck.
So, I kicked the crap out of them and kneeled on their neck, and I got rewarded, I got promotions.
In the case of Chauvin, 18 different complaints and I was never told that it was wrong. I
kept getting rewarded for my actions, so the police department told me to abuse Black people
and that is true, it is true.
So, that's why we have to change the police departments and their culture, their training.
But none of the politicians will say it, it's easy to say, I feel so bad for Black people.
And my God, that was a bad apple and a bad cop, but I'm sure all the other cops are lovely.
But then they don't do anything about it and that same training is gonna kill more minorities
throughout this country. >> I actually wanted to give you the specific
details of what the training indicates. Because the wording even acknowledges what choking
someone would do, right? And so, here's what The Times reported, in his July 7th motion,
Gray included Minneapolis police training material on how to deal with an uncooperative
suspect in handcuffs.
A restraint position illustrated in a photograph closely resembles the method the officers
used. The instruction material also includes a warning, sudden cardiac arrest typically
occurs immediately following a violent struggle. So, they have the images of what they're trained
to do included in the training material. With this disclaimer, with this warning that just
perfectly acknowledges what's likely to happen.
And that's exactly what happened to George Floyd, obviously he didn't survive it and
I think you're right, Cenk. Remember when it comes to the burden of proof, it's a pretty
significant burden. Because if there's any reasonable doubt, then the jury cannot convict
the cop in this case, Officer Lane, right?
And so that's what the defense attorney is really relying on, planting that seed of reasonable
doubt. And by the way, a legal expert also spoke to the LA Times and said this. This
is not a slam dunk for the prosecution and not an easy case, especially for the higher-degree
homicide charges.
If this case goes to trial and an officer testifies on his own behalf, it is possible,
there is reasonable doubt there for jurors. >> So, what's actually crazy is that there's
two large camps, one large camp is, I don't care how the police training is. I just want
those particular police officers to go to jail, okay.
Then there's the camp that says, well, the training manual says they should do it, so
they're not guilty and they should be celebrated. How about the other camp? The camp that goes,
well then if the police training tells them to murder people, it even says this could
lead to their murder, right?
It can lead to sudden cardiac arrest, and then it tells them to do it. Then maybe we
should retrain all of the police in this country not to murder us. But that camp is tiny, that's
the smallest camp in the country and it holds almost no politicians. If you go to say hey,
look guys and it's not about the individuals, Progressives aren't saying, for example.
And I'm not saying that everyone who is a cop is a bad guy, that's crazy talk, okay?
I'm saying the system is wrong and it teaches them to be bad people, it teaches them to
use overwhelming force. It teaches them to abuse people, it teaches them that certain
lives are not worth as much as other lives.
You think they tell them formally or informally, for example in LA, go to Beverly Hills. And
use choke holds and put your knee on their necks all over Beverly Hills. Never, never,
not once, did they say that in Compton and in South Central, etc? All the time, all the
time, right?
And so, if you can't see that, you're trying not to see it, which is 100% of the Republican
politicians and 98% of the Democratic politicians. If you don't reform all of this policing,
we're gonna have murder after murder, and everybody's gonna keep acting surprised.