measure of justice isn't the same as
equal justice this verdict
brings us a step closer and
the fact is we still have work to do
we still must reform the system
let's start there with former washington
d.c police detective defense attorney
and fox news contributor ted williams
west point graduate army veteran and
yale law student jeremy hunt
and nick hall founder and president of
pulse thank you all for being with us
tonight
thank you thank you ted i want to start
with you because congresswoman
ocasio-cortez went on to say
that we looking at this virta today
guilty on all three counts it should not
be framed as the system
working but ted a lot of people want to
see it that way to feel like this jury
of our peers
went in there did their job review the
evidence and came to this conclusion
but when she says that's not good enough
or it shouldn't be framed as the system
working
it seems in conflict
it certainly is in conflict and i got to
tell you
the system worked just the way it was
supposed to work
in this case and i got to tell you when
i
i'm here in minneapolis and i can tell
you
uh the streets of minneapolis are calm
and i'm glad that they're calm because
the system
did in fact work uh shannon think about
it
we saw for nine minutes and 29 seconds
a man died before our eyes
and uh what happened is we saw
prosecutors pro bono come in
and take this case and they got justice
for the family as a matter of fact
shannon just a few minutes ago
i met with felonious uh floyd
the brother of george floyd and he was
telling me how
elated the family is about
what they believe that justice was
served in this case
and it doesn't bring george floyd back
but some measure of closure
of some accountability for that family
so now there's this conversation you
heard the president say a short time ago
that he wants the george floyd justice
acton
justice and policing act sent to him so
that he can sign it now we've got people
on the left and the right commenting on
that
senator tim scott talked about the fact
that senate democrats
filibustered his justice act last year
despite bipartisan support
his original bill included several
measures long sought by advocates of
police reform
including incentives for chokehold bans
and grants for body cameras
so he's saying listen why you know
democrats filibustered this police
reform bill that i hadn't had bipartisan
support
so why now this act well the left
doesn't like the george floyd
act for this reason the movement for
black lives
says this on its website it says there
is no reforming the system
it is time to defund and abolish the
police so they don't like the law for
different reasons
jeremy where do we go from here
yeah well i mean here's the thing i mean
so senator scott he's been speaking out
about this for quite a while
actually uh and the so-called racist
filibuster actually prevented the
legislation that he wanted to pass
but you know here's the thing that you
know i i think right now we are living
in an
age where there are a lot of grifters
out there
who don't want to work across the aisle
to make
real reform possible uh and and one
thing that i'm noticing that it's
honestly on both sides too because we're
because on the right we're seeing people
who
are afraid to say what senator scott has
said and some others
to express any level of compassion for
the loss of life here
to to be able to call out evil we're
seeing someone the right that are afraid
to even say
stuff like that and then on the left
we're seeing people who
are are clearly i mean nancy pelosi
today said that his life was a sacrifice
uh for for her political agenda i mean
so we're seeing drifters on both sides
try to jump on this so right now we need
everyday americans
political leaders who are willing to set
aside the partisan conflict
and come together and actually look at
what kind of reforms
can we institute that will actually
actually lead to change
and nick that brings to the point you
are a faith leader you put out a
statement today after the
uh verdict in the case today and you
said now the work
of rebuilding can begin and you talked
about how
um people of faith should be out the
ones who should be seeking change who
should be
listening who should be contributing to
making things better how do we go about
that now
yeah i think the work begins now shannon
i mean we really believe and i'm here in
downtown minneapolis
we have our windows all boarded up we
were prepared for
any outcome and yet it seemed that today
it's like the sun broke in on the city
and i think people
breathed a breath of relief because
people were afraid today not knowing
what the outcome would be
and yet tonight i was gathered at a
church in north minneapolis you know i
was the only white guy
in the building and people were just
thanking god
people were crying and this was the same
church where tomorrow
there's going to be a service for the
young man dante wright whose life was
taken
and so people are hurting right now
rightfully so
there has been a long history of
injustice that have happened
to certain populations of people i don't
have to understand
it to be able to have empathy to listen
to care and god's word the bible tells
me that i'm called
to this ministry of reconciliation and
i'm called to work towards the marriage
of righteousness and justice you know
one of my heroes bonhoeffer
he says that silence in the face of evil
is
evil itself we can't claim to have the
light
and yet not confront the dark and so i
think that now is the time for the
church to rise up we need to reach
across isles we need to love each other
well
and the church is on the move here in
minneapolis st
paul yeah and it should be at the heart
across our country of finding healing of
finding a way to respect each other
to see what we can do to contribute to
making things better and hopefully that
will be the focus for all of us moving
forward
thank you gentlemen for all for being
with us tonight it's good to see each of
you