What Needs To Change To Prevent More Police Killings

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In this image from video, former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin, center, is taken into custody as his attorney, Eric Nelson, left, looks on, after the verdicts were read at Chauvin’s trial for the 2020 death of George Floyd, Tuesday, April 20, 2021, at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis, Minn. Court TV via AP, Pool
Derek Chavin
In this image from video, former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin, center, is taken into custody as his attorney, Eric Nelson, left, looks on, after the verdicts were read at Chauvin’s trial for the 2020 death of George Floyd, Tuesday, April 20, 2021, at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis, Minn. Court TV via AP, Pool

What Needs To Change To Prevent More Police Killings

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After former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty on all counts in the murder of George Floyd, how do we make meaningful change in our policing system to prevent future police killings?

Reset checks in with a criminal law expert and a scholar who studies race and policing in America.

GUESTS: Ekow Yankah, professor at Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University

Duchess Harris, professor of American Studies at Macalester College and author of several books on race in America, including Race and Policing