Daily Digest for June 4, 2020 Posted at 7:35 a.m. by Cody Nelson
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Good morning. We're almost to the weekend and here is your Capitol View.
Derek Chauvin now faces an upgraded charge in George Floyd's killing. It's a second-degree murder charge now, plus a manslaughter count. The other three officers involved were also arrested and charged with aiding and abetting murder. “Winning a conviction will be hard,” Attorney General Keith Ellison cautioned. “We’re confident in what we’re doing, but history does show there are clear challenges” in convicting police officers for murder.
Gov. Tim Walz says Minnesota needs to act now break the chain of “systemic racism and the lack of accountability up and down our society that led to a daytime murder of a black man on a street in Minneapolis.” The governor challenged Minnesotans to fix the systemic racism that’s at the root of longstanding disparities in education, home ownership, health, and other measures that have long plagued Minnesota. “I think this is probably our last shot as a state and a nation to fix this systemic issue ,” he said.
Walz and other Democratic governors are asking their Republican peers to oppose the presidents threats of deploying the military to quell protests. Via AP: "Several Democratic governors said the president is overstepping his authority and urged their colleagues to issue a bipartisan statement through the National Governors Association saying they oppose the president's potential use of the Insurrection Act of 1807 to contain protests if governors were not able to get a handle on the unrest."
The Pentagon chief didn't like Trump's threat, either. Via NPR: "In a move that possibly placed his job in peril, Defense Secretary Mark Esper publicly disagreed Wednesday with President Trump's threatened use of the 1807 Insurrection Act to quell widespread unrest over the death of George Floyd, a black man who died after a white Minneapolis police officer kneeled on his neck.
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