Miscellaneous
On the CBS News "Weekend Roundup," a jury found former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin guilty on all three counts in the murder of George Floyd, after kneeling on his neck for more than 9 minutes. We hear from CBS's Jamie Yuccas, who has been covering the trial, about the sentence he may be facing. CBS's Jeff Pegues talks to Host Allison Keyes about what it was like to be in the streets of Minneapolis when the guilty verdict was read and the Department of Justice's probe into the the Minneapolis Police Department. Following the verdict, President Biden also weighed in on the decision to convict. What is the historic significance of this verdict? Allison speaks with Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch, who is also founding director of the institution's National Museum of African American History and Culture and Howard University Afro-American Studies Department Chair and law professor Greg Carr. It was a busy week for the President. He met a new covid-19 vaccine goal and spoke at the Global Climate Summit. CBS's Steven Portnoy tells us more. Also this week, the Senate overwhelmingly passed the anti-Asian American hate crimes bill. CBS's Stacy Lyn reports. In a special two part edition of the Kaleidoscope, reactions to the Chauvin trial guilty verdicts. Allison speaks with Rev. Alvin Herring, executive director of the non-profit Faith in Action and National Fraternal Order of Police president Patrick Yoes, who tells us what police officers are saying about the verdict. Rev. Herring was in in Ferguson, Missouri during the protests following the death of Michael Brown, who was killed by a white police officer and never charged. Many see this case as the birth of the Black Lives Matter movement.