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Speaker 1: Crime Alert. I'm Nancy Grace, breaking crime news now. In preschool,

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Speaker 1: teacher Shanika Coward gets in an argument with another teacher

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Speaker 1: and threats to shoot her and others at the school.

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Speaker 1: Calwrot claims to have a gun on her person and

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Speaker 1: access to more. Nashville cops are called. They find Cowart

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Speaker 1: has one gun in her purse and a second in

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Speaker 1: her car.

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Speaker 2: Nancy Cowart allegedly made threats including when I start shooting,

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Speaker 2: you better run. It's unclear what started the argument that

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Speaker 2: led to the threats. School safety officers took Coward into

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Speaker 2: custody and the school was put on lockdown until Nashville

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Speaker 2: police arrived. Students were allowed to leave after police recovered

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Speaker 2: the two guns from Coward and she was removed from

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Speaker 2: the scene.

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Speaker 1: Shanika Cowart twenty nine, now charged with assault, threat of

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Speaker 1: mass violence, two counts of carrying a weapon on school property.

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Speaker 1: A Florida business owner calls police when a panic alarm

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Speaker 1: is set off inside his shop. Cobbs review surveillance footage

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Speaker 1: and see a white male pull up to a dumpster

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Speaker 1: behind the business and pull out a cardboard box. The

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Speaker 1: man puts the box over his head to Concila's face,

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Speaker 1: then proceeds to break into the business, stealing several security

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Speaker 1: cameras and a speaker, among other items. In the following months,

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Speaker 1: two more similar burglaries occur, but there's no box over

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Speaker 1: the guy's head. In the last one, Alan Godreau is

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Speaker 1: identified as the so called box burglar, and now he

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Speaker 1: of course, is facing several theft charges. More Crime and

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Speaker 1: Justice news after this Now at the latest crime and

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Speaker 1: justice breaking news Crime Onlines.

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Speaker 3: John Limley, an eyewitness who tried to step in and

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Speaker 3: stop George Floyd's murder, has been awarded a one hundred

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Speaker 3: and fifty thousand dollars payment by the Minneapolis City Council.

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Speaker 3: Sidney Sumner with Crime Online, tells us more about the

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Speaker 3: case and the witness, who claims that as a result

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Speaker 3: of the ordeal, he now has post traumatic stress disorder.

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Speaker 2: In his lawsuit filed with Minneapolis last spring, mixed martial

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Speaker 2: arts fighter Donald Williams, who testified against former officer Derek

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Speaker 2: Chauvin in his twenty twenty one murder trials, said he

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Speaker 2: was beaten by police on May twenty fifth, twenty twenty,

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Speaker 2: while attempting to prevent Floyd's death. Our friends with the

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Speaker 2: Star Tribune say that the settlement was accepted by the

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Speaker 2: city council without deliberation. According to the lawsuit, Chauvin seized

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Speaker 2: a canister of chemical spray and shook it toward Williams

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Speaker 2: and other onlookers who were concerned for Floyd's well being.

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Speaker 2: Williams can be heard in a video shown at Chauvin's

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Speaker 2: trial telling Chauvin to get off Floyd and calling the

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Speaker 2: officer a bum. The lawsuit also states that former Minneapolis

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Speaker 2: officer Toe Tao approached Williams and put his hand on

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Speaker 2: his chest. During Chauvin's trial, Williams told the jury that

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Speaker 2: Floyd had been subjected to a quote blood choke by

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Speaker 2: the cop, a maneuver that limited the flow of blood.

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Speaker 2: Williams claimed in his lawsuit that Chauvin's actions caused him

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Speaker 2: to worry for his safety and to experience pain, suffering, humiliation, embarrassment,

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Speaker 2: and medical costs. It was on May twenty fifth, twenty twenty,

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Speaker 2: that Floyd, a black man, died after Chauvin, a white man,

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Speaker 2: spent nine and a half minutes kneeling on his neck

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Speaker 2: outside of convenience store where Floyd had attempted to pass

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Speaker 2: off a fake twenty dollars bill. Floyd could be heard

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Speaker 2: saying I can't breathe and fading cries captured in bystander video.

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Speaker 2: Floyd's death sparked protests around the globe and compelled a

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Speaker 2: national conversation about racism and police brutality. Chauvin received a

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Speaker 2: twenty two and a half year sentence after being found

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Speaker 2: guilty of state murder in connection with Floyd's death. In addition,

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Speaker 2: he entered a guilty plea to a different federal charge

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Speaker 2: of infringing upon Floyd's civil rights.

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Speaker 3: Tao and two other former Minneapolis cops are all serving

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Speaker 3: shorter sentences. Now to New York as Harvey Weinstein's twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty rape conviction has been overturned by the state's highest

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Speaker 3: court once again, Crime Online Sidney Sumner.

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Speaker 2: The decision has stunned and disappointed women who had been

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Speaker 2: celebrating historic victories during the Me Too movement, and it

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Speaker 2: has left those who had testified in the case preparing

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Speaker 2: for a retrial against the former movie tycoon. According to

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Speaker 2: the court, the trial judge was deemed to have improperly

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Speaker 2: admitted testimony against Weinstein on the basis of unrelated claim

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Speaker 2: due to his twenty twenty two Los Angeles rape conviction,

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Speaker 2: The seventy two year old Weinstein will remain behind bars. However,

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Speaker 2: the decision in New York reopens a sad chapter in

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Speaker 2: America's grappling with high profile sexual misconduct, a period that

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Speaker 2: started in twenty seventeen with a barrage of accusations against

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Speaker 2: Harvey Weinstein. Advocates for Me Too pointed out that the

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Speaker 2: decision was based on procedural legality is rather than an

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Speaker 2: absolution of Weinstein's actions, claiming the initial trial permanently altered

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Speaker 2: public perceptions of sexual assault. The Manhattan District Attorney's office

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Speaker 2: has announced that Weinstein will face a new trial, and

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Speaker 2: at least one of his original accusers has promised through

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Speaker 2: her attorney that she is willing to testify again. The

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Speaker 2: New York Court of Appeals which reversed Weinstein's twenty three

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Speaker 2: year sentence, and a four to three ruling stating that

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Speaker 2: the trial court erroneously admitted testimony of uncharged alleged prior

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Speaker 2: sexual acts and allowed inquiries into Weinstein's bad behavior had

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Speaker 2: he testified. Both actions were described as highly prejudicial and

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Speaker 2: an abuse of judicial discretion.

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Speaker 3: Judge Madeline Singas delivered a scathing descent in which she's

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Speaker 3: that the Court of Appeals was carrying out a quote

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Speaker 3: disturbing trend of overturning jury's guilty verdicts in cases involving

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Speaker 3: sexual violence. Thanks John, concern coworkers ask for a welfare check.

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Speaker 3: When Christine Holloway doesn't show up to work, Connecticut cops

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Speaker 3: find her at home, beaten dead, her one year old daughter,

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Speaker 3: Vanessa Morales missing. Police Issue and Ambrell are looking for

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Speaker 3: Holloway's boyfriend and Vanessa's father, Jose Morales. When cops find Morales,

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Speaker 3: his daughter's not with him and he denies knowing anything

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Speaker 3: about her whereabouts. Morales is arrested in charge with Christine's murder,

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Speaker 3: but he has not been charged with Vanessa's disappearance. Prosecutors

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Speaker 3: are working on a plea deal that would require Morales

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Speaker 3: to divulge what happened to baby Vanessa. The little girl

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Speaker 3: would now be over five years old. If you have

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Speaker 3: info on baby Vanessa Morales, call a Sonia, Connecticut PD

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Speaker 3: com with this crime Alert I'm Nancy Grace