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Speaker 1: It's a woman Woody podcast mini.

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Speaker 2: But when you're in a rush or just can't be

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Speaker 2: bothered listening to them blather on for half an hour,

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Speaker 2: this is probably the most scarring audio I can remember

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Speaker 2: in the last little while. This is George Floyd Well

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Speaker 2: getting killed.

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Speaker 3: Please please please please.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, totally wild. We all remember Derek Chauvin obviously had

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Speaker 2: his knee on him that really hectic, awful footage. Well,

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Speaker 2: today was the day that we found out the verdict

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Speaker 2: four that former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. And we've

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Speaker 2: actually got Alison Petrowski joins us from Channel nine Live

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Speaker 2: in Minneapolis, who was out the front of the courtroom

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Speaker 2: while all of this happened. Allison tell us what went down?

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Speaker 1: Oh, it was it was the moment boys, Thank you

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Speaker 1: for having me. Basically I was live on error on

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Speaker 1: the Today Show when it came through that he was

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Speaker 1: found guilty of all three accounts, so a second degree murder,

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Speaker 1: third degree murder, and manslaughter. And it was really unprecedented,

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Speaker 1: I think partlic as a jury came back so quickly

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Speaker 1: and surprised everyone. We thought we were just going to

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Speaker 1: be waiting it out on Jury Watch today and I guess, well,

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Speaker 1: a lot of America was hoping for a guilty verdict,

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Speaker 1: for justice to be done for George Floyd's family. There was,

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Speaker 1: I guess, a lot of skepticism that it would actually happen.

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Speaker 1: So basically everyone's been preparing here for Minneapolis to riot

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Speaker 1: all over again. So there's three thousand National Guard deployed

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Speaker 1: here in Minneapolis over the last few days while we've

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Speaker 1: been here. They're on every corner. There's barbed life fences everywhere.

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Speaker 1: There are all these kind of protocols in place, preparing

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Speaker 1: for a riot tonight, and thankfully that's not happening. Everyone

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Speaker 1: has been this partying.

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Speaker 2: On the streets a flip, So you've had everybody out

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Speaker 2: in the streets and what they either had in their

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Speaker 2: hands a Molotov cocktail or a party popper, and thankfully

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Speaker 2: they've reached for the latter.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it really felt like that. It felt like it

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Speaker 1: could have gone either way. And I saw real elation,

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Speaker 1: tears of joy, strangers hugging and sobbing together.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 1: Outside of court, it was a complete sea. And then

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Speaker 1: basically what happened is everyone kind of shifted over from

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Speaker 1: the courtroom into the CBD blocks of main streets of

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Speaker 1: Minneapolis and had a giant street party.

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Speaker 3: Oh wow, wow, that is extraordinary. So amongst all that,

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Speaker 3: aurics and I hate to then now shine alone the negative.

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Speaker 3: There was no response at all from people who were

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Speaker 3: against the verdict of you.

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Speaker 1: Look, I'm sure there will be in the fallout for

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Speaker 1: the next twenty four hours, but I think at the

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Speaker 1: moment they wouldn't be brave enough to pop their heads,

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Speaker 1: given that there's been such a racial divide in this

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Speaker 1: country since this case took place. It was the case

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Speaker 1: of Sparks, the Black Lives Matter, That's Right movement, it

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Speaker 1: was the racial reckoning of America. And I don't think

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Speaker 1: anyone is silly enough even if they feel like justice

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Speaker 1: wasn't theirs today, I don't think they're going to be

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Speaker 1: popping up their head just yet and saying it. I'm

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Speaker 1: sure that will happen in the days in week naturally.

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Speaker 1: For the moment, nothing but just completely positive, positive vibes

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Speaker 1: and complete joy, which has just been wonderful to see

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Speaker 1: because America is quite broken. Guy, it's been a while

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Speaker 1: light last year.

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Speaker 2: Can I ask Allison this is obviously I mean, like

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Speaker 2: I don't want to sound like a total flog here.

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Speaker 2: But I used to study law and I in Italy

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Speaker 2: actually actually a subject called comparative Legal systems with the

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Speaker 2: ex Attorney General of Arizona, and I've done an exercise.

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Speaker 1: And all this.

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Speaker 2: But anyway, Alison, the reason I'm bringing that up is

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Speaker 2: just like I was looking at this and just thinking

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Speaker 2: to myself, like how absolutely in tense that that whole

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Speaker 2: setup is for the jury, the judge, and you know,

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Speaker 2: knowing that their verdict could basically decide whether or not

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Speaker 2: there's going to be a civil war in America, like

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Speaker 2: the tension around, like you know how impartial they are,

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Speaker 2: and America's got this really weird system about how they

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Speaker 2: choose who goes on a jury and how both sides

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Speaker 2: get a say on, you know, like choosing juries and

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Speaker 2: all that sort of stuff.

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Speaker 1: Well, mate, you should have been over here covering it,

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Speaker 1: because you're well accosted. The jury process for me to

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Speaker 1: watch was totally fascinating. It took eleven days for them

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Speaker 1: to whittle down a pool of three hundred into the

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Speaker 1: final twelve.

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Speaker 2: Right, So who was on the jury was it was

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Speaker 2: it mixed obviously race in terms of who was on there.

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Speaker 1: To be honest, I think it was about and look

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Speaker 1: these aren't exact I'm just rigking off the top of

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Speaker 1: my head. A but it was fifty percent white, I think,

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Speaker 1: forty percent black and ten percent mixed rates, which when

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Speaker 1: you look at the population of Minnesota, actually there's only

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Speaker 1: a twenty percent black population, so when you look at

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Speaker 1: that panel, they're actually over represented on the panel. But

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Speaker 1: even the paneling process for the jury was crazy in America,

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Speaker 1: as you would know with your expect their teeth. Once

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Speaker 1: this has gone once, once it's done and done, you

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Speaker 1: remembers are often identified. Do remembers are often identified, They

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Speaker 1: give interviews, you know, they become public figures. And so

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Speaker 1: what happened in this process is some people were on

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Speaker 1: the stand terrified. I don't want to be a member

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Speaker 1: of the jury.

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Speaker 2: You can film it, you can film it inside the

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Speaker 2: courtroom and stuff. They're like, you know, that's the wildest

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Speaker 2: part of it. In Australia, where you see these you know,

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Speaker 2: dodgy sketches of people over there, it's like you watch

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Speaker 2: it on the TV.

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Speaker 1: This case has been no, no, no, you need to

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Speaker 1: understand every second of this case. It's been broadcast live,

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Speaker 1: so wild for the last three weeks in rolling coverage

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Speaker 1: on CNN, NBC extraordinary and on the TV anywhere in America.

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Speaker 1: You're watching this case. This is how big this was.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm so glad to hear that the tinder box,

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Speaker 2: which was set to light has just been doused with.

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Speaker 3: Well, it's still lit. It sounds like that party is

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Speaker 3: absolutely wild, that straight party. It's just it's just in

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Speaker 3: the list that we wanted.

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Speaker 2: Alison, thanks so much for joining us. That was genuinely

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Speaker 2: fascinating to hear the ins and outs there, and like,

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Speaker 2: you know, it must be just extraordinary for you to

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Speaker 2: know that you've sort of been at the center of

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Speaker 2: like a real genuine moment in history.

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Speaker 1: Oh and it was quite weird because I was live

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Speaker 1: on air for the Today Show and trying to keep

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Speaker 1: my wits about me. But it was absolute chaos. And

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Speaker 1: after the two hours of the street party, I turned

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Speaker 1: in to my cameraman and I was like, oh my god,

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Speaker 1: this is We've just witnessed a huge moment in US history.

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Speaker 1: This is really incredible. So you guys going to head

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Speaker 1: off and do some crosses outside at George Floyd Square,

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Speaker 1: which is apparently still got a party going on even

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Speaker 1: though George Floyd.

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Speaker 2: Was it George Floyd Square before all this or just

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Speaker 2: George like today, I mean, like as of the verdict today,

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Speaker 2: it's been George Floyd.

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Speaker 1: So you guys know, George Floyd Square is the intersection

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Speaker 1: outside Cut Foods where he was pinned down under that car. Now,

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Speaker 1: George is a beautiful mural there, and all week there's

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Speaker 1: been peaceful protests going on there, but I'm hearing is

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Speaker 1: a raging party and I'm going to them.

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Speaker 3: Well, go and have a drink for us.

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Speaker 2: Alison, get in there, Allison, Thanks for joys. Alison Petrowski

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Speaker 2: there from Channel nine Live from Minneapolis, and sounds like

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Speaker 2: that will probably be a last sober live cross.

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Speaker 3: I look forward to her future crosses actually because she's

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Speaker 3: going to get looser and loose, and I think tomorrow

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Speaker 3: morning on the Today Show we will see the loosest

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Speaker 3: Allison Petrowski.

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