The Day After Derek Chauvin's Murder Trial, The Steve Harvey Nation Speaks and more.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Today's show is pre recorded. Y'all know what time y'all
don't know y'all have a suit on the don giving
them like the million things and the tofu good it.

(00:21):
Steve listening to the move together for Stuart. Please, I
don't join me. You gotta turn. You gotta turn to

(01:41):
turn out, turn got to turn out to turn turn
the water the water. Come come on your baby, daddy,

(02:02):
I sure will good on everybody you're listening to the voice,
Come on dig me now, one and only Steve Harvis,
man old man, got a radio show. Yeah, I do.
God so big to me, man, I just have to
tell you about it. I can't help it. It's rather
obvious to me how big, how good God is. He's

(02:23):
absolutely tremendous. He's off the chain, you know, man, I
want to share something with you today. You know, if
you're out there, start your mission today. Why don't we
all decide together better yet? Let's just kill that because
you don't that just individually. Look you listening, everybody's got

(02:46):
something that's that's on the table that they haven't yet
attacked yet. What are you waiting for? Start your mission today?
Stop the procrastination now, and if you and if you
allow practical excuse, man, if you allow procrastination to set in,
then that that allows then which is a weakness, you know,

(03:09):
but that allows the devil then to just really do
his thing, because an idle mind is the devil's playground.
So if you ain't working on your goal's dreams, aspirations
or visions, and you you just waking up seeing how
today gonna go, or the devil he got plenty for
it for you to do. See. But if you get
your mind right on your goal and your focus and

(03:29):
your purpose, then you can go on about your business.
Then when the distraction comes, you can catch yourself. Now
that don't mean you ain't gonna fall privy or fall
prey to some of your distractions, because you will, but
you will have a goal in mind, an aspiration that
makes you go. Hold on, man, I got to stay
focused here because what I really want while I'm really
trying to go the thing that I'm really after, this

(03:52):
new little thing that's being introduced, this don't fit into
the equation. Man, Let me keep it moving, or you
may stay up off the line for a little while.
You know, like I said yesterday, your thing about God
is He's so forgiving that if you get out of line,
he'll hold your place. See that's the real cool thing.
A lot of people to do that for you too.
Like I said, if you're the movie theater, or you're

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at the amusement park and you're in the line and
you forget something, if you politely ask the person behind you, hey, man,
I gotta run to my car left something, would you
hold my place? Most people say, fine, you gotta go ahead,
and when you come back, they don't have a problem.
See your problem is is you want to get out
the line, go do something, then come back and just
get up in the line further up than you were,
or cut somebody. Now you got a problem because see

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everybody looking at you now like Heroy Wall partner, where
you come from? You know the line start back here.
But see the thing with God is God don't do that.
God don't say the line start back here. God holds
your place. When you make a mistake and you fall
off the line, God hold your place. But if you
ain't got no dreams, aspiration, if you ain't got no place,

(04:56):
what he holding for you? See, I mean he got
a place for you, But you gotta come to it
see some people if well, here's what I'm saying. If
you got a goal or aspiration, a dream and you
fall off track momentarily, you can get back to that
because God knows where you're left off. Now, you may

(05:16):
have to accomplish a few more things since you stop
for a long period of time, but God know where
you left off, you can get back on track. I look, man,
this dream of being on TV since I was a kid,
and it got off track. Now it got off track.
I just kept it as one of the dreams. And
in some real dog moments when it looked like it

(05:37):
wasn't gonna happen, all I was hanging on to was
just a hope that one day it could. But that's
what faith is really about. Faith is the belief in
things that you cannot see. But faith gives you the
confidence to keep hoping. Man, sometime it just keep hope alive.
Sometimes you heard Jesse Jackson said, just keep hope alive. Sometimes, man,

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it's just the hope. I was hanging on a hope.
And I'm talking about when it got real ugly and
funky out there for me, when it looked like I
wasn't gonna ever make it and all of the facts
was in and everything pointed in the direction. You're not
gonna make it. You didn't really messed up this time.

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Then I sat there and I just hung on to
the hope. But man, that's what I'm saying. If you
got a dream on aspiration of vision or something, when
you fall off track and you want to go get
back in line, God holds your place. He knew I
was off tracking how the line, but he said, okay,
here's where we stopped. You want to be on TV

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that when you get it together and you quit tripping
and you come in your turn to me, I'm gonna
hold your place, put you back in line. Then we're
gonna finish the journey. That took me a lot longer
to get here than I wanted to, But then it
was necessary because I needed all of the mishaps to
happen to me along the way. So when I got
on the radio one day, which I and I see coming,
Steve Harvey got a radio show, y'all. That's why I said,

(07:04):
every day, see because of this radio show that I
didn't see coming. Now I have stories to tell, and
I can tell you about me better than I can
tell you about anybody, And I haven't been through enough
whereas relatable, where enough people can go. Man, that happened
to me. Appreciate you saying that that's what it was for. See,
I get it now. See at the time, though I

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didn't like what was happening to me. At the time,
I was really in total disagreement with God on a
lot of stuff he was pulling off on me. But
in essence I was really pulling it off on myself.
But through his grace and mercy, he kept me through
all of my mistakes, all my bad decisions, all my miscalculations,
all my misfires, all the times I knowingly stepped out

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there indeed wrong. He forgave me, he said, because man,
if you ever come to me, I have a plan
for you that it's going to be far in above.
It will supersede everything you've ever dreamed of. That's what
I did. I just got sick of me, good and
sick of me, and I turned it over to God.

(08:10):
And then God started working. And here I am today
now as he threw it me. Yet Nope, have I
arrived yet? Nope? But guess what the journey is cool?
And then you know what I found out that's kind
of what it's like in life. If you don't walked
off the cliff in life and you ain't got no

(08:31):
God in your life, it's like not having a parachute.
You step off the cliff and you just free falling.
We all now that fall gets you closer to the grave,
right see, were all heading to the grave from the
moment we're born. But the cool thing about a relationship
with God is when you step off the cliff and
you got God here a parachute. You're still going down,

(08:54):
but it's a nice ride. You guide and you're glad,
and you're softly, You enjoying your look around and you're smiling.
You're meeting other people along the way. You're floating over
here to skie a little while. You over there at
the beach for a little while, you mess around over here,
you get to go out the country a little bit
on your parachuting all that here, and God just helps

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your your descent appear more like a rise and then
more like a euphoric fall. Instead of not having no
God in your life and you just walking off that
cliff every day free falling. Ain't got no core, You
steady pulling you, hauling the whole way because you to
mess around with yourself and ain't let God come into

(09:35):
your life and provide a parachute for you. I would
rather have a parachute since I got to jump every day,
than to not have one. God has been like a
parachute from me. Ask me why where that came from?
I can't tell you. But like I always say, most
good things that happened in my life that I can't explain,

(09:55):
it's usually him. You're listening show, ladies and gentlemen, need
us here. This is a Steve Harvey Morning Show, a
very very special Steve Harvey Morning Show. This morning. Let
me just start by introducing everybody. Shirley Strawberry calling for
real Junior and Nephew Tommy. Morning, Morning, Morning, morning, great morning. Yeah.

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Because yeah, this is right after the morning after the verdict,
the long awaited verdict. Everybody was on pins and needles.
We've been even though I'm still in Africa. We were
on constant communication yesterday through all of this working and
and and and trying to figure out the strategy for

(10:41):
today and today is is it overall just a great day?
A great day? Team, wouldn't you say so absolutely, absolutely
absolutely yes, Yes, Justice Jordan Floyd, this is a good day. Yeah. Yes,
second degree unintentional murder guilty, third degree murder guilty, second

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degree manslaughter guilty. Now I just want to say this
next is the sentencing. I don't know when they're gonna
hold it. But he was out on bail while doing
the trial. But now there is no bail. He gone,
he's in jail. And so now once you get a

(11:35):
guilty verdict on all three of those, those are three
separate sentencing guidelines. Okay, between all three of those, Yes, yes,
I would imagine, just based on looking at this judge's face.

(11:59):
I don't with the quick return of the verdict, I
see him getting a lot of time. It's not gonna
be no twelve years. I see him getting a lot
of time. I don't know though. This judge. You know,
he bought up Maxine Waters in the corps that created me.

(12:19):
I was so upset about Maxine. Yes, do you try
to judge brought it up. Yeah, and he wished politicians
would stop talking about the case. So he bought up
the fact to the defense that Maxine Waters could whatever
she said could be grounds for appeal. So get out

(12:43):
of here. Everybody talking about it. Well, when is Donald
Trump gonna be grounds for what? And tered crews and
all of them that incited the riots on January sixth
at the Capitol. Yeah, be careful, y'all, be careful because
you're gonna set a precedent. And then lawyers are very
smart because they use case prior cases to help with

(13:04):
judgments on theirs. You start down this little path about
who said something, and you got an appeal. I got
news for your pocket. See this show with Hey, Well
today that's a great day. We decided today as a team,
we wanted to talk to the people. We want to

(13:25):
hear from Steve Harvey Morning Show listeners, how you feel,
what's on your mind? So today this is a special day.
We're talking to the people on the Steve Harvey Morning Show.
When we come back eight seven, seven, twenty ninety. What's
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(13:46):
All right, it is a good day. It is a
good day. The verdict is in for the Derek Gibbon trial.
He was found guilty on all three charges, all three. Yeah,
he was handcuffed and taking away his bed was revoked
and we're gonna spend the majority of the day talking
to you our listeners. Call us right now, let us

(14:08):
know how you feel the day after the Derek Chauvin
verdict eight seven seven twenty nine. Steve, let's go to
the phones, Steve Harvey MORTA show. Who is this? My
name is Susan Dickerson from Houston, Texas. Susan Dickerson out
of age town. How you doing? That's my answer? How

(14:29):
he all the safe this bank care rested peace with
his mama because they don't found this man guilty. Yeah,
and that's he went to the same high school I
went to m h and Yates. Susan Jack Yates all

(14:52):
the way three class eighty three mm class thy care?
That really is your yeah? You know you know you
and your grant me and you're granted. Jumping up and
down right, Yeah, just really your hunt? Yes, first said yes,

(15:20):
who you thought it was? Steve? Just a random caller.
We thank you for calling. Appreciate you all right, Steve,
Let's go to line too and talk to Peter out
of New Jersey. Peter. Hello, yes, yeah, we can hear you.
Just find Peter. What's your comment today, Peter, Yes, I'm

(15:43):
sorry for my accent. I'm from Africa and I just
wanted to say that it's it's it's really justice, but
it's not justice at the same time because being from
Africa and coming here, um, I've experienced these kind of
year of myself and I think now the family you

(16:03):
have some kind of justice and hopefully we can move
forward with incorping more us. These cups needs to understand
that it's not the way to treat people and you
once you do it, you're gonna get taught for it.
You're gonna get the consequence coming to you. So I'm
really happy with the with the outcome. Yeah. Absolutely. I

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think that when police officers see the consequences being deal
that dealed out for your actions, I think that's gonna
that's gonna cause a moment of pause until you start
seeing them have to do time for crime. We wouldn't
have this problem, but they get a different set of
laws that they could do. So he may. Let me

(16:46):
ask you a question. What part of Africa you from.
I'm from Ghana, from Ghana, Karla is from Ghana Knas Yeah, yeah,
Colin for real, her hereditary ended base is from I
always go back every year. I couldn't go back last
year because of what Okay, yeah, I've met the President

(17:11):
of Ghana and the king, the Ashanti King. I've met
them both. Oh wow. And then just to see I'm
a really big fan of yours. Keep doing what you're doing.
I watched all your specials, all your stand ups and man,
you're the man. Thank you, brother. I appreciate that. Thank
you man. Hey, Man, I got big love for God.

(17:33):
I just talked to my boy Kevin O'Curry over that.
I wish you a happy birthday. GNA's a great place, man,
Thank you very much. Appreciate your call. Thank you by cousin.
Let's go to Aaron Line three in Detroit. Hey Aaron, Hey,
what's up Steve Harvey? Man? What you got Aaron? Oh Man?
First bout the blessing and be able to come on

(17:54):
your show. Man. Listen to you guys every morning for
the most part. And I'm a big fan, big fan,
but a big fan, especially that crazy and a few times.
But like to say, like I said, I'm glad the
outcome of that verdict. It came out really well. Um.
I actually listened to one of your Instagram I guess

(18:16):
what you were talking about this morning. Behind will it's
going to come out, And it really did, by the
greatful God, because you know, a lot of people in
America don't realize how serious this really was, you know.
And but anybody to have to anybody's family member, that
even anybody had to even witness to see something like that.
You know, a guy put his knee clear day on

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somebody just to hold it down and to restrain him
and just kill him. You know, that's that's not justice, man,
especially coming from a police officer that suposed to uphold
the law and everything, you know, And that's just sickening, man,
to see stuff like that. But I'm glad it came
out like it's supposed to and we can kind of
put it the rest. But it just a wake up
call for everybody and around America too, just stuff like this. Man.

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We don't hope to ever have to see this again,
you know. Yeah, right, well, I mean hopefully we won't
have to see it again. We will, we will. This
one won't won't. It won't end racism, but you are
correct in this. It is going to have a ripple
effect because police officers now are going to have to

(19:25):
realize that they may be held accountable to the laws
that they are paid to uphold, and you don't have
a different set of laws. And I think that could
be the ripple effect, man, And I hope, I'm hoping.
I think this is beginning of something to quail some
of this police brutality against black people, to make them

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at least have a moment of pause. So you know,
but I knew when Amber Tiger Group or whatever her
name is, when they gave this white woman time for
killing this black man in his own apartment, when they
found a way to give her some time, I knew
something was going on. I knew something was going on
because they don't do that now. This white woman that

(20:11):
killed this young brother Dante. Yeah, that said she thought
it was her taser dog. She couldn't do some time. Yeah,
because you had the gun out in front of you.
I don't know at what point in time you didn't
know that was a gun exactly. And I could tell

(20:34):
the waight difference between a taber and an actual loaded
color you know, dog, one plastic, one metal, work with
me now, right, one yellow? All right, We'll take more
calls when we come back. Eight seven seven twenty nine, Steve,
right after this you're listening show? All right. Here we

(20:57):
are the day after the Derek Chauvin verdict guilty on
all three charges. We want to talk to you, our audience.
Please call us and let us know how you feel.
Eight seven seven twenty nine, Steve, let's go, Steve. Karen
is her name? Steve Right, This is Caraful So he's
so glad to hear be on the show. I love

(21:18):
you guys, who are just one of the best radio
shows ever. I love you guys. I am so relieved,
but yet so pause about this decision and this verdict.
I'm thankful that they convicted him on all three charges.
That we release are on a path, hopefully it's a
path to some justice for our brown and black men

(21:39):
and women. That you we can get some justice. And
like you said speech to the previous caller, that the
police officer will now think twice that you will be
held accountable. There's more of a possibility for you to
be held accountable for your actions when it comes to
just doing your job. Just do your job right, don't
add the extra Yeah, don't kill someone on your job,

(22:04):
reason right, for no reason, you know, defense, defense, everything
about oh well, don't don't, don't, don't count the nine
point two nine um nine minutes and twenty nine seconds
without including the sixteen minutes prior to No, even into that,
y'all still used a sective force. Y'all pulled him out

(22:25):
the car. He's six peaked or something. You're trying to
put him in a space. Looked like I can't confidence
and you who wouldn't, well, you know the sixteen minutes before.
I saw some of that footage, and I don't know
what happened in the sixteen minutes that that deserved this
man to die resistance. I just I didn't see nothing

(22:49):
in the sixteen minutes prior that says, you know what,
he should die. I didn't even think for a moment
he could die exactly. It wasn't. It wasn't the fort,
It wasn't in the forefront that he's gonna die for them.
That's an amazing thing. They made more of it. Worried

(23:12):
about his past, his paths ain't had nothing to do
with that in that hand, had nothing to do with that.
There are men in prison who are locked up for murder.
You can't go in there throw one of them on
the ground and put your knee in their neck, can
kill them. Right. That's that's not that's that's that's not

(23:33):
so what. That's really not what we're supposed to be.
Once again, what Martin Luther King said is black folks
just waiting on America to be what they say they
is on paper. That's all this really is. And I
and and I got we we got some justice here.
But I'm looking at four hundred years right. Yeah, man,

(23:55):
I'm just not seeing cops get cups put on them. Yeah.
And I've been here sixty four right, and this is
just one video on our time. Let's let's hope that
we can continue the progress, to continue to do things
a little bit better, and that my twenty seven year

(24:16):
old twin boys will have an opportunity that they can
drive down the street, my twenty nine year old daughter
can drive down the street and if she's pulled over,
if they pulled over for a reason, it's gonna be Okay,
this is a situation. Here's your summons, and and you know,
come for it and not got differently. You know, I
was happy for a second, but I hadn't think about

(24:37):
my children. Still got the ride and the retaliation of this.
They're not happy. They're not gonna be happy because I'm
gonna tell you something. If you have the Keim reporters,
the comporters out there, and the Chavons out there that think,
you know, we can do whatever we want to do,
there's gonna be something because now y'all got court because

(24:58):
y'alls wanted to say ta ka tays when the video
says you had the guns before you could say tayser,
and we wouldn't know. We only could go by what
you said, what we might might have heard, but we
didn't have any video to back up your line. Now
we got a video to back up your life. Now,
Now all right, Karen, we thank you moving You've got

(25:21):
to keep moving. Thank you. We appreciate your call. Thank you, Karen. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Jay and Birmingham say in the voice can you hear me? Yes?
All I can say in the voice of ice Cube
it is a good day. I feel so much relief.

(25:43):
I feel so much relief in a black man. It's
just I've been crying. It's just wow. It's just so
much relief, you know, seeing like Unna see you seven
two minutes ago. I've never seen a cop go to jail,
and seeing he's going to jail for a crying me
commit it unbelievable. You know, I was telling the crew here,

(26:06):
I just if they would have said not guilty, I
don't know what I would have done. I would not
what to do, because, man, the other side of me
is still alive, you know. I try not to be Look,
God didn't changed me over the years, but I'm telling you, man,

(26:29):
that's a piece of me that has the ability to surface.
And I was really concerned because I was trying to
think of as a radio personality, what do I come
on to say to my people who listen to me,
who trust our voice in the morning, who tune in
to listen to us for information, inspiration, and entertainment. In

(26:50):
that vein of what people tune in, what would I
say to them the morning after a not guilty verdict,
when that other person that resides in me it's saying, okay,
all right, we tired of this now. I really don't
know how I would have been this morning any other way,

(27:11):
because I was struggling because the black man in me
is angry and been for a long time, you know,
just been mad for a long time. Now, I'm older
than everybody on this show. Listen to me. I've been
pissed off a long time, and I've had to suck

(27:31):
up a lot of stuff I didn't I didn't bid
a lot of stuff I didn't want to bite into,
just so I could keep moving forward. Then that I'm
just grateful this was di verdict right here, and because,
like you say, man, just as a black man, the
relief that now we okay, I'm okay, our life do

(27:51):
matter to somebody. Hey, man, what do you what do
you think police officers are thinking now? Those that are
still on the job, go ahead, and Jack, go ahead.
Now I see that they see Now. I feel that
if they see that, hey, you just can't kill a
black man to go home free, Cord. Now you see

(28:12):
that when black people show up, they're gonna show up
and they're gonna get what they want, you know, right,
You know what I think. I think that it's going
to cause a moment of pause. I think because now
and I do so much appreciate it. All the blacks
who fought for our freedoms since we since we first

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landed him, the Nat Turners, the Frederick Douglass, the Harriet Tubmans,
the sojourn, the truths all all the way up through
the years man fighting for us to get that near
the protest that rolls of parks, modernim all the Civil
Rights Act, and the Black Lives Matter movement when it

(28:55):
started before. But now for the first time, the Black
Lives Matter movement had some help. Coming up next National
News right after this. You're listening to show. All right,
we're taking your phone calls all day today on the

(29:16):
Steve Harvey Morning Show. We want to know how you feel,
our listeners. We know you have something on your hearts
and on your mind to call us and let us know.
At age seven seven yeah, twenty nine, Steve, go ahead, Jay.
I want to thank y'all because and you all put
the voice out for the twenty twenty elections. I mean,
you all got people out the vote. I mean it

(29:36):
was you and our other syndicated morning shows, but you
all really helped push out the message to vote. And
I really really want to thank y'all so much for
that because we got we got age and forty five
out of the White House and now we see a
new day in Amrathith. So I just want to say
thank y'all so much. For that, and you're welcome to
because vote. It was a very concerted effort on the

(29:58):
Steve Harvard Morning Show. Are we made an effort and
the team put together a lot of work producing these
shows to make sure we got out to vote. And
then I'm gonna just be real with you. I got
on the phone with Ricky Smiley and Dale Hugley, who
are frat brothers, and I said, look, brothers, we got
to unite in this one right here, and they all agreed,
and so we got together and we turned out vote

(30:21):
like never before. And now we are voting block and
we'll never go back to not being a vote in block.
So Governor Kemp that passed this racist law, this voter
suppression act that he put together in Georgia, the next
time your name on the ballot, you gonna romish. No.

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Thank you, Jay from Birmingham. We appreciate your call. All right,
let's go to Columbus, Ohio and talk to Monica. Steve Monica, Hi,
how are you? That's right? Well, thank you for having
me on here. I just was like everybody else watching

(31:04):
the verdict, and I was very pleased for what we saw.
I just think at the end of the day. Also,
there was no way to not find him guilty when
you actually watched the video over and over again being
a man put his knee on a black man's neck

(31:25):
for nine minutes and just have him like have the
life taken out of him. When the prosecutor had said
it was just as simple as a nine year old
understanding that. I mean, for me, that was it. There
was no way to, you know, get past that. I'm
very glad that, you know, his family found justice for

(31:46):
what happened to him. I also think that had he
had died in the police vehicle, I think the outcome
would have been a little bit different. I think they
would have found a way to skate rop um, you know,
guilty guilty sentence. So I think, like I said, at
the end of the day, what really got it was

(32:07):
like we watched that video over and over again of
a man getting his life taken away by the fourth
of a knee. Yeah, yeah, yeah, right, it was. It
was I hated that it had to happen, but it happened.
This brother did not die in vain, No he didn't.

(32:30):
He he left a mark, an incredible mark in the
history of this nation. Because I'm telling you man, I'm
sixty four years old. I ain't really seen this. A
police officer guilty on all counts right, murdering a black person.

(32:54):
It may have happened somewhere. I ain't seen it. I
thank you, Thank you, Monica, thank you eighty nine. Let's go, Steve,
all right, it's time for national news. Ladies and gentlemen.
Miss Anne trip okay, thank you, and let us go.
Forty five year old Derek Chauvin spent the night in

(33:15):
the Minneapolis lock up. His bail immediately revoked yesterday after
he officially became a killer cop. Count one unintentional second
degree murder while committing a felony guilty, Count two, third
degree murder, perpetrating and eminently dangerous act. Find the defendant
guilty Count three second degree manslaughter, culpable negligence creating an
unreasonable risk guilty yea. All the charges against him would

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bring a total of seventy five years in prison if
the judge decided to slap the maximums on him and
let them run consecutively. However, since Chauvin has no criminal record,
he could also get away with serving only twelve years
behind bar. So we will see in the meantime, Show
was to be sentenced eight weeks from now. His lawyer
is most certainly going to attempt appeal. But as the
President says, George Floyd's murder last May twenty fifth spark

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protests against racism and police were tied not just in
the US, but in cities all over the world. It
was a murder in full light of day and ripped
the blinders off for the whole world to see. To
found fear and trauma and black and brown Americans experienced
every single day, and such a verdict is much too rare.

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In order to deliver real change and reform, we must
ensure the black and brown people are anyone don't fear
the interactions of law enforcement confronting head on systemic racism
and the racial disparities that existing policing and in our
criminal justice system. More broadly, and Vice President Harris was

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still in the Congress, you may remember when George Floyd
was killed, and she co sponsored a special bill last summer,
together with Senator Corey Booker and Representative Karen bass I
introduced the George Floyd Justice and Policing Act. This film
would hold law enforcement accountable. The President and I will
continue to urge the Senate to pass this legislation. Black

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Americans and black men in particular, have been treated throughout
the course of our history as less than human. Black
men are fathers and brothers and sons and uncles and grandfathers.
Their lives must be valued. And of course the case
is not over. There are three other fied Minneapolis cops

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yet to go on trial for aiding and abetting Derek
chauven as he strangled George Floyd to death. Just through
a remind of folks about how rare this is. The
Minneapolis Police initially described George Floyd's death as a result
of a medical incident that took place during a police interaction.
There was no mention of a knee or anything. In fact,
the Minneapolis Police issued a press release right after that

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stating that Floyd had physically resisted a rest and appeared
to be under the influence. Now back to Steve Harvey. Morning,
you're listening to show all right, we're talking to you,
our listeners. We want to hear what's on your mind.
Give us a call eight seven seven, twenty nine s

(36:13):
one day to be twenty nine, Timmy, But right nine
it's twenty nine. St y'all come on never all right,
See we're going to Chicago to talk to Carrie right now,
cal all right, Chicago V to v braby you you
know it's zvone O three what alright? But go ahead

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talk to us. I just wanted to say I have
a feeling of relief but sadness today. I think about
my father, who was born in nineteen twenty nine Helena Arkansas, FIA.
Just comes to this country faithfully, what over seeds, hangs
out to the uns, nothing. And he told me during
my childhood that we would police could never be here.

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All the quoted they were doing anything to black people ever,
and he this was so indoctrinated in him. He really
believed it. And he lived through Jim Carl He lives
through a whole lot, and sadly never got to see
this day. And I feel relieved. I hope he's looking
down saying, you know, they got him. But you know,

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I also feel I feel sadness and mixed release. Yeah,
I mean, I agree with you. I know my father
told me so many things. I know my father cannot
believe today. Absolutely my father was gone. He couldn't believe
Barack Obama was president. You know why, I know he

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couldn't believe it because I really didn't believe it. Absolutely.
I'm telling you, I did not think in my lifetime
I would see a black man as the president of
the United States, any of us. I was stunned. And
it was one of the greatest gifts in politics that

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God has given to us. And so now you know,
I do agree with you, and uh, well said, and
you know, we got a lot to do, but I
think that we're going to remain a voting block power
because there there they got mad about Georgia becoming blue
and Texas almost flipping and feeling and all of that.

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So now they're actually coming up with voter suppression laws.
What Georgia was blatant racism in your face. We locked
the door, we signed a hundred pieces of paper and
nothing you can do about it. Wow, yep, you know
it's sad, but they're to we do. Thank you so much.

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Just all right, we'll be back with more of your
calls at eight seven, seven twenty nine, Steve right after
this you're listening to all right, So it is the
day after Steve, the day after the Derek Schaubin verdict. Um.
President spoke yesterday, Um, before the verdict. He was saying

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he was hoping for the right verdict. The Vice president
when he talked to the family, talked to the family
before and after. Yeah he did. Yeah, Yeah, compassionate, empathetic
president that we have. Now. Vice President Harris spoke as well,
and we want to hear what you think, our audience.

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Please give us a call at eight seven seven twenty nine, Steve,
let us know how you feel. This is the day
after the Derek Schauvin verdict. Let's go to the good. Um.
I think this is the Reverend Steve, doctor Curry, if
I had his name correct, Doctor Curry, Carolina. Yes, I'm here,
Chief Apostle, Doctor Kerry, and God bless you all. You know.

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I just thank God for you guys. And as I
was telling gentle before I got on that we are
here in the state of North Carolina, we are working
with agencies here, civil rights agencies to prepare for the
next battle that's going to come. I believe this state

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is going to be one of the big battle grounds
because they're already after this statement that God, we have
a democratic governor that has tried to cover us doing
all these things that are going on. But what we
have to realize now that we have lost so many
of our great peers. We've lost the John Lewis's, we've

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lost the ct Vivians, and we have to begin replenishing
the ranks because as I was just listening to you
with even with this happening, they're setting the next space
for what they want to do, and so we have
to be indeed ready for that as well. We have
to prepare our minds. And thank god, we had a

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coalition of intelligent people that presented the case that needed
to be presented in the right way, and no matter
what they said, they could not get out of the
eye of the public. Well, when you had people like
Immatial and all of them, they could hide what they
had done. But you know, because of social media and

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because of the attention that you guys put on it
and all the people that put it in not only
America space, but the whole world saw it. If they
had brought out any other verdict in what they did,
then it was shown this country as a totally unjust country.
We're working along with other agencies stout to Stacy Abrams

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and some of the others because we know that this
state is going to be one that they're really looking at.
I think they said, uh, one of the Trumps was
trying to come in and take the place of our
governor here. So we're going to make sure that we
get the people active and you know, motivated to get
out and vote and do what we need to do

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to continue or what George Floyd died for. He died
for to come back. The injustice that was going on
in doctor keeps you know, in justice anywhere, you know,
is injustice everywhere. So that's what we keep in mind
as we move forward. And like I said, I listen

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to you guys all the time, and uh definitely want
to partner with other people. Uh, you know, hopefully after show,
you guys can reach out to us. I'm on the
Facebook page and all of that. Chief Apostle, Doctor Kenneth Curry,
And like I said, we worked very hard. Um one
of the recipients of two Presidential Lifetime Achievement Awards, So

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I worked very hard to work within the community. I'm
a retired disabled military veteran, but I still defend the
constitution of this country and that's we have people. Wow,
you know Uh, sir, we appreciate all your work too,
because it's the foot soldiers that can be of the

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most that get the most work done. You know. We
we on that absolutely. You know. You know, look, we
drop our bombs from the air. We were in an airplane,
were flying over and we drop bombs. Would be very effective.
But you foot soldiers out there are the true champions
of justice, and we appreciate everything they're trying to protect,

(43:52):
the white privilege and the white supremacists what they're trying to.
Thank you, sir. Hey, y'all will be right back with
more calls on Steve Harvey morning shows. You're listening to
stow all right. Here we are on this day after

(44:13):
this historic day. This was a historic trial, um. And
the Derek Chauvin verdict is in. He was found guilty
on all three counts, all three. You got to do
some time. When you don't we you don't get clear
none of the charge. And the verdict came back in
the time where it didn't let us know, we felt

(44:35):
that like wow, this was what we ain't in here
talking about that nine I was told the foe. I
was the first day. Five the next day. I think
they were just in the eating some doing us and
stuff in the morning. You know, well they had already
decided to see I hope that's another case. I hope. Yeah,
really did look at the evidence and no they did.
We saw it. There was all we don't even had

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to do this. Yeah, they thought. We're taking phone calls
today from our audience at eight seven seven twenty nine, Steve,
let's go to the phone. We're going to Riverdale, Georgian
now and talking to Sean. Hey, how you gans doing.
So it's an un first a lot to speak with you,

(45:17):
actually speak to you in real life, in your voice,
for real man. I love your show man. You guys
have been doing great work. I love you guys. And
when you come on the morning time you speak, you say,
ain't spiritually that I really needed to hear. But um,
now on this case, I want to talk to you
about which is very important and it shows the war

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that americally is making that change from doctor King said
once before, I may not get there with you, but
we will get there as some people. And today it's
one of them days that pum, we are getting there.
Blacks and whites and other nations are coming together, and
we are coming together as one in this country, and

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we are going to make it. We are going to
do whatever it takes to be well. We need to
be exactly I think said. And you know something, man,
this I'm telling you man. I had a conversation with
a woman here who was in the royal family of

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one of the countries here now, and obviously she watches
Fox News. She was a huge Trump supporter. I was
stunned listening to this woman talk. I was stunned how
great Donald Trump was. And then she actually told me
you are Hollywood type. All of you feel the same way.

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I'm a Hollywood type. First of all, you don't know me,
You really really don't that. I'm the last person that's
the Hollywood. And then she went to talk about how
reverl Lations changed the world and Donald Trump was sent
by God, and I went what Donald Trump was sent

(47:08):
by God? And this one was just going on and on,
and it's just so many people, man, who think see
what Donald Trump said. I want you all to listen
to what his whole campaign was, make America great again.
So what that meant was they didn't like the condition

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it was in now, so we're gonna take it back
to a period of time where it was better for who?
When has it ever been better for black people? And
that rolls up all these white supremacist groups. They came
out of nowhere. That's the reason the Capitol Building was stormed.
That's the reason they drove through the crowd and killed

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people in cause because he gave them the power. They
actually felt like they had a man in the White
House that ain't God ain't sent him. God's people don't
hold bibles upside down and look at it and not
even boy, what right? God's people have some stories of

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going to church. You've seen Donald Trump in one church
that was at Bush's funeral. Ain't no photo of him.
Look uncomfortable, man, Please, there's no wind about his head. Man,
he ain't praying and nothing. So, you know, we got
work to do, but we are. I think there's a
beginning here. I think there's a change. Thank you, thank you,

(48:39):
thank you. All right, um, let's go to Lakewood, California.
We're going to talk to Katherine Steve. Hey, Catherine, this
is Katherine's husband John. He asked me to pick up
the phone for her. She's kind of shiye, but okay,
I'm I'm Olsen age to Steve. We're born the same year,

(49:02):
fifty seven, and I've got a lot of respect for
you and a big fan. And I've been just trying
to compose myself and get white Weight teers the wire
weight tears for the PAS ten fifteen minutes here. But
I think I'm composing enough to speak now. I really

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m bomb did with some of the brave people that
testified at the trial, particularly the young lady firefighter, because
I'm a retired African American firefighters out here in the
West Coast, and I just thought the people were so
brave and courageous to get up there and speak their

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truth to this matter. And I'm I'm also very much
encouraged by the State District Attorney of Minnesota, mister Ellison,
and here I just watched his press conference. So the whole,
this whole thing is today's victory. But I know that

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we have a lot of work ahead of us in
the future, and the struggle will continue, probably for the
rest of our lives, unfortunately, and even to our grand
to the lives of our grandkids. But I just I
don't want to take up too much of your time.
I just wanted to make a few comments. Thank you, brother,
and I appreciate you. You know, one of the things

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that I noticed in this trial that I hadn't really
seen before what normally happens, guys, is that prosecutors are
often in bed with the local police department. In this case,
I was really amazed at how the prosecutors were dad
sent on doing the right thing for the people. See

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see when you go see when you go to state
verse sis. When you say that, you gotta understand that
you're talking about the paid representatives and the electric representatives
that we put in place are gonna fight for the
state against to prosecute somebody else. Wait a minute, man,

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They're usually in bed, especially with the police department. That's
why grand juries don't ever ever bring them up for trial,
because the prosecutors go in there and they present something
to the twelve voting people who are the grand jury,
and they give such a vague thing and they say, well,
we don't really think we have enough to prosecute, and

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the grand jury finds no cause to bring forth a trial.
That didn't happen in this case. So if we can
get more prosecutors who are not in bed with local police,
that's going to change things. And I think this also.
Let me tell you something else too, because these prosecutors
are gonna be ours now, and people love power and position,

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and other prosecutors are gonna go Wow, I get a
case like this, I'm gonna do something that gets the
adelation of the nation too, and I'll be a star.
I'm telling you, man, something's going on here. That's my
comment about. Yeah. But hey man, thank you very much, man,
and you and your wife man pull it together. I

(52:24):
understand where you're coming from because we've been me and
you fifty seven brothers. We've been around here wild and
that's right. And you know, man, And I'm gonna tell
you something. Hey, doc, we're sick and tired, do you
nineteen fifty seven? You know the bullcrap we don't seen. Yeah,
we're tired of all this here. Man, We're sick and

(52:45):
tired of this and it's about time technically as late
as hell, but we'll take it though. Yeah. Yeah, we
got our help and we're around to see it happen.
And yeah, we both got a lot of left in us,
a lot of dog man. Appreciate your brother, Thank you, man. Yeah,

(53:09):
all right, y'all sit tight, we'll be back with more
calls on the Steve Harvey Morning Show. You're listening to show.
All right, here we go. This is the day after.
This is such a historic day. I mean, everybody was waiting, waiting, waiting.
What would the verdict be? What would the verdict be?
Please let it be guilty, you know, please. This is

(53:31):
the Derek Chauvin verdict um the day after. Okay, he
was found guilty on all three charges. In case you
don't know that by now, I'm sick of asking you
to treat me the same way you treat each other.
How about this right here? I don't want to ask
you that. Just leave us alone though, yes, hello, hello, good.

(53:56):
If you're not gonna treat us equal or the same,
how about this, just leave us alone. Yes, sir, we'll
make it, We'll we'll be fine. Okay, we've made it
all this time. We'll be fine. Just stop killing us
yes stop, yeah, yeah, stop all yeah, yeah, I like it.
I like that, Steve. Leave us alone. Yeah, just leave

(54:18):
us alone. Okay, all right, but we don't want you,
our audience, to leave us alone. We want to hear
from you. Eight seven seven twenty nine. Steve to the phones,
we go, Oh, who is it, Shirley. Let's just go
to the phones and see who's there. Then someone's there, Hello, Steve,
every morning show. Hello, who's hi? Who's this? Who need them?

(54:44):
How are you today? I am blessed. I am truly blessed. Well,
go ahead. I am so grateful because as I watched it,
and I'm trying not to watch it, but I had
to because I have sons, I have grandsons, I have uncles,

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and I have nephew, so I really had to watch it.
And I was praying with my hand. My hand was
exactly all my Trump business, and I had to cry.
And I am so grateful. This should make an example
out of him because they need to know that the

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Lord is the Lord, and I respect that. But you
can't assume you have to hurt people because you think
they're going wrong. It's a process and what he did
was in a process. So I thank God for that verdict.
Thank you very much, appreciate the call of you. Thank you,

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thank you. When y'all have a black day, thank you
so much. All right, Felicia in Middletown, Delaware. Steve, We're
going straight to Felicia. Alicia. Yes, these yes, yes, yes,
how are we on there? Listen? I am so happy
about right now. This gives me hope. This really gives

(56:14):
me hope that my son, my nineteen year old son,
and my thirteen year old grandson is going to be
able to live their lives in this world. This gives
me so much hope, so much hope. It is just
wonderful that we now have this verdict to let everybody

(56:40):
know that black lives matters, all black lives matter, that
we are all humans. And I just thank everyone, everyone,
everyone who had anything to do with this, this guilty
verdict here. I just want to just bless them, and

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it just gives me hope. It gives me hope. It
will make me be able to sleep at night a
little bit better knowing that my son and my grandson
don't have to look over their shoulders when they're just
outside it. Yeah, or I understand what you said. It

(57:27):
does give us hope. But now also at the same time,
we still have to be vigilant, We still have to
be aware of blatant racism because it's not going away
over this one. There is now going to be other
ways that they will try it. You know, a man

(57:50):
when you're dealing with evil people. You got to watch them. Man.
They they they strongly hateful people. Man, they don't they
don't die easy. So still stay watchful. Men, women, young people,
watch where you go, watch how you are, because everybody

(58:11):
ain't gonna believe fat meat, greasy. I agree, it's some
some it's some police officers going Okay, well i'm gonna
cut the body cam off. Okay, well i'll tell you what.
I'm gonna do it this way. Yeah, I'll tell you what.
I'm gonna get you on the cuffs. I'm gonna get
you back back at the station, and then we're gonna

(58:31):
see it's it's it's some evil people once again, not
all ye, but it's some evil people out there, and
so we just gotta stay with you. I agree with you,
and thank you for that. Thank you for that. You know,
we just just just right now, just living in this moment.
It's just it gives us some relief. But I totally
understand what you're saying. This is not to stop me

(58:54):
from telling my son and my grandson to just be careful.
So death not that, but this gives me this, This
gives me hope. It all we got to do is
convict some mote h when you do wrong, and we
got you, you got to paid. And once we get
some motor paid, then I think, I think if we

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can begin the process. But I think for a lot
of us, we needed to see this guilty please. Yeah,
well I mean, I mean not please. We had to
see this guilty verdict because this, anything else would have
been a disaster. Yeah, I know it would have because
I didn't know what I was going to do. And
I'm supposed to have good sense, so I'm supposed to

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I'm supposed to know better. I'm old, I'm sixty four,
I'm I ain't supposed to be having these thoughts, but
they was in my head. So I know young people
out there, the young lions, if they think like I'm thinking,
they're gonna do something to you. Yes, and I'm glad
we didn't have to. So thank you very much, appreciate
your calling. Thank you, bless you guys, be saved. Thank

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you too, and we'll be back again. Y'all, y'all stay
with us. This is a great day. We're talking to
the people. We got more right after this. You're listening
to show the day after the Derek Chauvin verdict guilty
on all three charges. We were talking to you our
audience at eight seven seven twenty nine, Steve, all right,
let's go back to Chicago and talk to Carmela. Steve, Carmela.

(01:00:25):
We in Chicago. Carmela, Hi, listen, Harvey and Shirley Strawberry.
We are here. Hello, how you know it? We're doing good.
What's your comment today? My comment today is, I'm so
relieved that the jury made the right decision. It's about times,

(01:00:47):
it really is. Um. I was listening to you earlier.
I don't know what I would have done if it
had gone the opposite direction. I really don't. That's been
my whole struggle. That's been a morning show struggle because
we've been talking about this verdict, you know, because I'm

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way over in Africa. When it comes down, Steve, Steve,
will you be able to be on the air, and
you know, fortunate the timing of it all, I am,
But we were all trying to figure out the five
of us. How do we present this to our listeners
if there's a not guilty verdict? And can I tell

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you something? We don't come up with nothing. I know nothing.
I've been searching it my soul too, that if the
verdict was not the right verdict, like what do I
believe anymore? You know, my whole thought process just everything.
So yeah, because not guilty would have said, I know

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you saw this tape, right, but we don't care. Yeah,
y'all black and that's it you did. It would have
given us a finger and you know, a finger that
would happened. Oh yeah, it would have given us a finger.
But I'm gonna tell you something though. It wouldn't have

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been good, right, But we was gonna be passing out
some fingers too though. And see that's that's that's the
part that I keep trying to I pray about it
a little bit, but every time I pray about it,
I get mad because I'm telling you what, we're struggling.
The five of us were really trying to figure out
if this is not Carlin, Shirley, Junior, Tommy were singing,

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and we had nothing. We had nothing, so we're gonna
be mad too. And then I was just trying to
stay over here in Africa and finish my job so
I didn't fly back and get some matches, you know,
That's all. I was just trying to you don't have
to say everything I was going to. I didn't. I didn't.

(01:02:59):
I didn't. I didn't really mean matches. I mean, you
don't like to just match up some people, you know,
people to sit down and talk, you know, match people
up with each other to talk. I was just trying
to get some matches to see if we can find
some people people. See what would you have been able
to say to the people in Africa? What country are

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you in right now? I'm in Johannesburg. They don't understand this,
you know what they keep saying. They just got a
got rid of apartheid just some years ago. Apartei just
ended in ninety six. So Ray sitting up going what
is going on in America? We thought America was great?

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And I've been on stage telling them, yeah, but they're
killing us though for us man Steve y'all making so
much money over there, but they're killing us. They're killing them.
They're killing us physically, psychologically, spiritually, like our souls are
just freed. Like it's exhausting. And when you go back

(01:04:06):
and you think about like your experiences and where you
are now, it's not a grateful God. Yes, yes, that
you're here and your mind is here. You know, it's
just surely purely by the grateful God. I mean it's
everything that everything, yes, absolutely, and to come out with

(01:04:31):
your mind being somewhat okay, you know. And look, we
have to feel this way and still get up, go
to work, still dress our kids for school, still try
to find a way to be successful in this. Still
drive our car even though we know we could get

(01:04:53):
pulled over and it could be our turn. We still
manage to get up and function anyway. We are such
a great people. They're in life. The problem still right
there because we are man yeah yeah yeah. And the women,
the black women are not safe either. And for me

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to see my brothers go through what they go through,
it affects me absolutely. Hell. You know why because black women,
y'all made all us, every black boy, every black man
that died, a black woman made them, as some woman

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somewhere produced this life. Many please and you down in
the struggle and take care of you when you've been
beat up. We have to deal with that. And that's
a lot to deal with. Who wants to see their
man or their father or their husband come home day
after day. I know that struggle. I feel it I understand.

(01:05:58):
I get it. I'm not a man. I feel you.
I got you, brother, you better tell it. You know,
agregated city, and I know it is. At any given time,
it could jump off, and so I'm already prepared, you know.

(01:06:19):
And that's a horrible way to live when I think
about it, but it is what it is. Yeah right,
thank you so much for everything you do. Thank you.
I really appreciate it. All right, we appreciate you too, Carmelo,
thank you, thank you, thank you. Stay woke. We'll be
back at forty six minutes after the hour. You're listening
to show. We've been talking to our audience all day.

(01:06:43):
This is the day after the Derek Chauvin verdict. The
trial has ended. He is in handcuffs and on his
way to jail. Are we still about to take more calls?
Oh yeah, we're definitely taking all calls all morning. Eighty good.
Can I jump in and say so to the people
that's that might call uh? And I know we're on

(01:07:03):
a serious note today, but a lot of y'all I'm
noticing or stepping out of here, out of out of
your bounds. Once again. Steve Harby is my uncle. He
knocked y'alls, we're calling him and calling him unc this.
You don't even call your own uncle, you know what
I mean? So so why calling here claiming, man, you

(01:07:24):
didn't great? Wait wait, let me just say it. You
didn't get the uncle you won't it all. You didn't
get the one you want it that that has nothing
to do with him at all. Whatsoever? I lucked up
and got the one I want it. You didn't get that.
Go back to your uncle and try to work something

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out with your uncle. Try to make your uncle a
good uncle. But quick calling in here, Hey uncle Steve,
he knocked your damn. I'm I'm sorry he knocked your uncle. Okay,
get on back to Tommy. Everything that's going on today,
we as a people were coming together and full of
calling in and you mad at them saying, hey, uncle
se I would have a uncle March if I need

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to play with people. Do I hear you laughing? I
know I do. I see you, Uncle March, you're gonna
calle told y'all you remember back in LA when we hired.

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I told ya, I said, I don't really feel good
about this. Yes for my sister, call me. I don't
feel good about it. I know, I know, oh man,
you know he got better over the years, you know,
and I know we just took a moment, just a
little bit of levity, like the mood a little bit.
But Tommy was way worse, folks. He used to didn't

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come to work on time, sometimes he missed it all.
You know, just all how is this about day? Though? Well,
you know, let's just give him that a little last moment.
It wasn't this this then start out about me calling
this what these people calling in you calling him uncle Steve,

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Uncle Steve. That's my problem calling him and say hello,
miss Steve Harvey. I'd like to make my comment on
the situation. That's fine, But coming in here claiming to
be family, that's what we're not. You know, you're not
gonna do this. You're not gonna take this moment and
try to slide up on into the family. You're not
that man. That's crazy. When my uncle going through, when

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my uncle going through somewhere to hear y'all that theme,
where y'all at what this all right? Look, we're taking
phone calls all morning, eight seven, seven, twenty nine. Steve,
call us, we'll be right back. Don't say uncle, you're
listening to show. All right, Steve, here we are, last

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hour of the show. It's been a good day so far.
People are just calling. Yeah, how they feel off their chests?
I mean people, you know, feel some kind of way
as they should. I mean, we've been going through this
for a long time now. And this is the day
after the Derek Chauvin verdict. He was found guilty on
all three charges. And we want to hear from you. Yeah,

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thank god, you know. I like something we mentioned the
President and Vice president we're speaking. I like something Vice
President Joe Biden said. He says systemic racism is a
stain on our nation's soul. Yes, we couldn't agree more.
And yes, how do we speak the president? When is
it going away? Get something to wipe the stain away,

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you know, because we're sick of it. Yes, eight seven seven,
twenty nine, Steve, if you want to talk to us
this morning, let's go to the phone. Steve Delaware. It's Lakeisha, Steve, Lakisha, Lakeisha. Yes,
I'm here. Hi, everybody. You own to Steve Harvey more
on to show. Where should comment? Um lord, I just

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want to say that seeing the verdict today gave me
hope UM. Sadly, my brother was taken away by Newcaster
County Police officers UM on January thirteen, twenty one. So
just then that George Floyd family is finally getting the

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justice that they that they've been loaning forum, it's a
blessing and I'm just hopeful and I'm prayerful that my
family and I will be able to have this same
justice soon. I see the same trend the same trends
in all of these type of cases where these officers

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are trying to get people to look away from or
not pay attention to what we see clearlyc on video
and let's focus on. Let's big up this person's criminal background,
let's dig up the twenty dollars deal, let's pick up
miscellaneous stuff that has nothing to do with the heinous
act that we are seeing by these people who are

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supposed to be protecting and service. Yeah. I'm just here.
I'm just calling on to say I'm so grateful for
the justice for George Floyd, and I pray for justice
for all anybody who's going through the same tragedy rights
as George Floyd's family and my family for the justice

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that we're seeking from my brother Lamar modes, well, sister,
because you know, I mean this is see. I want
people to understand. Now, this sister got it firsthand. Her
brother was taking it at the hands of the police officer.
Do you know how many stories that are like this
see and um, you know the this this trial represents

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for so many people some type of justice type of Okay, wow,
somebody because I haven't seen this man. This is so
crazy here man that we and there's nothing for him.

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It's just this country right here. We have got to
establish new laws for police officers that they are under
the same guidelines as us. See, we came you to
uphold the law, and then you turn around and break
the same damn law we're paying you to overhold. And
then you can commit the same crime we commit and

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we have to do time and you get to go home.
We pay no, no, no, no. That has to end.
And we got to see his signals. But I'm telling you, man,
these prosecutors are going to become stars, and other prosecutors
are going to want the adamation of America that these
prosecutors are gonna get. And I'm telling you but now
at the same time, we got to get real ready,

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we got to get real ready, y'all, because they are
in these back rooms trying to figure out a way
to stop this from happening again to one of their officers.
And I'm not talking about policeman. I'm talking about the system,
because police brutality is a way that it's been designed

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to keep a thumb and a knee on the neck
of a certain community and a culture for a long time.
It's just the clue Klux Klan with a blue suit on.
All right, stay with us, y'all. We'll be back. We're
taking calls all morning. You're listening, all right, Come on, Steve,

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we can get a call in here. Call or two.
Let's go to the phone seven seven twenty nine, Steve Admetris, Hi,
how are you all? Tell me your name? Okay? Good?
What's your comment? I haven't had a chance to, you know.
Every time then came on of the police officer on

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George Boards. Need that on George Boards neck. I never
had attemp. I never wanted to look at it. I
never you know, I always turned the down up because
it was so overwhelmed me. But when they verdict came
in today, I mean I just cried. He talked, I
thought about my son, my husband, my nephews, my brother.

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I thought about all of them on the ground, and
so when when their guilty verdict came in, I just
I just cried. I just crashed because I said, finally,
it's finally something, it's happening. And with me, it's like
a win sport because my brother is a police and
my daughter is a police and I know that they

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are great policeman and I know that my daughter helped,
help caused a homeless help he give everybody's break. My brother,
he even arrested, bad talk. And so just to be
in this position and just to see justice done, and
I'm just overwhelm about everything. That's a beautiful thing because,

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like I say, the majority of police officers are fine people.
But you know it's too many damn bad apples. All
let's leave it right. There were taken some more calls,
y'all appreciate y'all call at eight seven seven, twenty ninety
you're listening to show all right, we've been taking calls,

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your phone calls all morning about this Derek Chauvin verdict.
Like Steve said, I mean, we appreciate you so much.
You're listening to us and and this is your turn
today to call and let us know how you feel.
Chauvin was found guilty on all three charges for the
murder of George Floyd. Uh yeah, yeah, for the Floyd

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family and just you know, maybe this can be the
beginning of something, you know. I hope. So, I really
really do, I really do know. More of this, stop
killing us, no more of this. All right, we're taking
calls eight seven seven twenty nine s. Let's go to
New York. Talk to Victoria, New York, New York. Victoria,

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how are you. I'm blessed. I am happy, Steve, I
am rejoicing. My heart is singing. Thank God that that
could have been my son, my grandson, my husband, my nephew.
This is a small step, but thank God for a
cell phone, thank God for a videotape, that that young
lady sit there and take all nine minutes and twenty

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nine seconds. I thank god that I got a chance
today to see this officer handcuffed and walk out of
that court room. I thank god this afternoon or this morning,
I thank god. I do, and I thank you for
giving us this opportunity to say just how it's on

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our heart. We're feeling if we're happy but we're sad.
It's like it's a dichotomy. You're happy, but you're sad.
But I thank god I got a chance to see
this man walk out of the courtroom and handcuffs. I
thank you for this opportunity, have a blessed morning. This

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is a glorious clout. We needed your phone call. I
ain't even gonna say nothing behind it. Thank you. You know, man,
some sometimes you need some uplift, you know, because you
know it's a happy side moment. But man, you know,
and then people, well you know, we still got a

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long way to go. I said, but guess what, at
least today today, for this brief moment, we ellective victory
as people. And there are a lot of people, man,
we can thank for this. Like she said, that woman
is said up to inhale that camera for the entire video.

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That wasn't a cops camera. Darnella Frasier. She was seventeen
years old the whole time, seven ten years old, Darnell,
and that all the times I tell my kids get
off him, damn phones exactly. Thank you, yes, thank you.
But see they record everything, and what she recorded was

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the perfect video. Three did she changed? Yeah, thank you,
you're welcome, right, thank you, thank you so much. A
less date. Bye bye to dear, thank you, bye bye.
Coming up, it is our last break of the day,
and of course we'll have some closing remarks from the
one and only Steve Harvey at forty nine minutes after

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the hour right after this you're listening to all right Steve.
Here we are our last break of the day. The
day after the Derek Chauvin verdict, he was found guilty
on all three charges. Justice, Justice, you know, um, the
way you know it has it has been a good day,

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and I want everybody to keep the focus that that's
what it is. Now. Look, I know that it's long overdue.
I know we should have been here. I got it.
I got it. I know the feeling of exhaustion, of

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steady asking for what is rightly ours. You know, um,
this Constitution has never been for us. It doesn't apply
to us too many times. Sometimes we get a piece

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of it here, sometimes we get a piece of it there,
and then the rest of it it just don't apply.
So today day as we all deal and grapple with
the trial and how big it was, and like I said, earlier,
I thought, this is just my opinion. You don't have
to agree with this, that this was the biggest trial

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we've seen come across our TV screen that had this
much national attention since the O. J. Simpson trial. But
this one was different, though, This one was different. This
one was about justice for black people, people of color.
This was about watching portions of this nation stand together.

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I watched doing COVID and the killing of this man,
the murder of George Floyd. I watched people who I
didn't know cared. I watched people come outside and protests
and lock arms with people who they just felt for.
I watched a lot out of non whites getting excuse me,

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a lot of non blacks get involved here this trial.
So many black people watched it to just see if
we could just get our life to matter. How about
this one time, how about after you saw the same
video we saw. How about after you watch this man

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murder this man for nine minutes and twenty some seconds
that video right there, we were holding with bated breath.
How could he possibly walk from this after what we saw?
But now we had every right to feel a little apprehension,
a little, a little uneasiness here a little on the

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edge of our seats, a little nervous on sitting on
pins and needles, because we've seen it all too many times,
police officers brutalized, murder and kill us and get away
with it and go home. So excuse us for this
moment of celebration, for being able to see what we saw.

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And today we opened up the phone lines to talk
to our listeners, the people who support us Dan Dan
out and we felt it was important to do this
today because we had to listen to them. And in
every single phone call that was a little bit of pain,
or there was a lot of pain. That was all
a celebration, but there was some pain in every last

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one of them phone calls because we had to listen
to our listeners fears, We had to listen to their relief.
We had to listen to them wanting to matter, you know,
because I gotta tell y'all something. If you don't understand,
this is really quite simple. We just tied of asking

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you to treat us the same. We're just sick and
tired of it. I mean, let me ask you something.
Wouldn't you be if this were happening to you, wouldn't
you be sick and tired of this. If you were
bought over here against your will over four hundred years
ago and forced into slavery, and then through an emancipation

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proclamation be so called set free, and then half to
constantly from that moment, all still asked to be free
still after that, asked you to allow that constitution to
apply to us the way it does to you, wouldn't
you be sick and tired. I'm exhausted. I've never in

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my sixty four years, other than just being a toddler,
I've not known what this was like. I've never known
a moment where I was just free to be me.
I blew up. I saw colored only water fountains to
the back, colored and white restrooms. I saw it from

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sixty four man, I come up in Wealth Trust, Virginia.
I'm telling you, I saw it. I listened to my father,
my uncles tell stories, horrific stories. I've seen police officers
killed black people before, and nothing happened to him. I've
seen it, not on TV, not on social media, on
my street in my city, down the street from where

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I stayed up in my playground. I remember cop came
up there and killed two kids at the playground because
he said they stole some bikes. Then wasn't even the bikes.
I've seen all of this, So we tired. So since
we tired of asking you to treat us the same,

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and we seem to have to fight so hard to
get you to treat us the same. How about this,
how about this? How about you just leave us alone?
Stop killing us, just leave us alone. I'm grateful for this,
I'm happy about this. We need more. This is just

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the beginning. We have a long way to go. Don't
give up. Stay watchful. It ain't over, This ain't the
last one. Stay watchful, Stay prayerful. Congratulations, God bless the
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