that unidentified male this systems corrupt as hell thomas george floyd a black man asphyxiated to death by a white officer in a confrontation somehow erupting over allegations over a counterfeit 20 bill many especially people of color were holding their breath right before the jurys verdict for derek chauvin was read worried that the white officer might be given the benefit of the doubt and that george floyd fighting to live just to breathe might be seen as resisting arrest conviction unidentified male we the jury find the defendant guilty benjamin crump attorney for family of george floyd let this be the precedence where we overcome systematic racism and oppression thomas these three cases and the debates about them in a deeply divided nation simultaneously reflecting signs of progress but also a journey toward a more perfect union that is far from over with many challenging miles yet to be traveled end videotape stephanopoulos thanks to pierre thomas for that lets bring in our roundtable now chris christie donna brazile former democratic senator heidi heitkamp and the manhattan institute president reihan salam and donna let me begin with you do you look at these cases and say the system works justice was served donna brazile former dnc chair and abc news contributor i look at this past year george and i say that the system is still imperfect i said that it still requires a video in order to convict someone of murder i say that we must continue to hold onto hope but understand that we still have a long way to go as pierre just said you got the two lawyers here so i dont want to mess up the law but theres a law on the books in 1863 that says if theres someone running away from slavery you can capture them thats that was the law and that law was finally abolished in may of 2021 we argue about critical race theory but when the law is still embedded with the what i call the hate of the past what will it take for us to correct it i dont want to wait for a video to know that somebody should be charged with murder and yet the first prosecutor said go home wash your hands and it took the pastors and a crying mother and a community that was outraged and a video that was leaked or accidentally leaked for us to get justice in brunswick georgia we dont have too much longer to wait for this perfect union to come together i would hope that this case and cases going forward that we can finally put the rest some of the old vestiges of the past so that we can go down that road of a more perfect union i welcome that day so should you stephanopoulos a lot to unpack there chris christie r former governor of new jersey and abc news contributor yes well i agree with most of