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Deadly Police Shooting Sparks Protests In Atlanta; Protests Across U.S. For Equality, Against Police Brutality; New Body Cam Video From Arrest, Shooting Of Rayshard Brooks; Rio de Janeiro Health Workers Hit Hard By Outbreak; Foods That Affect Your Mood. Aired 7-8a ET

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ANNOUNCER: This is NEW DAY weekend with Victor Blackwell and Christi Paul.

VICTOR BLACKWELL, CNN ANCHOR: Yes, again, a look across Centennial Park there in downtown Atlanta. The protests across the city have ended now. But it has been another night of demonstrations, calling for changes in policing. Hundreds of protesters were on the streets of the city of Atlanta, highways were blocked, a restaurant in the upper right corner there of the screen burned. Police used tear gas on demonstrators to clear the crowds.

CHRISTI PAUL, CNN ANCHOR: This was over the killing of this man you see here, Rayshard Brooks, a 27-year-old African-American who was shot and killed by an Atlanta police officer. He was shot in a fast food parking lot Friday night after a struggle with police. And within the past 24 hours, the officer who shot him has been fired, his partner is on administrative duty and the Atlanta police chief has stepped down.

BLACKWELL: This is coming in the context of this national, really global moment, but here in the U.S., about policing specifically and we're covering all the angles of it. We're going to start with CNN's Dianne Gallagher. She is in Atlanta following the police shooting here in the city, also the subsequent protest.

Dianne, I understand that those protests wrapped up just a few hours ago.

Dianne? We don't have her yet. This is the story that Dianne filed just a little bit ago.

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DIANNE GALLAGHER, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Protests grew in Atlanta last night over a deadly police shooting. A new name being chanted, Rayshard Brook -- fatally shot by police at a fast food drive-through in Atlanta. Protesters shut down an interstate and set fires at and near the Wendy's restaurant where Brooks was killed Friday night.

Earlier, police used tear gas and flash bangs to try to clear the area. The Georgia Bureau of Investigations say police were called around 10:30 Friday night about a man sleeping in a car in a Wendy's drive-through. Police say that man, Brooks, failed a field sobriety test and then resisted arrest. In video taken by a bystander, you can see a struggle.

According to the GBI, the yellow object in the officer's hand is a Taser. Eventually, Brooks appears to swing at an officer before taking off with the Taser. Wendy's surveillance video released by the GBI picks up where that video ends.

What you see is Brooks running from the police. At one point he appears to turn back toward the officer and discharge the Taser before turning back around to continue to run. You then see him fall to the ground.

Here's the moment brooks appears to discharge the Taser and the officer fires. Here it is once more in slow motion. Brooks was shot, taken to the hospital where he died the GBI said.

Attorneys representing Brooks' family spoke out last night.

L. CHRIS STEWART, ATTORNEY FOR FAMILY OF RAYSHARD BROOKS: Why not talk to him as a human being and say, hey, buddy, maybe you had too much to drink, leave your car here and take Uber. I've seen that happen. But that didn't happen. Instead they got physical, he ran, he did have the Taser.

But according to law, a Taser is not a lethal weapon. So he didn't have a lethal weapon in his hand. He was running with the Taser and then they shot him. It just -- it didn't need to happen.

GALLAGHER: Garrett Rolfe, the police officer who shot and killed Brooks, has been terminated, Atlanta Police spokesman Carlos Campos tells CNN. The second police, Devin Brosnan, has been placed on administrative duty. And the police chief is stepping down.

DERRICK JOHNSON, PRESIDENT, NAACP: We need to change the culture of policing. We need to evaluate how we train police. We need to make sure police not only support the communities that they are -- they have a duty to protect and serve, but in many cases they need to be in the community that they have a duty to protect and serve.

GALLAGHER: A cousin of Brooks spoke yesterday.

DECATUR REDD, COUSIN OF RAYSHARD BROOKS: I didn't think it would hit right here, man. I thought this city were better than that.

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They got to answer. Somebody needs to say something. Somebody needs to let the family know something. We need to know at least that the city is with us.

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GALLAGHER: Now, police say that at least 36 people were arrested during the protests last night. There were also some really uncomfortable moments especially for our own crews. One of our crews, Natasha Chen, Taka Yokoyama, Jonathan Schaer and Maria Kartaya (ph) were out at the Wendy's before the fire was set when some of the protesters didn't take kindly to being videotaped there. They smashed Taka's camera and attempted to obstruct Natasha from being able to continue shooting video on her phone. They roughed her up a little bit.

But they are OK. Everything is all right with that crew there.

I want to highlight one thing, from Chief Erika Shields' resignation where she said it's time for the city to move forward and build trust between law enforcement and the communities they served. Victor, and Christi, we've been out here with these protesters. I can tell you that that's a wide gap that they're going to have to bridge. They plan to be out here protesting, just as they have for the past two weeks, again today.

PAUL: All right. Dianne Gallagher, thank you so much for bringing us all the information throughout the night. We appreciate you.

Let's bring in CNN Law Enforcement Analyst, Charles Ramsey. He's a former Philadelphia police commissioner. And Marc Morial, president of the National Urban League.

Good morning, gentlemen. Thank you for being here.

MARC MORIAL, PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE: Good morning.

PAUL: We're so grateful to have your voice in this.

Charles, I want to start with you. You said something last night that I think got a lot of people's attention. You said, quote, you may be legally justified. But just because you can doesn't mean you should.

Help us understand what -- how you need to change that thought process in police departments and do you think chief -- the chief here in Atlanta, Chief Shields, stepping down will make a difference?

CHARLES RAMSEY, CNN LAW ENFORCEMENT ANALYST: Well, first of all, yeah. You know, the law is one thing. But your training and use of force is a separate issue. And there's nothing more important than sanctity of life. And that's what I mean.

You may be legally justified, but if it's not necessary, if it's not reasonable, if it's not proportional, that's with any use of force, then we need to hold those officers accountable. Because you just don't shoot people unless you absolutely have to. It has to be a last resort.

And sometimes under the law, technically, you could be justified. I keep hearing about, he didn't have a deadly weapon. Well, there are many jurisdictions where it just has to be a dangerous weapon. So, we need to look at all those kinds of things and train accordingly and hold people accountable if they do not meet those standards.

As far as the chief goes, she mentioned in her resignation letter that there's a gap that needs to be filled. Well, not just Atlanta. It's across the country.

The reality is, there is a negative sub-culture that exists within policing that has to be rooted out. There's absolutely no question about that. I personally don't think you have to band or disband policing in order to do that. Serious steps and serious reform has to take place if we're going to close that gap. It's not going to happen overnight, but it needs to start right now and it needs to happen as quickly as possible.

BLACKWELL: Mr. Mayor, let me ask you about the reforms, because all weekend, for several weeks now, we've been talking about the role of police and the scope of policing, asking police to do too much.

This man was asleep in his car. In this call to defund police, often that umbrella reaches over too many angles of this conversation. Before we talk about how they executed or performed the job when they arrived, should this have been something that police were called to deal with and how that fits into the narrative of the broader conversation?

MORIAL: Well, first of all, good morning. Maybe calling the police was the thing instinctive thing that the employees of Wendy's did. But when the police arrived, seeing a man asleep in his car, what should have been triggered, is there a medical emergency here? If that had been a 65-year-old white gentleman, I bet they may have called EMS, called for a wellness check, called for a medical intervention, asked the gentleman to pull his car over to the side to see if he needed assistance.

I think that from what the witnesses reported that I heard last night from the family's lawyer, it's also that when the initial arrest took place, they were having a conversation and then all of a sudden sought to physically apprehend him. So, the officer's initial apprehension may have been provocative, it may have been instigative in terms of what conflict we saw in the tape on the ground.

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But there's no doubt that that the rethinking of policing, there's got to be a re-imagination. I think it goes beyond simple reforms. And that reimagination and rethinking is exactly what you said, Victor, are there duties and responsibilities where a crisis intervention would have been better.

Even if the police are called out immediately, I'm concerned about a culture of policing would suggest that the response to any call for service is an arrest, is an apprehension, is taking someone to jail. This man, obviously, was in some distress. He fell asleep at the wheel of his car driving through Wendy's. Maybe there was something else there.

So, this was not a necessary -- this was an unnecessary death. And I think -- I tend to have a different perspective than Chief Ramsey, and that is the officer's life was not threatened, nor was the life of any other person threatened when deadly force was used. I think that's the appropriate standard that police officers follow, I think that's what they're taught.

In this instance, there was no suggestion that that officer, now that officer may have been upset that his Taser may have been taken away, that officer may have been upset that this man was able to get away from two officers, but this was not a necessary death.

PAUL: Charles, I want to let you respond to that and also say this. As I've heard last night and correct me if I'm wrong, that Tasers do not shoot continually. They essentially have one or two shots in them before they need to be reloaded. So, with that said, would there have been a reasonable thought for that officer to realize that even as Brooks was running away, he would not have that ammunition to hurt anybody else?

RAMSEY: Let me start by saying that my view is not different from that mayor just stated. You know, it is a last resort. Your life and the life of another has to be in immediate jeopardy before you resort to deadly force. So we are not on a different page when it comes to that at all.

As far as Tasers go, yeah, they're only -- they're limited in terms of the number of times you can discharge. When he turned, if he fired, which it looked like maybe he fired those prongs, but that weapon then becomes useless because it has to recycle. You only get so many charges that you can use, that they cycle through. I think it's 15 seconds before it can be used again.

So, again, you know, that shooting was not -- it could have been handled differently. It was not necessary in my opinion. And what was said earlier, my wife, a clinical psychologist said, and that is de- escalation. What happened with the initial contact?

Having said that, saying we need other approaches, the reason police are being asked to go to these kind of calls is because you don't have social services available in the evening and in the middle of the night. So if we're going to re-imagine things, which I agree it should be. Then it has to be -- other services need to be adequately staffed and funded.

And the problem that cities over the years have cut services, have cut social services, the police are 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It's easy to call 911, let call the cops handle it. And then when bad stuff happens, we say, why are they handling it?

So, there has to be a real serious approach to dealing with this. It's going to require some funding in order to make it happen. And so, you can defund police, but track where the money goes and make sure it goes where it's intended to go. If you want community-based social services, then make sure that's where the money goes.

BLACKWELL: Yes, unfortunately, we have run out of time. But this conversation, Mr. Mayor, but, Chief, let me ask you to stick around. We're expecting that we're going to get in, within the next few minutes, new body cam video from this incident that ended with the death of Rayshard Brooks. So we want to keep you for that analysis.

RAMSEY: OK.

BLACKWELL: Again, Marc Morial, president of the National Urban League, former mayor of the city of New Orleans, thank you so much for your insight.

MORIAL: Thanks, Victor. Thanks, Christi. Thank you.

PAUL: Thank you.

Now, the death of Rayshard Brooks, think about this, it's just coming during weeks of demonstrations across the country over the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd.

BLACKWELL: Polo Sandoval has been covering the protests.

Polo, good morning to you.

POLO SANDOVAL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hey, guys, good morning.

As we wait for that video to be released, let me take you across the country, just give you a snapshot of what we've seen in the last 24 hours in terms of that call for reform, for change.

New Orleans demonstrator certainly making a very strong statement here in this case as they took to a local park there in New Orleans, and eventually ended up hurling a statue of a mid-19th century slave owner into the Mississippi River.

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Authorities saying the protesters damaged statue of John McDonogh in the afternoon and drove it to the banks of the river and threw it in. New Orleans police apprehended the drivers of that truck and not commenting further.

Also, I want to take you to Washington, D.C. and New York. Very similar scenes playing out in both those major cities in the nation's capital. Protests making its way from Lafayette Park, which was the scene of very tense situation a couple weeks ago, but yesterday really quite peaceful, as these demonstrators making a symbolic move to take a knee, showing their solidarity with family of George Floyd. Also a similar scene in Brooklyn at Barclays Center.

In fact, finally, in Washington, demonstration did continue through the weekend here with that in Seattle. The demonstrators have been refusing to leave the city's Capitol Hill neighborhood that occupation prompting the police department to close down, board up a local police department or local police precinct. Authorities saying they hope to eventually reopen and resume operations.

What do all of these have in common, Victor and Christi? That call for change, that call for reform. Yesterday, the governor here in New York saying he will be giving municipalities in New York state until the first of April of 2021 to not only reassess but also institute the changes that so many people are calling for this morning.

PAUL: Yes, it seems to be a universal call for reform there.

Polo Sandoval, thank you so much. Really appreciate it.

City and state officials in California are calling for an independent investigation into the death of a man who was found hanging in a downtown park. Who is questioning the initial reports and why now?

BLACKWELL: Plus, protesters across the country as you have seen and heard are calling for an end to systemic racism, calling for these monuments to come down. Is this country now going through a cultural shift?

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BLACKWELL: An African American man was found hanging from a tree in a public square in Palmdale, California. Twenty-four-year-old Robert Fuller was found dead across the street from the city hall this week. His death described as an alleged death by suicide by city officials. By the family, community and state officials, they want an independent investigation.

PAUL: Protesters came out to the park where he was found and they want answers. The city manager said they're working with authorities to find any footage from cameras in that area. Officials say there are no city cameras in the public square where Fuller's body was found.

BLACKWELL: We've seen the protests around the country, reaction to problems that plagued this country since its founding, and addressing those issues will take a cultural shift.

Joining me now so talk about that Nikole Hannah-Jones, Pulitzer Prize- winning reporter for "The New York Times" magazine, and creator of the 1619 Project which explores the legacy of slavery in the United States.

Nikole, thanks so much for your time this morning.

NIKOLE HANNAH-JONES, STAFF WRITER, NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE: Thank you.

BLACKWELL: You know, when I first started mapping out this conversation, I planned to go in a completely different direction than the one in which we're going to start. But we now have the investigation of a man hanging from a tree in a public square in California. The death of Rayshard Brooks overnight, in addition to what we've seen over the last several months.

You know the scope and context. Assess the moment in which we are living.

HANNAH-JONES: I think that we are in a moment of intense reckoning with what is the foundational nature of our country. Of course, the 1619 Project argues that slavery, anti-black racism are foundation to who we are and that they have lake -- that those two things and the legacy of those two things has corrupted so many of our institutions. And we are really struggling with that all across this country right now.

BLACKWELL: Yes, we know that, originally, we were going to talk about the president's scheduled rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Juneteenth. He shifted the date to the 20th. The White House is going to talk about rectifying injustices.

Based on what we know about this president, his history and the context of that, would you suggest that there is anything that he could say in that moment or in that speech that would indeed do that, rectify injustices for set the country on that path?

HANNAH-JONES: I mean, sure, there's a lot that he could say and what this nation is clearly calling out for right now is some national leadership around all of the hurt and the pain that's happening as well as from the executive office, some effort to actually do something around police reforms, around the economic inequality that black Americans are being devastated by.

So, there's a lot that the president could say. But we know, based on past speeches, the way that he has dealt with racism in the past, the fact that 90 percent of black Americans think that the sitting president is a racist, I don't think that we're likely to see something that is either inspiring or that will set an agenda that would deal with the structural inequality that has people marching in the street right now.

BLACKWELL: There was a lot of outrage online after the president announced this rally. I don't know for sure. But I would should go that there are probably a lot of people who didn't know much about the massacre in 1921, had not heard of Juneteenth. I graduated from Howard University, I learned pretty quickly there are a lot of people who didn't get that line, that element of American history in undergrad or in grade school.

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Is there an opportunity here for this country to learn more, to fill in some of the gaps of history based on what we're seeing?

HANNAH-JONES: Yes. There's an opportunity and I would argue that it is absolutely essential. I mean, you are right, we receive a very sanitized history in this country. We aren't taught that much about slavery. We certainly aren't taught about the 100 years of terrorism that black Americans faced which was part of that.

When it is taught, it's called a race riot. It was a race massacre where the black business district was burned down and hundreds of black people were killed and thrown into a mass grave. We aren't thought this history, because we're not taught this history, not teaching these things doesn't mean that they didn't happen and we live with that legacy and we are struggling against that legacy every day. And when we don't make those connections, how can we possibly try to

move forward when we haven't dealt with what this country has done. And then what the country clearly is continuing to do.

BLACKWELL: Yes, you know, that's a great segue into the conversation about the monuments in New Orleans, the protesters there rolled the statue of John McDonogh, a slave owner, right into the Mississippi. We've also seen the statue of Christopher Columbus come down in a public park in Camden, New Jersey. The word racist spray painted on to the statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square.

And there are some who suggest that there are figures in European history especially who are beyond that reproach because of their other lauded contributions where, again, that line of a sanitized history where we don't talk about some of the views of Churchill and others.

HANNAH-JONES: Yeah. I'm not going to argue about whether we should have monuments to someone like Winston Churchill or not. I think the line is very clear when we're talking about monuments to Confederate generals and Confederate soldiers, because the only reason we have those monuments is because they took arms against their fellow countrymen in order to preserve slavery. Otherwise, there would be no reason to have a monument to someone like Jefferson Davis or Robert E. Lee.

And these monuments we know were put to signal to black Americans that white supremacy and white law had returned to the South, to signal to put blacks back into their place of quasi-slavery, and so, to actually force black people to go in places with those monuments. It would be as if we went to the Alamo and there were monuments to General Santa Ana, or if we went to Pearl Harbor and we would have monuments commemorating the Japanese. You couldn't think to do that. But for some reason, for 100 years in this country, we thought it was okay to valorize those who fought to preserve the institution of slavery and traitor's arm that actually fought against the United States. It's only logical in the context of white racism.

BLACKWELL: Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for "The New York Times Magazine" and creator of the 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones. Thank you so much for your time this morning.

HANNAH-JONES: Thank you.

PAUL: We've been talking about 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks who was killed by a police officer in Atlanta on Friday, a protest that followed that last night. We're just getting in new body cam footage from that moment of the shooting.

We are going to bring that to you with Charles Ramsey. He joins us next.

Stay close.

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[07:32:49] PAUL: All right. We have new video to share with you right now. This is from the body cameras of both responding officers who responded to Rayshard Brooks sleeping in a car on Friday night in Atlanta at a Wendy's.

BLACKWELL: Yes. We've got Chief Charles Ramsey back with us.

And so, this is what we're going to do here. It's about a minute and 40 seconds, Chief. Do we have Chief Ramsey?

RAMSEY: Yes.

BLACKWELL: OK, good. It's the video from the combined vantage points. I want to watch -- all of us to watch it and just let it play once. And then the second time I'd like you to talk us through what you see and kind of analyze through that second play.

So, first, we're going to play it and we're just all going to be quiet and so we can all watch it together. Let's play it.

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POLICE OFFICER: Don't go back to sleep. Just pull over there.

RAYSHARD BROOKS: OK.

POLICE OFFICER: OK, all right.

POLICE OFFICER: Step out with me, please.

BROOKS: Yes, sir.

POLICE OFFICER: Just walk back here. Do you have any weapons on you or anything like that?

BROOKS: I don't have anything on me.

POLICE OFFICER: Is it OK if I pat you down to make sure?

BROOKS: One thousand nine, 1,010, 1,011, 1,012, 1,013.

POLICE OFFICER: I think you've had too much to drink to be driving. Put your hands behind your back for me. Put your hands behind your back.

POLICE OFFICER: Hey. Stop fighting. Stop fighting. Stop fighting. You're going to get Tased. You're going to get Tased.

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POLICE OFFICER: Hands off the Taser. Hands off the Taser.

(INAUDIBLE)

POLICE OFFICER: Stop fighting.

(INAUDIBLE)

POLICE OFFICER: He's got the fucking Taser.

(INAUDIBLE)

POLICE OFFICER: Sixty-three --

(INAUDIBLE)

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BLACKWELL: OK. So now we've all watched it. I have to say that the entire incident is about 44 minutes long. Our team has edited this for length.

We also have video that we just have in. The breathalyzer, my producer telling me in my ear in which Mr. Brooks registered a 0.108, legal limit 0.08. So, 0.108 on the breathalyzer.

And, now, Chief Ramsey, we're going to open up your mic during the play.

Christi, unless you want to get in here.

PAUL: No. I think we need to hear from Mr. Ramsey.

BLACKWELL: OK, OK. So, we're going to open up your mic and you talk us through it, if you would.

RAMSEY: All right.

BLACKWELL: What you see that's right and wrong and potentially where things could have changed. Let's play it again. .

RAMSEY: All right. They're approaching the car. It looks like the engine is running. You can see the taillights are on. They're knocking, trying to get his attention. He's clearly asleep. Opens the door and steps out.

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POLICE OFFICER: Step out with me, please.

BROOKS: Yes, sir.

POLICE OFFICER: Just walk back here. Do you have any weapons on you or anything like that?

BROOKS: I don't have anything on me.

POLICE OFFICER: Is it OK if I pat you down to make sure?

BROOKS: One thousand nine, 1,010, 1,011, 1,012, 1,013.

POLICE OFFICER: I think you've had too much to drink to be driving. Put your hands behind your back for me. Put your hands behind your back.

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RAMSEY: All right. And that's when the struggle starts.

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POLICE OFFICER: Stop fighting. Stop fighting. Stop fighting.

POLICE OFFICER: You'll get tased. You're going to get tased.

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BLACKWELL: (INAUDIBLE) anything that, to you that stood out?

RAMSEY: The initial approach -- I mean, he's asleep behind the wheel. It looks like the engine is running. You can see the taillights and so forth would indicate that. He's in line for a takeout.

So he wasn't in an actual parking space. When they ask him to pull over, apparently, at that point in time they did not realize he had been drinking, otherwise, you wouldn't have him drive.

They get him out of the car. I didn't see anything out of the ordinary. They weren't disrespectful at all. You know, asked permission to pat him down. That's pretty standard.

And they gave -- they did a field sobriety test. When you see him on the one foot and so forth. That's a basic field sobriety test.

BLACKWELL: Yes.

RAMSEY: Apparently they did a breathalyzer test.

BLACKWELL: Yes.

RAMSEY: Point one-o-eight is higher than the legal limit, which is that the point in time that you said, you know, you've had too much to drink and drive. They attempt to take him into custody.

This is a critical point, because it's been mentioned over and over again about how the officers approached him and could they have deescalated. I didn't see anything that indicated at this point that would indicate that they were disrespectful or doing anything other than what you would normally do if you had a person that you suspected of driving under the influence.

PAUL: So, you don't see any moment where police could have deescalated at this point, even -- even after they -- even after he's fighting them, after they run away or he runs away? What protocol do you think should have been taken at that point if any difference that we're seeing here? RAMSEY: Well, I mean, they gave chase. They gave chase on foot. You

get on the radio and you notify others that you have a suspect that has taken your Taser and he's running, direction of flight to try to, you know, apprehend the individual at some point in time.

But you also have to remember, these things go down very quickly. I mean, we're watching the video over and over again. In real life, it doesn't happen that way. You know, these things happen within a matter of second.

But the initial approach of the officers, I don't see anything there that would indicate that they were being disrespectful or did anything to really escalate the situation. They knock on the window. He's clearly asleep. They ask him to pull over.

He did. He complied. And quite frankly, I was surprised when he started to struggle. I didn't see anything at that point in time that would cause that.

Now, that, again, just so I'm not misunderstood, that is separate from the actual shooting and should the shooting have occurred.

BLACKWELL: Yes.

PAUL: Right.

RAMSEY: Those are two separate things.

BLACKWELL: Hey, Chief --

RAMSEY: And I think it's -- that we need to make that clear.

BLACKWELL: There's a moment coming up here that -- let's put the video back up on the screen. Keep playing it. Put the video back up on the screen. In which it appears, that if Mr. Brooks has one Taser and it looks like there's an officer who deploys a Taser as well.

RAMSEY: Yes, exactly.

BLACKWELL: And then after that, that is -- the shot is fired. Is that your understanding here?

RAMSEY: Right. Yes, no, I saw that in the other video where it looked like one Taser is gone because Mr. Brooks has it.

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The other officer did fire the Taser but apparently missed. Apparently, the prongs missed. You see no reaction on the part of Mr. Brooks. Then they both take off running after -- after him at that point in time.

BLACKWELL: And let me just state something obvious. It appears here that at least one of the body cams, the ones we're watching here, I mean, just fell off in the --

RAMSEY: Yes, right.

BLACKWELL: -- in the scuffle there. It doesn't --

RAMSEY: Which is not uncommon, by the way. It happens all the time. You get into a scuffle. These things are attached and they just fall off.

BLACKWELL: Yes, there's no suggestion to you and we've not heard one, that there was anything nefarious in that camera not capturing the shots fired because of the scuffle.

RAMSEY: No. I mean, you saw a significant struggle.

BLACKWELL: Yes.

RAMSEY: I mean, it's not -- I mean, it would stand to reason that the body camera would fall off. I mean, they're struggling with him. They're not thinking about, let me take my camera off.

BLACKWELL: Yes, and I don't have anybody suggest that.

RAMSEY: You don't know what's ultimately going to have -- you don't know what's going to happen seconds later. You don't know.

BLACKWELL: Yes.

PAUL: Right.

RAMSEY: But it just fell off. I mean, those things happen.

BLACKWELL: Yes, I just think it's important as we go through and this video will be analyzed that we get into it, there was a scuffle, these are clipped on. And this tussle it fell off.

All right. Chief Ramsey thank you so much for being with us and staying with us to analyze that new video.

RAMSEY: No, that's OK.

BLACKWELL: All right.

PAUL: We appreciate it. Thank you so much.

We'll be right back.

RAMSEY: That's all right. Thank you.

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PAUL: Twenty-five minutes past the hour.

The U.S. is still reporting by far the most coronavirus cases and deaths worldwide. More than 2 million cases and more than 115,000 people have died. BLACKWELL: So, 18 cases reporting a rise in cases in the past week

versus the previous week according to Johns Hopkins University data. Thirty states report a downward or steady trend.

New York reported the lowest number of deaths since the peak of COVID- 19 just yesterday. Governor Cuomo says that they have tamed the beast.

Let's go now to U.S. surgeon general, Dr. Jerome Adams, who says that this disease has a high degree of asymptomatic spread and eh says that's driving the push for people to wear face coverings and if safety guidelines are followed, Dr. Anthony Fauci says the second wave of infections is not inevitable.

Brazil is right behind the U.S. in the anymore of coronavirus cases and deaths. Yesterday, the government recorded almost 900 new deaths and more than 21,000 new cases in 24 hours.

Now, the crisis is overwhelming the entire country and becoming more and more deadly for health care workers there.

CNN's Nick Paton Walsh reports.

NICK PATON WALSH, CNN INTERNATIONAL SECURITY EDITOR (voice-over): Sleeping on the hospital floor after a shift, nurse horror stories from Rio de Janeiro, hit hard from COVID-19, poor and struggling.

Even in one image that shocked Brazil, the dead lying next to the living. Rio state's medical workers are dying more than anywhere in Brazil, 30 doctors and 40 nurses are workers.

Here's nurse Danielle Costa (ph), describing her symptoms in isolation days before she died. Her friend, Libia (ph), a Nurses Union head, has had the virus and is hiding enduring lung problems from her family. She is better, though, enough to go back to work.

The worst she says is when in despair to help someone who's arrived newly in the red zone, we have to stop preparing a dead body for the morgue and leave it aside.

When Daniele died, it was in a hospital four hours out of town and Libia had to fight to get COVID-19 on her death certificate.

The last time we spoke, she was radiant, she said. Her dream was to work in the ambulance service and her dream was coming true. We queued hours to apply for these jobs. She hugged me, although we could no longer hug at that time. She was happy she would use the uniform again. It was her dream.

PPE shortages are complained of, even though in this hospital ICU, we're told it's OK. The number of dying in Rio are hard to comprehend. Even though some say they're underreported.

In this hospital's ICUs, there are 88 full beds and about six to eight patients die every day. That's about 10 percent of ICU patients a day.

The containers out back with room for 75 bodies at a time, the peak hitting Rio now. Some experts think with health care staff already exhausted, mourning and burdened.

Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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PAUL: Did you know that what you eat can impact your mood?

CNN's Jacqueline Howard has more on today's "Food is Fuel".

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JACQUELINE HOWARD, CNN HEALTH REPORTER: Take a closer look at your diet. Eating the right food can help lift your mood.

For breakfast, try steel cut oatmeal. Research suggests quality carbs can help your brain regulate serotonin which stabilizes your mood. If you have a sweet tooth, pick fruits rich in antioxidants and vitamin C, like blueberries or strawberries.

One study found vitamin C may lower blood pressure and stress hormone levels. And don't forget your veggies, dark leafy greens like spinach and kale contain B vitamins. Studies show these nutrients can help relieve stress by regulating nerves and brain cells.

When it's time for a snack, try cashews or roasted almonds. Cashews are rich in zinc, which is linked to lower anxiety. And almonds are a source of B vitamins.

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One important note, although vitamins won't cure any pre-existing mental health conditions, they can eliminate the risk of running a vitamin deficiency, which can contribute to or heighten symptoms of a mood disorder.

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PAUL: Thanks to Jacqueline there.

And we are so grateful for your company. Have a good day.

BLACKWELL: "INSIDE POLITICS" is up after the break.

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