Fmr. Minneapolis Police Chief Janeé Harteau

CHIEF HARTEAU, FIRST OFF, WOULD YOU HAVE TAKEN THE STAND AND TESTIFIED AGAINST ONE OF YOUR OFFICERS?

ABSOLUTELY.

THIS WAS A SHOCK TO CONSCIENCE.

IT WENT AGAINST EVERYTHING WE DO ON A DAILY BASIS, SANCTITY OF LIFE AND PROCEDURAL JUSTICE FRANKLY WERE THE TENANTS OF MY TENURE AND THE WAY WE OPERATE ON A DAILY BASIS.

OBVIOUSLY THERE ARE TIMES WHEN THERE'S THAT EXCEPTION, BUT THAT'S WHO THE MINNEAPOLIS POLICE DEPARTMENT IS.

LOOK, THE STATISTICS SHOW, THE FACTS SHOW, THE CASES SHOW THAT GENERALLY POLICE DO NOT GET HELD ACCOUNTABLE, AND IF THEY ARE, THEY DO NOT GET CONVICTED.

BUT WE HAVE SEEN AN EXTRAORDINARY CRACK, AS PEOPLE HAVE BEEN SAYING, IN THAT BLUE LINE, WITH NOT ONLY THE CHIEF TESTIFYING FOR THE PROSECUTION, BUT ALSO CHAUVIN'S SUPERIOR, OTHER MEMBERS OF THE MINNEAPOLIS POLICE DEPARTMENT SIGNED A LETTER.

IN OTHER WORDS, LOTS OF THEM TESTIFIED AGAINST HIM.

DO YOU THINK THERE IS A PERMANENT CRACK IN POLICE STANDING UP FOR THOSE WHO THEY KNOW ARE BAD APPLES?

I DO.

AS WE HIRE A BETTER QUALITY OF OFFICER, AS WE LOOK TO THE ENTIRE SYSTEM, THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM, WHEN I WAS STILL THE POLICE CHIEF, THE PROSECUTING ATTORNEY MOVED AWAY FROM THE GRAND JURY PROCESS AND TOOK ON THE CASE OF THE OFFICER-INVOLVED INCIDENT HIMSELF.

SO WE'RE HAVING MORE AND MORE PEOPLE COME TOGETHER.

IT BENEFITS THE HONORABLE MEN AND WOMEN THAT SERVE OUR COUNTRY IN POLICING EVERY DAY AND THE COMMUNITIES THEY SERVE TO BE ABLE TO HAVE POLICE LEGITIMACY IN THAT PROCESS.

BAD COPS CAN'T GET AWAY WITH THAT.

COPS WHO ARE USING EXCESSIVE FORCE AND DEADLY FORCE AND FRANKLY MURDERING PEOPLE LIKE DEREK CHAUVIN AND GEORGE FLOYD, THIS CANNOT HAPPEN.

OBVIOUSLY WE CLEARLY KNOW WHERE YOU STAND GIVEN WHAT YOU'VE JUST SAID.

I WANT TO ASK YOU BECAUSE YOU WERE THE FIRST FEMALE CHIEF OF POLICE IN MINNEAPOLIS.

YOU ALSO HAD TO RESIGN.

THERE WAS A POLICE SHOOTING UNDER YOUR WATCH.

IT WAS A BLACK OFFICER AND A WHITE WOMAN, I THINK A TOURIST FROM AUSTRALIA.

WHAT HAPPENED?

AND WHAT DOES IT FEEL LIKE TO BE CHIEF WHEN THESE TERRIBLE THINGS HAPPEN?

IT'S REALLY HARD TO EXPLAIN THE ENORMOUS SENSE OF RESPONSIBILITY YOU FEEL FOR THE ACTIONS OF ONE OF YOUR OFFICERS.

THEY'RE MY FAMILY MEMBER AND NO ONE CAN BELIEVE THEIR FAMILY MEMBER CAN ACT SO EGREGIOUSLY.

THIS WAS AN INCIDENT IN WHICH THE OFFICERS RESPONDED TO A 911 CALL AND THIS FEMALE WAS ACTUALLY THE 911 CALLER.

SO APPARENTLY, THE OFFICER BELIEVED SHE WAS A THREAT.

HE WAS STARTLED AND HE SHOT ONE SHOT THROUGH THE WINDOW.