George Floyd said he could not breathe over 20 times, transcripts of the arresting officers' body cam audio show
Photo: Ben Crump Law On May 25, a black man named George Floyd died in police custody at a Minnesota hospital following a brutal police assault that was captured in a bystander video. The footage shows a white Minneapolis Police Department officer named Derek Chauvin kneeling on Floyd’s neck as he shouts, “I can’t breathe,” and several bystanders shout for Chauvin to stop his attack. After several minutes, Floyd’s body appears to go limp.
Initial footage of Floyd’s assault fills gaps in the incident report Darnella Frazier, the bystander who filmed the altercation, which was entirely left out of the police report, said that when she got to the scene Floyd was already on the ground. “The cops, they was pinning him down by his neck and he was crying,” she said in a Facebook video. She said his face was pressed so hard against the ground that his nose was bleeding. A crowd quickly formed around the scene.
In an interview with CNN, Cup Foods co-owner Mahmoud Abumayyaleh said footage from the store’s surveillance cameras, which has not been released to the public, also shows Floyd not resisting arrest. The MPD also publicized 911 calls from witnesses, one of which reportedly came from an off-duty firefighter who said, according to CNN: “I literally watched police officers not take a pulse and not do anything to save a man, and I am a first responder myself, and I literally have it on video camera. … I just happened to be on a walk so, this dude … they fucking killed him.” The other caller said officers “pretty much just killed this guy that wasn’t resisting arrest.
According to CNN, another of the MPD officers present on Monday, Tou Thao, had six complaints in his file, five of which were closed without discipline. He has also been named in an excessive force lawsuit: In 2017, a man named Lamar Ferguson sued Thao and another officer for their “cruel and unusual” behavior during a 2014 arrest, CNN reports.
Chauvin has been arrested, and the other three officers have also been charged Mayor Frey announced on May 26 that the four responding officers had been terminated. Minneapolis police chief Medaria Arradondo said in a press conference the same day that the FBI will be investigating the case as a possible civil-rights infringement.
On June 8, Circuit Court Judge Jeannice Reding raised Chauvin’s unconditional bail from $1 million to $1.25 million, in line with assistant attorney general Matthew Frank’s argument that the “strength of the community’s opinion” and the gravity of the charges make Chauvin a flight risk.
“The family and I reject this notion … that the knee from the police officer on George’s neck for almost nine minutes was not the proximate cause of his death,” civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump told CBS News after the preliminary results were released. Floyd’s family commissioned an independent autopsy, enlisting Dr. Michael Baden and Dr. Allecia Wilson to conduct their own investigation.
Walz — who, the weekend after Floyd’s death, warned protestors that if they did not get off the streets before a curfew went into effect, that law enforcement and the National Guard would “use the full strength of goodness and righteousness to make sure that this ends” — continued:
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